Re: [mpls] Poll for draft on EXP Bits to WG draft

[Huub van Helvoort <h.v.helvoort at gmail.com>]

Hello George,

You wrote:

>This begins a one week poll to determine support for making
>
>http://tools.ietf.org/wg/mpls/draft-andersson-mpls-expbits-def-00.txt
>
>a WG doc.
>
>As background, early in the MPLS work, these bits were always intend for
>various uses as COS bits and other functions imbedded in the DS byte of the
>IP header.  They were called experimental only in that, at the time the
>encaps draft was written, there was no consensus on what to do with the
>bits.
>
>The term experimental has lead various people and SDOs to expect more
>freedom in defining these bits than ever was intended.  This draft seeks to
>correct that.

I support this, especially regarding the last paragraph.

Will RFCs that use these bits also be updated to refer to this
definition?

Cheers, Huub.

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