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Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:16:44 -0700


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



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