Textual Conventions for IPv6 Flow Label
RFC 3595
Document | Type | RFC - Proposed Standard (September 2003; No errata) | |
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Author | Bert Wijnen | ||
Last updated | 2018-07-18 | ||
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Responsible AD | Randy Bush | ||
IESG note | Published as RFC 3595 | ||
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Network Working Group B. Wijnen Request for Comments: 3595 Lucent Technologies Category: Standards Track September 2003 Textual Conventions for IPv6 Flow Label Status of this Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved. Abstract This MIB module defines textual conventions to represent the commonly used IPv6 Flow Label. The intent is that these textual conventions (TCs) will be imported and used in MIB modules that would otherwise define their own representations. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. The Internet-Standard Management Framework . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. Intellectual Property Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8. Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 9. Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Wijnen Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 3595 Textual Conventions for IPv6 Flow Label September 2003 1. Introduction Several standards-track MIB modules have defined objects to represent an IPv6 Flow Label (sometimes referred to as Flow ID) [RFC2460] [FLOWLABEL] and IPv6 Flow Label filters. Unfortunately the result is a set of different definitions for the same piece of management information. This may lead to confusion and unnecessary complexity. This document defines a set of textual conventions (TCs) that can and should be (re-)used in MIB modules, so that they all represent an IPv6 Flow Label in the same way. In fact, PIB modules can and should also use these TCs when they need to represent an IPv6 Flow label. 2. The Internet-Standard Management Framework For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the current Internet-Standard Management Framework, please refer to section 7 of RFC 3410 [RFC3410]. Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed the Management Information Base or MIB. MIB objects are generally accessed through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the Structure of Management Information (SMI). This memo specifies a MIB module that is compliant to the SMIv2, which is described in STD 58, RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58, RFC 2580 [RFC2580]. 3. Definitions IPV6-FLOW-LABEL-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN IMPORTS MODULE-IDENTITY, mib-2, Integer32 FROM SNMPv2-SMI TEXTUAL-CONVENTION FROM SNMPv2-TC; ipv6FlowLabelMIB MODULE-IDENTITY LAST-UPDATED "200308280000Z" -- 28 August 2003 ORGANIZATION "IETF Operations and Management Area" CONTACT-INFO "Bert Wijnen (Editor) Lucent Technologies Schagen 33 3461 GL Linschoten Netherlands Wijnen Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 3595 Textual Conventions for IPv6 Flow Label September 2003 Phone: +31 348-407-775 EMail: bwijnen@lucent.com Send comments to <mibs@ops.ietf.org>. " DESCRIPTION "This MIB module provides commonly used textual conventions for IPv6 Flow Labels. Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). This version of this MIB module is part of RFC 3595, see the RFC itself for full legal notices. " -- Revision History REVISION "200308280000Z" -- 28 August 2003 DESCRIPTION "Initial version, published as RFC 3595." ::= { mib-2 103 } IPv6FlowLabel ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION DISPLAY-HINT "d" STATUS current DESCRIPTION "The flow identifier or Flow Label in an IPv6 packet header that may be used to discriminateShow full document text