----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Richard Carlson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Tony Hain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Margaret Wasserman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 9:32 AM Subject: Re: draft-rajahalme-ipv6-flow-label-00.txt
> > I concur. The flow label should be set by the source host and remain > > immutable as it travels over the network. > > great! now if we'd only make the same declaration for the source > and destination address... > It does not matter because the entire header gets absorbed at the first GateKeeper....[IPv4][IPv6] ---> [IPv4][IPv8] ...the IPv6 Header is just an extension to IPv4....and it has mostly redundant information....it is very inefficient....networks do not work well filled with extra bits that have no meaning... Jim Fleming http://www.IPv8.info -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
