Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pascal, Thanks for this and your previous message. I would need to think very carefully whether this proposal would really have been strictly compatible with RFC 3697 - it actually depends on how the agreement to use these semantics imposed on the flow label is made (what is called 'flow state est

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 9, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: > Hi Michael: > > With http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-rpl-07#section-7.2 I > tried to stay within the lines of RFC 3697 as you also defend in your > mail. > > I think the question we have now is not whether that proposal

Re: draft-ietf-6man-text-addr-representation AUTH48 change

2010-08-09 Thread Jari Arkko
The latest version from Bob works for me, and I also agree this can be done in AUTH48. I also wanted to comment on the process. Sometimes we do hit issues in AUTH48. Small changes, even technical, may be doable in AUTH48, but they should always be confirmed with the working group, and sometime

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Rémi Després
Le 9 août 2010 à 12:17, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) a écrit : > Hi Michael: > > With http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-rpl-07#section-7.2 I > tried to stay within the lines of RFC 3697 as you also defend in your > mail. > > I think the question we have now is not whether that proposal i

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
Hi Michael: With http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-rpl-07#section-7.2 I tried to stay within the lines of RFC 3697 as you also defend in your mail. I think the question we have now is not whether that proposal is lawful but whether the new law being defined at 6MAN would prevent it in t

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
Hi Brian: I think this went unanswered, sorry about that. RPL voted not to use the flow label because we were afraid we could "shoot ourselves in the foot" by using a method that could become invalid. Instead, the group elected to go to the RPL option in a Hop by Hop header as was presented t