----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Bradner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 8:20 AM Subject: Re: Flow Label
> > > why do folk think that ISPs half way around the world would find it useful > > > to know what the sending computer wanted for QoS? > > > because the sending computer (application) knows the nature of the traffic? > > without a way for the remote ISP to get paid for treating the traffic in > some way other then best-effort I do not see that this helps > > Scott > -------------------------------------------------------------------- When presented with the concept of multiple windows on a graphics display screen, I once heard someone say that "they could not imagine why someone would want more than one window on a computer screen....", the person doing the demo quickly responded...."cross ventilation?" Sometimes....it helps to look at a bigger picture to see.... Jim Fleming 2002:[IPv4]:000X:03DB http://www.IPv8.info -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
