Tony Hain wrote: > > Alex Conta wrote: > > Furthermore, the > > restriction has a detrimental effect on the subset of > > applications that > > could take advantage of a changing value. > > I am sorry, but those applications should be using the DSCP which is > already mutable. If we allow the FL to be mutable, there will be no > applications that can trust that it will immutable over any random > network. You can't have it both ways.
Exactly. And operators who break the immutability rule will penalise their own customers by depriving them of e2e QOS. There was a reason diffserv chose to make the DSCP mutable, but the same reason (QOS policies are ISP-specific) is why the flow label should be immutable. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
