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For people interested, there is a discussion of the roots of the
"network neutrality" concept at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org">internetpolicy@elists.isoc.org</a>
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Some of it seems, to my eyes, to be uninformed by the community
that works in the AQM space, so I see perfectly serious quotes
like<br>
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<blockquote class="infmailquote"> Longer packets might be
dropped in favor of shorter ones. Packets in a <br>
burst might be dropped in favor of ones that are spaced out. <br>
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This gets back to the point of neutrality - which describes
some level <br>
of "equivalence", but there's never just one version of
equivalence that <br>
everyone will accept. <br>
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If you want to preserve the Internet architecture, you need to
make sure <br>
that: <br>
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Packets shall not be discriminated except on their inherent <br>
properties (size, time of arrival) or explicit user-inserted <br>
label (e.g., a QoS tag). <br>
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If you want to make sure that packets are "fairly dropped",
there's no <br>
single such thing; one link might be bandwidth limited (so
drop <br>
proportional to length is fair), and the next might be header
processing <br>
limited (so per-packet drop is fair); for a given path,
there's no <br>
single mechanism that satisfies the variety of fairnesses that
could be <br>
required. </blockquote>
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If anyone's also interested in Network Neutrality and its roots,
please feel free to hop over and contribute some informed opinions
(;-))<br>
<br>
--dave<br>
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David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify
System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:davecb@spamcop.net">davecb@spamcop.net</a> | -- Mark Twain
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