[128479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenny Sallee)
Tue Aug 10 12:50:03 2010
In-Reply-To: <8C26A4FDAE599041A13EB499117D3C28164758A4@ex-mb-1.corp.atlasnetworks.us>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:49:54 -0700
From: Kenny Sallee <kenny.sallee@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Nathan Eisenberg
<nathan@atlasnetworks.us>wrote:
> > Is there a performance difference between the Internet and Internet2?
> > Should that be allowed, or must all IP networks have the same
> > performance?
>
> I think that statement may confuse metrics like performance and capacity,
> with the action of intentionally QOS'ing Netflix over Youtube over the same
> uplink. One is a reality, and one offers disturbing possibilities.
>
> Best Regards,
> Nathan Eisenberg
>
>
>
Maybe the ISP's should move this choice to the consumer. The last mile is
'usually' where congestion really hits. Why not build a portal for
consumers to go in an choose what's important to them? I know some MPLS VPN
providers do something similar (have a portal businesses can use to view and
modify QoS settings). I'd love to be able to prioritize Netflix over
youtube or bittorrent or whatever games my kids are playing since I mainly
use Netflix to watch movies. But I wouldn't like the big guys dictating
what is important to me.
