The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Rationale for update to the IPv6 flow label specification' (draft-ietf-6man-flow-update-07.txt) as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Ralph Droms. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6man-flow-update/ Technical Summary Various published proposals for use of the IPv6 flow label are incompatible with its original specification in RFC 3697. Furthermore, very little practical use is made of the flow label, partly due to some uncertainties about the correct interpretation of the specification. This document discusses and motivates changes to the specification in order to clarify it, and to introduce some additional flexibility. Working Group Summary This document was reviewed by the 6man WG and represents the consensus of that groups. Document Quality This document has been reviewed by the members and co-chairs of the 6MAN working group. Personnel The Document Shepherd is Brian Haberman, and the responsible Area Director is Jari Arkko. RFC Editor Note Please change in Section 2: OLD: It is not made clear by the rule that there is an implied distinction between stateless models (in which case no assumption may be made) and stateful models (in which the router has explicit knowledge). NEW: It is not made clear by the rule that there is an implied distinction between stateless models (in which there is no signaling, so no specific assumption about the meaning of the flow label value can be made) and stateful models (in which there is signaling and the router has explicit knowledge about the label). _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
