I think this sounds fine, but I don't think you need an RFC to dictate it. This would be a competitive advantage for an application, methinks.
This comment got me wondering, and I don't like where I wound up ...
Would it be a competitive advantage? As far as responsible users go, it probably would.
That brings up irresponsible users - users who don't care about their impact, and even worse hacker-type users who would deliberately bring down the net if they could ... how long before someone figures out how to make a server direct a Real Audio stream (or whatever) at someone else? The leverage for hackers could be enormous.
-- Dick St.Peters, Gatekeeper, Pearly Gateway, Ballston Spa, NY
I pretty much agree with you, My first thought was this would be a disadvantage, since most users have no clue about the working of the net, but they know that application <bandwidth hog> 'runs faster' than application <net friendly>. It's the old grazing on the commons thing, Larry Plato Speaking for myself