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Robb
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| ISP-wide Q.O.S. --- I say N2f*$hn2~~~~~~NO CARRIER^Z
I don't want a QoS system unless it first goes through the IETF and becomes an Internet Standard.
Comcast will say that VOiP gets priority, because then Comcast looks more attractive to Verizon customers.
Verizon on the other hand doesn't want to lose its existing phone customers to cheaper VOIP, but let's see how many Comcast users we can convert to IPTV.
ISPs and transit operators are the wrong people to be deciding how the Internet should work -- in secret, no less. Internet operation in the job of the IETF.
ISP should mean "I'll Ship the Packets." TCP was not designed to be screwed around with by transit providers. All of its intelligence is built in to the end-points, how it responds to situations is likely built into end-points.
Everything an ISP needs is built into IP.
As for making VOIP more robust, or P2P more congestion sensitive, that should be the job of those software authors/vendors/enthusiasts. How can we expect them to do their job if the ISPs screw around with the protocols in secret?
If they can't trust the Internet Standards to describe how the Internet is going to work, they can't easily innovate.
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Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon
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