The diffserv field is mutable. The argument for an immutable field applies to both intserv and diffserv. It's actually more compelling than just the encryption case, for diffserv: it allows us to carry semantics that are not conveyed by the port #s and protocol type.
Brian Scott Bradner wrote: > > > The most compelling application I've seen is > > for QoS classification when the packet > > is encrypted. > > the difserv field is not encrypted so I am not compelled by this example > > Scott -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
