On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:59:15AM -0800, Bob Snyder wrote:
Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
Since QoS works by degrading the quality of service for some streams of packets in a congestion scenario and since congestion scenarios are most common on end customer links, it makes sense to let the end customers fiddle with the QoS settings in both directions on their link.
So where would the payback be for this for the last-mile provider? Compared to the pain of setting this up and supporting it, what percentage of customers would actually use something like this? Just trying to educate users on this would be quite challenging. "Well, sir, the service allows you to select which of your traffic is important and should get priority..." "But all my traffic is important!"
It gets more fun when the medium you use to get to the end customer is a shared medium, with some normal amount of oversubscription.
Bob
since Internet is "best-effort" ... any overt attempt to reduce this best effort service to explictly degraded service (perhaps due to intentional overprovisioning, causing degraded service) ... -is NOT the Internet- ... its some propriatary, substandard networking technology to get me to the Internet. So i suspect that marketing folks be very clear on what is being sold. --bill