Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ellesson-tos-00.txt

From: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 13:03:24 -0500

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	Title		: A Proposal for the Format and Semantics of the 
                          TOS Byte and Traffic Class Byte 
                          in IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
	Author(s)	: E. Ellesson, S. Blake
	Filename	: draft-ellesson-tos-00.txt
	Pages		: 11
	Date		: 03-Dec-97
	
   This draft proposes an arrangement of fields in the IPv4 TOS byte
   [RFC795, RFC1349], and in the IPv6 Traffic Class byte [IPv6], and
   proposes a definition for their associated semantics. The intention
   is to enable the preservation of currently useful differential class-
   based queueing behavior on existing network devices, while
   simultaneously enabling new methods of bandwidth allocation and
   policing via drop preference, all within the context of flows which
   may be encrypted at the IP layer using IPSEC.
 
   (Note: the IPv6 Class field has recently been expanded to eight bits,
   but this in not yet available in any version of the specification).

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