Socioeconomic tussles analysis of the ETICS approach for providing QoS-enabled inter-domain services

We apply a tussle analysis methodology to two types of functionality offered by the ETICS framework. The first one is related to establishment of QoS-aware, inter-domain paths. We find that allowing fine-grained control over major properties of interconnection agreement (such as set of IP destinations) can help adoption of the ETICS system and sustain a healthy ecosystem for all participants. The second functionality investigated is service delivery with assured quality between multiple ISPs. Here we find that even if ISPs are honest in primary paths they may overbook backup paths. Thus, without adequate monitoring it is not possible to correctly assign responsibility for breaking the end-to-end SLA in case of failure along the path (where the backup should be used).