RE: WG Last Call for draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-bidir

"Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang" <zzhang@juniper.net> Mon, 05 May 2014 16:23 UTC

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From: "Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang" <zzhang@juniper.net>
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Subject: RE: WG Last Call for draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-bidir
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Eric,

> How about if I remove these paragraphs from section 3.2.1 and 3.2.2
> respectively, and add a single paragraph at the front of section 3.2 that
> begins "When either the Flat or the Hierarchical Partitioned method is used
> ..."

Even with unpartitioned method?

> > For the following in 3.2.2.2:
> 
>    Note that the PE Distinguisher Label to be used is the one assigned
>    by the root of the P-tunnel to the address of PE2, not the one
>    assigned to the address of PE1.  Note also that the root of the
>    P-tunnel might be a PE other than PE1 or PE2.
> 
> > It is for bidirectional flows. For unidirectional flows, the label
> > assigned by the root for PE1 need to be used.
> 
> Two paragraphs before the paragraph you cite it says "the remainder of this
> section applies only to C\-BIDIR flows".  So your point is correct, but so
> is the draft ;-)

But shouldn't we also talk about unidirectional flows, since it is not covered in 6625? 3.2.2.3 does cover that.

Jeffrey