RE: draft-rajahalme-ipv6-flow-label-00.txt

[Hesham Soliman (ERA)]

Brian, 

  > >   > > => Well, there is no requirement that the flow label is
  > >   > > globally unique. So this should work as long as you use
  > >   > > a unique value between 2 addresses.
  > >   > >
  > >   >
  > >   > However, it's only useful for a subset of cases,
  > > 
  > > => I didn't really understand what you mean by 'subset
  > > of cases'.
  > 
  > It doesn't apply to the diffserv usage (where the label
  > is unique to a traffic class, not a flow or a pair of ports,
  > and may be IANA-registered)

=> That's why I didn't know what you meant :)
I went back and re-read the draft but I couldn't
see anything about IANA assignment. 
In fact I brought this up in the meeting but there
was no support for the idea, so is this something
you'd like to add or have I completely misunderstood
something ?

Hesham

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