[1012] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: some dumb questions from the gallery
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (saj@relay.proteon.com)
Tue Jul 16 02:02:04 1991
From: saj@relay.proteon.com
Date: 16 Jul 91 12:42 EST
To: emv@ox.com, tal@warren.mentorg.com
Cc: nren-discuss@psi.com, com-priv@psi.com
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>The problem is that the net is being asked to carry both the moral
equivalent
>of 18-wheel monster trucks (expensive big-science real-time video or
>massive supercomputer graphic visualization) along with the ordinary
>passenger car traffic (e-mail, netnews) and it's hard to engineer a
network
>that's adequate to both tasks that very many people can afford.
This is where perhaps TOS could be useful. The concept of
Type-of-Service (TOS) routing was designed expressedly for
this purpose. Modern routing protocols (eg OSPF) can handle
TOS, and allow a backbone to be built with alternate paths
for different types of traffic.
All this of course assumes the IP datagram paradigm
survives the onslaught of the '18-wheel monster trucks'
.....
Sajit
(saj@relay.proteon.com)
"My opinions are strictly mine, and do not necessarily
reflect those of my employer"
