A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6436 Title: Rationale for Update to the IPv6 Flow Label Specification Author: S. Amante, B. Carpenter, S. Jiang Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: November 2011 Mailbox: shane@level3.net, brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com, shengjiang@huawei.com Pages: 13 Characters: 28062 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-6man-flow-update-07.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6436.txt 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. This document is not an Internet Standards Track specification; it is published for informational purposes. This document is a product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF. INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce