At 5:28 PM +0900 3/16/01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> the following does not seem like an "identification of flow" to me.
>
> > (2) a mutable value that can be or will be modified hop-by-hop,
> > like an ATM virtual circuit identifier or an MPLS label.
That's the kind of thing ATM/MPLS switches use to identify which packets
belong to which flows (circuits, streams, whatever you want to call them).
Steve
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