Re: I-D Action: draft-han-6man-in-band-signaling-for-transport-qos-00.txt

[Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 03:00:35PM -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
> Bert, I don't follow. One of the big wins using the 3-tuple is that it can
> still indicate a flow even if all the transport transport headers and
> payload are encrypted. So this should allow specifying QoS without
> revealing anything about the content except that the sender wants to group
> certain packets together as a flow and apply QoS on them.

Problem with flow label is same as with hop-by-hop option: burned because
nobody should dare use it for something useful with all the inconsistent 
code out in the field.  Nothing against redefining it (with new encoding)
with a precise set of MUST/MUST-NOTs once we agree on some way to use it.

http://snaggletooth.akam.ai/Prague-videos/ -> 03-joel-jaeggli

Cheers
    Toerless