Also, looking at draft-ietf-6man-flow-3697bis-07, i can see the
following under introduction:
A stateful
scenario is one where a node that processes the flow label value
needs to store information about the flow, including the flow label
value.
...
The
I certainly don’t believe so. The usual use of Flow Label seems to assume the
labeled packet traverses more than one hop. After all, the typical use of the
Flow Label is to let each hop know what processing to do based on the Flow
Label. However, a link-local domain whose traffic is
Answering Tassos' question specifically, if the use of the flow label for
ND/DAD requires a signalling phase to tell the other end the flow label
value in use, it is clearly out of scope for 3697bis. (Not forbidden,
just not described.)
However, I can't imagine how you would signal anything