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Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
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Differentiated services enhancements to the Internet protocol are intended to enable scalable service discrimination in the Internet without the need for per-flow state and signaling at every hop.A variety of services may be built from a small, well-defined set of building blocks which are deployed in network nodes.The services may be either end-to-end or intra-domain; they include both those that can satisfy quantitative performance requirements (e.g., peak bandwidth) and those based on relative performance (e.g., "class" differentiation).Services can be constructed by a combination of:-setting bits in an IP header field at network boundaries (autonomous system boundaries, internal administrative boundaries, or hosts), -using those bits to determine how packets are forwarded by the nodes inside the network, and -conditioning the marked packets at network boundaries in accordance with the requirements or rules of each service.Nichols, et.al.
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- Nichols, K., Blake, S., Baker, F., & Black, D.
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- 1998-12
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