Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?

Mon May 17 21:04:37 UTC 1999

Nice to see that I'm not the only one believing in the foolishness of QoS
hype. Bandwidth is essentially free, and will always be cheaper than QoS.
And since in the end nearly all decisions are based on economics, it should
be apparent which is the more logical decision.

Allow me to point you to an interesting paper called "Rise of the Stupid
Network." Many of you here may have already seen this. It was written back
in 1997 by David Isenberg, then a reasearcher at AT&T Labs (Isenberg is now
an independent consultant). His paper profoundly changed my views on QoS and
made me realize that networks perform best when we limit how smart they get
and ensure that networks focus on transport only. I urge everyone to read
it.

Paper: http://www.rageboy.com/stupidnet.html
Isenberg's site: http://www.isen.com/

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vadim Antonov [mailto:avg at kotovnik.com]
Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 12:28 PM
To: nanog at merit.edu; pete at kruckenberg.com
Subject: Re: Is anyone actually USING IP QoS?

Yep.  Altough not _all_ QoS schemes are broken-as-designed.  The
most trivial per-packet priority combined with ingress
priority mix shaping works.  Ths idea of end-to-end
whatever reservations or guarantees is usually propounded
by people who either neglected their CS courses or those
who are trying to sell it.

Yep.  The biggest QoS secret is that nobody actually needs
it.  Bandwidth is cheap and is growing cheaper.  The
manpower needed to deploy and maintain QoS is getting
more and more expensive.

--vadim