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[mpls] New Liaison Statement, "T-MPLS Consented Recommendatio ns"

  • From: "Busschbach, Peter B (Peter)" <busschbach@lucent.com>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:28:26 -0400
  • Cc: mpls@lists.ietf.org


> > Tom,
> > 
> > A couple of observations on your remarks:
> > 
> > (i)	I agree with you that some clarity is required on 
> > specific reserved label ranges and their uses.  However, I'd 
> > say it's bigger than just the label ranges and should also 
> > include how all the header fields (ie S, EXP, TTL) are to be 
> > used in T-MPLS (I noted you don't think this 'T-MPLS' name is 
> > good, but I'll stick with it here).  Why?  Well, folks need 
> > to consider the various client/server relationships that 
> > could exist between the various spins of MPLS as-is and 
> > T-MPLS....and especially misconnectivity between them....so 
> > how is this going to be handled?
> > 
> > (ii)	I'd urge you not to be so hard on Y.1711.  This is a 
> > simple defect detection/handling OAM solution for ANY co-ps 
> > mode network based on label-swapping that respects the 
> > architectural requirement of what defines a connection (ie 
> > single source, connectivity=1).  Any form of MPLS that has 
> > merging (so that is LDP and/or PHP) violates the rules for a 
> > connection.....this is just a fact.....and so Y.1711 is not 
> > appropriate (but then attempting to apply any sort of 
> > determinism across any aspect of traffic/fault/performance 
> > management is fraught with problems when the rules for 
> > connections are broken).


Neil, Tom,

Just curious: you both say that Y.1711 does not work in conjunction with PHP. Why is that? The CV frames have a TTSI vlaue that can be used to identify the source even when because of PHP (and Label Merge) the LSP context is lost.

Peter



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