Jim's Latest Rant (was Re: Does AT&T provide IPv4HT ?)

["Ron Buchalski" <rbuchals () hotmail com>]

Jim,

Most end applications are concerned with receiving the data in the payload 
of a packet, and that the headers of the packet remain intact to the extent 
that the packets are delivered to the proper destination.

Did you write an application that uses TOS bits on an end-to-end basis, and 
now you've found that changing TOS bits within the network is going to break 
your application?  What compelling event brought you to your computer and 
prompted you to start this rant on NANOG?  The S/N ratio _was_ actually 
increasing...

-rb

> From: "JIM FLEMING" <jfleming () anet com>
> To: "Jesper Skriver" <jesper () skriver dk>, "Daniel Golding" 
> <dan () netrail net>
> CC: <edelman () law harvard edu>, "!Dr. Joe Baptista" <baptista () pccf net>, 
> <klensin () jck com>, <mcade () att com>, "Bellovin,Steven M (Steve) - ALRES" 
> <smb () att com>, <nanog () nanog org>, <karl () cavebear com>
> Subject: Re: Does AT&T provide IPv4HT ?
> Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:18:36 -0600
>
>
> I think we are in agreement. I am assuming that people will want to "touch" 
> the TOS byte when they "create" a packet. I am also assuming that NANOG, as 
> a group, would want to support "end-to-end" Internet services. That seems 
> to imply that the NANOG people would endorse the notion of "what goes in 
> comes out". That arrangement encourages "stability". It seems odd that we 
> have all of these ICANN people running around telling everyone that the 
> "stability" of the Internet needs to be preserved, and then on the other 
> hand, people are
> flippantly claiming to have total disregard for the contents of packets as 
> they transit the IPv4 "cloud". To top it off, some companies apparently 
> want to be seen as "proud" or "cool" for changing the contents of 
> customer's packets. ...and then want to be called...."real operators"...go 
> figure...
>
> Jim Fleming
> http://www.unir.com
> Mars 128n 128e

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