[e2e] New approach to diffserv...

[Sean Doran]

| i could go on - there are as many pure e2e solutions as one has
| time to imagine. they are more interesting from a research
| perspective too....

Many things which are interesting from a research perspective
are interesting because they resist engineering efforts enough
to gain little deployment experience.   Unfortunately, empirical
evidence heavily favours existing middleboxes over existing
end to end solutions for a number of real-world problems. 

| lets take the "middle" out of middleboxes and
| justify the end2end means.

Nice slogan, but insufficient marketing to make the argument 
completely compelling.

A trio of counter slogans: 

	show me the money
	
	demonstrate the greater utility for the greater number of people

	illustrate how imposing the model will eventually lead to the
	population at large accepting its moral superiority

which should cover a good chunk of political philosophy beyond
the obvious "let the market decide".

I think an interesting area of research would be in analysing
*why* end2end models for various real-world problems have *failed*
to achieve the uptake enjoyed by non-end2end ("middle") solutions.
No, interesting is too mild a word, given what one could learn about
the mistakes (from an end2end-interest perspective) to date.

	Sean.