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<DIV dir=ltr>Ping,</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>>It sounds like I am trying to bring back the "bad" memory of <BR>>RSVP/IntServ/QoS from the 90's, well... they are not needed in the <BR>>over-provisioned core. ;-) A paper from Sprint research a while back <BR>>had proved that with minor overprovisioning per link, there would be no <BR>>need for QoS in the core. The newly built Comcast IP backbone is all <BR>>over provisioned... What traffic engineering? ;-)</DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr>I appreciate if you could point out the reference of Sprint paper. I wonder what had been proved. Overprovisioning is an easy way to have the Internet work with some application domain; is not a way to provide QoS; is a type of QoS. </DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Alper K. Demir</DIV>
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