{"draft":"draft-ietf-6man-flow-3697bis-07","doc_id":"RFC6437","title":"IPv6 Flow Label Specification","authors":["S. Amante","B. Carpenter","S. Jiang","J. Rajahalme"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"15","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"IPv6 Maintenance","abstract":"This document specifies the IPv6 Flow Label field and the minimum\r\nrequirements for IPv6 nodes labeling flows, IPv6 nodes forwarding\r\nlabeled packets, and flow state establishment methods.  Even when\r\nmentioned as examples of possible uses of the flow labeling, more\r\ndetailed requirements for specific use cases are out of the scope for\r\nthis document.\r\n\r\nThe usage of the Flow Label field enables efficient IPv6 flow\r\nclassification based only on IPv6 main header fields in fixed\r\npositions.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"November 2011","keywords":["[--------]"],"obsoletes":["RFC3697"],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC2205","RFC2460"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6437","errata_url":null}