RE: Moving right along ...

[John Drake <jdrake@calient.net>]

Maarten,

I'm sorry, my comment was more procedural than technical.  If everyone
agrees that it is necessary, then obviously it should be added.  Zhi-Wei
didn't try to gain consensus for adding it, he just said that he wanted it
with no explanation, as far as I could tell.

Thanks,

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Maarten Vissers [mailto:mvissers@lucent.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 1:32 PM
To: John Drake
Cc: Zhi-Wei Lin; Kireeti Kompella; ccamp@ops.ietf.org
Subject: Re: Moving right along ...


John,

Semi transparent STM-N signal transport is typically required to support the
following applications:

* DCN application: D1-D3, D4-D12
* MS protection application: J0, K1, K2, B2
* Other: 
  [Orderwire] E1, E2, 
  [User Channel] F1, 
  [Single-ended MSn Performance Monitoring] M0, M1 (in addition to 
					    J0, K2[6-8] and B2)
  [RSn Performance Monitoring] B1 (in addition to J0)

So M0/M1 transport is required in order to support single-ended MSn
performance
monitoring.

Regards,

Maarten

John Drake wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhi-Wei Lin [mailto:zwlin@lucent.com]
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 5:47 AM
> To: Kireeti Kompella
> Cc: ccamp@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Moving right along ...
> 
> SNIPPED
> 
> > As for the rest, let me juxtapose your comments on switching type
> > and M0/M1; I will say nothing, hoping that the juxtaposition will
> > speak for itself.
> >
> 
> <z>The switching type is in a "standard" document, while the M0/M1 is in
> the "non-standard" document. I will let that speak for itself as well.
> And by the way, when you made this comment are making it as a chair or
> as a contributor?</z>
> 
> JD:  Actually, the signalling drafts are on exactly the same technical
> footing as the "non-standard" draft,
> so I think your attempt to draw a distinction between the two is specious
at
> best.  Once again, a feature
> or capability is added if the community as a whole decides, through a
> process of rough consensus, that it
> should be added.  No one other than you has indicated an issue with
> switching type and I haven't seen a groundswell
> of support for M0/M1.
> 
> 
> 
> Zhi