Margaret Wasserman wrote:
...
> But, the current effort does not seem focused on
> defining an actual use for the flow label. We seem to
> be focused on defining restrictions on the flow label,
> without a specific use that justifies those restrictions.
No. The immutability property is necessary for both of the
existing QOS standards, and is necessary for any QOS mechanism
that doesn't require an explicit chain of SLAs along the entire
path (an unlikely scenario in a dynamically routed internet).
Brian
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