Re: [CCAMP] Warren Kumari's No Objection on draft-ietf-ccamp-rsvp-te-bandwidth-availability-14: (with COMMENT)

["Yemin (Amy)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi Warren, 

Thanks for the comments, please see reply inline below. 

BR,
Amy
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发件人: Warren Kumari via Datatracker [[e-mail]]
发送时间: 2019年4月10日 7:44
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主题: Warren Kumari's No Objection on draft-ietf-ccamp-rsvp-te-bandwidth-availability-14: (with COMMENT)

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COMMENT:
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I must admit that I'm having a hard time understanding the utility of this, and
how exactly systems are supposed to make a reasonable decision based upon the
information -- I don't **really** care that the probability of the link being
at 100Mbps is 99.995%, what I care about is what the available bandwidth is
*now*. When my device has a 123Mbps flow, it needs to decide what to do with it
-- I get that this document describes how the bandwidth probability can be
transmitted, but how should my device use this information?
[Amy] The OSPF extension RFC8330 defines how the information is distributed by OSPF.
This draft defines the signaling, how much bandwidth and corresponding availability level a flow would like to have. 

I'm also confused by the table:
Sub-bandwidth (Mbps)   Availability
   ------------------     ------------
   200                    99.99%
   100                    99.995%
   100                    99.999%

Is there an error here?
[Amy] The table will be modified as following:
   400                    99.99%
   200                    99.995%
   100                    99.999%

I also support the DISCUSS on the floating-point issue -- perhaps this could be
much more simply encoded with a table and some bits? E.G: 25%, 50%, 75%, 80%,
90%, 91%, 92%.. 99%. If > 99%, then the remaining gets used to encode the
"number of nines" availability (5 == 5 nines).
[Amy] Since the OSPF extension RFC8330 use the floating-point number, here we would like to continue using it. 
Reference to IEEE754 will be added.