The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'Textual Conventions for
IPv6 Flow Label' <draft-ietf-ops-ipv6-flowlabel-01.txt> as a
Proposed Standard. This document is not the product of an IETF
Working Group, but has been reviewed in the IETF. The IESG contact
persons are Randy Bush and Bert Wijnen.
Technical Summary
This document contains a MIB module that defines textual conventions
to represent the commonly used IPv6 Flow Label. The intent is that
these textual conventions (TCs) will be imported and used in MIB
modules that might otherwise define their own representations.
Working Group Summary
Several WGs have defined standards-track MIB modules that define
objects to represent an IPv6 Flow Label (sometimes refered to as
Flow ID) and IPv6 Flow Label filters. Unfortunately the result
has been a set of different definitions for the same piece of
management information. This may lead to confusion and unneeded
complexity. This document was produced within the Operations and
Management area to provide a few common TCs for future use.
Protocol Quality
This document is an individual submission from within the
Operations and Management area. It was reviewed and discussed on
various WG mailing lists (e.g. mibs@ops.ietf.org, diffserv, rap).
It also had a 4-week IETF Last Call. It has been further
reviewed for the IESG by Randy Bush.
