RE: Tunnel Trace Draft Comments

[Ron Bonica <rbonica@mci.net>]

> David Black wrote:
>
> A general reference to diffserv (RFC 2474 and 2475)
> is in order to point out that the diffserv rules for
> use of DSCPs apply and are not changed by anything here.
> This shouldn't be a big deal, because I would imagine that
> most of the envisioned uses of traceroute would be best
> effort, but ...

Agreed

> 
> (2) Diffserv and tunnels is a long story - RFC 2983
> contains the details for the curious.  For tunnel
> traceroute, there's an important issue lurking in
> Section 4.2 of that RFC; the DSCP (Differentiated
> Services Code Point) may be involved in tunnel selection.
> 

I see your point. Will put some words to this effect in the 
next version of the requirements spec and keep in in mind
as we design the protocol.

-ron