But neither TCP or UDP work that way. Are you saying that Verizon, a company that I don't use, and the site I'm trying to get to doesn't use, but sometimes my route to that site goes through verizon, has put in place a traffic shaping system that reads the destination, and changes its route mode based on that, and forwards that packet slower than it would if the destination address showed up in some table on its end?
They would basically be traffic shaping through the route. At which point the routers that talk to Verizon would notice the slow down and fine another way. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 5:25 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Those that said it would not happen :Net Neutrality voted > down by congress. > > Nope, you guys are not understanding what they are talking about. > > Currently, the entire basis of the internet, and the basic > underpinning of TCPIP is that all packets are treated equally. They > are passed from here to there without regard to where it came from, > and with no preferential treatment for any individual packet. > > They find the quickest route from beginning to end, and make their way > around slow places and outages. > > What these providers want to do is treat the END of the pipes, and the > MIDDLE of the pipes differently. Unless YOU pay them more, they are > going to put your packet into a slower low priority queue, which may > never actually get delivered if there are a lot of high-priority > packets to be delivered. > > They are saying that content providers (yahoo, google, cnn, etc) need > to pay extra to get access to the end users behind the providers > firewalls. A tax, a toll, or a protection fee. > > This is on top of the fee that a content provider pays to get access > to the net, and on top of the fee that a user pays to get onto the > net. > > This is akin to the USPS, DHL, and Fedex providing a service. A > package gets sent out from Woot to my house. But when they get into my > town, the post office decides that, unless woot pays extra, the > package will get put in a "whenever we feel like delivering it" bin, > even though I paid for overnight delivery. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:206005 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
