I've been a little disappointed not to see multiple drafts proposing use cases within the rules set by RFC 3697. That document was intended to set the baseline for flow label based classifiers, but use cases are needed too. Brian David Malone wrote:
On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 04:41:53PM -0800, Bora Akyol wrote:I am looking at pointers on how commonspread the usage of the "Flow Label" field is in IPv6 (specifically end-node operating systems).Orla McGann did some measurements of this in her thesis: http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~orly/thesis.pdf Section 5.2.4 (page 101 of the PDF, numbered 91) has some live measurements of how many hosts were setting the flow label and some fingerprinting to determine what OS they were running. David.