[87304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two Tiered Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Per Heldal)
Wed Dec 14 08:06:49 2005
From: "Per Heldal" <heldal@eml.cc>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20051214124154.29441.qmail@web31812.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:06:20 +0100
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On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:41:54 -0800 (PST), "David Barak"
<thegameiam@yahoo.com> said:
> --- Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
> > Simple. You give the consumer the ability to fiddle
> > with
> > the QoS settings on the provider's edge router
> > interface.
> > After all, they are paying for the access link.
>
> eeek! I assume you mean "tell the customer what
> DSCP/whatever settings you honor, and let them do the
> marking" right? The thought of letting customers
> actually make changes to my edge routers would keep me
> up at night...
To let customers decide priorities in your backbone is a bad idea, but I
don't think that's the issue here. Assuming the customer's link to the
network to be the primary bottleneck; there's nothing wrong with giving
customers the ability to prioritise traffic on their link, provided that
your access-equipment is able to handle queueing etc (given fool-proof
mechanisms that enable self-service and keep your NOC out of the loop of
course;).
//per
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Per Heldal
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