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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-shiomoto-ccamp-lsp-hierarchy-bis-00.txt



Hi Dimitri,

dimitri papadimitriou wrote:
> all,
> 
> i don't think the issues of advertising an LSP as a TE link in another 
> instance of the control plane than the one used for creating the LSP - 
> ditto
> 
> "[HIERAR] did not consider scenarios where an LSP is created (and 
> maintained) by one instance of the GMPLS control plane, and is used as a 
> (TE) link by another instance of the GMPLS control plane."
> 
> is only a matter of indicating to which instance this advertisement 
> should be done;

I am happy if you could point out what is missing.
> 
> now, in addition to the "routing" part, there is the whole discussion 
> about the maintenance of the (inherited) TE link - as we are speaking 
> here about separate instance - some specific mechanism may be needed 
> otherwise after their creation there may be no easy way to communicate 
> their unavailability

The draft proposes the method to advertise the LSP created in the GMPLS
domain to the different routing instance, MPLS domain for instance.

> another more specific question on this document, what is the definition 
> of the value space for the "Target Control Plane Instance" ?

Good question. We use a 32-bit space at this time. If you have any
recommendation, I would be happy to hear that. You think that RD might
be a good choice for instance, don't you.

> 
> a last point, section 4 mentions
> 
> "This is not believed to be an issue as an informal survey indicated 
> that dynamically signalled numbered FAs had not been deployed.  Indeed 
> it was the attempt to implement numbered FAs that gave rise to the work 
> on this document." ... is there a general feeling that having this 
> mechanism will make dynamically triggered numbered FA a reality ?

I hope so.

Thank you for your comments.
---
Kohei

PS
I am now about to be on trip. I may not be able to respond timely. I
apologize.

> 
> thanks,
> - dimitri.
> 
> Internet-Drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> 
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
>> directories.
>>
>>
>>     Title        : Advertisement of hierarchical and stitchable LSPs 
>> as TE Links     Author(s)    : K. Shiomoto, et al.
>>     Filename    : draft-shiomoto-ccamp-lsp-hierarchy-bis-00.txt
>>     Pages        : 15
>>     Date        : 2005-10-18
>>     
>> This document addresses topics related to hierarchical and stitched 
>> Label Switched Paths (LSPs).  It describes extensions to allow an 
>> egress to identify that an LSP will be used as a dynamically signaled 
>> Forwarding Adjacency LSP (FA-LSP) in the case of numbered FA's.  In 
>> addition, the document addresses the issue of how to indicate that an 
>> LSP should be advertised as a TE link into a different instance of the 
>> control plane and how to identify the instance that should be used.  
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