Comparision to OIF UNI discovery? RE: I-D ACTION:draft-lang-ccamp-lmp-bootstrap-00.txt

["Bernstein, Greg" <GregB@ciena.com>]

Hi John, Jonathan and Dimitri.  How does this compare to the OIF UNI auto
discovery.  I recall that John and Jonathan were co-authors on that
specification.  At first glance this looks like a different approach. Do we
need another approach?

Also this seems fairly focused on SDH/G.709 type signals, i.e., trail traces
and DCC channels.  ITU-T already has work underway in the form of G.7714.1.
A liason has already been sent to IETF from ITU-T.

It seems to me that this work is better done as part of that effort, at
least the SDH/G.709 aspects of it, since its technology specific and
suggests reusing channels/mechanisms that are defined for other functions by
the ITU-T.

Greg B.

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	Title		: Control Channel Bootstrap for LMP
	Author(s)	: J. Lang, J. Drake
	Filename	: draft-lang-ccamp-lmp-bootstrap-00.txt
	Pages		: 7
	Date		: 10-Jun-02
	
The Link Management Protocol (LMP) requires that at least one bi-
directional control channel is established between the nodes. The 
control channel may be transmitted either in-band with the data 
links or out-of-band over a separate wavelength, fiber, or IP 
network. This draft specifies a simple procedure to dynamically 
bootstrap control channels and exchange interface mappings using a 
new LMP message that is transmitted in-band over the data links.

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