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["Arvind, K" <arvind@tenornetworks.com>]

George:

  I think the BNF as proposed in the draft is likely to cause confusion
about what was intended by the authors. The rules that Markus adapted from
RFC2205 will make the intent unambiguously clear. I think the correction
proposed by Markus should be used in the draft.

  Regards,
  Arvind



> -----Original Message-----
> From:	George Swallow [SMTP:swallow@cisco.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, July 12, 2000 11:50 AM
> To:	Arvind, K
> Cc:	mpls@UU.NET; swallow@cisco.com
> Subject:	Re: <FF flow descriptor list> in rsvp-lsp-tunnel-06 draft 
> 
> Arvind -
> 
> As you seem to have noticed, the change was made to point out that
> while the FLOWSPEC isn't required in every flow descriptor, it is
> required in the first one.  This is also true of RFC2205.  I don't
> think we should be changing that just to make the BNF easy.  If folks
> believe that coders *really* are likely to put in multiple flowspecs
> based on this I can add a note.  But I personally think it's overkill.
> 
> ...George
> 
> ps. glad to see you're giving it a close read.  I'm about to post a
> marked up copy to make it easier.
> 
> 
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