Indeed. But we also know that the cost of bandwidth is dropping faster than Moore's law, so building hardware to keep up with line speed is actually a little harder every day. That argues for extreme simplicity.
Brian Subrata Goswami wrote: > > Well, the need to reduce silicon real estate is very noble > indeed. The price and density of silicon goes down by a factor > of 2 every 2 years so, and the flow-label legacy would probably > last beyond that. So the pertinent question to answer would be > how do we assign the bits in a way that they would still be > useful 10 years from now. > > Subrata > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
