[128482] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Google wants your Internet to be faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Tue Aug 10 13:29:44 2010
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: Kenny Sallee <kenny.sallee@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:29:37 +0000
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTincWRa1i7JyGa=t0V4+_pzrW0kGidPcdS2LxA=y@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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> Maybe the ISP's should move this choice to the consumer. =A0=20
The consumer already has this option on many SOHO firewalls. No action by =
ISPs is required. But this is totally irrelevant to the idea of Net Neutra=
lity.
> I view this exercise as paying for priority when the circuit is full -- l=
ike a special carpool lane. =20
Carrier circuits should never be 'full', unless your definition of 'full' i=
s 50-70%, IMHO. 100% full is a failure of engineering, business planning, =
and monitoring. Priority shouldn't be required.
Best Regards,
Nathan Eisenberg