Hi,
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Bora Akyol wrote:
From a switching hardware perspective, it would be nice
to either define the use of this field as --endpoint only--
or label it "Reserved."
There has been significant time since RFC3697 and the lack
of applications may indicate that this field (with
the exception of NIMROD) may not have a use at all.
I've been watching this discussion with mild puzzlement.
There is (basically) nothing that the routers need to do with the flow
label. Whatever they might end up doing with it would likely mostly
fall under the control plane, so it doesn't need to be put in the hardware.