Re: [Int-area] Call for adoption of draft-carpenter-flow-label-balancing-02

On 12/20/12 5:38 PM, Liubing (Leo) wrote:
> I'm in favor of it. It's a good use case of flow label for L3/4 load balancing
RFC 6437 did not go nearly far enough in my opinion make the flow label 
suitable for this application.

The fact of the matter is if I attempted to use the flow label today as 
part of a load balancing scheme it would provide zero additional 
entropy, and what's more I still have to look at the upper layer header.

Furthermore the document proposes the use of flow label across muliple 
flows as a common "session key" across multiple flows which I personally 
feel is inconsistent with the notion of a flow, is certainly embedding 
upper layer (notionally above the l4 header) session information in the 
layer-3  header and suffers from the exposures described in section 6 of 
6437 and making no attempt to ameliorate them.

> Thanks
>
> B.R.
> Bing
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: int-area-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:int-area-bounces@ietf.org] On
>> Behalf Of Suresh Krishnan
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 8:46 PM
>> To: Internet Area
>> Cc: Julien Laganier; Ralph Droms
>> Subject: [Int-area] Call for adoption of
>> draft-carpenter-flow-label-balancing-02
>>
>> Hi all,
>>    This draft has been presented at intarea face to face meetings and has
>> received a bit of discussion. It has been difficult to gauge whether the
>> wg is interested in this work or not. This call is being initiated to
>> determine whether there is WG consensus towards adoption of
>> draft-carpenter-flow-label-balancing-02 as an intarea WG draft. Please
>> state whether or not you're in favor of the adoption by replying to this
>> email. If you are not in favor, please also state your objections in
>> your response. This adoption call will complete on 2013-01-04.
>>
>> Regards
>> Suresh & Julien
>>
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