Re: FW: New Version Notification for draft-hsingh-6man-enhanced-dad-01.txt

2011-10-15 Thread Tassos Chatzithomaoglou
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

RE: FW: New Version Notification for draft-hsingh-6man-enhanced-dad-01.txt

2011-10-15 Thread Hemant Singh (shemant)
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

Re: FW: New Version Notification for draft-hsingh-6man-enhanced-dad-01.txt

2011-10-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
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