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[Paul Langille <langille@CrescentNetworks.com>]

    Hi Tom. I apologize. I did not mean to imply that these comments would be
incorporated into the MIB. I was just trying to shed some light on some commonly
used terms. I choose the term "LSP tunnel" over "tunnel" based on the text in
draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-tunnel-05.txt.

    I must say I am surprised by your 'tunnel statement' below. I thought that the
TE MIB was based on RSVP and CR-LDP (explicitly routed) LSPs. I did not think of it
as a general tunnel MIB. Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to imply that this is a
bad thing. I did not realize the scope was this broad. I guess the first comment I
have is that the text at the front of the MIB needs to reflect this.

            Paul

"Thomas D. Nadeau" wrote:
<snip>

>
>
> > > 3. LSP vs Tunnel vs LSP Tunnel - Yep, this stumps me also.
> >
> >First let's get rid of one of the terms. I think that a "tunnel" and an "LSP
> >tunnel" in the context of the TE MIB are the same things. So throw out
> >"tunnel". It is too general.
>
>          No LSP Tunnel. The use of "tunnel" in the TE MIB
> refers to the specific parameters used to describe a
> traffic engineered tunnel which may or may not result in
> the formation of an LSP.
>
>          --Tom

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