FlowId and FlowIdOrAny

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Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Grossman [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: dinsdag 21 januari 2003 17:34
> To: Juergen Schoenwaelder
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Diffserv] 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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