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Ideally, packet class identification would be at the network or transport layer. I don't like the idea of an ISP doing payload inspection ("spying"), either.
by shasta 16y ago
Ideally, packet class identification would be at the network or transport layer. I don't like the idea of an ISP doing payload inspection ("spying"), either. But your argument about all bits being the same is naive. Do you think it's fair that you should have to pay more for overnight mail or certified mail?
- loup-vaillant 16y agoI think some of your assumptions are technically wrong. The only role of an ISP is to let you send (& receive) IP datagrams to (& from) any machine with a public IP. Now, one packet could cost more than another, depending on its destination, its provenance, and its size. But not its content. Not a chance. For instance, the TCP port number of an ISP shouldn't influence the cost of an IP datagram: they're not even part of the Internet Protocol. Now, if I want to send packet faster than another, I would just use a private network that is not the internet. And if I want to send "certified" packet, I'd just use an SSH tunnel, which will naturally consume more bandwidth anyway. But if my internet provider do those choices for me, I tend to complain.