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Dave,  please see below.

regards, Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Allan [mailto:dallan@nortelnetworks.com]
> Sent: 11 December 2002 23:44
> To: curtis@fictitious.org
> Cc: curtis@fictitious.org; mpls@UU.NET
> Subject: RE: draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-01.txt - ECMP considerations 
> 
> 
> Curtis:
> 
> I'm FAR from throwing my hands up in the air..... ;-) Just 
> trying to move
> the mountain (and some thinking). 
> 
> If I did not make it clear, for figuring out what went wrong 
> once yoou know
> somthing is wrong,
NH=> This is an important point.  The discussion would have a far clearer
basis for comment/analysis if we first identified/agreed all the failure
conditions we want to detect, and the consequent actions that must be
activated on such.  Discussing nuances of ECMP and the rights/wrongs of the
LSP-Ping protocol without having this clear separation of (i) detection and
(ii) diagnostics as a bsis for discussion is not very helpful IMO.
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