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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (14505)	8/14/1999 7:02:00 PM
From: E. Davies	Read Replies (1) of 29970

are you referring to QoS here, or do you mean using a fair weighting algorithm to ensure that everyone gets a shot at best effort. Or both? Dont know for sure what is needed for open access to work. Neither does anyone else yet I think. What would be most ideal in my opinion to set free the forces of the market would be a way in which the MSO's (or @home) could auction off digital bandwidth to various ISP's. "@home networking" would buy analog bandwidth (Hz) wholesale from the MSO's and then partitian off fixed amounts of bits/sec to resell to any ISP willing to pay the price in open auction. Only then could "@home ISP" and the other ISP's compete fairly. Under these circumstances I would completely agree with gpowell's proposals. ATHM should set itself free from the MSO's, though I dont know how they would pay off the equity investment the MSO's own in ATHM. This is a completely different level of operation than user QoS, however some creative engineering might be able to approximate the ideal using the kind of QoS features being developed today. Eric

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