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[PWE3] flow label format in draft-ietf-fat-pw-01



Hi Steward,

 

Section 4.1 state:

The structure of the flow label TLV is shown in Figure 3.
 
    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | FL            |    Length     |F|       must be zero          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
 
                         Figure 3: Multiple VC TLV
 
   Where:
 
   o  FL is the flow label TLV identifier assigned by IANA.
 
   o  Length is the length of the TLV in octets and is 4.
 
   o  When F=1 a flow label will be pushed.  When F=0 a flow label will
      not be pushed.
 
 
Two questions: 1) why bits from 17~31 has to be zero? Is any place use these bits? If not, it should be defined as reserved bits.
2)      Is F bit useful? When label TLV is inserted, PE does not insert a flow label and any P can not change the label value. Is this a useful case in network? 
 
Regards,
Lucy