The [renamed] subject says it all.
Current pricing schemes in the the digital connectivity business
these days reflect nothing, and I mean nothing, that has to do
with nothing, and is indicative of nothing.
All wrapped up for your Christmas shopping pleasure in nothingness.
I hoped we all learn
> Can we build, pay for, and sustain an Internet that never has congestion
> or is never "busy".
s/never/when there are not multiple serious cuts/
would we build a bank where only some of the customers can get
their money back? we're selling delivery of packets at some
bandwidth. we should del
somhow, this esacped into a private thread. i'm pretty
sure that there is a fairly high thermal component to this
thread and not too many photons... so this is it for me
on this thread...
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> > > You start with
> I could see an internet hiearchy where preferred traffic was
> switch onto hicap overflow links with controlled congestion and
> other traffic, non premium traffic, "got a fast busy".
given an internet where the congestion is at the edges, where
there are no alternate paths, i am not sure i und
Hey there Fergie:
> Martin,
>
> You can 'see' anything you'd like, buy your reality
> does not match everyone else's -- my opinion, of course.
>
> QoS is a myth -- it doesn't exist.
>
> What you're obviosuly trying to tell us is that less-than-best-
> effort is somehow good? Never sell it.
Martin,
You can 'see' anything you'd like, buy your reality
does not match everyone else's -- my opinion, of course.
QoS is a myth -- it doesn't exist.
What you're obviosuly trying to tell us is that less-than-best-
effort is somehow good? Never sell it.
This vein will come back and bite you g
> What I'm interested in is how the two service
> providers will build a two tiered Internet.
The PSTN is tiered both in architecture and operation.
Switching hiearchies and a seperate SS7 network which
is basically a billing network.
I think the thought is service levels vs. congestion contr
Hannigan, Martin wrote:
but do i get "the Internet"? ... your claim is that
No, my claim is that "users" are not paying the full boat.
Internet end-users are paying a larger share of the costs of the system
than broadcast radio or TV end-users are paying (which here in the US is
What I'm interested in is how the two service
providers will build a two tiered Internet.
To our experience, current QoS mechanism ( WRR +
multiple_Queue) could not differentiate service
quality when bandwidth is overprivisioned. If there is
congestion, why should I stay with it while there is
a
You know, I sent an idiotic response to a serious topic,
and I shouldn't have -- it is a serious issue which deserves
a serious response.
Anyone within earshot of The Great State of Texas (tm) should
know that the sickening machinations of the incumbent teclo(s)
and Cable Co.(s), and their trance
JM> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:45:09 -0500
JM> From: Jeff McAdams
JM> And, at that, only after extracting regulatory concessions at both the
JM> state and federal levels basically giving them their monopoly back to
JM> give them "incentive" to half-*ssed roll out that DSL that is, itself, a
JM> me
Marketing. Bah.
- ferg
-- Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tony Li wrote:
> I believe it when it gets to my street. So far, the reality is
> Really Slow DSL, with service and installation times measured in weeks
> at costs that aren't competitive. So yes, I missed
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:14:46PM -0800, Tony Li wrote:
>
> >I guess you missed all those trenches being dug in Verizon land to
> >install
> >fiber to the home. I guess you missed all the network upgrades in
> >ATT/SBC
> >and Bellsouth land to shorten their copper loop distances.
> >
> >Soun
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tony Li wrote:
> I believe it when it gets to my street. So far, the reality is
> Really Slow DSL, with service and installation times measured in weeks
> at costs that aren't competitive. So yes, I missed all of that.
There are currently a couple of million IPTV users worl
Tony Li wrote:
>> I guess you missed all those trenches being dug in Verizon land to
>> install
>> fiber to the home. I guess you missed all the network upgrades in ATT/SBC
>> and Bellsouth land to shorten their copper loop distances.
>> Sounds like they are manufacturing more bandwidth and the ze
I've been trying over and over to figure this one out, but I'm just hitting
the end of my wits. We have a remote office that can only get 768Kbps DSL,
which they've not totally maxed out. So management's solution now is to buy
a second DSL line, but they won't let me buy a dual WAN router (in ca
I guess you missed all those trenches being dug in Verizon land to
install
fiber to the home. I guess you missed all the network upgrades in
ATT/SBC
and Bellsouth land to shorten their copper loop distances.
Sounds like they are manufacturing more bandwidth and the zero sum
game
is getti
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 07:28:06PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > but do i get "the Internet"? ... your claim is that
> > i am not paying for it. my bills indicate that i -am-
> > paying for it. (regardless of priority... after all, the
Their supported communities are available from their
whois; I don't think blackhole is one of them but
they do have one that will allow you to suppress your
announcements to remote peers of your choice if that
would help.
David
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMA
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:50:30PM -0700, Erich Borchert wrote:
> Does anyone know if Level3 supports a BGP black hole community from
> their customers, .e.g., 3356:666 ? I spoke with someone in their NOC
> but they lacked clue.
According to whois -h whois.radb.net AS3356 | grep remarks
...
r
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Tony Li wrote:
> Because they're telephone companies.
Oh, that's right. I forgot. They're evil.
> Because they can't manufacture bandwidth that isn't there. Cable
> co's provide broadband with a fraction of the loop capacity. For
> telco's to offer premium service, they h
The telephone companies are asking for the same ability to sell
multiple
services over the same physical line. Cable companies didn't make
their
Internet service slower when they add more private services, why do
people expect the telephone companies to make their Internet service
worse whe
Does anyone know if Level3 supports a BGP black hole
community from their customers, .e.g., 3356:666 ? I spoke with someone in
their NOC but they lacked clue.
Thanks,
-Erich
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> but do i get "the Internet"? ... your claim is that
> i am not paying for it. my bills indicate that i -am-
> paying for it. (regardless of priority... after all, the
> Internet is "best-effort" ... and w/ QoS, i don't get t
--On December 13, 2005 8:17:43 PM -0800 Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
One might argue that in such a situation, the end user is getting less
value than they
did previously. End users might then either demand a price break or
might vote with
their connectivity.
*IF* they have a choic
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> >
> > but do i get "the Internet"? ... your claim is that
>
> No, my claim is that "users" are not paying the full boat. Almost all
> the telecoms are still in trouble in one way or another, interest
> expense, billions $$ in bonds coming due ~2
- Original Message Follows -
From: "Schliesser, Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Marshall Eubanks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Per Heldal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "NANOG"
Subject: RE: Two Tiered Internet
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:40:58 -0600
> Hi.
>
> I agree with your comments re customers.
>
> but do i get "the Internet"? ... your claim is that
No, my claim is that "users" are not paying the full boat.
Almost all the telecoms are still in trouble in one way or
another, interest expense, billions $$ in bonds coming due
~2008, etc. They aren't making enough money. That may
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
To me, this seems likely to lead to massive consumer dissatisfaction, and a
disaster of the
magnitude of the recent Sony CD root exploit fiasco.
Typical Pareto distribution models for usage mean that no matter
how popular "tier 1" sites are, a subs
> From: "Ejay Hire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "'Eric Kagan'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Subject: RE: Gothcas of changing the IP Address of an Authoritative DNS Server
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:15:42 -0600
>
>
> assuming you've got the old box and the new one running
> concurrently, you could run
assuming you've got the old box and the new one running
concurrently, you could run tcpdump on the old box with a
filter to only catch dns requests to the old ip. Let it run
for 24-48 hours and you could see who/what was still
querying the old ip.
-e
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:29:52AM -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
> There are registries that store A records for nameservers that aren't
> subordinate to the zones they publish. While it'd be probably
And for those that don't...some administrators (your predecessor
hostmaster? the admin of zones yo
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
> > Do you really think the cablecos will be significantly less evil than the
> > telcos? I'm not as optimistic about the result of a legislated duopoly.
>
> So far they seem to be not quite so evil (minus their port blocking for
> some services,
Daniel Senie wrote:
Actually, the cable providers have an alternative. Since the cable
network really is "broadband" in the meaning from before it was
coopted to mean "high speed", cable operators are able to utilize many
channels in parallel. If they want their voice traffic to be
unimpeded
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:59:15AM -0800, Bob Snyder wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Since QoS works by degrading the quality of service
> >for some streams of packets in a congestion scenario
> >and since congestion scenarios are most common on
> >end customer links, it makes sense to
At 08:41 AM 12/14/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
QoS is for customers, not for network operators!
--Michael Dillon
That is probably the best way I have heard it put before!
Since network bandwidth is a zero-sum game, QoS is simply a method of
handling degraded or congested service in a gra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since QoS works by degrading the quality of service
for some streams of packets in a congestion scenario
and since congestion scenarios are most common on
end customer links, it makes sense to let the end
customers fiddle with the QoS settings in both
directions on th
> On 14-Dec-05, at 10:02 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
> >
> > You also want to check all the registries which are superordinate
> > to zones your server is authoritative for, and check that any IP
> > addresses stored in those registries for your nameserver are
> > updated, otherwise you will expe
On 14-Dec-2005, at 11:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
currently in the middle of such a safe, conservative
transition leads me to believe that there will -NEVER-
be a point w/ there are no queries to the old address.
(he says, 24 months into a transition...)
It's
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:02:56AM -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
>
>
> On 13-Dec-2005, at 16:28, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>
> >In message
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Cr
> >ooks writes:
> >>
> >>I would think you would want to drop your DNS record TTLs for all
> >>domains being moved to something v
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:39:51AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:59:44AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> > >
> > > Since the model is based around cash, there is no perception
> > > except you pay, you get priority.
> > >
> > > Someone has to pay for the In
Hi.
I agree with your comments re customers. (residential customers, in
particular)
At risk of being flamed, what I'd propose is that regulators should put
effort into understanding whether the basic service is broken. If it's
not broken then perhaps it is reasonable to allow provider-prioritize
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:59:44AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> >
> > Since the model is based around cash, there is no perception
> > except you pay, you get priority.
> >
> > Someone has to pay for the Internet. The users aren't.
>
> hum... then what am i getting for my monthl
At 05:54 AM 12/14/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There are two possible ways of having a tiered system
> - one is to degrade competitors/those who don't pay,
> and the other is to offer a premium service to those
> who do pay.
The only way I know of to offer a premium service
on the same net
Hello;
My experience is that customers won't put a lot of effort into
understanding nuances of what they are
being offered, that they will always complain to the people they are
paying money to, and that if you think that a good use of your
bandwidth with your customers (a business's most
On 14-Dec-2005, at 10:17, Joe Maimon wrote:
Joe Abley wrote:
You also want to check all the registries which are superordinate
to zones your server is authoritative for, and check that any IP
addresses stored in those registries for your nameserver are
updated, otherwise you will exp
On 14-Dec-05, at 10:02 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
You also want to check all the registries which are superordinate
to zones your server is authoritative for, and check that any IP
addresses stored in those registries for your nameserver are
updated, otherwise you will experience either immedi
Marshall Eubanks wrote:
> If these don't work, people will complain. Just imagine for a second
> that cable providers started a service that meant that every channel
> not owned by, say, Disney, had a bad picture and sound. Would this
> be good for the cable companies ? Would their customers b
Joe Abley wrote:
You also want to check all the registries which are superordinate to
zones your server is authoritative for, and check that any IP addresses
stored in those registries for your nameserver are updated, otherwise
you will experience either immediate or future glue madne
On 13-Dec-2005, at 16:28, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
In message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sam Cr
ooks writes:
I would think you would want to drop your DNS record TTLs for all
domains being moved to something very low several days before the
switch-over period.
More precisely, you want to chan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:59:44AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
Since the model is based around cash, there is no perception
except you pay, you get priority.
Someone has to pay for the Internet. The users aren't.
hum... then what am i getting for my
> > That's an example of the lack of plain English in the
> > proposal. Why don't we just talk about AS numbers greater
> > than 65535 or AS numbers less than 65536?
>
> Because there is more to it than just that. :)
>
> there is the matter of whether they are represented by 2 bytes, or 4
byt
> To let customers decide priorities in your backbone is a bad idea, but I
> don't think that's the issue here. Assuming the customer's link to the
> network to be the primary bottleneck; there's nothing wrong with giving
> customers the ability to prioritise traffic on their link, provided that
>
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 04:59:44AM -0500, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
>
> Since the model is based around cash, there is no perception
> except you pay, you get priority.
>
> Someone has to pay for the Internet. The users aren't.
hum... then what am i getting for my monthly 4000+
b
> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Dec 14 04:30:07 2005
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:32:06 +
> Subject: [ppml] Fw: ":" - Re: Proposed Policy: 4-Byte AS Number
> Policy Proposal
>
> > I'm also not thrilled with "2-byte only" and "4-byte only" A
To me, this seems likely to lead to massive consumer dissatisfaction,
and a disaster of the
magnitude of the recent Sony CD root exploit fiasco.
Typical Pareto distribution models for usage mean that no matter
how popular "tier 1" sites are, a substantial part of the user time
will be spent
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:41:54 -0800 (PST), "David Barak"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Simple. You give the consumer the ability to fiddle
> > with
> > the QoS settings on the provider's edge router
> > interface.
> > After all, they are paying for the access link.
>
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Simple. You give the consumer the ability to fiddle
> with
> the QoS settings on the provider's edge router
> interface.
> After all, they are paying for the access link.
eeek! I assume you mean "tell the customer what
DSCP/whatever settings you honor, and let t
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:12:31 -0800, "Joe McGuckin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for example) if only a small
> portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded access) loads at a
> reasonable speed and everything else sucks?
>
All providers in y
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:54:43 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
> But there is another way. If you provide enough bandwidth
> so that your peak traffic levels can travel through the
> network without ever being buffered at any of the core
> network interfaces, then everybody is a king. If you char
> This
> unobstructed network was pioneered by Sprint on it's zero-CIR
> frame relay network and they carried this forward into their
> IP network as well. Other companies have carried forward this
> architecture as well.
If I understand you correctly I highly doubt this is the case. If every
> There are two possible ways of having a tiered system
> - one is to degrade competitors/those who don't pay,
> and the other is to offer a premium service to those
> who do pay.
The only way I know of to offer a premium service
on the same network as a non-premium service is
to delay non-premi
> Now that the networks are converging, how do you provide traditional
> levels of reliability to the different services sharing the same
network?
> Do you want the picture on the TV to stop because you download a big
file
> on your PC? Do you want to be able to make phone calls when your PC is
> --- Joe McGuckin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What good is 6Mbit DSL from my ISP (say, SBC for
> > example) if only a small
> > portion of the net (sites that pay for non-degraded
> > access) loads at a
> > reasonable speed and everything else sucks?
>
> There are two possible ways of hav
>
> (b) Would that prevent discussion here? ;-)
This is a trick question, right?
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