ip-precedence for management traffic

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 10:00:57 CST, Joe Greco said:
> Do we really want to spread that sort of model to the rest of the
> Internet?  All it really encourages is for more and more things to
> be ported to HTTP, including, amusingly, management of devices...

I can remember at one time, some of the same players who argued against
IPv6 adoption because the long addresses would increase network overhead
were the same ones championing the insane firewalling that started the
"everything over HTTP" insanity. Guess which adds more bits to the total
packet? :)
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