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Re: research questions
At 4:16 PM -0400 10/11/00, Dhiman Barman wrote:
>Hi,
> May I know what are some of the open problems with Linux-diffserv
>which one can look at as potential research areas.
>
>db
>--
>A city is a large community where people are lonesome together
> -- Herbert Prochnow
There are a number of bit-fiddling questions which get debated on
this newsgroup. But one of the real-world problems is how to control
QoS. If everybody has the 'priority button' what's to keep them from
all pushing it? Leaving us back at the best-effort position we're at
now. There's language on bandwidth brokers in the IETF working group
papers, but not much in way of implementation. As a suggestion....
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b