[e2e] New approach to diffserv...

[David P. Reed]

At 01:17 PM 6/15/2002 -0400, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman wrote:
>What is the alternate approach, except resistance?

End-to-end encryption, which people should be using anyway, for reasons of 
security.   Of course that would break such useful corporate tools as 
Etherpeg (which extracts all the JPEG files being transmitted over a local 
ethernet segment, wired or wireless, and displays them on the user's 
screen.)  A great way to watch what other people are watching.  Though the 
FBI is banned from using it, until Ashcroft has his way, your employees and 
sysadmins are free to enjoy the benefits of middlebox spying.

Content-based differentiated service can be achieved on a per-application 
end-to-end basis by having the applications declare the service quality 
they desire at the time they start an application session or for individual 
messages or connections made during a session.

This is what "diffserv" was supposed to be for.