That’s one of a whole host of issues raised by the idea of tagging packets on the internet. Attackers could assign priority to their DDOS attacks for example. I don’t have the answers but I think this is the direction the conversation should go in. The discussions I see on the topic almost never competently address the issue I’m raising. Nobody should be arguing that all traffic should be equal, we should be discussing which traffic gets priority and how that decision is made.
They can tell right now. T-Mobile gives free data usage for video and music streaming, for instance.
You can either do traffic pattern analysis or just base it on what IPs they are connecting to.
That works great today, but it stifles innovation. If I roll out a new real-time service my users suffer shitty delayed service, until I get big enough to force them to prioritize me.
That is not independent and not net neutral.
It also doesn’t cross the ISP boundary.
It probably doesn't need to, bottleneck is usually at the customers side. (Mainly due to bad upload)