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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/03/2013 17:53, Michael Richardson
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:14148.1363884839@sandelman.ca" type="cite">
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.
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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 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2697.txt"
class="l" onmousedown="return
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rel="noreferrer" style="color: rgb(17, 34, 204); cursor: pointer;"><em
style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">RFC 2697</em></a>
or <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2698.txt" class="l"
onmousedown="return
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style="color: rgb(17, 34, 204); cursor: pointer;"><em
style="font-weight: bold; font-style: normal;">RFC 2698</em></a>?
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
...<br>
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