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On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:59:15AM -0800, Bob Snyder wrote: > > [email protected] wrote: > > >Since QoS works by degrading the quality of service > >for some streams of packets in a congestion scenario > >and since congestion scenarios are most common on > >end customer links, it makes sense to let the end > >customers fiddle with the QoS settings in both > >directions on their link. > > > > > > > So where would the payback be for this for the last-mile provider? > Compared to the pain of setting this up and supporting it, what > percentage of customers would actually use something like this? Just > trying to educate users on this would be quite challenging. "Well, sir, > the service allows you to select which of your traffic is important and > should get priority..." "But all my traffic is important!" > > It gets more fun when the medium you use to get to the end customer is a > shared medium, with some normal amount of oversubscription. > > Bob since Internet is "best-effort" ... any overt attempt to reduce this best effort service to explictly degraded service (perhaps due to intentional overprovisioning, causing degraded service) ... -is NOT the Internet- ... its some propriatary, substandard networking technology to get me to the Internet. So i suspect that marketing folks be very clear on what is being sold. --bill
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