[27568] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: TOS history?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Feb 24 17:19:00 2000
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Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:16:37 -0500
To: "Dana Hudes" <dhudes@panix.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <ferguson@cisco.com>
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Dana,
Here is perhaps another useful historical reference, at least
in the context of IP Precedence:
Mitigating the coming Internet crunch: multiple service
levels via Precedence
R. Bohn, H.-W. Braun, K. Claffy and S. Wolff, submitted
for publication, November 1993.
http://www.nlanr.net/Papers/mcic.html
- paul
At 11:59 PM 02/21/2000 -0500, Dana Hudes wrote:
>Hi folks, I'm busily writing up my next lecture for my TCP/IP course at
>CUNY Hunter
>(text is Comer vol. 1 4th edition), the topic is the base Internet
>Protocol datagram format. I come to the TOS field which, as all know, was
>originally specified in the base IP specification RFC 791 then attempt to
>extend and reconcile it with later RFCs made in RFC 1349 followed
>subsequently in RFC 2474 in late 1998 which completely changed it to
>support DiffServ. In RFC 791 on page 11, Jon Postel writes:
>
