Perry, the traffic class is mutable at ISP boundaries. If the flow label is also mutable, it adds no value and becomes wasted bits.
Brian "Perry E. Metzger" wrote: > > Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you don't believe in signaled QoS, you don't > > believe in any use of a flow label qua flow label. > > I thought we had a "traffic class" to permit "signaled QoS" for some > value of "signaled QoS". I was unaware flow labels were intended for > this purpose. > > > And XP can make flow labels along with DSCP's as > > soon as the current or next gen worm is done > > rewriting their kernels. > > I'm an old fashioned kind of engineer. I'd like to see some folks from > router vendors give us precise information about the *exact* use > they'll put the flow label information to, and quantitative > information about how much better it will be for them to have the flow > label than not to have it. Engineering by committee is bad enough -- > engineering by committee and by hearsay simultaneously is far worse. > > Perry > -- > Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > NetBSD Development, Support & CDs. http://www.wasabisystems.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
