I admit to only recently jumping into this discussion and gettng caught up on the various drafts, but why are we doing this document?
> Title : Update to the IPv6 flow label specification That is the title, but it doesn't update anything at all. It says this explicitly. It says: The intention of this document is to explain this in more detail and to propose changes to RFC 3697 intended to remove the uncertainties and encourage active usage of the flow label. It does not formally update RFC 3697. So we now publish as RFCs proposals to make changes to standards track documents, without actually making a change? This seems like it will confuse the community. Seems to me that if we do not formally clarify the preceding documents (if they need clarifying), we are wasting our time, and that there really isn't a problem here that needs fixing. And in looking at draft-ietf-6man-flow-ecmp-00.txt (also in WGLC), that document is a BCP and does not update any of the previous Flow Label documents. If we need to update the Flow Label specs, we should do so, and this document could be part of that or a rational for the changes. But absent any changes to the existing standards, I am not comfortable with publishing this document. Thomas -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
