Christian, This discussion is not really in line with existing specs. We already have a spec that says the flow label is immutable e2e. Revisiting this is a different story. We're talking about existing specs.
Hesham -----Original Message----- From: Christian Huitema [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 12:30 PM To: Francis Dupont; Soliman, Hesham Cc: Brian Haberman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: AH and flow label The suggestions of making the flow label immutable and protecting it by AH look like bad ideas. The 20 bits in the "flow label" are the only reserved bits in the header. These bits should be available for future innovation. If we make them strictly immutable, how will we able to create something like ECN in the future? -- Christian Huitema =========================================================== This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender and delete all copies. =========================================================== -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
