RFC Errata
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Status: Held for Document Update (1)
RFC 6936, "Applicability Statement for the Use of IPv6 UDP Datagrams with Zero Checksums", April 2013
Source of RFC: 6man (int)
Errata ID: 4341
Status: Held for Document Update
Type: Technical
Publication Format(s) : TEXT
Reported By: Brian Carpenter
Date Reported: 2015-04-20
Held for Document Update by: Brian Haberman
Date Held: 2015-04-22
Section 1.3.5 says:
The ingress of a tunnel seeking to provide good entropy in the flow label field would therefore need to create a random flow label value and keep corresponding state so that all packets that were associated with a flow would be consistently given the same flow label. Although possible, this complexity may not be desirable in a tunnel ingress.
It should say:
The ingress of a tunnel seeking to provide good entropy in the flow label field would therefore need to create a pseudo-random flow label value using a stateless method as described in [RFC6438] so that all packets that were associated with a flow would be consistently given the same flow label.
Notes:
It is incorrect that a stateful method is needed, and presumably that
was the complexity judged undesirable. Also, we shouldn't say "random"
when we mean "pseudo-random."