Comments on LMP

[Baktha Muralidharan <muralidb@cisco.com>]

Hi Jonathan

         We have the following
comments on LMP draft 3:
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1. In the current LMP draft
(draft-ietf-ccamp-lmp-03.txt), section 7 talks
   about Message ID usage. It states,

           
"Unacknowledged messages sent with the MESSAGE_ID object 
            
SHOULD be retransmitted until the message is acknowledged
            
or until a retry limit is reached."

   What are the subsequent actions that need to take place when
the
   above conditions occur ?

2. When Nacking a link summary, the current message format doesn’t allow
indicate
   what's wrong with each interface mapping..
"per-interface" error codes would
   be helpful. i.e. The TE link and each data link object in
the Nack message
   needs an error code to localize the failure.

3. When a channel status msg is received with message ID less than
an earlier (TE-Link) message, it might still be accepted per the 
draft. So, in the case where it is accepted, should the accepted
   message ID become the basis for all future message ID
(validations)?
  
4. CC ID can be numbered (i.e. IPv4 format) per OIF/OUNI. However, the
current LMP
   draft does not support it.

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Thanks,

/Baktha Muralidharan
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Chelmsford, MA.