[87297] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Two Tiered Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Wed Dec 14 05:02:52 2005
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:59:44 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "David Barak" <thegameiam@yahoo.com>, "NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> --- Joe McGuckin <joe@via.net> wrote:
>=20
> > What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for
> > example) if only a small
> > portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded
> > access) loads at a
> > reasonable speed and everything else sucks?
>=20
> There are two possible ways of having a tiered system
> - one is to degrade competitors/those who don't pay,
> and the other is to offer a premium service to those
> who do pay.
>=20
> Would your perception of those two scenarios be
> identical?
Since the model is based around cash, there is no perception
except you pay, you get priority.=20
Someone has to pay for the Internet. The users aren't.
-M<
