Glenn Morrow wrote: > If "function A" wants the field immutable so be it. The signaling for "function A" >needs to convey the mutability rules to affected parties > either implicitly or by optionality.
This is broken. You can't signal to routers that aren't aware of the "function A", because they won't be aware of the relevant signalling either. Also, we need to be able to construct signalling-free solutions (such as diffserv) for scalability. Immutability is the only viable answer. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
