agree --- >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 27 11:11:09 2001 X-Authentication-Warning: sunroof.eng.sun.com: majordomo set sender to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:08:43 -0500 To: Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Proposed update to RFC 2460 [was Re: Flow Label] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: bulk
Actually, I would take out the word "uniquely". I am not sure that we want to confine possible QoS solutions to "uniquely" labeling anything. Margaret At 10:43 AM 12/27/01 , Brian E Carpenter wrote: >Taking Scott's suggestion, here's another try: > >I'd like to propose the following as the >complete and total replacement of Section 6 of RFC 2460. > > The 20-bit Flow Label field in the IPv6 header MAY be set by a > source to uniquely label sets of packets. Nodes that do not support > the Flow Label field MUST set the field to zero when originating a > packet, and MUST ignore the field when receiving a packet. All routers > MUST pass the field on unchanged when forwarding a packet. > > This specification does not further define the meaning of the > Flow Label. > > [and delete Appendix A, which is unhelpful.] > > 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] -------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
