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[Lou Berger <lberger@labn.net>]

At 05:51 AM 9/29/00, Adrian Farrel wrote:
> >>Because the Notify message is sent instead of a regular PathErr
> >>message, a node that receives the Notify but does not support it
> >>will not get any error indication from RSVP signalling at all!
> >
> >I think it's worth pointing out that Adrian's version differs
> >from the most recent draft, which says "The Notify message does
> >not replace existing error messages. "  I think any attempt to
> >replace base RSVP messages with a notify would be misguided.
> >I don't know if this is what Adrian meant to
> >imply.  (Although this is one reading of the his text.)
>
>Not my intention (except with consent of the LSRs involved).
>see my response to Markus.
>
>Adrian

The exception is surprising.  Why would you want to remove base (rfc2205 
specified) error messages?

Lou