Re: [IPFIX] MPLS IEs in IANA's IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Entities registry

Andrew Feren <andrewf@plixer.com> Wed, 10 September 2014 21:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IPFIX] MPLS IEs in IANA's IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Entities registry
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Hi Greg,

On 09/10/2014 03:22 PM, Gregory Mirsky wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> in several places of describing MPLS Label element IEs the registry
> still refers to the EXP field even though the RFC 5462 updated RFC
> 3032 and renamed it “Traffic Class” (TC). Below is the list of IEs
> that may benefit from updating Description and Reference information:
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection2
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection3
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection4
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection5
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection6
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection7
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection8
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection9
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelStackSection10
>
> ·         mplsTopLabelExp (should this be deprecated and
> mplsTopLabelTc be created instead?)
>
> ·         postMplsTopLabelExp (should this be deprecated and
> postMplsTopLabelTc be created instead?)
>

Did 5462 change just the name from Exp to TC or did the interpretation
of the bits change?

-Andrew