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Re: BCP regarding TOS transparancy for internet traffic

  • From: Saku Ytti
  • Date: Wed May 25 14:52:39 2005 
On (2005-05-25 14:44 -0400), Eric A. Hall wrote:
 
> 4) The default of no-modify should also apply to non-payinng customers
> since they may be flagging their packets for special processing on their
> own networks (and they don't want the flags to poof away when the traffic
> crosses your hop).

 Beatiful idea, how in practice do you suggest this is done, how will
my router know if it should just ignore the TOS bytes or do expedited
forwarding as configured for given value of TOS byte?

> In sum, premium packages are for expedited processing, which is what they
> are buying. Rewriting any packets without consent/request is not needed
> and unrelated, and is bad mojo in general.

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