[mpls] Reserving extended special purpose labels

Kireeti Kompella <kireeti.kompella@gmail.com> Wed, 13 March 2013 19:48 UTC

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Subject: [mpls] Reserving extended special purpose labels
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Hi All,

In today's discussion, I noted the need to reserve (i.e., not allocate) some of the special purpose labels in the extended space. The primary reason to reserve special purpose label S is that an implementation interprets S independent of the preceding label; an example is the ELI. 

Please comment to the list or to an MPLS WG chair near you if you believe a label in the range 0-14 should be reserved in the extended special purpose label space. 

Thanks,
Kireeti