Hi Brian, I wonder what you think of what I answered to James on another discussion thread.
Regards, RD Début du message réexpédié : > De : Rémi Després <remi.desp...@free.fr> > Date : 21 avril 2010 10:43:55 HAEC > À : james woodyatt <j...@apple.com> > Cc : 6man 6man <ipv6@ietf.org> > Objet : Rép : Draft-krishnan-ipv6-exthdr-08 to become asap a 6man WG draft ? > > ... >> In general, only some IPv6 packets have 5-tuples, and of those, only a >> subset can have 5-tuples that packet analyzers can extract, i.e. the rest >> are encapsulated in ESP or a moral equivalent (and ESP packets have >> 4-tuples). >> >> Hosts should set flow labels. > > Agreed. > > This should be IMHO the conclusion of the current discussion on flow labels, > BUT provided hosts are explicitly permitted to set flow-label values > statelessly for each datagram, with a hash of their 5-tuples. > (RFC 3697 says "To avoid accidental Flow Label value reuse, the source node > SHOULD select new Flow Label values in a well-defined sequence", which > privileges flow-label assignments that are stateful per connection, a choice > significantly more complex than needed.) > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
