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Encoding of MPLS label in MP-REACH-NLRI question

  • From: Danny McPherson <danny@ambernetworks.com>
  • Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 12:28:54 -0700
  • cc: "'mpls@UU.NET'" <mpls@UU.NET>, "BGP exploder (E-mail)" <bgp@ans.net>


> Barring objection, I will change this to:
> 
>         The Label  field carries one or more  labels (that corresponds
>         to the  stack of labels [MPLS-ENCAPS]). Each  label is encoded
>         as 3  octets, where the  high-order 20 bits contain  the label
>         value,  the following  three bits  must be  zero, and  the low
>         order  bit   contains  "Bottom   of  Stack"  (as   defined  in
>         [MPLS-ENCAPS]).
> 
> and reissue the draft.

Eric,
I can only assume you knew this was coming, so I'll get 
right to the point.  First, let's briefly review some
recent posts:

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Date:    Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:17:46 EST
From:    Eric Rosen <erosen@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Concerns regarding the numerous layer violations...

...

The goal was just to make the  stuff useful, not to achieve a political goal
or  to  maintain a  level  of architectural  purity. 
...

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Date:    Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:47:45 EST
From:    Eric Rosen <erosen@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Concerns regarding the numerous layer violations...

...
No one  wanted to make a career  of re-editing and re-organizing the documents, 
and  then having to obtain a new WG  consensus around the new organization. 
...

--------

Why is it now ok to edit and reissue the draft?  I won't 
even speculate, I believe it's clearly obvious.  Though I 
don't have strong feelings either way about this change,
I believe the inconsistency in your willingness to 
cooperate should be observed.

-danny