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On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, J. Oquendo wrote: > /* ARTICLE > Does the model still work? I'm not sure. In my view, the biggest concerns > facing the Internet today are regulatory and operational, rather than > technical. For example, how do we encourage providers to respect each > other's QoS tags? Is it acceptable for providers to censor traffic for > competitive advantage? Should providers be required to devote some of > their revenues toward services "for the common good," such as universal > Internet access? > */ > Not only that how many large providers are willing to take a hit in the > pockets getting everything running the way it should be run. Why should > they when they could do some shoddy patchwork until the next big hit. It's more than just that. The article excerpt above mentions: >> For example, how do we encourage providers to respect each other's QoS >> tags? This part is *not* regulatory in nature; it's financial. QoS is still (even today) a lucrative market. Why would Tier-1 A care to carry packets from Tier-1 B at a higher priority than anyone else's, unless Tier-1 B paid more $$$ for the privilege? If regulation were to step into this market, you'd have the entire industry crying foul. The other way round, however: >> Is it acceptable for providers to censor traffic for competitive >> advantage? is indeed a regulatory issue. For the most part, Tier-1s and other providers high up the food chain don't filter because doing so is (1) too much of a load on switching hardware, (2) too much risk of violating peers' or downstreams' contracts, or (3) both. The issue of traffic filtering is much more prominent with the small-fries and leaf networks. These two rhetorical questions are pretty clear. Unfortunately, the dividing area between regulatory and non-regulatory issues is a deep gray, and it's much broader than most netizens realize. -- -- Todd Vierling <[email protected]> <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
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