Re: ASON reqts

["Adrian Farrel" <afarrel@movaz.com>]

Jonathan,

> The authors should provide them, along with their reasoning why.

???

> Stating compliance with the requirements docs requires being
> familiar with the material in those documents.

Yes, and...?

> Likewise, dropping
> the items handled in RFC 3474 would requires an active decision to
> be made by the authors.  The document should include this reasoning.

Perhaps you have an example or two of things in RFC 3474 that are dropped by
ASON-REQ but are ASON architectural requirements?

> For those unfamiliar with some of the differences, a cursorary review
> of the G.7713 reveals:
>   - Discussion of required behavior at E-NNI and UNI reference points

I should say that this is covered in the Problem Statement in section 3

   The ASON control plane specification is meant to be applicable to
   different transport technologies (e.g., SDH/SONET, OTN) in various
   networking environments (e.g., inter-carrier, intra-carrier). Also,
   ASON model distinguishes reference points (representing points of
   protocol information exchange) defined (1) between an administrative
   domain and a user (2) between administrative domains and (3) between
   areas of the same administrative domain and when needed between
   control components (or simply controllers) within areas. A full
   description of the ASON terms and relationship between ASON model
   and GMPLS protocol suite may be found in [IPO-ASON].

Further in section 4

   Note: support of the above functions is independent of any user-to-
   network interface and is therefore not constrained nor restricted by
   its implementation specifics (see [ITU-T G.8080] and [ITU-T G.7713])

Was there something more specific you were after?

>   - Support for complete Call/Connection separation, including
>     0-connection calls

Hmmm?
Are you saying that ASON-REQ doesn't include a discussion of complete
call/connection separation?
4.2 seems to have that covered.

I can see how there may be benefit in adding text to clarify the separation
options. Perhpas you could suggest some.

Cheers,
Adrian