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I'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 ma

I'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.

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> 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.