Francis, The flow label should not be part of the ICV because it is permitted to be rewritable enroute as long as it is delivered in tact E2E. I say keep as it is today. No other comment.
Thanks for asking, /jim > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Francis Dupont > Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 4:50 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: AH and flow label > > Here is a message from Steve Kent who is updating the RFC > 2402 "IP Authentication Header (AH)" about the flow label status. > I have put it in this list for people interested by IPsec but > who have no enough time to read the mailing list... > To summary the question is: > > Is the [ipsec] WG comfortable with the status quo, i.e., NOT > including the flow label in the ICV [integrity check value], > despite the fact that it is immutable? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > PS: of course my opinion is we have to keep the status quo > and the decision is in the scope (i.e., hands?) of the ipv6 WG. > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
