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[Bora Akyol <akyol@pluris.com>]

John

Since you commented on this topic would you care to comment on the 
rest of our draft as well? You can find it as 
draft-akyol-mpls-exp-ero-00.txt.

Regards

Bora

At 3:05 PM -0800 2/27/01, John Drake wrote:
>Based upon e-mail I've seen, I think we've established that it doesn't
>provide any additional functionality or utility.  There's a colloquial New
>England expression that covers this - as useful as teats on a boar.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kireeti Kompella [mailto:kireeti@juniper.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 2:24 PM
>To: akyol@pluris.com; eric.gray@sandburst.com
>Cc: kireeti@juniper.net; mpls@UU.NET; vkompella@JasmineNetworks.com;
>yakov@juniper.net
>Subject: Re: Expanded ERO draft
>
>
>>  Or alternately, one can add the router ID to the unnumbered ERO to
>>  remove any ambiguities and also simplify fast reroute.
>
>As Yakov said, no concrete reason for adding the router ID has been
>given.  However, we've wasted enough time and bandwidth.  Let's put
>this to vote:
>
>Who all think that adding a router ID to the unnumbered ERO subobject
>would be beneficial?  A simple yes, no or don't care, please.
>
>Kireeti.