[Gen-art] Re: GEN-ART review of draft-ietf-ccamp-loose-path-reopt-01

Hi Harald,

Thanks for your reply (and your review)  - see in line

On Feb 5, 2006, at 7:12 AM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:

> Good that it was helpful!
>
> One outstanding issue.....
>
> --On 2. februar 2006 11:22 -0500 JP Vasseur <jvasseur@cisco.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>> - The order in which the two mechanisms are introduced in section 2
>>> and 4 was confusing to me at first read. I think it would flow
>>> better if the midpoint to headend signalling was mentioned first,
>>> and the headend to midpoint mechanism was defined afterwards,
>>> saying something like
>>>
>>>        - A head-end LSR to trigger on every LSR whose next hop is a
>>>        loose hop or an abstract node the re-evaluation of the  
>>> current
>>>        path in order to detect a potential more optimal path, which
>>> may
>>>        result in the mid-point LSR using the mechanism above to  
>>> signal
>>>        the existence of such a more optimal path
>>>
>>> (Note: The English of the paragraph reads oddly, given that the
>>> bullets do not form complete sentences without the introductory
>>> text; it's possible to do this better, I think.)
>>>
>>
>> I kept the same order (because the first mechanism is likely to  
>> be  the
>> one more commonly used - that said, they're not exclusive) but I
>> reworded a bit since indeed clarify could be improved. Thanks.
>
> isn't the answer to the headend-to-midpoint query an instance of  
> the midpoint-to-headend signal?
>
> from the doc, I understood it as if the headend can't tell the  
> difference between a spontaneous reoptimization and a  
> reoptimization done in response to a headend query - but there may  
> be a difference I missed.
>

You did not miss anything ;-) but in the mid-point notification case  
there are other cases that we handle such as the reoptimization for  
path maintenance and so on ... Thus starting with the head-end  
control function is more didactic ;-)

> Not terribly important!
>

Good, thanks. I'll repost today to move forward. Just a process- 
oriented question. What is the logical next step after having  
addressed the gen-art review comments ?

Thanks.

Cheers.

JP.

>

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