On Thu, 22 May 1997, Greg Soprovich wrote:
The support issue between ASes is, I believe, the largest one. I think getting such a policy in place will dwarf the carrier agreement woes between major Telcos. Can you imagine trying to build a common framework for Qos/Cos across the majority of providers any time soon? The administrative headaches will, I think, far outweigh any technical issues...
Fortunately, we do have the advantage of hindsight and can attempt to avoid the worst part of the telco industry's carrier agreements. It may not be easy but it is an essential problem to solve if we want packet switching IP networks to become the main transport mechanism for information in the next century. That's why we need lots of knobs in the routers, and the CPU power, etc. to back them up. We don't need to convert the entire network in order to implement usable realtime voice services; we just need to allow for a portion of the bandwidth to be allocated according to QoS/CoS. There are many ways this could be done without implementing metering, if the routers at every point on the path, can control the use of QoS/CoS. Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting http://www.memra.com - E-mail: michael@memra.com The bottom line is track record. Not track tearing. Not track derailing. But pounding the damn dirt around the track with the rest of us worms. -- Randy Bush