RE: Notify Message in GMPLS

["George Young" <george.young@meriton.com>]

Hello manoj,

See below:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: manoj juneja [mailto:manojkumarjuneja@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 3:38 PM
>To: ccamp@ops.ietf.org
>Subject: Notify Message in GMPLS
>
>
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>Hi All,
>
>Section 4.2.2 of the gmpls-rsvp-te daft mentions that
>"the inclusion of a Notify Request object does not guarantee 
>that a Notify 
>message will be generated".
>
>This means that it is an optional procedure as per the drafts.
>
>Is there any real technical reason for introducing this 
>message in GMPLS 
>drafts ? 

We're planning to use the NOTIFY message to indicate path failure to the
head and the tail of an optical path, to intiate cutover to a backup
path.

Regards,
George R. Young.
Meriton Networks Inc.
3026 Solandt Rd., Ottawa, ON, Canada, K2K 2A5
phone: +1 613-270-9279 Ext 287
fax: +1 613-270-9628
email: george.young@meriton.com


>What will be the criteria for a node to insert a 
>notify request 
>object in path/resv message ?
>
>Thanks in Advance,
>Regards,
>manoj.
>
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