Re: PCE capabilities

[JP Vasseur <jvasseur@cisco.com>]

Hi Igor,

On Oct 22, 2004, at 4:00 PM, Igor Bryskin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wonder if it would be a good idea for a PCE to advertise among other
> things the list of areaIDs/ AS numbers that it covers. Then a PCE can 
> select
> proper PCE(s) to work with, provided that it can identify (with the 
> help of
> routing) the area/AS of the path computation target. To go a step 
> further a
> PCE may separate areas/ASs that it covers directly (because it is 
> within
> their TE visibility) from those covered indirectly (because it learned 
> about
> other PCEs taking care of such areas/ASs).

Really nice to see that we're in sync. In the TE-related ID, such 
sub-TLV are defined.

Thanks for the discussion, by the way, we still need to discuss about 
GMPLS specific extensions.

Cheers.

JP.

> Igor