LMP Link Verification Clarification requested

["Bradford, Richard" <rbradfor@cisco.com>]

The LMP Link Verification BEGIN_VERIFY class allows for the
Verify Transport Mechanism to carry a mask of allowed transports. The
TransmissionRate field contains:

        "This is the transmission rate of the data link over which the Test messages will be transmitted"

It appears there may be multiple interpretations of this statement. One interpretation is that this refers to the same data link used throughout the rest of the specification (i.e. an OC3 = ~155M/8 bytes per second). An alternate interpretation would be that this refers to the transmission rate of the test messages themselves (i.e. DCCS = 192K/8 bytes/sec)

Which interpretation is correct?

If the latter (i.e. the transmission rate of the test messages), then the following questions need to be addressed:

The first question I have is how multiple Transport Mechanisms can be advertised with one TransmissionRate.

Let's say that an OC3 interface is capable of verifying over J0-16, DCCS, and Payload.
J0-16 could be interpreted as 16 bytes/sec.
DCCS could be 192K/8 bytes/sec.
Payload could be ~155M/8 bytes/sec.

The second question involves ambiguity when DCCS is specified. The DCCS data rate of 192K/8 is the same for OC3, OC12, OC48, etc. Knowing the DCCS data rate does not provide useful information for interface termination. The source device might be sending SDCC over OC12, while the receiver might choose to terminate at OC48.

One possible solution to this problem rests on the interpretation of "transmission rate of the data link". If the TransmissionRate refers to the full SONET/SDH interface regardless of the Transport Mechanism, then both of the above problems are resolved.