RE: FW: Questions on draft-ietf-mpls-bundle-00

["Atkinson, Stephen" <steve.atkinson@netplane.com>]

Hi Ed,

I agree, comments below.

Regards,
steve atkinson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edward Harrison [mailto:eph@dataconnection.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 11:06 AM
> To: 'Yakov Rekhter'
> Cc: Nic Larkin; 'ccamp@ops.ietf.org'
> Subject: RE: FW: Questions on draft-ietf-mpls-bundle-00 
> 
> 
> Yakov,
> 
> > > Can you clarify whether you are proposing removing the
> COMPONENT_IF_UPSTREAM
> > > TLV from the INTERFACE_ID hop object (or were you just 
> saying that Steve
> > > needn't use it if he doesn't want to)?
> > 
> > I am proposing to remove the COMPONENT_IF_UPSTREAM.
> 
> In this case, am I right in thinking it makes sense to remove
> COMPONENT_IF_DOWNSTREAM too, and signal the (single) 
> component interface
> identifier, in the IPv4, IPv6 or IF_INDEX TLV?

This is how I felt it should work. I don't see any additional
value in COMPONENT_IF_DOWNSTREAM that can't be handled by
the IF_INDEX TLV. Both carry the same information, the
unnumbered interface identifier.

> 
> We'd be interested to hear if anyone on the mailing list 
> finds this approach
> overly restrictive.
> 
> Ed.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yakov Rekhter [mailto:yakov@juniper.net]
> Sent: 13 September 2001 14:58
> To: Edward Harrison
> Cc: 'Yakov Rekhter'; Nic Larkin; 'ccamp@ops.ietf.org'
> Subject: Re: FW: Questions on draft-ietf-mpls-bundle-00 
> 
> 
> Ed,
> 
> > Can you clarify whether you are proposing removing the
> COMPONENT_IF_UPSTREAM
> > TLV from the INTERFACE_ID hop object (or were you just 
> saying that Steve
> > needn't use it if he doesn't want to)?
> 
> I am proposing to remove the COMPONENT_IF_UPSTREAM.
> 
> Yakov.
>