DSCPs for Capacity-Admitted Traffic

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DSCPs for Capacity-Admitted Traffic

• Fred Baker

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Document history

• -00 December 2006
• One DSCP for voice using EF, using capacity
  admission (RFC 3246 EF only administrative
  admission, no capacity admission)
• -01 March 2007
• DSCP for voice as -00,
• DSCP for video, using capacity admission
• -02 November 2007
• One DSCP for voice as -00
• Update of RFC 4594 to have three existing traffic
  classes use capacity admission
• For full diffs see http//tools.ietf.org/rfcdiff?u
  rl2http//tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-tsvwg-admi
  tted-realtime-dscp-02.txt

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Affected classes

• ADMITTED-VOICE
• uses EF PHB capacity admission
• Video classes with admission added
• Interactive realtime (conferencing and gaming)
• Broadcast video
• Multimedia conferencing (video conferencing).
• Added text clarifying
• One expects this to be primarily useful on access
  links, as congestion is not a major issue on
  distribution or core links.

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I thought I did everything requested

• Silly me
• Dave McDysan comments privately that he would
  like some additional text
• I have asked for text