I’m just trying to understand…

I suggested it in my written filing with the FCC a couple of weeks ago. It enhances both sein and zeit.

Richard, what you’re proposing is a version of the “bucket of bits” idea that’s structured like most cell phone contracts in the US? I like that idea in general. But does it manage the congestion?

Richard, after years of I’d say pretty much uninterrupted disagreement, it was good to meet you and have a chance to talk with you about some of what we have in common.

If you go over quota for a certain class, it’s simply demoted to the next lower class for which you have some quota left. There is no guarantee of QoS outside the carrier’s network, but if he wants to negotiate with his wholesale provider to honor your QoS markings that can be a selling point.

This is good for ISP’s because it relieves them of the hassle of packet stream inspection, and it’s good for The People because it gives them QoS when they want it.

On a statistical network, there are no hard and fast guarantees, but there are statistical behaviors that can be manipulated in a meaningful way. So let’s open the door to doing that.

The only downside is that it make the NN issue go away completely, and some people obviously need to keep on making a living from it.

BTW, it was good to meet you yesterday, David.

For example, I was involved in running some live audio events, RTSP streaming over the net, going back to 1996. And, the ability for certain players to buffer the streams effected the perception of QoS–in some cases, higher quality audio that was delayed (buffered) for 30 seconds was not acceptable. In other cases, buffering was way better than degraded quality audio.

Given the known limitations of the network, between manual and automatic features in the audio players (one end) and decisions we’d make about broadcasting the audio (the other end), we could optimize based on what we considered to be QoS for each event.

If every end user were to be able to prioritize themselves, as some point those priorities would have to be resolved with each other. It surely won’t be as granular as heart monitoring vs. thyroid because those probably aren’t identfied as such – perhaps one can only use a source like MassGen to make the decision. VOIP or P2P are identifiable though, and thus easier to decide to block.

And, as I’ve observed, this is a best efforts network. You want certainty, use a different network. Different applications belong on different networks. It is foolish to break the current best efforts network for a handful of applications favored by providers.