On Thu, 9 Sep 2010, Fred Baker wrote:

I think the covert channel question is a red herring. Yes, creative people can do creative things. And the point is...?

I think the lesson is that security minded people (the same people who wants to filter all ICMP because ICMP is always evil to them), will want to reset the flow label. Some people might think this is wrong but it's going to happen anyway. Make the standard permissive of this scenario is the only way forward that I can see.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swm...@swm.pp.se
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