|Were you or any other RRG people involved in the creation of the |Flow Label?
As an onlooker, my perception was that the IPv6 header ended up having too many free bits in it and that compressing it would have cause unfortunate consequences for header alignment on 64 bit processors, so the thought was to leave it effectively as reserved space. However, there were so many poorly justified uses for the space, that the IPv6 folks decided to allocate it to the then-popular notion of a flow label. This kept others from requesting header bits and did not force them into a precise semantic definition for the field. Effectively, today, it's reserved space. My $.02, Tony -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
