<div dir="ltr">Thanks, Brian. Agreed!<div>best</div><div>demi</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 1:18 AM, Brian E Carpenter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com" target="_blank">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 15/04/2014 15:48, Chip Sharp (chsharp) wrote:<br>
> Reading through the draft Outcome Document for Netmundial that was released today.<br>
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> First question:<br>
> Can someone involved in the drafting of this text please explain what this means?<br>
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> "equal technical treatment of all protocols and data, delivered by the underlying communications”<br>
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> I believe Brian had a similar question on the leaked document.<br>
> I don’t believe “equal technical treatment of all protocols” is really possible on the Internet (or any coherent network), especially while meeting the “Unified and Unfragmented Space” principle.<br>
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It isn't technically reasonable, in any case. If they used the word "fair"<br>
it would make more sense - it's fair to ensure that audio, video, browsing<br>
and email traffic get appropriate shares of the total capacity and that<br>
audio/video get timely delivery (milliseconds) whereas browsing traffic might<br>
be slightly delayed and email can be queued up. (I'm simplifying, of course,<br>
but the point is that "equal" is the wrong solution.)<br>
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What I think is intended is that traffic from different service providers<br>
and from different users should be treated in the same way, with no<br>
discrimination based simply on who sends or receives the traffic.<br>
The word "equal" is misleading though.<br>
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Brian<br>
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> Perhaps if I understood the intent behind the text, it would make more sense.<br>
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> Thanks,<br>
> Chip<br>
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> *** I am employed by Cisco Systems, Inc, but these comments reflect my own opinion and not any position of Cisco.***<br>
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