[129702] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Sep 16 15:19:17 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5A6D953473350C4B9995546AFE9939EE0A52AD92@RWC-EX1.corp.seven.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:16:44 -0700
To: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Sep 16, 2010, at 11:44 AM, George Bonser wrote:
>> Your statement misses the point, which is, *who* gets to decide what
>> traffic is prioritized? And will that prioritization be determined by
>> who is paying my carrier for that prioritization, potentially against
>> my own preferences?
>
> I would say that with standard "run of the mill" consumer service, the
> provider decides. If you want something custom, that would be
> reasonable to offer, but you should be expected to pay a bit more for
> that in order to maintain the non-standard configuration. Maintaining a
> different configuration for each user would be more expensive for the
> provider than a "cookie-cutter" solution that makes the internet a
> better experience for say 85% or more of the people out there.
>
> G
>
The point is that if the provider is deciding based on some third party
paying them and thus my neighbors are getting more bandwidth
than I am, not because they're paying more, but, because they're
choosing to use the services that bribed my provider, then that's
not a good thing.
Owen
