Technical Summary
Various published proposals for use of the IPv6 flow label are
incompatible with its original specification in RFC 3697.
Furthermore, very little practical use is made of the flow label,
partly due to some uncertainties about the correct interpretation of
the specification. This document discusses and motivates changes to
the specification in order to clarify it, and to introduce some
additional flexibility.
Working Group Summary
This document was reviewed by the 6man WG and
represents the consensus of that groups.
Document Quality
This document has been reviewed by the members and co-chairs
of the 6MAN working group.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd is Brian Haberman, and the responsible Area Director is Jari Arkko.
RFC Editor Note
Please change in Section 2:
OLD:
It is not made clear by the rule that there is an implied distinction
between stateless models (in which case no assumption may be made)
and stateful models (in which the router has explicit knowledge).
NEW:
It is not made clear by the rule that there is an implied distinction
between stateless models (in which there is no signaling, so no specific
assumption about the meaning of the flow label value can be made)
and stateful models (in which there is signaling and the router has explicit
knowledge about the label).