It is apparent that people still don't understand that prioritized services will work very poorly at their best on the Internet. Pay all you want to prioritize traffic, but in the end, its unlikely that any performance improvement will be consistent at all, if even consistently noticeable. In order for the priority settings in traffic packets to actually work in a way that would support 'national emergency needs', each and every piece of equipment running the global Internet would need compatible configurations with respect as to how to classify and treat the many IP priority settings that any given IP packet can have. What this means that that even if telcos are allowed to implement traffic prioritization, any notion that this would help in time of an emergency is vaporous at its best. In fact, the thought that since telcos can use prioritization as some kind of panacea to cure congestion ills on the Internet at large would invariably lead to unfulfilled expectations on the part of the consuming public. Also, the deeper the packet inspection, the less likely that traffic prioritization will actually result in measurable and consistent improvements in traffic flow on the Internet. The problem is further complicated by the fact that much of the planet's Internet Protocol traffic flows through US borders. If the government did issue regulations on how to prioritize traffic, and then somehow enforced such regulations (the only way that prioritization will have enough of an impact to be noticeable), most of the rest of the world will be subject to those regulations.