Within a Generalized DiffServ architecture entrepreneurial flexibility for build-ing intelligent multipurpose traffic architectures enables the provision of a varie-ty of tailored traffic services for a wide range of heterogeneous application ser-vices. In order to solve the entrepreneurial...

Network neutrality regulations for the Internet have been discussed for about a decade. In Europe, recent efforts have produced a proposal by the European Commission for a network neutrality regulation. Envisaged is the introduction of a two-tiered Internet traffic regulation based on a...

Die bekannteste Internet-Architektur, die für die Bereitstellung von Qualitäts-klassen des Datentransports in Zugangs- und Kernnetzen entwickelt wurde, ist die Differenzierte Dienste (DS)-Architektur. Mittels dieser Architektur werden Datenpakete in eine exogen vorgegebene Anzahl von...

In the U.S. paying for priority arrangements between Internet access service providers and Internet application providers to favor some traffic over other traffic is considered unreasonable discrimination. In Europe the focus is on mini-mum traffic quality requirements. It can be shown that...

The changing role of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard set-ting process from designing and implementing the best effort TCP/IP protocol as a universal standard towards a platform for dealing with the increasing need for variety in the design of a Quality of Service (QoS)...