[87313] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Two Tiered Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Schliesser, Benson)
Wed Dec 14 10:22:20 2005
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:18:14 -0600
From: "Schliesser, Benson" <bensons@savvis.net>
To: "Marshall Eubanks" <tme@multicasttech.com>,
"Per Heldal" <heldal@eml.cc>
Cc: "NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> If these don't work, people will complain. Just imagine for a second
> that cable providers started a service that meant that every channel
> not owned by, say, Disney, had a bad picture and sound. Would this
> be good for the cable companies ? Would their customers be happy ?
So, the basic issue isn't relative priority. It's the absolute quality
of the common-denominator/lower-priority service (i.e., the baseline).
If the provider enforces a solid SLA for non-enhanced Internet, then who
would be upset if they also provide an enhanced option? Of course, I
don't currently have an SLA for my personal cable-modem or DSL
services...
Cheers,
-Benson
