"Hesham Soliman (ERA)" wrote: ... > > > => Well, there is no requirement that the flow label is > > > globally unique. So this should work as long as you use > > > a unique value between 2 addresses. > > > > > > > However, it's only useful for a subset of cases, > > => I didn't really understand what you mean by 'subset > of cases'.
It doesn't apply to the diffserv usage (where the label is unique to a traffic class, not a flow or a pair of ports, and may be IANA-registered). > > so I don't think > > it affects the basic definition in the draft. > > > > => Not at all, it's not meant to affect the basic > definition in the draft, on the contrary it's > meant to complement it. Understood - i.e. it would only be used in some scenarios. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------