Christopher Morrow wrote:

>> The consequence could be that a FL:
>> - SHOULD be set by the packet source to a value that generally differs from 
>> a flow to another (e.g. a 5-tuple hash)
>> - MAY be reset to zero in intermediate nodes, but only for security reasons
> 
> clarifying question: "only for security reasons"
> which are? (some examples at least here, perhaps not in the end-text)

See draft-gont-6man-flowlabel-security-00.txt

Thanks,
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