The platform of the internet is not wires. It's not AT&T and it's not switches, it's not deep packet inspection routing "low priority" packets around "congesti

The platform of the internet is not wires. It's not AT&T and it's not switches, it's not deep packet inspection routing "low priority" packets around "congestion" and it's not HTML5 or JavaScript. It's not a cloud, and it's not a PaaS. The internet is TCP/IP, and on the internet packets are routed by their headers, not by their content. Some parts of the internet are actually a corporate LAN in america, with it's own rules for routing. So, a lot of routers will route around America since it seems to drop a lot of packets or return corrupted packets. Perhaps what IP really needs is a way for applications to report network degradation so that OSPF can correctly quantify each part of the network, instead smart routers that try to prioritize traffic by capitalist metrics. It's quite clear OSPF is broken when a route is selected that would allow for injecting of protocol/application hijacking packets for network issues to disguise what would otherwise be a congested path.