I support this action and the proposed text. Sheng
> -----Original Message----- > From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of > john.lough...@nokia.com > Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:51 AM > To: ipv6@ietf.org > Subject: Flow Label support in the Node Requirements bis document > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------
