I was against it before I was for it. The Register showed me the light!

So this congestion management is based on TCP controlling packet traffic, but it depends on it being used in a very gentlemanly fashion.But running BitTorrent is not nearly as gentlemanly. When it’s delayed, it spins off more and more threads and tries harder to get more traffic. And remember that with non-TCP applications, such as UDP, they don’t have any congestion management at all. UDP is a stateless protocol, and VoIP and IPTV use RTP, a version of UDP.

I know TCPIP isn’t perfect.  And having used VoIP (I’m on a conf call with it right now) I know what happens when someone else starts downloading youtube.   You start getting a flutter on the call as packets are dropped.

So what is the answer?  Is VoIP and related application protocols that require as close to real time performance more priority than non-priority protocols like P2P and HTTP?  I’ve only seen the argument used that if we didn’t have net neutrality, that your local ISP is going to charge google so its web packets get to your browser fast enough.  This is starting to sound like crap, that its not differentiating between one website and another, but between things like streaming video/audio applications, and downloading mp3s.

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