[Bloat] other people's VLAN congestion

[Ing-Jyh Tsang]

On 21/03/2013 17:53, Michael Richardson wrote:
> You'd think that, and the operator I know of is happy to sell an SLA 
> for more money. But, the "best effort" service had the property that 
> packets were never dropped, but were regularly late, even though my 
> edge CPE equipment was prioriziting the way I wanted. 

Rigth, in case of BE, not much is done, but mechanism are there. What 
are the incentives for the operators (you get what you pay for...)? 
However, as higher and higher access BW is offered/sold, this becomes 
more visible and operators I know does something about it, all the way 
to the CPE. I think the main question is can we improve beyond /RFC 
2697/ <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2697.txt> or /RFC 2698/ 
<https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2698.txt>? Specially with adaptive 
systems. On the other hand, many hesitated on the "adaptive", more 
"intelligence" systems siding/claiming control and stability... Due to 
lack of knowledge, mind frame, or ...
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