Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments

Alia Atlas <akatlas@gmail.com> Wed, 15 August 2012 22:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [irs-discuss] IRS comments
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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net> wrote:
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>>   It could just as easily describe a PCE.
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> PCE could be a controller just talking to headends and asking them to signal
> LSP X with RSVP-TE or it could talk to all head, tail and via nodes and
> actually program the forwarding label entries.
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> I am observing that IRS framework is more of the former case rather then the
> latter in general.
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> However if this is the former then I am a bit not clear what value it is to
> deliver if we compare it with current statefull PCE efforts ;)

Other than providing a good means of learning more topology and
dynamic events and related state easily??  Feedback loops - and an
easy mechanism to, for instance, test a created LSP via OAM before
declaring the new one up?

Alia

> Best,
> R.
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