Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scott Bradner wrote: > > > The traffic field gives the classification. The flow label > > > could serve as a proxy for the port number and > > > protocol type, > > > > the whole point of class-based QoS is to not have to deal at the > > port and protocol level > > That's what I was getting at by saying that the flow label could > have better semantics than port/protocol, if we define it e2e.
Except, absent inducing state in all routers end to end, the flow label would need to have semantics, not be an opaque token. If it had semantics, suddenly it becomes the same as the traffic field. -- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
