Brian,
>>> What is flow label usage? >>> >>> IMO: it enforces that a set of packets with the same flow label has to be >>> carried through the networks in the same path or belong to the same >>> application at host. Is that correct? Is there other usage of flow label? >> >> RFC 3697 defines it as: >> >> A flow is a sequence of packets sent from a particular source to a >> particular unicast, anycast, or multicast destination that the source >> desires to label as a flow. A flow could consist of all packets in a >> specific transport connection or a media stream. However, a flow is >> not necessarily 1:1 mapped to a transport connection. >> >> It is intended to label a flow. It does not specify a path. > > And that was *not* an oversight by the authors or the WG. On the > contrary, RFC 3697 intentionally did not define any usage model > for the flow label, or even a purpose. It was limited to defining > the behaviour of source hosts. Yes, I agree. Bob -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
