Hi Yiu,
Response below, with an added direct copy to Brian.

Le 25 sept. 2010 à 04:14, Yiu L. Lee a écrit :

> Hi gents,
> 
> We have a design question of Flow Label. During the v6 transition, some DSL
> providers may want to create an IPv4-in-IPv6 tunnel from the BRAS to the
> AFTR to continue to provider v4 access over a v6 core network. To identify a
> CPE behind the BRAS, we propose to use the Flow Label. Each CPE will be
> assigned with a Flow Label. This Flow Label represents a flow of all encap
> v4-in-v6 traffic behind a CPE. The Flow Label will be applied on the v6
> address of the BRAS. v6 hosts behind the CPE will have their v6 addresses
> and be most probably from a different v6 prefix, so their flow labels won't
> be affected.
> 
> You can find the details in:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zhou-softwire-ds-lite-p2p-02
> 
> Our question is: "Is this usage compatible to RFC 3697?" We posted this
> question to Softwires and we were told to also ask 6man for input.

With RFC 3697 as is, it doesn't seem to be compatible.
This is because the RFC specifies a very specific way to assign FLs to flows.

Now, in the revision under study, what you propose should IMHO be unambiguously 
permitted.
(For a load-balancing application between BRAS and AFTRs, your proposal is 
clearly a good choice.)

Regards,
RD

> 
> Thanks,
> Yiu
> 
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