Re: [homenet] draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00

2013-10-08 Thread Shwetha Bhandari (shwethab)
-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00#appendix-A.1.5 has the details. Suggesting three different userspace/kernel methods isn't going to help get applications written. APIs matter here. Being able to set a default colour for a process (and it's children!!) is probably the initial killer interface

draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00

2013-09-25 Thread Michael Richardson
I think that this draft is useful land should be adopted. I think that application writers will be much happier asking for prefix colours than properties, if there is a clear set of default colours. I am concerned that there is an attempt to be too indirect, the way that DiffServ tried with

Re: New draft - draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00

2013-07-24 Thread Tim Chown
On 22 Jul 2013, at 10:01, Shwetha Bhandari (shwethab) shwet...@cisco.com wrote: Hello, A new draft draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00 describing a method for applications to learn and influence source address selection by associating IPv6 prefixes with meta-data when configured

New draft - draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00

2013-07-22 Thread Shwetha Bhandari (shwethab)
Hello, A new draft draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lepape-6man-prefix-metadata-00 describing a method for applications to learn and influence source address selection by associating IPv6 prefixes with meta-data when configured by the network is submitted