On 2011-06-21 06:14, Jari Arkko wrote: > Brian, > >>> four bits from the flow label as reserved values >> >> There was a pretty clear consensus against having any special bits, when >> this sort of idea was discussed last year. >> > > Ok. Was there a rationale, e.g., that it would be impossible to do so > for some reason, or that the bits could not be used?
I'd have to trawl the archive to find all the arguments, but the main issue was that any attempt to include semantics in the bits of the flow label leads to complexity that probably can't be handled at line speed in a scaleable way. Also 16 bits might make it too easy for a malicious party to predict flow label values. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
