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I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-mpls-soft-preemption-02.txt

  • From: Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel.be
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 10:46:37 +0200
  • Cc: "Matthew R. Meyer" <mmeyer@gblx.net>, George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>, Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk>, Matthew Meyer <mrm@gblx.net>, "'mpls@uu.net'" <mpls@UU.NET>
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hi, this doesn't mean that they not have to be correctly documented as 
proposed in point 6 of adrian's mail:

"> 6. We were looking for a solution that
 >     a. documented more clearly the expected behavior of a 3209-
 >         conformant implementation
 >     b. allowed soft and hard pre-emption to be achieved without
 >         substantial modification to code structure.
 >     c. was extensible to GMPLS without requiring a change to the
 >         procedures described in 3473."

from that perspective <draft-farrel-mpls-preemption-01.txt> is more than 
certainly addressing this point

thanks,
- dimitri.

Kireeti Kompella wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Matthew R. Meyer wrote:
> 
> 
>>I see little value and lots of pain in changing the default
>>preemption methods of the overwhelming majority of the
>>installed code base of MPLS boxes.  I see it unnecessarily
>>stalling soft preemption, and I prefer that be avoided.
>>
>>So I would fall in the 'happy where things stand' group.
>>(But all that should have been evident anyway).
> 
> 
> Ditto.
> 
> Kireeti.
> -------

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