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[WanMan]

Actually, he isn't talking about two different things. Let's say for a minute a high-bandwidth application uses a well known port. Hence, traffic on said port can be predicted as being high-bandwidth and treated with extreme prejudice. Now let's say that your ISP doesn't need to know the port thing and can easily determine the kind of traffic using methods like DPI, and thence implement dynamic routing within the AS (Autonomous System) and again apply extreme prejudice in treatment.

ISPs simply want all the profit there is to make, even if it means blackmail, extortion, and threatening commercial entities like YouTube and Netflix. The want to charge customers for allow them them access to the Internet (subscriber to Internet), and they now want to charge entities as if they were customers of the ISPs for those websites sending traffic to the customer (Internet to subscriber).

Sure, YouTube and Netflix are real customers to whomever provides them access to the Internet, but if that isn't one in the same as the Netflix subscriber's ISP the the subscriber's ISP needs to go F itself. And I'll reiterate again for those not listening ...

ISPs already conduct mutually beneficial parallel peering with high-bandwidth Internet entities. This solution solves the cost of the middle man they cut out. But for the ISPs, greed is greed in a small profit world. Personally, ISPs should get out of the ISP business and get into the wireless business.