Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Nodes MUST NOT change the flow label. But since you can't detect > whether > it's been changed, mechanisms using the flow label for some purpose > must > be robust against unanticipated changes.
If I may try to express what I perceive the problem to be, we have been told that (for example, and there may be others) certain security gateways DO change the value of that FL. And presumably, for good security-minded reasons. So to say FL MUST NOT be changed is, I gather, factually not possible anymore. I agree that "since you can't detect whether it's been changed, mechanisms using the flow label for some purpose must be robust against unanticipated changes," however I think the hard nut is this MUST NOT be changed requirement. So for example, the load balancing use of FL must not cause the session to break if FL has been changed. Bert -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
