RFC 6437

IPv6 Flow Label Specification, November 2011

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Status:
PROPOSED STANDARD
Obsoletes:
RFC 3697
Updates:
RFC 2205, RFC 2460
Authors:
S. Amante
B. Carpenter
S. Jiang
J. Rajahalme
Stream:
IETF
Source:
6man (int)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6437

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Abstract

This document specifies the IPv6 Flow Label field and the minimum requirements for IPv6 nodes labeling flows, IPv6 nodes forwarding labeled packets, and flow state establishment methods. Even when mentioned as examples of possible uses of the flow labeling, more detailed requirements for specific use cases are out of the scope for this document.

The usage of the Flow Label field enables efficient IPv6 flow classification based only on IPv6 main header fields in fixed positions. [STANDARDS-TRACK]


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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