[IP] Re: Net Neutrality: A Radical Form of Non-Discrimination by Hal Singer

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Karl Auerbach [karl@cavebear.com]
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:33 AM
To: David Farber
Cc: ip
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   Net Neutrality: A Radical Form of Non-Discrimination by Hal Singer

David Farber wrote:
> ________________________________________
> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]

> There's exactly *3* cases to deal with:

I suspect that there are 4 cases:

The one that was not mentioned is the situation in which queues of
packets do exist in one or more of the intermediate routers along a path
but the amount of buffering represented by each of those queues is
sufficient to handle the bursts of input without any need to drop packets.

In that case QoS processing means moving packets forward and back in the
queues but not necessarily dropping them.

I do not know whether this 4th case is common or not, but certainly it
must exist at least in a transient way.

                --karl--



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