The current “Best Effort”
packet transport in IP networks is currently being augmented by locally applied traffic separation with
prioritized
forwarding together with costly
multi-parameter ingress classification.
Such “quality islands” exist independently, peer with BE traffic, run uncoordinated QoS concepts and might
not even be known globally.
Complex approaches exist, which
aim for guaranteed (parameterized)
QoS support for future Inter-domain peerings. Much simpler approaches, which
aim for primitive traffic separation
without quality guarantees are also available.
www.BGP-QoS.org
The pages on www.BGP-QoS.org will provide a public discussion ground
and ressource collection. The Forum with polls on various Inter-domain
QoS topics allows for anonymous opinion polls on currently hot topics.
No company instrinsics need to be disclosed for participating in such
votes. Operators, Vendors and Service
providers can also request
anonymous logins (info@bgp-qos.org) in order to express their views and guide the
discussions without violating non-disclosure agreements.
Inter-domain QoS vs. Net Neutrality
Network neutrality (= net neutrality, Internet neutrality or simply NN)
could possibly conflict with Inter-domain QoS. This section of the
forum shall be used to explore limitations and possible solutions to
"QoS augmented network neutrality".
Polls on Inter-domain QoS Requirements
This section of the forum hosts polls on several options for
inter-domain QoS requirements. It is a working platform for requirement
selection.
Polls on Inter-domain QoS Signalling concepts
This section of the forum hosts polls on several options for
inter-domain QoS signalling concepts. It is a working platform for
concept selection.
Inter-domain QoS Use cases
What can Inter-domain QoS provide and how can it improve the current
Internet for operators, customers and service providers.
IETF drafts on Inter-domain QoS
This forum section lists all previous Internet-Drafts on Inter-domain
QoS and gives a short summary to each of them.
Non-IETF work on Inter-domain QoS
This forum section lists all known activities on Inter-domain QoS,
which are available outside the IETF. This includes work of SDOs,
funded projects and others.