The marketplace ultimately defines the bits. As an example, IPv6 is being defined by the InfiniBand developers. They are putting it into the silicon for Intel processors. People may want to keep up with the current specs for IPv6 used in infiniBAND. Only the essential elements are used. http://www.infinibandta.org
As for other bits, Linux and FreeBSD tend to be the reference developments. Windows XP has now added extensions to IPv4 with the 2002:[IPv4]:0000 IPv8-style addressing. That generates IPv4 packets, which can then be processed by the NAT devices, before being sent on the Global IPv4 Transport. Jim Fleming http://www.IPv8.info IPv16....One Better !! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hesham Soliman (ERA)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'Margaret Wasserman'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tony Hain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:03 AM Subject: Re: draft-rajahalme-ipv6-flow-label-00.txt > "Hesham Soliman (ERA)" wrote: > ... > > => Perhaps another way to look at this, is to > > come back to basics and say that the flow label > > is part of the IPv6 header, therefore it seems > > rational to let IPv6 WG define its use. > > I don't see anything wrong with this, no other > > fields in the IPv6 header are defined by other > > groups. > > > > Not so: diffserv defined the traffic class (RFC 2474) and the ECN bits were > not even defined by a WG. > > I think that the IPv6 WG needs to define the general rules of the flow label > such as [im]mutablity but the detailed usage may be defined elsewhere. > > 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] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
