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Not a word about fairness/congestion control. What if throwing out decades of tuning congestion control is going to have consequences. Which, to put my tinfoil hat on, might lead to problems resolvable only by tiered traffic (and end of network neutrality).

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(Disclaimer: Googler on build tools; Canadian)

Tiered how? By IP? With most content served by a CDN or DDOS shield already, that's arguably fine; most meaningful on the customer IP where you'd want fairness across customers anyways. Or do you mean internet providers will privilege their own content? Already happening, to the extent allowed by law (I'm looking at you, FCC). Not likely to change with HTTP/3 - empirically, needs to be addressed by regulation and not technology.

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