> > > Windows XP and such > > > aren't going to be obeying any of this, so the routers have to look at > > > the contents of the packets anyway. > > > > Shall we forever constrain IPv6 to support only what is now supported by > > Microsoft? > > No, but the further along the deployment curve you get, the more > seriously you have to examine changes
the more seriously you have to examine *incompatible* changes. > we kind of have to accept that a > large chunk of the end nodes are going to run XP for the foreseeable > future. to hell with XP. if we find a good use for flow label, and XP doesn't support it, the poor folks using XP (and other legacy systems) will either have to deal with either not being able to take advantage of that feature, or they'll upgrade. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
