The MPLS WG Archive

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> I'm not convinced that the shortest path in terms of BGP path length
> is the best path, but that's how the market it working today.

not the market, the <bleep>ing protocol which has very weak metrics.

> Today, the main factor againts the development of interdomain QoS are the
> ISPs themselves. They don't believe that having interdomain QoS is the
> best solution from their selfish marketing/economical point of view

perhaps this charaterization is a bit off mark.  some large isps see a
complete lack of consideration of inter-provider issues in the protocols
going all the way back to the vendors who developed the requirements.

> My personnal feeling is that interdomain QoS is key to the deployment of
> QoS within the Internet. We won't really have QoS until we manage to find
> a suitable interdomain method to provide it. I guess that small ISPs could
> have a strong interest in such interdomain QoS, but they usually don't
> have people able to influence the work within IETF or network equipment
> vendors.

these days, no one can influence the vendors.

randy