I support this (and the proposed text), as long as it doesn't cause more than three or four weeks' delay.
Regards Brian Carpenter On 2011-11-03 15:50, john.lough...@nokia.com wrote: > Hi all, > > There has been some discussions whether or not we should add support for the > Flow Label in > Soon to be RFC 6434 <draft-ietf-6man-node-req-bis-11.txt> As a straw man > proposal, if we add > Support, I would suggest the following text: > > All nodes SHOULD support RFC 6437, IPv6 Flow Label Specification, > defines the IPv6 Flow Label. Specifically: > > "Forwarding nodes such as routers and load distributors MUST NOT > depend only on Flow Label values being uniformly distributed. " > > "It is therefore RECOMMENDED that source hosts support the flow > label by setting the flow label field for all packets of a given flow > to the > same value chosen from an approximation to a discrete uniform > distribution. " > > I'd like to ask the wg the following: > > 1) Is the above text acceptable? > 2) Do you support adding the text? If no, please suggest text, unless you do > not support adding > Flow label support at all (please say so). > > John > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > IETF IPv6 working group mailing list > ipv6@ietf.org > Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
