Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > and quantitative > > information about how much better it will be for them to > > have the flow > > label than not to have it. > > Nobody is going to publish that sort of competitive data. As noted earlier, > this is quite likely to be either qualitative (ability to classify ESP > traffic)
We can already classify ESP traffic. The SPI for a particular host to host connection is externally visible likely unique for a given flow in most applications. (The VPN case is a bit different but the VPN case is, we hope, not the bulk of traffic in the future.) We can also already label the individual packets according to traffic class. > or simply a matter of heat dissipation and the marginal cost of > a chip set. Well, if it truly makes no difference, why are we advocating the change? -- Perry E. Metzger [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- NetBSD Development, Support & CDs. http://www.wasabisystems.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
