Re: Answer to Dave Reed Re: Fwd: Re: Question the other way round:

Yes, there’s absolutely no relationship between quality of service and congestion. They are two different search terms that differ both in word count, number of letters, and letter frequency.

Indeed. 

 
On Nov 26, 2013, at 3:56 PM, John Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Nov 26, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Detlef Bosau <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> that can be solved in ways that roll up into a coherent algorithm employed in many places at the same time. A big part of the solutions come from classifying flows according to application requirements and willingness to pay for grades of service. 
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>> As you know, I would like to talk about the problems why approaches like
>> this are rarely discussed.
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> This is quite a surreal comment. 
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> "classifying flows according to application requirements and willingness to pay for grades of service" [and then meeting those requirements and providing those grades] is pretty much a picture-perfect definition of Network Quality of Service, which I think many people would argue is one of the most-discussed issues of all time within the field.
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> As a quick experiment, googling <network "quality of service"> produces about 10,700,000 results (<network QoS> produces 18,000,000), while <network "congestion control"> produces 1,070,000.
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> cheers, --john
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