one-to-many messaging

[Ian Batten]

On 16 Apr 08, at 1723, Tom Thomson wrote:
>> ISPs can't do "anything", but I feel that a lot of the objections are
>> actually arguments for "Net Neutrality" dressed up as
>> anti-legal_interception.
>
> I've said it before and I'll probably say it again: if people would  
> use
> the service type field in the ip header properly

It's nothing like flexible enough, or well enough defined, for real  
use, which is why it's had such poor traction over the years.   The  
precedence fields are for practical purposes replaced by DiffServ: see  
RFC 2474 and RFC 2475, and possibly the RFC 2638 Bandwidth Broker for  
charging.  It's pretty much supplanted IntServ (RFC 1633) and the RSVP  
(RFC 2205) protocol.

ian