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Encoding of marking – the dilemma
The choice of how to encode the markings is non-trivial because we have 5 things we want to encode…
Admission Marking
Pre-emption Marking
ECT(0)
ECT(1)
Not ECT
… BUT only 4 states available in the two bits of the ECN field

Appendix C of draft-briscoe-tsvwg-cl-phb-01.txt discusses pros & cons of alternative encoding possibilities
To be discussed at Bar BOF and on list, please
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