ARCHITECTING the Future Internet -recapturing the value chain

Users and application writers are locked in an endless battle over the allocation of resources in the network. In a bid to ease the resulting congestion, many Internet service providers (ISPs) now impose volume caps, or traffic controls at peak times. But is this the way forward? Not according to this BT team. Welcome to a new framework which will incentivise players to work harder at designing efficient resource control mechanisms.