Alex made a very valid point the other day:
> It would look like a
> silly, technical weakness, to have a field as read-only,
> but with no mechanism for the final recipient to detect whether
> it was changed or not.
In other words, even if we declare that the flow label MUST NOT
be changed en route, since it is not authenticated by IPSEC
there is no way to tell if somebody does in fact change it.
So it is not a safe e2e field, even if we define it as an e2e field.
Brian
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