[87388] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Thu Dec 15 17:04:06 2005
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:00:27 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Schliesser, Benson" <bensons@savvis.net>,
"Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> Randy-
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> I don't think your bank analogy is very strong, but never mind that.
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> I agree with what you're saying in principle, that if a user/customer
> buys bit delivery at a fixed rate then we should deliver it.
But isn't that the point. You can't guarantee delivery, just as you
can't guarantee you won't get a busy signal when you make a call.
-M<=20
