On 3/9/14 10:32 PM, "Alia Atlas" <akatlas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In most modern networks, it is important to have microflow diversity. >When IPv6 and flow-labels aren't an option, this frequently defaults to >UDP or TCP 5-tuples (src/dest IP, protocol, src/dest port) > >For instance, how many issues would be solved if there were a well-known >meta-data header that an application could use to describe itself to the >network and middle boxes? No issues would be solved. Applications would all tag things the same as the HTTPS traffic to Google to ensure that the network did not prevent the application developer from making money. -- Joe Hildebrand