Editing Net neutrality (section)

===Traffic shaping===
[[Traffic shaping]] is the control of [[computer network]] traffic to optimize or guarantee performance, improve [[Network latency|latency]] (i.e., decrease Internet response times), or increase usable [[Bandwidth (computing)|bandwidth]] by delaying [[Packet (information technology)|packets]] that meet certain criteria.<ref>[[:rfc:2475#section-2.3.3.3|IETF RFC 2475]] "An Architecture for Differentiated Services" section 2.3.3.3 – definition of "Shaper"</ref> In practice, traffic shaping is often accomplished by [[Bandwidth throttling|throttling]] certain types of data, such as [[streaming video]] or [[peer-to-peer file sharing|P2P]] file sharing. More specifically, traffic shaping is any action on a set of packets (often called a stream or a flow) that imposes additional delay on those packets such that they conform to some predetermined constraint (a contract or traffic profile).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-I.371-200403-I/en |title=ITU-T I.371: Traffic control and congestion control in B-ISDN |author=tsbmail |access-date=14 September 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220063807/http://www.itu.int/rec/T-REC-I.371-200403-I/en |archive-date=20 December 2014}}</ref> Traffic shaping provides a means to control the volume of traffic being sent into a [[computer network|network]] in a specified period ([[bandwidth throttling]]), or the maximum rate at which the traffic is sent ([[rate limiting]]), or more complex criteria such as [[generic cell rate algorithm]].