@misc{rfc5670, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 5670, howpublished = {RFC 5670}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC5670}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5670}, author = {Philip Eardley}, title = {{Metering and Marking Behaviour of PCN-Nodes}}, pagetotal = 20, year = 2009, month = nov, abstract = {The objective of Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) is to protect the quality of service (QoS) of inelastic flows within a Diffserv domain in a simple, scalable, and robust fashion. This document defines the two metering and marking behaviours of PCN-nodes. Threshold-metering and -marking marks all PCN-packets if the rate of PCN-traffic is greater than a configured rate ("PCN-threshold-rate"). Excess- traffic-metering and -marking marks a proportion of PCN-packets, such that the amount marked equals the rate of PCN-traffic in excess of a configured rate ("PCN-excess-rate"). The level of marking allows PCN-boundary-nodes to make decisions about whether to admit or terminate PCN-flows. {[}STANDARDS-TRACK{]}}, }