Re: RFC 4041 Requirements

Can we discriminate based on age?  And if not, what happens to FIFO queues,
which CLEARLY discriminate on packet age?

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                      Joe Touch <touch                                                                                           
                       <at> ISI.EDU>                To:      "James M. Polk" <jmpolk <at> cisco.com>                                       
                      Sent by:                 cc:      Baker Fred <fred <at> cisco.com>, tsvwg <at> ietf.org                              
                      tsvwg-bounces            Subject: Re: [Tsvwg] RFC 4041 Requirements                                        

                                                                                                                                 
                      04/01/2005 03:54                                                                                           
                      PM                                                                                                         

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James M. Polk wrote:
> At 08:43 AM 4/1/2005 -0800, Baker Fred wrote:
>
>> I note that RFC 4041 declares that discrimination among packets on the
>> basis of color is no longer to be tolerated in the network. Does this
>> mean that we need to withdraw proposals related to that?
>
> I think affects optical transport more than anything, as they will have
> to solve for putting all their bandwidth into a single lambda, thus
> preventing preferential treatments based on the color of the lasers.

Agreed. WDM could be seen as revisiting "separate but equal" 

It might affect military nets, though, too - the whole red/black thing
becomes moot in achromatic networks 

Joe
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