On 23-okt-2007, at 14:52, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
I also would like to see a UDP scavenger service, for those applications that generate lots of bits but can tolerate fairly high packet losses without replacement. (VLBI, for example, can in principle live with 10% packet loss without much pain.)
Note that this is slightly different from what I've been talking about: if a user trips the traffic volume limit and is put in the lower-than-normal traffic class, that user would still be using TCP apps so very high packet loss rates would be problematic here.
So I guess this makes three traffic classes.
In this case, I suspect that a "worst effort" TOS class would be honored across domains.
If not always by choice. :-)