RE: Higher level question about flow label

[Tony Hain]

Jarno Rajahalme wrote:

> ...but I fail to understand why should want to do anything 
> else than remark
> to best effort if they do not trust the previous operator. 

Because their customer may be the destination and the 
SLA on that side says treat all protocol X traffic from
Y as high priority. 


> Additionally, if
> the operators have an SLA, they could police the traffic and 
> shape/remark to
> make the traffic to conform to the SLA without caring a bit 
> about what's in
> the transport headers.

Based on what? 


> All sort of un-called-for optimizations in the "middle boxes" are very
> likely to cause problems later on.

No argument... :)


Tony


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