One more try on sin6_flowinfo for 2553bis, adopting Brian's
verbage and laying the foundation for application compatibility
with future use of the field:
The sin6_flowinfo field is a 32-bit field intended to contain
flow-related information. The exact way this field is mapped
to or from a packet is not currently specified. Until such
time as its use is specified, applications should set this field
to zero when constructing a sockaddr_in6, and ignore this field
in a sockaddr_in6 structure constructed by the system.
I also propose to change the comment next to the sin6_flowinfo
field in the sockaddr_in6 structure definition from:
uint32_t sin6_flowinfo; /* IPv6 traffic class & flow info */
to:
uint32_t sin6_flowinfo; /* IPv6 flow information */
Barring further objections, I'll plan to update the spec after
tlanta IETF.
- Jack
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