[AusNOG] QoS on Internet traffic

[Matt Palmer]

On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 01:00:39PM +1000, Paul Wilkins wrote:
> If your client sites have redundant links, you can get massive performance
> benefit by routing bulk transfer via the backup path.
> 
> As for there is no QoS on the internet, that's mostly because US service
> providers are legislatively blocked from what would be a departure from net
> neutrality.

<eyeroll>

It's got nothing to do with Net Neutrality.  If it was, (a) it would have
happened long before any of that got started, and (b) the rest of the world,
which is not similarly constrained, would be doing it, and everything would
be just peachy.

No, the problem with QoS on the Internet is the same as allowing senders to
mark e-mails with priorities: everyone thinks *their* traffic is important,
so everyone marks their packets / e-mails as "TOP PRIORITY", and you're back
to exactly the same situation you're in now, where everything's best-effort
and nobody is particularly happy.

- Matt

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