Re: WG next steps

[Brian E Carpenter <brian@hursley.ibm.com>]

Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
> 
> > Do we think it is worthwhile to continue down the network/routing based
> > solutions? The lack of feedback on my draft suggests people aren't very
> > interested in working on this. If we want to do this at the routing
> > level, we have start exploring less obvious stuff. For instance, using
> > the flow label or diffserv code points to swim across the default zone
> > towards a network that knows more specific routing information.

The DSCP is definitely not available for that; please read RFC 2474.

I would be amazed if the flow label became available for that. We do have
clear consensus in IPv6 that it's an immutable e2e field.

> In the long run that will be the only thing that scales 

I don't think that follows at all.

    Brian