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Re: [Roll] WGLC for draft-thubert-6man-flow-label-for-rpl-03

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 18 August 2014 21:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] WGLC for draft-thubert-6man-flow-label-for-rpl-03
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I just want to point out that the RPL Instance ID isn't used for routing
like the MPLS label. RPL nodes still do longest prefix match routing
on IPv6 destination address.

If you had to make an analogy to other technology, it's more like a VLAN
tag being used to pick a virtual router/routing table.

> I would prefer to avoid making the trade off if we don't have to. Who knows
> what future application will use the flow label?

Yes, my response is: "hi, we are the future. Do you mind if we use that
     thing you reserved for us?"

> I'm no RPL expert, but
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bormann-6lo-rpl-mesh-01 seems more elegant
> and avoids all of this discussion.

6lo-rpl-mesh is certainly merits discussion.

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