If you analyse the text closely, "uniquely" is a noise word anyway- a label is unique within the scope of the things it labels in any case. We can certainly take it out.
Brian Scott Bradner wrote: > > agree > > --- > >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 27 11:11:09 2001 > X-Authentication-Warning: sunroof.eng.sun.com: majordomo set sender to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] using -f > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 > Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 11:08:43 -0500 > To: Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Proposed update to RFC 2460 [was Re: Flow Label] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Precedence: bulk > > Actually, I would take out the word "uniquely". I am > not sure that we want to confine possible QoS solutions > to "uniquely" labeling anything. > > Margaret > > At 10:43 AM 12/27/01 , Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >Taking Scott's suggestion, here's another try: > > > >I'd like to propose the following as the > >complete and total replacement of Section 6 of RFC 2460. > > > > The 20-bit Flow Label field in the IPv6 header MAY be set by a > > source to uniquely label sets of packets. Nodes that do not support > > the Flow Label field MUST set the field to zero when originating a > > packet, and MUST ignore the field when receiving a packet. All routers > > MUST pass the field on unchanged when forwarding a packet. > > > > This specification does not further define the meaning of the > > Flow Label. > > > > [and delete Appendix A, which is unhelpful.] > > > > Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
