Seems to me that a good way of limiting damage from runaway networks/hosts would be a modifaction of RED (Random Early Drop). Controlled Early Drop (CED? I just made this up, suggestions?) would allow a router to give a preference to connected networks/hosts. Packets from certain networks would have a higher chance of being dropped from a router queue then packets from other networks. CED can be used to price connections! You want 10%, you pay x. You want 50%, you pay y. Everybody gets full speed when the network is empty. When networks get congested everybody gets what they paid for. Seems like a better way of pricing Internet connections. Right now way too many people are stuck behind small pipes. Most T1 customers use only a small fraction of their circuit. How do you sell Ethernet connections? 100MB Ethernet connections? while still protecting your network. CED looks like a solution on this early Friday morning. Comments? Dirk