Re: Internet is rickety; Hot potatoes

proff@iq.org
Thu, 20 Aug 1998 00:27:47 +1000 (EST)

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> So you have argued that a reliable transport should include
> quality-of-service ---like ATM (orig. from the telco world) does, or like
> various future flavors of IP might. The lack of QoS in IP is part of its
> 'ricketyness' for serious use.

IP does actually include quality (priority) and type (thoughput/rtt/cost)
service flags. Most routers however do not obey them. There are
also bandwidth reservation extentions (although these are by no
means part of the core protocol).

Cheers,
Julian.

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