>"This also doesn't make sense. Many of the backbones I am intimate with are among the largest in the world and yet have no trouble avoiding congestion through correct provisioning.
Please state specifically which backbones that are among the largest in the world you are "intimate" with. And please provide a citation for its 1:1 to traffic ratio. There isn't a network in the world that isn't oversubscribed.The entire practice of "capacity management" is based on oversubscription.
>"Some providers like Comcast due to whatever (organizational, incompetence, business) reason do not do this. QoS doesn't really work how you think it does. NN is about ensuring that like NetFlix and JoeBlogsNewStreaming service get equal treatment on the network. They are not going to be riding in separate classes. The anti-NN tactics of the big carriers is to throttle, actively not upgrade peering connection, route over longer paths, etc."
The OP is correct and they seem to have a good grasp of how QoS works as they mentioned DSCP bit and the IP header. The OP is also correct in that every single segment of a network is oversubscribed from the top of rack switch, the uplinks from the ToR to the core, transit and peering, to the 10/40 Gig waves that make up backbones.
Again, nobody has a 1:1 subscription ratio anywhere in their network. It would be a colossal waste and you would be out of business. Profitability in Telecom and networks in general is predicated on oversubscription.
Take the most basic example of a top or rack switch that has 48 x 10 Gig ports = 480 Gbs and yet has an uplink capacity of 4 x 40 = 160 Gbs. This represents a 3:1 oversubscription ratio and is part of the design of the switch[1]. This port to backplane capacity oversubscription is probably the most important consideration in evaluating switches.
And ISPs most certainly use QoS to violate Net Neutrality. You might want to read up on the 2007 BitTorrent Comcast controversy. Comcast execs also admitted as much[2].
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It really seems that not only do you don't have a good understanding of how the internet works but you also don't have a good understanding of the economics of it either. It becomes more evident with each of your posts.
[1] https://cumulusnetworks.com/learn/web-scale-networking-resou...
[2] https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/comcast-were-delay...