{
  "draft": "draft-bless-diffserv-pdb-le-01",
  "doc_id": "RFC3662",
  "title": "A Lower Effort Per-Domain Behavior (PDB) for Differentiated Services",
  "authors": [
    "R. Bless",
    "K. Nichols",
    "K. Wehrle"
  ],
  "format": [
    "TEXT",
    "HTML"
  ],
  "page_count": "17",
  "pub_status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "status": "INFORMATIONAL",
  "source": "INDEPENDENT",
  "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.",
  "pub_date": "December 2003",
  "keywords": [
    "traffic network",
    "ds",
    "le"
  ],
  "obsoletes": [],
  "obsoleted_by": [
    "RFC8622"
  ],
  "updates": [],
  "updated_by": [],
  "see_also": [],
  "doi": "10.17487/RFC3662",
  "errata_url": null
}