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Clearly Google is willing to move forward with it regardless of the potential for a diminished experience for some customers. And Google has more weight than mo
by shawnz 8y ago
Clearly Google is willing to move forward with it regardless of the potential for a diminished experience for some customers. And Google has more weight than most ISPs involved here. Furthermore they have shown before that they are not afraid to direct the blame right at ISPs for lagging behind in situations like this.
- riobard 8y agoI'm very grateful that Google puts its weight behind many of the recent improvements to the Internet, even if some would argue that it's abusing its dominant market position. What I'm worried about is that, in the QUIC case, the ISPs do have a valid reason to traffic shape UDP, at least in the name of making the network usable under load. There are too much uncontrollable UDP traffic that ISPs can do little about other than just dropping them altogether.
- zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 8y ago> What I'm worried about is that, in the QUIC case, the ISPs do have a valid reason to traffic shape UDP, at least in the name of making the network usable under load. Overbooking your network to the point that it is regularly overloaded is not a valid reason to drop packets of paying customers. You have to either kick out customers or expand your network. > There are too much uncontrollable UDP traffic that ISPs can do little about other than just dropping them altogether. Well, as for DDoS and the like: Tough luck? They could have abstained from abusing their power to inspect traffic, and probably noone would be working on making inspection impossible. They thought it was a good idea to abuse the power, now the power is taken from them, and that's their problem to deal with.