Hi George,

Yes, we are "humming" in agreement to the proposal that we
replace section 6 of RFC 2460 with the following text:

 > The 20-bit Flow Label field in the IPv6 header MAY be set by a 
 > source to 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 that we delete Appendix A from RFC 2460.

Actually, we probably won't update RFC 2460.  We'll probably
just publish a separate RFC that updates 2460.

Margaret


At 02:01 PM 1/3/02 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Just a quick question from an interested lurker: Are these hums of
>acquiescence in response, specifically, to the idea that an originating
>node may set the flow label to any value, and that nodes forwarding
>packets will leave that value alone?              -- George Mitchell
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