RE: draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-architecture-05.txt

["Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <bwijnen@lucent.com>]

Randy, does this address the technical issue that was raised?

W.r.t. the "send it to MPLS forum"... I think we have had
that discussion several times before. Do we want to repeat it
again?

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alex Zinin [mailto:zinin@psg.com]
> Sent: woensdag 16 april 2003 9:26
> To: Randy Bush
> Cc: iesg
> Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-architecture-05.txt
> 
> 
> Randy,
> 
> > one immediate question comes to mind ... they talk of a link
> > management protocl (lmp) (eg in chap 8) it seems to do just
> > about what ppp does. the obvious question is 'why not use
> > ppp?'
> 
> ppp control is done in-band. LMP supports the out-of-band mode, which
> is important in optical networks where you can't simultaneously switch
> some things through (user data) and take a look at other (control
> messages). The out-of-band nature places some unique requirements
> (such as 1:n control to data link ratio, link property correlation,
> failure detection) that warrant a separate protocol.
> 
> Alex
>