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["Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@cisco.com>]

At 05:55 PM 4/2/2003 -0500, Curtis Villamizar wrote:

>In message 
><4B6D09F3B826D411A67300D0B706EFDE0115C85E@nt-exch-yow.pmc-sierra.bc.
>ca>, Shahram Davari writes:
> > >Shahram Davari said LSP-PING has become more complicated as the work
> > >on it has progressed, and that it now really isn't that much simpler
> > >than Y.1711.
> >
> >
> > It seems that I have been misquoted. A more accurate quote is:
> >
> > "Shahram Davari said LSP-PING has become more complicated as the work
> > on it has progressed, and that it now neither simple nor efficient. This
> > fact has been recognized by the authors, and in fact an earlier text that
> > suggested LSP-PING is a simple and efficient protocol has been taken out of
> > the draft"
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Shahram
>
>
>Shahram,
>
>I remember that earlier discussion very well and your objection to the
>words "simple and efficient" included the argument that these words
>added nothing to the draft.  I suggested that it could be removed on
>the grounds that it added nothing but I did not agree that it the
>protocol could not be described as "simple and efficient".  I am also
>not an author of this draft.  Apparently the authors did not agree
>since the words "simple and efficient" are still in the -02 draft.
>
>Since the second sentence is not true it should either be omited from
>the minutes or a note added that the statement though made was not
>true.  The authors neither agreed that the protocol is not simple and
>efficient nor did they remove the text.

         I agree with Curtis; please keep the original text in the draft.

         --Tom



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