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RFC 6437
Title: IPv6 Flow Label Specification
Author: S. Amante, B. Carpenter,
S. Jiang, J. Rajahalme
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: November 2011
Mailbox: shane@level3.net,
brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com,
jiangsheng@huawei.com,
jarno.rajahalme@nsn.com
Pages: 15
Characters: 35269
Obsoletes: RFC3697
Updates: RFC2205, RFC2460
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-6man-flow-3697bis-07.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6437.txt
This document specifies the IPv6 Flow Label field and the minimum
requirements for IPv6 nodes labeling flows, IPv6 nodes forwarding
labeled packets, and flow state establishment methods. Even when
mentioned as examples of possible uses of the flow labeling, more
detailed requirements for specific use cases are out of the scope for
this document.
The usage of the Flow Label field enables efficient IPv6 flow
classification based only on IPv6 main header fields in fixed
positions. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
This document is a product of the IPv6 Maintenance Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
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