This clearly isn't finished, indeed, it is not much more than a skeleton with a few examples. It needs more work, probably additional categories, and more clarity about the categories that are there. If there is real interest in the subject, I'd like to see someone else take over the writing and editing. If there isn't any real, perhaps we can stop spending time discussing the subject.
I-D announcement attached.
john
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Terminology for Describing Internet Connectivivy Author(s) : J. Klensin Filename : draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-00.txt Pages : 6 Date : 2004-3-17 As the Internet has evolved, many types of arrangements have been advertised and sold as 'Internet connectivity'. Because these may differ significantly in the capabilities they offer, the range of options, and the lack of any standard terminology, has cause considerable consumer confusion. This document provides a list of terms and definitions that may be helpful to providers, consumers, and, potentially, regulators in clarifying the type and character of services being offered. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-00.txt To remove yourself from the IETF Announcement list, send a message to ietf-announce-request with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-00.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: mailserv@xxxxxxxxx In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-00.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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