RE: I-D ACTION:draft-dimitri-ccamp-gmpls-rsvp-te-bundled-links-00 .txt

[John Drake <jdrake@calient.net>]

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> > It was pointed out that some implementations have IF index assignment
> such
> > that IF indexes are only unique within the TE link they belong to. I.e.,
> > assumption that IF_indexes are NOT box wide unique is not valid across
> > implementations. In order to accommodate such implementation, we came up
> > with what is in the ID at the present moment.
> 
> That is totally unreasonable. Standards are *not* produced to
> accommodate a particular implementation, and especially to accommodate
> some fairly random assumption(s) made by the implementation. So,
> fix the implementation !!!
[John Drake] 

Very sensible advice

> 
> > Given this, can you please provide more feedback on how you can improve
> > the ID?
> 
> See above.
> 
> Yakov.