Re: [CCAMP] draft-wright-ccamp-op-policy-prot-links

[Julien Meuric <[e-mail]>]

Hi Ben.

Please see below.


On 07/10/2013 10:18, Ben Wright wrote:

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> - Some carriers have policies which mean they are prepared to let some services traverse a link which is temporarily protection-impaired, with the assumption that the link will be repaired at some point.
I agree 100 %. The key-word here is *temporarily*. On the opposite 
TE-LSPs are typically provisioned for rather long times. As a result, I 
do not believe that adding a supplementary short-life link-protection 
state (i.e. "protection-impaired") would bring actual value to initial 
path computation. It is a matter of time scale.
When it comes to traffic re-routing triggered by a failure, traffic 
recovery matters above all and an available link should typically be 
considered, whatever transient state a protected link may be facing.
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> - Carrier policy can choose to place some services (for which no protection is required) over a protection-impaired link but avoid using that link for other less-valuable services.  This prevents less valuable services using resources on links which, if repaired, could be used to carry protected traffic.
I guess you meant "for which protection is required". The situation is 
not supposed to last for long. Should provisioning happen over a 
degraded network anyway and chose that link, constrained routing remains 
a proactive way to addresses the issue, re-routing (only once!) is a 
reactive one.

I have also read the I-D and especially the "operator requirements" section:
- R1 brings me back to my comment above: I do not feel comfortable in 
constraining path computation by temporary situations that do no affect 
traffic.
- R2 looks really odd to me: except for planed maintenance, I fail to 
see why someone would want to temporarily re-route a perfectly flowing 
traffic, which means accept the traffic impact (twice, even if sub-50 
ms...) and the risk that the new path is not better than the former. 
What prevails on operational networks is typically: "do no touch 
something working properly".

Regards,

Julien