Re: [Detnet] OAM terms

[Fabrice Theoleyre <[e-mail]>]

Hi Pascal, 

>    Reverse OAM:  A Reverse OAM packet is an Out-of-Band OAM packet that
>       traverses the Track from West to East and North-South in one of
>       either direction, to capture and report OAM measurements upstream.
>  
> > [FT] Shall we consider also the case where each intermediary hop reports directly and autonomously the control information to the OAM source? To my mind, saying that an OAM packet collects everything may be quite restrictive, and we may not be able to address all the cases. 
>  
>  
> [PT]  great point,  what about
>  
>     A Reverse OAM packet is an Out-of-Band OAM packet that traverses the Track
>     from egress to ingress on the reverse direction, to capture and  report OAM
>     measurements upstream. The collection may capture all information along the
>     whole Track, or it may only learn select data across all, or only a
>      particular subTrack, or Segment of a Track.
>  
[FT] Yes, it’s generic now (to my mind)


> [FT] in that case, Reverse OAM: a reverse OAM packet is an Out-of-Band OAM packet that reports OAM measurements from intermediary routers to the OAM source. 
>  
> [PT]  Well, the PSE may be distributed and learn from incoming reverse OAM at any point in the network.  

[FT]: yes, +1,  OAM source is a specific case.

Fabrice