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join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY | said by Mikey1 :
They have to be a little vague. Simple and clear like some people want would basically say "bits is bits and no ISP can treat any bit differently than any other bit". Raise your hand if you want your phone call interrupted by a massive flood of music downloads the day after a celebrity death. Some type of prioritization has to be allowed to prevent such things.
This is NOT the same as our bits are not the same as your bits. You can still treat different types of bits differently but you have to do it so that bits for the ISP's Services are treated the same as bits for the same service being served by another ISP. IOW: An ISP can not degrade a 3rd Party VoIP phone connection to give priority to their bundled VoIP phone connection. All VoIP should be given the same priority. The same with streaming downloads. If I go the Hulu/NetFlix I should not be downgraded due to the ISP being a Cable Company who is offering Video On Demand. Phone Calls are time sensitive and thus qualify for a QoS priority. So do Video Streaming. Email and Web can live with a lower priority (as can FTP and P2P). |
