Re: Running out of RSVP-TE bits?

["Adrian Farrel" <adrian@olddog.co.uk>]

Hi Curtis,

Thanks for your opinion.

> > draft-iwata-mpls-crankback-06.txt uses all of the remaining
> > Session Attribute bits.
>
> Get rid of draft-iwata-mpls-crankback-06.txt.  It will cause more
> problems than it will solve, not just due to the use of RRO bits.

It doesn't use any RRO bits.
Perhpas you could summarize some of the problems crankback will cause.
It would be good to get comments on these problems from the ITU-T members who have made
this an ASON requirement.

> Soft preempt is a ISP requested feature (Global Crossing) and clearly
> the most useful of the features requesting this bit space.

That is not at issue.
The question is how to manage the remaining bits and how to handle future needs for bits.

> There may be other ways to accommodate the needs of
> draft-ietf-mpls-nodeid-subobject-01.txt, namely a new sub-object type
> for a IPv4 or IPv6 address that happens to be a router-ID.

Indeed.

Adrian