On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:47:13 -0400, Derek Balling wrote:
On Jul 22, 2014, at 4:34 PM, Josh Smift <[email protected]> wrote:
Sure, but I'm just talking about tone here. "I think we're siding
with
Netflix rather than Verizon because of a cultural hatred of
megacorps" is
very different in tone from "oooh, the nasty wasty megacorps, you
just
can't even consider that they might not be the bad guys here, you
narrow-minded idiot".
I think the tone used was exactly the tone I was striving for, and
I'm not ashamed of it. That's exactly how I perceive the folks who
have fallen victim to this cultural hatred for successful businesses.
And that's all I'm going to say further on that point, as it's (as
noted earlier) a meta side-point, and not the discussion...
but you seem perfectly happy hating the evil Netflix bigcorp.
DB> Verizon *is* peering with L3 in a friendly way, they're simply
saying
DB> "man, one of your downstream customers is consuming a crapton of
DB> bandwidth and we're throttling them so the rest of the traffic
from
DB> you isn't impacted.
Why is that Verizon's problem? If one of L3's customer's is
saturating
L3's network (or L3's uplinks to other networks", why isn't that
something
for L3 to deal with?
Because it's simple - and a time-honored network-management technique
- to minimally impact some traffic so that the other traffic can get
through. Verizon can make the determination "oh, that's a streaming
video protocol that will adapt to a throttled connection handily" and
throttle it back so that other less robust protocols make it through
unscathed.
Except, that's not what Verizon is doing.
They aren't slowing down Netflix to allow other traffic through, they
are letting an congestion point exist, which hurts all traffic through
that connection, not just Netflix traffic.
David Lang
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