And engineers get the blame? Alex
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > and the user may refuse to pay because it idid not ask for the flow label that the >malicious entity overwrote > > Indeed, and then the lawyers get involved. This is nothing new. > > Brian > > > g�rard > > > > Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/01/2002 15:09:10 > > > > > > > > To: Subrata Goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED](bcc: Gerard > > GASTAUD/FR/ALCATEL) > > > > > > > > Subject Re: Flow Label > > : > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Subrata Goswami wrote: > > > > > > The main point is, if I am a provider and I get a packet, how can > > > I be sure that some malicious entity in the middle has not modified > > > the flow label so that it can avail of better QoS ? > > > > You can't, any more than you can be sure the DSCP hasn't changed, or that > > somebody isn't playing games with port numbers to fool your classifier. > > > > The ISP's defence against this is that more QoS will result in a higher bill. > > So the ISP actually doesn't care; they get paid accordingly. > > > > 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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------
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