On 20 mar 2014, at 22:18, Meredith Whittaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Your take is really interesting, Patrik, and exactly the kind of knowledge I 
> think RIPE and the broader technical community could inject into these 
> processes. 

It has been injected, repeatedly, but the level of clue among the ones actually 
writing the text is too low. And too many lobbyists want this bad vague 
language.

> Would it make sense to do a quick write-up, explaining the technical 
> difficulties/impossibilities of implementing what is currently (vaguely) 
> defined in the draft, and requesting clarity and technical specifics? 

Unknown to me. I do not know where the text is at the moment.

   Patrik

> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Patrik Fältström <[email protected]> wrote:
> Agree, but that VPN can not be delivered (over the same IP based
> network) as internet access without the internet access being degraded.
> That is what I read the text say. And my point is that what this results
> in is that the customer of the internet access should continue to get
> whatever service they bought, irrespectively if some VPN service or
> whatever is transported in the same shared physical medium, L2 or L3
> network.
> 
> If that is what the intention is, why do they not write that?
> 
>    Patrik
> 
> On 2014-03-20 00:30, Innocenzo Genna wrote:
> > In my opinion, that kind of specialized  services are a VPN. It’s no
> > Internet.
> >
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> >
> > Il giorno 20/mar/2014, alle ore 00:03, Patrik Fältström <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2014-03-19 20:13, Gordon Lennox wrote:
> >>> On 19 Mar, 2014, at 18:34, Innocenzo Genna <[email protected]
> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>
> >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> 15) “specialized service” means an electronic communications
> >>>> service */optimized for /*specific content, applications or services,
> >>>> or a combination thereof, */provided over logically distinct capacity
> >>>> and relying on strict admission control from end to end/*. It is not
> >>>> marketed or */usable/* as a substitute for internet access service;
> >>>> [its application layer is not functionally identical to services and
> >>>> applications available over the public internet access service;]
> >>>
> >>> And that, particularly if the specialised service uses IP, is the
> >>> problem?
> >>>
> >>> And end-to-end means to a particular device or, more probably, an end
> >>> network controlled by the service supplier.
> >>>
> >>> I stopped liking "end-to-end" sometime back.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I have no idea what and how to implement technically what they talk
> >> about as "specialices service that does not impcat...".
> >>
> >> In a packet based network, if the outgoing interface is not full, all
> >> packets will be forwarded as soon as possible.
> >>
> >> If the outgoing interface is full, then one can either queue all packets
> >> equally (M/M/1 queuing theory) or one can have multiple queues (M/M/N).
> >> If one have a specialized service that have some special treatment, then
> >> by definition that implies longer delay on other queues (as packets get
> >> reordered).
> >>
> >> Now, there are some special cases as well where the _services_ sold can
> >> be different (i.e. some business connection with some SLA that is higher
> >> than some SLA for end users paying less).
> >>
> >> What I think is sad is that they did not stop at saying for example:
> >>
> >> - Each provider of a service is required to always deliver to their
> >> customers the service they have promised to deliver. (Regardless of what
> >> other services they deliver to other customers on the same network...)
> >>
> >> Not any silly end-to-end. No silly "specialized service" etc.
> >>
> >> Then in other paragraphs they already (if I remember correctly) have
> >> wording about equal treatment, dominant provider of services etc.
> >>
> >>   Patrik
> >>
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Meredith Whittaker
> Program Manager, Google Research
> Google NYC

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