net neutrality and peering wars continue

Sat Jun 22 21:03:15 UTC 2013

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Neil Harris <neil at tonal.clara.co.uk>wrote:

> On 22/06/13 16:34, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
>> That's easily solved by padding the ACK to 1500 bytes as well.
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>>
>>>>  Or indeed by the media player sending large amounts of traffic back to
>>> the CDN via auxiliary HTTP POST requests?
>>>
>>> Neil
>>>
>>>  That would assume that the client has symmetrical upstream bandwidth
>> over which to send such datagrams. At least in the US, that is the
>> exception, not the rule.
>>
>> Owen
>>
>>
> Hi Owen,
>
> You only need to match the video stream bandwidth, not the full download
> speed of the link.
>

Nah.  For peering purposes, you only need to match half the video
stream bandwidth to be within compliance.   Generating 2.5M back
upstream in response to a 5M video stream would be more than
sufficient to keep the ratio-watchers happy.

Matt