The MPLS WG Archive

[Francois Le Faucheur <flefauch@cisco.com>]

At 09:15 27/06/2000 -0700, Eric Gray wrote:
>> Folks,
>> 
>> 	Here's most of my last call comments.  More may
>> be sent out later this evening.
>
>And here they are.   
>
>> 
>> 
>> SPECIFIC COMMENTS
>> =================
>> 
>
>	The redefinitions of E-LSP and L-LSP are - as
>Grenville has already pointed out (comments 3 & 4)
>- not too useful.  If there is a reason for including 
>all of this, it would make sense to abstract those 
>portions that are repeated in sections 3.1 and 4.1 
>(almost all of the text) into a section that specifies 
>stuff relating to any kind of DiffServ LSP and just 
>list the E-LSP and L-LSP specific stuff in sections 
>3.1 and 4.1.  I am not too sure what the authors had
>hoped to specify in this text, so I can not be sure 
>there is a reason for including it.

We've already discussed this and have a proposal on how to adress this.

>
>	I also agree with Grenville's comments 13 and 14
>and add to his first comment that - like the Uniform
>model - ECN needs either to be better documented or
>not included.  If there were a relatively mature draft
>that stated how ECN would be done using the EXT bits,
>then it is obvious that this draft would have to address
>how its usage of the EXT bits can be coordinated with 
>the ECN usage.  As it now is, this section seems to be
>trying to establish backward compatibility with some
>non-existant function.

>

We've already discussed this and have a proposal on how to adress this.


>Aditional acronyms:
>
>AF		Assured Forwarding
>CE		Congestion Experienced (not needed if section 11 is removed)
>CLP		Cell Loss Priority
>COPS		Common Open Policy Service [ref RFC 2748]
>CS		(?)
>DE		Discard Eligibility
>DF		Default Forwarding (?)
>ECN		Explicit Congestion Notification
>ECT		(? - not needed if section 11 is removed)
>EF		Expedited Forwarding
>SNMP		Simple Network Management Protocol
>

thanks

>> 
>> NITS
>> ====
>> 
>
>toward top of page 36, "An RSVP router that does
>recognizes the DIFFSERV ..." should be changed to
>"... that does recognize ...".  You might also 
>change "RSVP router" to "LSR" since "RSVP" is 
>implied by the sectional context.
>
>several more occurences of 'eg.' (search and 
>replace?)...
>

fine.


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