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A Modified Specification for use of the IPv6 Flow Label for providing An efficient Quality of Service using hybrid approach
draft-banerjee-flowlabel-ipv6-qos-03

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Author Rahul Banerjee
Last updated 2002-04-22
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Abstract

This memo suggests a pragmatic specification for defining the 20-bit Flow Label field using a hybrid approach that includes options to provide IntServ as well as DiffServ based support for IPv6 Quality of Service. It also compares various suggested approaches for defining the 20-bit Flow Label field in IPv6 Base Header based on RFC 2460 (December 1998) and few other drafts. Addressing the IPv6-Multicast- QoS issues also becomes possible as a consequence. This draft clearly specifies exactly when and how various options are to be used; and in case of the MFC, exactly how a specific action might be taken by the suggested implementation. Thus the resultant mechanism is fully implementable and unambiguous as even the lower-level details have been worked out as may be required for actual implementations. The draft also has a pointer to an experimental QoS scheme called MultServ.

Authors

Rahul Banerjee

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