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Re: [Ipsec] draft-ietf-ipsec-rfc2402bis-07.txt ... Suggest moving the "Flow Label" IPv6 base header field to "immutable" and protecting with AH

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Fri, 03 September 2004 16:57 UTC

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Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 12:45:18 -0400
To: "John Spence, CCSI, CCNA, CISSP" <jspence@native6.com>
From: Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com>
Subject: Re: [Ipsec] draft-ietf-ipsec-rfc2402bis-07.txt ... Suggest moving the "Flow Label" IPv6 base header field to "immutable" and protecting with AH
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At 8:12 AM -0700 9/3/04, John Spence, CCSI, CCNA, CISSP wrote:
>The flow label in IPv6 is chosen by the source node, and must be delivered
>to the ultimate destination without having been changed in transit, unlike
>the DSCP or ECN QoS-related fields for IPv6.
>
>I suggest, since it is constant end-to-end, the field be moved to
>"immutable" and protected by AH.
>

John,

We copied the text from 2402, and nobody had noticed the error there 
in almost 6 years! Good catch.

We will change the 2402bis text accordingly.

Thanks,

Steve

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