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[Bora Akyol <akyol@pluris.com>]

I would agree to a document that would result in a clear understanding of this
subject. I would also agree to help edit/co-author it (what is 1 less hour of
sleep per night anyway ;-)

Bora


Yakov Rekhter wrote:

> Bora,
>
> > Since I started this thread, about three alternate (maybe complementary
> > approaches) to doing hierarchical tunnels with RSVP-TE got proposed:
> >
> > 1) Tony Li's email suggested that one can use RSVP-TE by tunneling the
> > RSVP messages between A and F via the tunnel between B&E.
> >
> > 2) There was a suggestion of using directed LDP over the first tunnel to
> > establish the second tunnel.
> >
> > 3) And finally a reference to draft-kompella-*** came out, which I admit
> > I haven't read yet, but will probably do tonight.
> >
> > I think this topic deserves farther discussion. We are NOT writing a
> > research paper here, but trying to produce working, interoperable code.
> > So those that have this working in a network, lab, demo etc; please come
> > forward and speak up.
> >
> > Do we need to have an informational ID on this?
>
> If yes, then one way to address this would be extract the relevant
> parts out of draft-kompella-*** and turn it into an Internet Draft on
> its own.
>
> Yakov.