Re: [Bier] Deborah Brungard's Block on charter-ietf-bier-01-06: (with BLOCK)

Deborah,

This is just the forwarding plane aspects of how to reuse the BIFT
construct.  Toerless has already reached out to TEAS for talking about it
and looking at control plane.

I agree that this clarification is needed in the charter!

Any suggestions for text?

Thanks,
Alia

On Feb 21, 2018 8:08 PM, "Deborah Brungard" <db3546@att.com> wrote:

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> While a Discuss, this should be simple to address as I think it's a bit of
> a misnomer
> which Alvaro has already noted.
> About:
> "8) BIER Traffic Engineering: Definition of an architecture, and
>    specification of the associated technology, for a BIER-based
>    mechanism to support traffic engineering."
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> Looking at the wg draft (which it seems this new charter item is based on),
> the draft says:
> "It does support traffic engineering by explicit hop-by-hop forwarding"
> and "it is more similar to SR than RSVP-TE".
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> So it is not TE, it is explicit forwarding. As Alvaro noted, this should
> not
> be identified in the charter as TE. I don't see any need for this new item
> to
> be in the charter (as Alvaro noted).
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> This is a Discuss because if this is not a simple misnomer, then this work
> clashes with TEAS. TEAS is chartered and responsible for
> "Traffic-engineering
> architectures for generic applicability across packet and non-packet
> networks.
> This includes both networks that include the use of PCE and those that do
> not."
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