RFC 6294: Survey of Proposed Use Cases for the IPv6 Flow Label

The IPv6 protocol includes a flow label in every packet header, but this field is not used in practice. This paper describes the flow label standard and…

Read RFC 6294 on the RFC Editor

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 8799: Limited Domains and Internet Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7098: Using the IPv6 Flow Label for Load Balancing in Server Farms
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6436: Rationale for Update to the IPv6 Flow Label Specification