Re: [UDI-protocols] Minutes 06/07

[Andrew K. <an...@ca...>]

Burkhard Daniel wrote:
>         * Discussion of QoS structures in the latest datalink meta proposal.
>           The approach of having the DLP inform the DLU about its QoS
>           capabilities during bind and then having the DLU pass QoS constraints
>           based on those capabilities during transmit channel creation or
>           packet transmission seems appropriate. Andy pointed out that the
>           members of both structures should have less acronymic names.

	The idea here being the the DLU could make QoS-based routing decisions,
right? This sounds useful...

	BTW, I just poked around and found a recent IETF RFC with a summary of
current QoS thinking...  <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2990.txt>. 

Andrew
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