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[Ina Minei <ina@juniper.net>]

	Eric,

	Correct, this draft applies to the procedures described in 3478
and adds the capability to do graceful restart only for planned restarts.

			Thank you,

				Ina



On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Eric Gray wrote:

> Zafar,
>
>     Actually, I can't be absolutely certain but, I think the question
> asked during
> the MPLS WG meeting was why the procedures of RFC 3479 were not good
> enough.  I also think the answer was that this draft applies to
> implementations
> that would choose to support RFC 3478 - except that they only want to handle
> a planned outage.
>
>     Again, I can't be sure, but I think that this draft essentially adds
> the ability
> inherent in RFC 3479 (support of a planned outage only mode) to RFC 3478.
> I get that impression from reading the two RFCs and this draft. If
> correct, that
> should answer your question.
>
> --
> Eric
>
> zafar ali wrote:
>
> > Hi Ina, Rahul and Albert,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am not sure about motivation behind this draft. Why procedures in
> > RFC 3478 are are NOT enough to address planned outages? This question
> > was also raised at the last MPLS WG meeting but I did not hear any
> > convincing answer.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards... Zafar
> >
>