FW: IP QoS issues

["Constantine Protopapas" <wiztech at cmpnetmail.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Constantine Protopapas [mailto:wiztech at cmpnetmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, 9 July 1998 19:46
> To: louie at UU.NET
> Cc: ietf at ietf.org
> Subject: RE: IP QoS issues
>
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> > Given that Internet service provisioning on an Internet backbone doesn't
> > NEED SVCs, this is a vacuuous argument.  The Internet backbone also
> > doesn't route SNA or X.25, either.
> >
> > > I agree that the "CHURN rate" is the major thing to look
> > > when talking about speed and possible bottlenecks.
> >
> > True.  I think that you have an incomplete understanding on how today's
> > production Internet backbones are put together and work.  The questions
> > you're asking might be interesting, but the likely have only passing
> > revelence to today's practice, or perhaps even for the next 6
> or 9 months
> > at least.
> Maybe so. But as an systems/network engineer, i get asked a lot
> about these
> things, so I want to clear out what's going on.
>
> Constantine Protopapas
> e-mail: wiztech at cmpnetmail.com
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