I understand the problem with the old language, but the new language is a bit disturbing too. RFC 2474 and RFC 3168 do specify 8 of these bits, and 4 of them are inoperative in the API (the version number bits).
Brian Jack McCann wrote: > > There was one change from rfc2553bis-07 to rfc2553bis-08. In response > to a comment from the IESG, the description of the sin6_flowinfo field > was changed from: > > The sin6_flowinfo field is a 32-bit field that contains two pieces of > information: the traffic class and the flow label. The contents and > interpretation of this member is specified in [1]. > > to: > > The sin6_flowinfo field is a 32-bit field intended to contain > flow-related information. The exact use of this field is not > currently specified. > > This in essence matches the IEEE spec, which is silent on the > subject of sin6_flowinfo. > > - Jack -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
