[v6ops] Re: The V6OPS WG has placed draft-cc-v6ops-wlcg-flow-label-marking in state "Call For Adoption By WG Issued"

[Tom Herbert <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 12:27 AM Gert Doering <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 05:04:03PM -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
> > Can you provide more information on this? Also, as "research" networks
> > it seems like there might be more latitude to be cutting edge and fix
> > problems with things like EH?
>
> Over here, "research" networks are more enterprise-style networks providing
> Internet connectivity to universities.
>
> There is no network research going on, many of them even lacking IPv6
> support (because, "enterprise").

Gert,

If it's an enterprise network then that would be closer to a limited
domain, so maybe the problems are addressable.

In any case, as this solution seems specific to a few enterprise
networks and I don't see any problem overloading the flow label in
this manner as people are certainly free to do whatever they want in
their network. There's no protocol change and I'm assuming that
IPV6_FLOWLABEL_MGR socket option is used to set the flow label (or
maybe a BPF program?) so there should be no kernel changes. On the
other hand, because it is specific to a network, I don't see the need
to publish this as an RFC. Using the flow label for this purpose is
inherently and perpetually limited so I believe wide adoption isn't
likely. If the intent is to push it as a general solution then I think
there will need to be a lot more discussion on the ramifications of
pushing a protocol with no scalability as opposed to using an existing
protocol that is scalable and designed for expressing this sort of
information (DestOpts). Maybe this could be published as an Individual
Contribution?

Tom
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> Gert Doering
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