{"draft":"draft-ietf-6man-flow-update-07","doc_id":"RFC6436","title":"Rationale for Update to the IPv6 Flow Label Specification","authors":["S. Amante","B. Carpenter","S. Jiang"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"13","pub_status":"INFORMATIONAL","status":"INFORMATIONAL","source":"IPv6 Maintenance","abstract":"Various published proposals for use of the IPv6 flow label are\r\nincompatible with its original specification in RFC 3697.\r\nFurthermore, very little practical use is made of the flow label,\r\npartly due to some uncertainties about the correct interpretation of\r\nthe specification.  This document discusses and motivates changes to\r\nthe specification in order to clarify it and to introduce some\r\nadditional flexibility.  This document is not an Internet Standards \r\nTrack specification; it is published for informational purposes.","pub_date":"November 2011","keywords":["ECMP","LAG"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":[],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6436","errata_url":null}