ICES:Small: An architectural, economic, and legal approach to encouraging end-to-end Quality of Service in the Internet

对互联网服务质量技术的网络研究已经产生了广泛应用于路由器的标准。然而，服务质量实践的使用非常有限。互联网服务提供商已经实施了服务质量实践来支持他们自己的语音和视频服务，但不向其订户提供服务质量技术以供任何其他互联网应用程序使用。互联网服务提供商尚未将服务质量实践纳入其与其他互联网服务提供商的协议中，因此服务质量技术在互联网上不可用。服务质量实践的有限部署引发了关于网络中立性的激烈辩论，这是几十年来最具争议的电信公共政策问题之一。该项目将解决互联网上广泛缺乏服务质量技术的问题。它将采用跨学科的方法，整合网络架构，经济学和法律。该项目将有三个目标。首先，它将创建和分析网络体系结构和经济模型，这些模型可以洞察互联网服务提供商何时选择向应用程序提供商提供服务质量技术，而不是自己。其次，它将考虑通信法如何影响服务质量实践的发展。第三，它将说明用户、互联网服务提供商和应用程序提供商之间潜在的技术和经济安排，这些安排可以使服务质量实践以与规范流量管理的新法律一致的方式得到广泛部署。希望研究结果能促进服务质素实践的广泛应用，从而进一步发展新的互联网应用。这项研究还将通过进一步发展一门新颖的互联网与公共政策本科课程，鼓励网络技术、经济学和法律的跨学科教学。这项研究，如果成功，将通知互联网服务提供商和监管机构，并有可能改善互联网的功能特征和互联网服务提供商的收入机会。

Networking research on Internet Quality of Service techniques has resulted in standards that have been widely incorporated into routers. And yet, use of Quality of Service practices is very limited. Internet Service Providers have implemented Quality of Service practices to support their own voice and video services, but do not offer Quality of Service techniques to their subscribers for use by any other Internet applications. Internet Service Providers have not incorporated Quality of Service practices into their agreements with other Internet Service Providers, and hence Quality of Service techniques are not available across the Internet. The limited deployment of Quality of Service practices has ignited vigorous debate over Net Neutrality, one of the most contentious telecommunications public policy issues in decades.This project will address the lack of availability of Quality of Service techniques widely across the Internet. It will adopt an interdisciplinary approach that integrates network architecture, economics, and law. The project will have three goals. First, it will create and analyze network architecture and economic models that can give insight into when an Internet Service Provider will choose to offer Quality of Service techniques to application providers other than itself. Second, it will consider how communications law may affect the development of Quality of Service practices. Third, it will illustrate potential technical and economic arrangements between users, Internet Service Providers, and application-providers that could enable widespread deployment of Quality of Service practices in a manner consistent with new laws regulating traffic management. It is hoped that the results will encourage the widespread deployment of Quality of Service practices and thus enable further development of novel Internet applications. The research will also encourage interdisciplinary teaching of networking technology, economics, and law through further development of a novel undergraduate course on The Internet and Public Policy. The research, if successful, will inform ISPs and regulators, and potentially improve both the functional character of the Internet and the revenue opportunities of the ISPs.