At 03:30 PM 01/31/2000 -0800, dave o'leary wrote:

Attempts to "standardize" inter-NOC communication happened a couple of times in the early 90's in the IETF, but it got too ugly, with too many barriers (basically people not wanting to expose dirty laundry). I fear that attempts to do so now when the providers are *really* competing with each other (as opposed to back in the old daze when we were all friends :-) will suffer the same fate, other than on a pairwise basis between NOCs that cooperate well with each other anyway.

dave

I have to chuckle reading this thread. We can't even get our NOCs to talk to each other, and Marketing people think we can do Inter-Provider QOS?? Hopefully I will have retired at an early age before we burn that bridge :) -Steve