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To: Doug who wrote (15110)	11/25/1999 1:58:00 PM
From: fumble	Respond to of 18016

The days of free fast surfing will soon be replaced by willful free slow surfing forcing the Customer to pay for QoS if he needs speed. It is not a matter of forcing - the customer now does not have the choice - they get crappy unstable (IP) service without the ability to choose. As ZO pointed out, internet access [and transport] has sunk to a commodity level. The next level (no pun..) will be choice down to the customer application level. ATM is the only protocol that currently offers a standard-stable and predictable QoS. The newer protocols based on IP which offer some sort of QoS are just wishful thinking.