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Re: AD review of draft-ietf-6man-flow-update

Jari Arkko <jari.arkko@piuha.net> Mon, 20 June 2011 18:14 UTC

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Brian,

>> four bits from the flow label as reserved values 
>>     
>
> There was a pretty clear consensus against having any special bits, when
> this sort of idea was discussed last year.
>   

Ok. Was there a rationale, e.g., that it would be impossible to do so 
for some reason, or that the bits could not be used?

Jari

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