Re: QSPEC: <Excess Treatment>

Gerald Ash <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.nsis
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hannes,
 
> Hi all, 
> 
> "
>   The default excess treatment in case that none is specified is that
>   there are no guarantees to excess traffic, i.e. a QNE can do whatever
>   it finds suitable.
> " 
> 
> I think this sentence should make it clearer that "default" in this case
> does not refer to a specific value of the <Excess Treatment> but rather
> to the absence of the parameter. 
 
OK.
 
> "
>   When excess treatment is set to 'shape', it is expected that the
>   QoS Desired object carries a TMOD parameter.  Excess traffic
>   is to be shaped to this TMOD.  When the shaping causes
>   unbounded queue growth at the shaper traffic can be dropped.  If
>   excess treatment is set to 'shape' and no TMOD parameter is given,
>   the E flag is set for the parameter and the reservation fails.
> "
> 
> When a QoS Desired Object contains 2 TMODs, one for the regular QoS
> treatment and another one for the shaping of excess traffic then how do
> you differentiate the two? The text does not say anything about this
> case. 
 
This should be specified by the applicable QOSM.  There are many possible instances of interacting QSPEC parameters where the QOSM will need to specify the intended behavior.

> 
> When excess treatment is set to 'remark', the excess treatment
>   parameter MUST carry the remark value, and the remark values and
>   procedures MUST be specified in the QOSM specification document.  For
>   example, packets may be remarked to drop or remarked to pertain to a
>   particular QoS class (DSCP value).  In the latter case, remarking
>   relates to a DiffServ model where packets arrive marked as belonging
>   to a  certain QoS class/DSCP, and when they are identified as excess,
>   they should then be remarked to a different QoS Class (DSCP value)
>   indicated in the 'Remark Value', as follows:
> 
>   Remark Value (6 bits): indicates either drop (set to 0) or DSCP
>                          value to remark packets to when identified as
>                          excess
> 
> The value of 0 is unnecessary since this can already be accomplished by
> value 0 for the Excess Trtmnt. 
> Is the encoding of RFC 2474 used?
 
Yes.

> 
> Ciao
> Hannes
>
 
Jerry

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