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Internet Engineering Task Force                                 J. Bound
Internet-Draft                                                    NAv6TF
Expires: October 8, 2005                                  S. Chakravorty
                                                                K. Zhang
                                                   The MITRE Corporation
                                                           April 9, 2005


                Proposal for a New Flow Label Definition
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Abstract

   The IPv6 header includes a 20-bit Flow Label field.  RFC 3697 <../../idref/rfc3697>, "IPv6
   Flow Label Specification" [1 <#ref-1>] specified this field and minimum
   requirements for using the field.  This document first identifies
   several issues related to the current Flow Label specification; then
   it discusses the limitations of the current specification and the



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   need for extending the definition to accommodate emerging
   applications and protocols; finally, a new Flow Label specification
   is proposed that enables more effective usage of this field.

Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3 <#page-3>
   2.  Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4 <#page-4>
   3.  Issues Concerning the Current Flow Label . . . . . . . . . . .  5 <#page-5>
   4.  New Flow Label Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7 <#page-7>
     4.1   Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9 <#page-9>
   5.  An Emerging Usage for the Flow Label Field . . . . . . . . . .  9 <#page-9>
   6.  Benefits of Flexible Label . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 <#page-10>
   7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 <#page-12>
   8.  Acknowlegements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 <#page-13>
   9.  Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 <#page-13>
   10.   References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 <#page-13>
       Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 <#page-14>
       Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . 15 <#page-15>
































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1.  Introduction

   The IPv6 header includes a 20-bit Flow Label field.  RFC 3697 <../../idref/rfc3697> [1 <#ref-1>]
   specified this field and the minimum requirements required for using
   it.  This document identifies several issues related to the current
   Flow Label specification, it also discusses the limitations of the
   current specification and the need for expanding the definition to
   accommodate emerging applications and protocols.  Additionally, a new
   Flow Label definition is proposed that enables more effective use of
   this field.

   A Flow Label is defined in [1 <#ref-1>] to be 鎍 sequence of packets sent from
   a particular source to a particular unicast, anycast, or multicast
   destination that the source desires to label as a flow.