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Flow Label support in the Node Requirements bis document

<john.loughney@nokia.com> Thu, 03 November 2011 02:50 UTC

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From: john.loughney@nokia.com
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Subject: Flow Label support in the Node Requirements bis document
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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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