Please remove the following paragraph from page 5: With [RSVP] or [SDP] either the source or the destination of the flow could have a preference for the Flow Label value to be used. For example, a destination with multiple sources sending packets to it could require all the sources to use the same Flow Label value in order to collapse the classifier state to a single flow state entry, instead of having separate classifier state for each source (ref. the Wildcard-Filter reservation style in [RSVP]). Therefore the source SHOULD honor the destination's request to mark the packets with the Flow Label value specified.
This is not safe operationally, because there is no way to guarantee that an unrelated source will not choose the same flow label value for another flow sent to that same destination. If we assume that there may be multiple flow labeling "applications" operating in a router, or between a source/ destination host pair, the consequences of this mis-classification cannot be predicted. Otherwise I am satisfied with the draft. Regards, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Steven L. Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ericsson IP Infrastructure +1 919-472-9913 -------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------
