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Re: Informational RFC to be: draft-bless-diffserv-pdb-le-01.txt
IESG,
This RFC-to-be was submitted to the RFC Editor to be published as
Informational: draft-bless-diffserv-pdb-le-01.txt.
Timeout is initiated (4 April 2003).
(Please note that the date reflected above takes into consideration
the IETF meeting during the week of March 16 - 22.)
A Lower Effort Per-Domain Behavior for Differentiated Services
This document proposes a differentiated services per-domain behavior
(PDB) whose traffic may be "starved" (although starvation is not
strictly required) in a properly functioning network. This is in
contrast to the Internet's "best-effort" or "normal Internet traffic"
model where prolonged starvation indicates network problems. In this
sense the proposed PDB's traffic is forwarded with a "lower" priority
than the normal "best-effort" Internet traffic, thus the PDB is
called "Lower Effort" (LE). Use of this PDB permits a network
operator to strictly limit the effect of its traffic on "best-
effort"/"normal" or all other Internet traffic. This document gives
some example uses, but does not propose constraining the PDB's use to
any particular type of traffic.
Sincerely,
Sandy Ginoza - USC/ISI
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