File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Obsoleted by:

RFC 8622

Authors:

R. Bless
K. Nichols
K. Wehrle

Stream:

INDEPENDENT

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC3662

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Abstract

This document proposes a differentiated services per-domain behavior (PDB) whose traffic may be "starved" (although starvation is not strictly required) in a properly functioning network. This is in contrast to the Internet's "best-effort" or "normal Internet traffic" model, where prolonged starvation indicates network problems. In this sense, the proposed PDB's traffic is forwarded with a "lower" priority than the normal "best-effort" Internet traffic, thus the PDB is called "Lower Effort" (LE). Use of this PDB permits a network operator to strictly limit the effect of its traffic on "best-effort"/"normal" or all other Internet traffic. This document gives some example uses, but does not propose constraining the PDB's use to any particular type of traffic.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.