Autor: | R. Bless, K. Wehrle, K. Nichols | Links: | Bibtex |
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Quelle: | RFC 3662, IETF, Dezember 2003 | ||
This document proposes a differentiated services per-domain behavior
(PDB) whose traffic may be "starved" (although starvation is not
strictly required) in a properly functioning network. This is in
contrast to the Internet's "best-effort" or "normal Internet traffic"
model, where prolonged starvation indicates network problems. In
this sense, the proposed PDB's traffic is forwarded with a "lower"
priority than the normal "best-effort" Internet traffic, thus the PDB
is called "Lower Effort" (LE). Use of this PDB permits a network
operator to strictly limit the effect of its traffic on "best-
effort"/"normal" or all other Internet traffic. This document gives
some example uses, but does not propose constraining the PDB's use to
any particular type of traffic.