Francis Dupont wrote:
>
> In your previous mail you wrote:
>
> > => I understand but I shan't support the c) option until the 5-tuple
> > re-classifier monster is killed.
>
> In fact the c) option is not using the 5-tuple classifier.
>
> => in your question you didn't specify if c) uses it or not.
>
It was related to flow label wasn't it? So it meant 3-tuple classifier.
>
> But the M-F Diffserv classifier is not different than the Intserv data
> path classifier.
> It uses the same fields, with the same type of capability to represent
> range of values by wildcarding some of the bits, or an entire field.
>
> => devices are the same, ways to use them are very different.
>
The fact that the Intserv and Diffserv model are different, is
irrelevant to the classification engine.
> How come you do not have a problem with the Intserv classifier?
>
> => yes because I can use for instance flow labels in order to
> reduce an Intserv 5F classifier to a simpler one (making the assumption
> for the discussion that Intserv is usable in the core).
>
So you like that feature. So do we, and we would like to use with
Diffserv.
That's exactly what our proposal is supposed to accomplish for Diffserv.
And your voting b) and the argumentation against c), means in fact that
you do not
allow us to accomplish that.
> Regards
>
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Regards,
Alex
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