Reposting: question on GMPLS TE flooding with OSPF

[Anca Zamfir <ancaz@cisco.com>]

Sorry for re-posting this, but I still couldn't figure it out. Could 
someone please give a brief explanation?
Regards,
Anca Zamfir

At 06:02 AM 8/21/2002 -0400, Anca Zamfir wrote:
> Hi,
> When a node floods TE link information using OSPF, it needs to fill in the 
> neighbor OSPF RouterID as Link ID in the Link TLV. For an optical TE link, 
> this node discovers (e.g. using LMP) the neighbor TE Node ID, therefore it 
> will need the mapping between the neighbor TE Node ID and the neighbor 
> RouterID in order to be able to fill in the required information.
> Is a GMPLS node expected to flood the Router TLV only, before the first TE 
> Link is configured? If yes, I was not able to find this specified in 
> draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic-06.txt or 
> draft-ietf-ccamp-ospf-gmpls-extensions-07.txt
> Or is there another mechanism in place to discover this mapping?
> Same questions may be valid for IS-IS.
>
> Thanks,
> Anca Zamfir