On Aug 8, 2008, at 7:45, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
I was myself considering taking the bit from the Traffic Class field. This would have two advantages: - Some bits in this fields are still unused.Not true, unfortunately. They are all allocated to either ECN or diffserv. These are both encoded fields, so there are no spare bits.
You are right. The bit that I thought was usable (the 6th-most- significant bit in the DiffServ field) is already used to encode the sub-group of DiffServ code points. My mistake; apologies. So back to Robin's suggestion to take the bit from the flow label... - Christian -- to unsubscribe send a message to rrg-request@psg.com with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg