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Title : Comments on the Usefulness of Simple Best-Effort Traffic
Author(s) : S. Floyd, M. Allman
Filename : draft-floyd-tsvwg-besteffort-00.txt,.ps
Pages : 17
Date : 2007-7-3
This document presents some observations on "simple best-effort"
traffic, defined loosely for the purposes of this document as
Internet traffic that is not covered by Quality of Service
mechanisms, congestion-based pricing, or the like. One observation
is that simple best-effort traffic serves a useful role in the
Internet, and is worth keeping. While traffic with Quality of
Service mechanisms, congestion-based pricing, or the like can also be
useful, we believe that they are useful as **adjuncts** to simple
best-effort traffic, not as **replacements** of simple best-effort
traffic. A second observation is that for simple best-effort
traffic, some form of rough flow rate fairness is a useful goal for
resource allocation, where "flow rate fairness" is defined by the
goal of equal flow rates for different flows.
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