Bob Hinden wrote:
>
..
> I think you are going a bit far to suggest that the fate of Diffserv
> depends on what the IPv6 w.g. does with the flow label field. I suspect
> that Diffserv will live or die based on IPv4 usage. Also, as IPv6 is
> deployed much of it will be initially carried over IPv4. Any QoS solution
> that is going to be end-to-end will have to deal with a mix of native IPv6
> and IPv4/IPv6 headers.
Indeed, and since I don't quite see how IPSEC and NAT-PT are going to
work together, the need that triggered this discussion (the need to
classify ESP packets in the middle of the Internet) really doesn't arise
in the case of translated packets. The concern is for a native IPv6 environment.
Brian
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