[138514] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: L3DSR server side bits open sourced
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Mar 9 02:38:12 2011
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:37:40 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Igor Gashinsky <igor@gashinsky.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1103090227410.16760@moonbase.nullrouteit.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> :: a real use for the diffserv bits! why not flowlabel in 6? it's been
> :: looking for a use for a decade.
>
> Honestly, we figured flowlabel might actually find a use before all the
> values of diffserv will :) In all seriousness, we are starting to set the
> spec for v6 l3dsr now, so, if you care, and believe that flowlabel would
> be a better field to "hijack" (or have a suggestion for another, better
> way then same DSCP methodology that we used for ipv4), we welcome input..
well, compared to an extension header, it wins hands down.
randy
