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[Ina Minei <ina@juniper.net>]

	Mark,

	Thank you for your feedback, please see inline below.

>
> 1.  It would be nice to fold the content of
> draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-mtu-extensions-02.txt into the main LDP standard document.

	From a standards point of view, this cannot be done, since the mtu
extensions is not yet an RFC.

	Regarding the second point, I will send all comments together to
the list for review/discussion after receiving all the feedback.

				Ina
>
> 2.  Re LDP discovery (RFC 3036 section 2.4):  Two types of peer discovery
> are described: Basic and Extended.  Basic as described will work on
> broadcast and point-point media but not in general on NBMA media (e.g.
> non-LC-ATM when used in a multipoint mode).
>
> Extended can work on NBMA but its semantics are quite different than Basic:
> it allows "discovery" of peers that are more than 1 hop away, and it does
> not bind the Hello adjacency to a particular interface.  Both of these
> differences can be undesirable in a context where one is looking to use LDP
> to distribute outer labels with adjacent peers on a non-LC NBMA
> network.  Extended discovery appears to be primarily intended for
> distributing "inner" labels with non-adjacent peers.
>
> I think the successor to 3036 should either point out that basic discovery
> on NBMA is not provided for, or it should specify a mechanism semantically
> similar to basic discovery (1 hop limit, bind the hello adjacency to an
> interface) except using preconfigured neighbor addresses.
>
> Thanks, Mark
>

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