Margaret, > > > Then, why not leave the specification of flow label > semantics and > > > rules to this same WG? > > > >Because the participants in those WGs have consistently proven they > >don't understand the concept of an architecturally > consistent immutable > >field which the origin can trust. > > You believe that the IPv6 group should restrict the use of > the flow label because we can't trust another IETF WG, one > that specializes in flow-management mechanisms, to make > appropriate architectural decisions? >
=> Perhaps another way to look at this, is to come back to basics and say that the flow label is part of the IPv6 header, therefore it seems rational to let IPv6 WG define its use. I don't see anything wrong with this, no other fields in the IPv6 header are defined by other groups. Hesham -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
