Re: ASON reqts - Moving on?
Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net> Wed, 14 May 2003 20:48 UTC
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From: Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>
To: Adrian Farrel <afarrel@movaz.com>
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Subject: Re: ASON reqts - Moving on?
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On Wed, 14 May 2003, Adrian Farrel wrote: > Can we back off a bit and just look at the ASON requirements draft? Thanks, Adrian. > Having had a quick chat with a couple of the authors (not all) we are in > agreement that this draft is to state clearly the requirements of the ASON > architecture as applicable to GMPLS signaling within the context of the IETF. Okay. > The motives are to > - make those requirements accessible to the IETF community > in a form and format with which they are familiar I would encourage adding "terminology" to the above, if the document doesn't already do so. > - provide a basis for determining whether current protocol > solutions fully address the requirements. Okay: so this document is _setting the stage_ for a meaningful discussion of solutions. I'll just note that we have a precedent in CCAMP for this: there were no requirements for OLI until there was (vigorous) debate on the relative merits of two different solutions. The emergence of a reqts doc helped clarify issues. > The second point is the one that might give rise to debate in the future. That > is, once the requirements have been exposed in a way we understand, we may > discover that the existing work is exemplary or we may determine there are holes > to be plugged. Sounds fine. > Views on this are premature until the requirements draft is solid > (although the prematurity of views will in no way prevent them from being > expressed). Too true. > Kireeti, what are the next steps? Let's see what the WG says about ASON reqts first. Kireeti.
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