Re: WG next steps

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

Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > > > The DSCP is definitely not available for that; please read RFC 2474.
> 
> > > Can you be more specific?
> 
> > Not really. If you don't want to read the diffserv Proposed Standard,
> > you'll have to believe me: the DSCP isn't available to solve the
> > multihoming requirement.
> 
> I want to and I did, but propably not thorough enough because I didn't
> find what specifically you were referring to. I'll read the whole thing
> more closely when I have more time and less distractions.

I am puzzled. Diffserv defines the DSCP bits to select per-hop behaviors, 
i.e. output queue scheduling algorithms and such. That means they aren't 
available for other purposes. 

   Brian