On 2010-07-31 08:18, Lee, Yiu wrote:
> Removed the incorrect NAT66 reference.
> 
> 
> On 7/30/10 4:08 PM, "Yiu Leung Lee" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> In RFC 3697, it says:
>>
>> "A flow is a sequence of packets sent from a particular source to a
>>    particular unicast, anycast, or multicast destination that the source
>>    desires to label as a flow."
>>
>> It later says the usage of a flow:
>>
>> "The usage of the 3-tuple of the Flow Label and the Source and
>>    Destination Address fields enables efficient IPv6 flow
>>    classification, where only IPv6 main header fields in fixed positions
>>    are used."
>>
>> I am confused why we can't use a flow label to effectively identify a flow
>> from a host behind a CPE in the AFTR. In what part this usage is against the
>> specification?

The devil is in the details. You'd have to define the use case completely
before I (as a co-author of 3697) would try to answer the question.

The use case still has to work with hosts that do not set a flow label,
which is of course essentially all of them today.

   Brian
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