I agree with the main focus of othis article. I believe we could do more to make the interent more managable and reliant.

Greg, there is no mechnisim to ensure the packet gets there, there is one via tcp to ensure you know if one or more were lost but not that it all of them get there. If a packet is lost then there can be a reqest for another one 
The "flow router" doesn't seem like its creating a teir, it sounds like QoS but an automatic QoS service nothing special but then again I don't think this article really understands its technical nature. For that router to create a teir it would also have to identify where it came from and is going to, rather or not there is a rule to slow it down and then if the destination has an agreement.

His router sounds more like a way of creating Tiered internet, something I want no part of. There IS a system of ensuring packets get where they are going now. Sounds like an opportunist throwing around his past credentials to sell a prodcut. I ask you this though, what has he done for us RECENTLY? HMMMM?