Re: [Diffserv] APIs for diffserv

Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com> Wed, 16 October 2002 14:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Diffserv] APIs for diffserv
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itojun@iijlab.net wrote:
> 
> >> 1) What work has been done with regards to specifying an API for
> >>    setting the Traffic Class fields? Anything other than the IPv6
> >>    APIs?
> >There was draft-itojun-ipv6-flowlabel-api-01.txt (April 2001).
> >itojun may want to comment.
> 
>         the API for traffic class field is merged into 2292bis.  see 2292bis
>         for exact wording i've put in.  basically ECN bits specified by user
>         can be overridden by the kernel, if the kernel implements ECN
>         mechanism (like for TCP).
> 
>         i stopped updating draft-itojun-ipv6-flowlabel-api-01.txt as there were
>         a lot of discussions on flowlabel semantics, like
>         draft-ietf-ipv6-flow-label-03.txt.
>         my plan was to re-start on the API side once the flowlabel semantics
>         discussion gets completed.  btw, i don't think flowlabel relates to
>         diffserv, am i right?

That is slightly contentious. The flow-label draft does not
define use cases, but if that draft is approved in its present
form I know how to define a diffserv use case for the
flow label (and there are several other use cases). However, it
shouldn't affect the socket API discussion.

   Brian
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