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> > Can they selectively drop packets > Absolutely not. That practice should literally be illegal. Why not ? From an engineering point of view, with a scarce r
by amadvance 4y ago
> > Can they selectively drop packets
> Absolutely not. That practice should literally be illegal.
Why not ? From an engineering point of view, with a scarce resource, dropping only the biggest user (Netflix) looks reasonable.
Obviously, it should be illegal to ask money to do not have them dropped.
- wtallis 4y ago> From an engineering point of view, with a scarce resource, dropping only the biggest user (Netflix) looks reasonable. The decision of who is the biggest user needs to be made in realtime at the point of congestion, not identified on a quarterly basis by the accounting department and pushed out as policy across the whole network.