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Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Wed May 25 15:53:16 2005

Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 22:52:50 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku+nanog@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <d9ffc8238bcf2caaba10a1e1901d7c07@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On (2005-05-25 11:16 -0700), Fred Baker wrote:
 
> I guess the question is why, just because you don't want to offer a 
> specific service, you want to prevent other ISPs from offering a stated 
> service to a user? There are some fairly good-sized ISPs offering 
> services based on the TOS octet. Are you trying to drive users to them? 
> Any customer that is setting EF on VoIP service is certainly expecting 
> that to go end to end.

 The problem is opposite, because I want to offer differentiated services 
I want to rewrite the TOS byte. If I don't want to offer differentiated
services myself I can leave it untouched.

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