>>In the future I can see two cases:
>> - the flow label is set by the source (first camp)
>> - the flow label is set by an edge router (with the DiffServ definition
>> of what is an edge router) because the source box (or its user) is
>> too dumb to deal with QoS/..., according to the edge router manager.
>If the Flow Label is set by something other than the source node, how
>do you guarantee its uniqueness, over the topological scope in which
>it must be unique? Do you need to invent a protocol between the routers
>on a LAN to divvy up the Flow label space? What happens when the LAN
>partitions, then routers in the different partitions assign duplicate
>Flow Labels, and then the partition heals?
Obviously I agree with Steve and this is a killer point. Recall in dec
when we pushed the CE bit and it would only work exactly as Steve states
won't work above. It never got used or deployed. It needs to come from
the source and honored by the routers.
/jim
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