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Comment Re:You mean... (Score 2) 243

They can't simply trust users to appropriately mark packets - you'd have some who simply marked everything as high priority.

Then run the meter only for packets marked high priority. "You get 50 GB/mo for high priority, after which point we start demoting all your packets to bulk." That's similar to the shaping that cellular ISPs perform on "unlimited" data plans: the first few GB at "blazing 4G speed" (actually LTE which is 4G-Lite) and the rest at near dial-up speed.

This might require rearchitecting applications to split their communication into interactive and bulk streams. For example, Netflix could encrypt each shot* in a movie with a separate key, send the entire encrypted movie in large chunks over a high-throughput, high-latency connection, and stream the decryption keys over a high-priority connection.

* Actually each MPEG group of pictures.

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