RE: Flow Label support in the Node Requirements bis document

I support this action and the proposed text.

Sheng

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> From: ipv6-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> john.loughney@nokia.com
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 10:51 AM
> To: ipv6@ietf.org
> Subject: Flow Label support in the Node Requirements bis document
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> There has been some discussions whether or not we should add support
> for the Flow Label in
> Soon to be RFC 6434 <draft-ietf-6man-node-req-bis-11.txt> As a straw
> man proposal, if we add
> Support, I would suggest the following text:
> 
> All nodes SHOULD support RFC 6437, IPv6 Flow Label Specification,
> defines the IPv6 Flow Label.  Specifically:
> 
>     "Forwarding nodes such as routers and load distributors MUST NOT
>       depend only on Flow Label values being uniformly distributed. "
> 
>     "It is therefore RECOMMENDED  that source hosts support the flow
>       label by setting the flow label field for all packets of a given
> flow to the
>       same value chosen from  an approximation to a discrete uniform
> distribution. "
> 
> I'd like to ask the wg the following:
> 
> 1) Is the above text acceptable?
> 2) Do you support adding the text? If no, please suggest text, unless
> you do not support adding
>      Flow label support at all (please say so).
> 
> John
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