On Mon, 9 Aug 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Zaid Ali <zaid@zaidali.com> wrote:
The devil is always in the details. The Network management piece is quite glossed over and gives a different perception in the summary. You can't perform the proposed network management piece without deep packet inspection which violates every users privacy.
how is that though? you COULD do something odd like say: "Anything to zaid-ali's netblocks is preferred in queues over things to jolymacfie's netblocks. that wouldn't require any DPI at all, just a traffic classification engine on/near the endpoint, say like on the DocSIS modem, or on the handset itself... many handsets are unix-ish things with some ability to do 'firewall' things, certainly they could mark packets outbound, certainly at peering points a network could classify in simple ways and mark packets properly there as well.
Or even simplier, sell seperate TDM circuits. Although some people think there is only a single network, Internet; in practice the Internet has always been just one of many different networks built on top of various telecommunication facilities. Is there a performance difference between the Internet and Internet2? Should that be allowed, or must all IP networks have the same performance?