----- Original Message ----- From: "Kon Wilms" <konfoo@xxxxxxxxx>
On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 7:22 AM, John Shutt <shuttj@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:On the other hand, Kon, and I am not advocating this position, but simply repeating an argument I've heard, is an analogy with the package delivery service FedEx.That analogy is completely incorrect.
I believe the analogy holds.
Why shouldn't ISPs also be able to tier their service based on how much thecustomer is willing to pay and how important their packets are to them?Because the customer pays a flat rate for access. They already tier it, and they already cap it. Now they want to make more money by filtering what you can and can not see.
There are two customers in this transaction. One that sends the package, and one that receives it. If you must, think of the consumer as someone who must rent a mailbox. The customer pays one flat rate per month, no matter how many packages get delivered or how long it took to receive those packages. The sender is the one that determines the shipping priority and resultant shipping costs. The shipper may or may not pass those costs along to the consumer, but in the majority of cases the consumer has no out of pocket expenses for receiving those packages beyond the monthly post office box rental fee.
This is already beginning to be an issue in the commodity internet with thewidespread use of VoIP and videoconferencing. The internet standard is already designed to give priority to certain packets through QoS. It is a matter of how (or if) QoS gets implemented among ISPs.Most ISPs already QoS VOIP. But these are internet packets. The trick I used to use on some ISPs was to tunnel my SSH sessions over their allocated VOIP port range. Not sure how many run DPI to catch this these days but I doubt there are many.
I used to send heavy items through the mail and label it 'reading materials' to get the book rate.
John
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