On Wed, 21 May 1997, Paul Ferguson wrote:
I'd like to get a feel for what the temperature level is in the ISP community for this issue -- I have a vested [personal] interest in understanding what your understanding & implementation plans are in this arena.
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We need some reasonable set of knobs in the routers to manage QoS bits. For instance, maybe if the number of packets per minute in a given flow exceeds X ppm then QoS bits will be cranked down a notch for all packets in that flow... Why would we need this? Assuming that QoS can be used at no additional dollar charge, then we need to limit its use. Or, if there is a dollar charge associated with QoS then we still need to manage its use and to track its use. In the dollar scenario, a customer, i.e. a company, may wish to pay for QoS for certain uses such as two-way audio, but not for other uses and they may wish the ISP to manage this for them. 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