I have been somewhat following how in the face of COVID-19,
the appropriate way to manage congestion control in the Internet
seem to be heads of countries reaching out to the one large content provider
they know (Netflix) and ask him to reduce bandwidth pressure on the
Internet. Of course, heads of states with differently aged children
would know that Disney+ or Apple might be other relevant streaming
providers to reach out to, but alas, we have forgotten to elect
those heads of states on such key criteria.
That was of course tongue in cheek of course, but i was somewhat surprised
that nobody took up the opportunity so far to ask something like "how are we
doing on Net Neutrality" ?, or "what the heck would we actually want it to be"
?
I can see a lot of operational short term workarounds to
approximate solutions less silly than phoning CEOs of random companies,
but it really strikes me as highly strange that events like the
ones we're in right now should not have us re-think to what extend
our current presumed strategy is sufficient beyond workarounds:
- Best effort is all we need
- The Internet MUST NOT be able to further distinguish traffic.
- Its just a matter of more money to eliminate inacceptable congestion.
Is this what we want to proliferate ?
Am i the only one wondering about this ?
Obnoxious as i am i think i should quit my Netflix account and instead
subscribe to other streaming services for the time being, small enough
not to be subject to phone-in-QoS. Hmm... HBO or Showtime ??
Or is the solution really: We MUST only have few big quasi-monopolies, because
our heads of state only have that much time to control Internet QoS through
their phone calls ? Aka: the evolution of the Internet to where we
are today is really a great thing, especially to manage QoS the way we can ?
Cheers
Toerless
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