Issues with EF Definition draft-charny-ef-definition-00

8/16/00


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Issues with EF Definition draft-charny-ef-definition-00

Issues Raised on the List

Outline

1. There is nothing really wrong with the definition, and it does not need to be fixed

2. There is something wrong with the definition but our fix is too complicated.

An Intuitive Explanation of the Math

What is the error term E ?

Q: How do implementors figure out E? A: The same way they figure out the rate restriction for RFC 2598...

A difference in approach

3. Did We Change EF?

So Did We Really Change EF?

0.Does a PHB definition need to be rigorous or can it be just intuitive?

Backups

The *any* interval problem

And with Other Schedulers...

Blindness to Input Rates

Low Input Rate with Internal Router Delay

The Formal Definition

The paragraph we want to replace

Author: acharny