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on the mpls oam framework

  • From: George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:10:36 -0500
  • cc: loa@pi.se, Shahram Davari <Shahram_Davari@pmc-sierra.com>, MPLS wg <mpls@UU.NET>, George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>, Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>, swallow@cisco.com

Curtis -

> I'm personally not all that convinced about P-MP but I'm also not
> ready to say it should be eliminated based on it not fitting into a
> particular OAM framework.

You need to re-read what Neil wrote.  

> Loa....you are misrepresenting my 'agreement on the situation'.   I =
> agree there is a problem.....but has it ever occurred to you that the =
> starting point may be wrong?  The problem is not that Dave's paper fails =
> to line-up with the MPLS arch papers, the problem is that the MPLS arch =
> (sic) stuff is itself architecturally broken......the mere act of =
> 'doing' mp2p and PHP does not bless them with arch validity please note. =
          ^^^^
>  You can't expect Dave to fix that.....no doubt you also saw Dave's =
> response.

He's talking about LDP/Unicast.  Which we use for everything except if
you *only* use TE in the core.  So his view of the world is much more
narrow than you imagined!

...George

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