Re: Y1711 applicability...was draft-bonica-tunneltrace-02

[George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>]

> Y.1711 simply provides some defect detection/handling tools that can be
> implemented on LERs for explicitly routed p2p LSPs regardless of payload,

Since the overwhelming majority of MPLS deployed today does not use
explicit routing, this does seriously limit the applicability.
Further for the explicitly routed p2p case we have a solution that
leverages IP OAM.  

...George

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