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From YT: A response to John McCain's technology platform, focused upon the decline in US broadband penetration rankings globally.
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QOS boundaries are technical abstractions, they basically show where devices or data-streams trust (in QOS priority flags) can be kept, and passed on (ergo, allowing QOS policies to be applied to certain traffic).
At present these boundaries are inside the ISP's own cloud (generally the distribution network, ala the routers/switches at your local peering point / data center for your ISP - PAST your local telephone exchange).
This makes it a nigh impossible task to apply QOS to individual applications and data-streams without incuring SIGNIFICANT performance decreases on the distribution network. Its much more efficient to apply that kind of stuff as close to the user as possible, and for that very reason, the ISP's have been trying to push the trust boundary out to the exchange so that they can throttle applications / services that they deem worthy of it, so that they dont have to spend as much money on upgrading distribution / core bandwidth when user's speed/density gos up with the technology.
The part about broadband penetration is also a very important one. Basically hes saying that the govt. and the FCC have dropped the ball, allowed larger corporations to eat up all the smaller ones (either through predatory pricing schemes or straight-forward buyouts) which in turn destroys competition in the market.
Competition is the ONLY force that drives innovation and efficiency, resulting in BETTER services, to MORE people, at LOWER costs.
Without that, none of those 3 fundamentals which push an industry forward, ever see the light of day...which is basically why you've seen broadband penetration decay over the past 8 years.
We have been having a similar battle in Australia with the incumbent ISP that owns the entire phone network to every single house....basically they have conflicted interests between their retail department and their wholesale department, allowing them to use their enormous ammounts of economic AND political muscle to strangle the other ISP's out of the arena, while at the same time holding back advancement in network upgrades.
15 years ago they had a plan to run out FTTH to everyone in the country, when it was still under control of the govt. When that was privatised, they shelved those plans and have been artifically capping speeds, and styming investment ever since and it has been a disaster on our digital economy...but the shareholders are all happy, so who cares, right ?
This is the crux of the argument...without regulation, you allow the incumbents to strangle the industry at the expense of the consumer choice, all so their share-prices can go up at monopolistic rates.
Its a bad bad thing that must be stopped from occuring at all costs.
Im a network engineer by trade, and currently studying telecoms engineering and hold a comp sci degree, this is my bread-and-butter
The calls for separation of the incumbant company in australia are getting stronger and stronger as the country edges towards the latest governments planned 10bn$+ network upgrade (Fiber to the Node, VDSL2+ 50mb/sec~ to homes), and the upgrade itself was a top-tier political promise during their campaign to get elected.
Sadly however, its the same government that wants to force every ISP to filter the internet similar to china, to block out ilegal sites (including pornography), with an opt-out list (which still suffers performance degradation due to being forced to run through a black-list of ilegal sites), which threatens to undermine the investment to upgrade alltogether.
Access requests for internet sites require database lookups on DNS servers, and these filters are being applied to those DNS servers. Average requests in the middle of the day are on the order of 100k a seccond, and currently there is no software in the world that can manage that kind of DB lookup request filtering without SIGNIFICANT performance degradation.
Keep an eye out over the coming months to see the result of a live "trial" for those interested.