asterisk users - Dec 2008 - asterisk-users Digest, Vol 53, Issue 5

From: Doug <Doug at NaTel.net>
>"Net Neutrality" is great in principle.  But ISP's need to
>somehow control those few percentage of users who suck down
>a huge majority of the bandwidth.  It's dollars and cents.
There is a rational solution for the traffic management issue.  It just needs to
be aligned with the pricing model.

I would like to see a tiered offering.  If packet carriers would respect, say,
DSCP tags, and ISPs would cap traffic (by bandwidth and/or aggregate transfer
per period) in different ways based on priority tags, we could have a palatable
solution for all.  Let the bulk users camp out at the fixed price
all-you-can-eat packet buffet all they want - at the bulk priority.  If the
chafing dishes are occasionally empty, well, too bad.  Let them select one of
the higher priorities for the metered or limited traffic.

Then the ISPs could advertise unlimited offerings on a best effort basis, and
caveat emptor.  Applications that require more reliability (predictability) will
not suffer.



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