[128477] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Aug 10 07:35:51 2010
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 07:35:35 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com> wrote:
>> The devil is always in the details. The Network management piece is quite
>> glossed over and gives a different perception in the summary. You can't
>> perform the proposed network management piece without deep packet inspection
>> which violates every users privacy.
>
> how is that though? you COULD do something odd like say: "Anything to
> zaid-ali's netblocks is preferred in queues over things to
> jolymacfie's netblocks. that wouldn't require any DPI at all, just a
> traffic classification engine on/near the endpoint, say like on the
> DocSIS modem, or on the handset itself... many handsets are unix-ish
> things with some ability to do 'firewall' things, certainly they could
> mark packets outbound, certainly at peering points a network could
> classify in simple ways and mark packets properly there as well.
Or even simplier, sell seperate TDM circuits. Although some people think
there is only a single network, Internet; in practice the Internet has
always been just one of many different networks built on top of various
telecommunication facilities.
Is there a performance difference between the Internet and Internet2?
Should that be allowed, or must all IP networks have the same performance?
