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["Lucy E. Lynch" <>]

All -

This problem (highbandwidth streams and clueless end users)
is not an I2 specific problem - it is just as easy to generate
and distribute MPEG sessions outside the I2 network space as
it is within the I2 arena.  While I agree that some kind "border control"
between the I2 and the commodity space would be useful, allocating
addresses for I2 use only doesn't solve the bigger problem.

seems like these same questions lead to the rise of RSVP/diffserv &
othered assorted Q0S mechanisms..

my 2 cents.

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On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Ron Roberts wrote:

> Bill -
> 
>     Unfortunately, they can shoot not only their own foot but potentially
> many other feet on the branch of the tree leading to them...  As part of
> developing new techniques to make things better for "the Internet of the
> uture", presumably we want to make it at least more difficult for errant
> users to degrade parts of the infrastructure?                 /Ron
> 
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >** How do we keep commodity Internet sites from joining  **
> > >** high-bandwidth I2 streams?                            **
> > 
> > Why do you want to?  If it's to protect them from themselves, then I
> > think you're wasting your time, since people already have a million
> > ways to shoot themselves in the foot.
> > 
> >   Bill
> > 
>