[87413] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (a.harrowell)
Fri Dec 16 03:46:42 2005
From: "a.harrowell" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
To: <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:44:39 -0000
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Yes. Best effort should be something to aspire to, not "worse than carrier grade"
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From: "Sean Donelan"<sean@donelan.com>
Sent: 16/12/2005 00:15:49
To: "nanog@merit.edu"<nanog@merit.edu>
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Subject: RE: The Qos PipeDream [Was: RE: Two Tiered Internet]
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Fergie wrote:
> I think Bill Manning hit on it a couple of days ago; Bill said
> something about the Internet being about best effort and QoS
> should be (various) levels of 'better-than-best effort' -- and
> anything less that best effort is _not_ the Internet.
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