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How should your ISP know? Diffserv might help, but I doubt some shitty application will set them.

• javagram 7y ago
  They can tell right now. T-Mobile gives free data usage for video and music streaming, for instance. You can either do traffic pattern analysis or just base it on what IPs they are connecting to.
  • rblatz 7y ago
    That works great today, but it stifles innovation. If I roll out a new real-time service my users suffer shitty delayed service, until I get big enough to force them to prioritize me.
  • gsich 7y ago
    That is not independent and not net neutral.
    • travbrack 7y ago
      It also doesn’t cross the ISP boundary.
      • gsich 7y ago
        It probably doesn't need to, bottleneck is usually at the customers side. (Mainly due to bad upload)
• travbrack 7y ago
  That’s one of a whole host of issues raised by the idea of tagging packets on the internet. Attackers could assign priority to their DDOS attacks for example. I don’t have the answers but I think this is the direction the conversation should go in. The discussions I see on the topic almost never competently address the issue I’m raising. Nobody should be arguing that all traffic should be equal, we should be discussing which traffic gets priority and how that decision is made.