[mpls] On Up and Down MEP in MPLS-TP (RE: 2nd working group last call ondraft-ietf-mpls-tp-mip-mep-map)

[Gregory Mirsky <[e-mail]>]

Dear All,
What would be the most appropriate subject to continue this discussion? I'll give it a try, please feel free to change it.

I think that there's nothing that can preclude from supporting UP MEP on MPLS-TP LSP, according to UP MEP definition of RFC 6371, even when multpiple PWs mapped to that LSP. Same, I think, is the true for  p2mp PW. Note that service, VPWS, is not part of MPLS-TP architecture.

        Regards,
                Greg

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Hideki,

So far no RFC or draft has talked about Down or UP MEP for LSPs. But if you think about it logically LSPs can't have UP-MEP because LSP can carry many PWs and each PW may enter the LSP from a different port/interface.  PWs can have UP-MEP but only for P2P services (VPWS), otherwise they can't have UP-MEP either (same as LSP).

My suggestion is to correct figures and change UP-MEPs to Down-MEPs for LSPs. Also to mention UP-MEP is out of scope.

Thx
SD

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Hi Shahram,

Just one comment.

>I would also argue that LSPs can't have UP-MEPs, since PWs from many ingress ports can enter an LSP  and therefore the LSP can't start on the ingress interface.

I think this depends on implementations.
Any RFC don't restrict to DOWN-MEPs in an LSP.

Anyway, MEP mechanism is out of scope in this draft as you said.

Thanks,
Hideki Endo

>Hi,
>
>Although I mentioned I am Ok with the draft to be advanced to RFC, but after reviewing it in more details it appears that the draft, in spite of its name, does talk about UP-MEP at all and only talks about UP-MIP, while the figures show UP-MEPs for LSPs.  Even if the scope of the draft is UP-MIP, considering that there can't be a MIP without a MEP,  the draft should have some wording regarding UP-MEPs and their applicability to LSPs and PWs. I would also argue that LSPs can't have UP-MEPs, since PWs from many ingress ports can enter an LSP  and therefore the LSP can't start on the ingress interface.
>
>A quick fix at this point is to mention UP-MEP is out of scope and change the figures to only show Down-MEPs. A better fix is to elaborate on UP-MEP and its applicability and placement, etc.
>
>Regards,
>Shahram
>
>
>
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>My Comments are addressed and I support this draft to be published as Informational  RFC.
>
>Thx
>Shahram
>
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>Working Group,
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>draft-ietf-mpls-tp-mip-mep-map-05.txt has been updated after a previous
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>The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
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>This working group last call ends March 13, 2013.
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