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IPv6 Flow Label Specification
RFC 6437

Yes

(Jari Arkko)

No Objection

(Dan Romascanu)
(David Harrington)
(Gonzalo Camarillo)
(Pete Resnick)
(Ralph Droms)
(Robert Sparks)
(Ron Bonica)
(Sean Turner)
(Stephen Farrell)
(Wesley Eddy)

Note: This ballot was opened for revision 07 and is now closed.

(Jari Arkko; former steering group member) Yes

Yes ()

                            

(Adrian Farrel; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (2011-07-14)
There is no mention of the fact that individual nodes in a network are free to implement different algorithms without impacting the interoperability or function of the network.

(Dan Romascanu; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(David Harrington; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Gonzalo Camarillo; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Pete Resnick; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Peter Saint-Andre; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (2011-07-12)
Does this document intend to classify RFC 3697 as Historic?

The keyword boilerplate does not include "NOT RECOMMENDED", but the text does (in Section 3).

An informative or perhaps even normative reference to BCP 106 (RFC 4086) might be in order regarding the assignment of flow label values.

An informative reference to RFC 4732 might be in order regarding denial of service.

(Ralph Droms; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Robert Sparks; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

No Objection (2011-08-18)

                            

(Ron Bonica; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Russ Housley; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection (2011-07-12)
  The Gen-ART Review by Roni Even on 6-Jul-2011 points out one typo in
  section 3, fifth paragraph: "An alternative approach is to to use"

(Sean Turner; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

No Objection (2011-08-02)

                            

(Stephen Farrell; former steering group member) No Objection

No Objection ()

                            

(Stewart Bryant; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

No Objection (2011-07-13)
A reference to draft-ietf-mpls-entropy-label-00 would seem appropriate since
they seek to achieve the same though at different layers.

(Wesley Eddy; former steering group member) (was Discuss) No Objection

No Objection (2011-08-02)