RE: Flow Label [Re: A personal take on WG's priorities..]

["Sham Chakravorty" <schakra@mitre.org>]

Pekka, 

We have plans similar to what you suggest.  But I sincerely believe that
your WG is the place for Flow Label discussion.  If resources don't allow
such added work, then that's something that needs to be pursued.

Sham

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-v6ops@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf
Of Pekka Savola
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:49 PM
To: Brian E Carpenter
Cc: Sham Chakravorty; v6ops@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: Flow Label [Re: A personal take on WG's priorities..]


On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Sham, the flow label is low on my personal priority list.
> The reason I was eager to get RFC 3697 done is to set boundary
> conditions on its use, but developing the actual use cases
> seems to me to be off the critical path for the IETF.
>
> Looking at your email address, I can see why you might give it
> higher priority - but do you need the IETF for that right now,
> as long as you obey RFC 3697?

FWIW, my personal take --

It might possibly make sense to set up a mailing list on IPv6 flow 
label usage, try to solicit people to join it, propose and discuss 
various proposals... and depending on how it goes, try to run a BOF at 
the next meeting to gauge the real interest.

Even if there is not sufficient interest, I believe it's vital to 
success to get those people interested of the flow label together.

At the first stage, the product might not be an IETF standards track 
document, or even an IETF document -- e.g., an experimental RFC 
through RFC-editor developed based on the mailing list discussion, but 
that would be at least a basis for further work w/ flow label.

In other words, it's important to get those diffserv/qos geeks in the 
same list/room with IPv6 specialists and those who'd like to use flow 
label in new, innovative ways .. and see what happens.

IMHO, in any case, v6ops-like generic WGs are probably not a good 
place to get sufficient amount of interest & expertise together.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings