Re: FlowId and FlowIdOrAny

Um... since you're bringing the Diffserv folks into the middle of the conversation, would
it be possible to clue us in as to what we're talking about?
Thanks.

Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:

> I changed the subject line and fixed the proposed TC. So here is where
> I think we are. I have also reduced the CC list and I have added the
> diffserv mailing list since diffserv folks should be in the loop I
> think.
>
>   FlowId TECTUAL-CONVENTION
>       DISPLAY-HINT "d"
>       STATUS       current
>       DESCRIPTION
>         "The flow identifier in an IPv6 header that may be used to
>          discriminate traffic flows."
>       REFERENCE
>         "RFC 2460"
>       SYNTAX       Integer32 (0..1048575)
>
>   FlowIdOrAny TECTUAL-CONVENTION
>       DISPLAY-HINT "d"
>       STATUS       current
>       DESCRIPTION
>         "The flow identifier in an IPv6 header that may be used to
>          discriminate traffic flows. The value of -1 is used to
>          indicate a wildcard, i.e. any value."
>       REFERENCE
>         "RFC 2460"
>       SYNTAX       Integer32 (-1 | 0..1048575)
>
> Open issues:
>
> - Is the flow identifier the same as the flow label? I guess so. If
>   this is true, then we should probably use the TC names FlowLabel
>   and FlowLableOrAny and also change the wordings in the description
>   clause.
>
> - The name of the MIB modules which will contain these definitions.
>
> - Since Fred kind of said that the diffServMultiFieldClfrFlowId
>   object should have had a wildcard, can we agree that this is
>   actually a bug in RFC 3289 which will be fixed by using FlowIdOrAny
>   in the next revision of the DIFFSERV-MIB?
>
> /js
>
> --
> Juergen Schoenwaelder    <http://www.informatik.uni-osnabrueck.de/schoenw/>
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