Rationale for Update to the IPv6 Flow Label Specification

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Informational
Pages: 13
Abstract: 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.
Publication Date: 2011-11-01
Status Note: Informational
DOI: 10.17487/RFC6436
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6436
Author(s): Shane Amante
Brian E. Carpenter
Sheng Jiang
Keyword(s): ECMP, Lag

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NIST.SP.800-119 — NIST EXTERNAL
Partridge, C., Arsenault, A., and S. Kent, "Information Assurance and the Transition to IP Version 6 (IPv6)", Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2007) , 2007, < http://www.ir.bbn.com/documents/articles/ MILCOM_Paper_from_Proceedings.pdf >. EXTERNAL
Beckman, M., "IPv6 Dynamic Flow Label Switching (FLS)" , Work in Progress, March 2007. EXTERNAL
Gont, F., "Security Assessment of the IPv6 Flow Label" , Work in Progress, November 2010. EXTERNAL
McGann, O. and D. Malone, "Flow Label Filtering Feasibility", European Conference on Computer Network Defence , 2005. EXTERNAL
Potyraj, C., "Firewall Design Considerations for IPv6", National Security Agency I733-041R-2007, 2007, < http://www.nsa.gov/ia/_files/ipv6/I733-041R-2007.pdf >. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 2205 [Active*]
IETF RFC 2460 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 2474 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3697 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 4302 [Active*]
RFC6294 — RFC6294 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 6437 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6438 [Active*]

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