Re: [mpls] working group last call on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label

[Sri <[e-mail]>]

Hi Greg,

Thanks for your comments. Pls see inline.

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Gregory Mirsky <
[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi George, et. al,
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> I’ve found several occurrences, three actually, of SHOULD being used in
> Section 4.
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> And I agree with Stewart that application of <ELI, EL> is the local
> decision and, at most, this work can be published as Informational.
>

Sri> As per my response to Loa's suggestion, the draft will be changed to
informational with all the SHOULDs retained.


> One comment, suggestion:
>
> ·         the sample algorithm in Section 4 suggests that the same
> <ELI,EL> tuple been used multiple times whereas it may be advantageous to
> generalize and point that the different entropy label value may be used by
> referring to the tuple as <ELI, ELn>
>

Sri> We had shown that ELs may be different in the example in an earlier
version of the draft. Instead of referring to ELn, I would suggest that a
second sentence be added in the third para in sec 4 as follows "The ELs
among multiple <ELI, EL> pairs inserted in the stack may be same or
different".


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> Regards,
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>         Greg
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Thanks
Sri


> *From:* mpls [mailto:[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of *George Swallow
> *Sent:* Monday, April 25, 2016 10:57 AM
> *To:* Stewart Bryant
> *Cc:* [e-mail]; [e-mail];
> [e-mail]
> *Subject:* Re: [mpls] working group last call on
> draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label
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> Stewart -
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> On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Stewart Bryant <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
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> I support this becoming a WG doc and thereby comming under WG
> control.
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> The document is a WG doc.   We are now in WG last call.
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> However I am not sure about the dismissal of the option to reuse
> the ELI+EL. This clutters the stack less than the proposed option.
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> Also I wonder why this is standards track?
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> A reasonable question, particularly since there are no MUSTs, SHALLs or
> REQUIREDs.  Will discuss with my Co-Chairs and ADs.
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> Surely any equipment that understands the ELI can do this and thus this is
> just an informal description of the problem and a solution.
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> Stewart
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> On 23/04/2016 08:53, Loa Andersson wrote:
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> Working Group,
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> This is to initiate a two week working group last call on
> draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label.
>
> Please send your comments to the mpls wg mailing list ([e-mail]).
>
> There are no IPR disclosures against this document.
>
> All the authors and contributors (with one exception) have stated on
> the working group mailing list that they are not aware of any other
> IPRs that relates to this draft.
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> This working group last call ends May 12, 2016.
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> /Loa
> for the MPLS wg chairs
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