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Authors, Cc Colleagues, I made several comments on the -06 version of this draft to the MPLS mailing list on 22nd July 2005. I believe some, but not all, of my original comments have been addressed (at least in part). So, I list below some follow-up comments: (1) In the introduction the document refers to "requirements for user and data plane operations and management", however the term "user plane" is never used in the rest of the document. So I would suggest removing the term user plane from the introduction, unless the intention is to emphasise that user plane == data plane in which case I think this intention needs to be made more explicit. (2) Section 4.1 refers to "customer traffic" and Section 4.4 refers to "user traffic". Is customer traffic synonymous with user traffic, in which case I would suggest that the document standardises on one term. 3) Throughout the document, I am not sure that the use of customer is consistent or its meaning clear - It would appear that sometimes what is meant is an actual customer of a service provider and at other times what is meant is the client layer of the MPLS (server) layer, in which case I would comment that this client layer does not necessarily belong to a "customer". A definition of what is meant by customer in the terminology section would help, but I would also suggest replacing customer with a term such as client or client layer in those cases where what you are discussing is not necessarily owned by a customer in a business relationship sense (e.g. a SP may use a label stack to help scaling/aggregation, but the same SP owns the client & server MPLS layers, so who is the customer?). 4) Section 4.5, insofar-as => insofar as (According to The Columbia Guide to Standard American English) Thanks Ben -- Ben Niven-Jenkins Networking Specialist, BT Exact E-mail: benjamin.niven-jenkins@bt.com Office: +44 (0)1473 648225 Mobile: +44 (0)7918 077205 Fax: +44 (0)1332 578827 _______________________________________________ mpls mailing list mpls@lists.ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mpls |
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