Re: Re: The best way to implement net neutrality...

<<Simple encryption between nodes is wide open to heuristic analysis to determine content type, if not the actual message contents. That is, VoIP, TVoIP, P2P, etc., all have their own distinct network patterns that stand out like sore thumbs to anyone who is looking hard enough, and simply encrypting the data is not going to disguise that.>>

That's true for the moment-- however, if the carriers attempt to use that information to characterize traffic, they'll soon find that the behaviours will change-- it's not too hard to spoof some of these to look like others-- all traffic will begin to produce the characteristics of whatever is the cheapest. If altering the traffic pattern can affect the costs of transmission, traffic patterns will get altered. Ultimately, the carriers will find out that using traffic analysis in this manner will be more trouble than it's worth.