Re: [mpls] Way two progress two mldp draft with an technical overlap

[Loa Andersson <[e-mail]>]

Yacov,

I can't see that this flies! In fact it is counter to the wg chair
proposal. We intended to keep the overlap as small as possible,
specify a function in the document that needs the function. We did
not intend to increase the overlap, but keep it as small as possible.

You have this already neatly specified in draft-rekhter- let it stay
there.

/Loa



On 2013-12-06 22:05, Yakov Rekhter wrote:
> Loa,
>
>> Working Group,
>>
>> It has been pointed out that there is overlap between
>> draft-wijnands-mpls-mldp-in-band-wildcard-encoding and
>> draft-rekhter-mpls-pim-sm-over-mldp.  Within the overlap
>> there is a critical piece of the protocol specification.
>> Having this specified in two places is likely to result
>> in non-interoperable implementations.
>>
>> The working group chairs have discussed the overlap and
>> propose the following as a means of moving forward.
>>
>> 1.  Issue a single poll to adopt both documents together as
>> working group documents
>>
>> 2.  Assuming that the drafts are adopted, complete
>> draft-wijnands-mpls-in-band-wildcard-encoding as the
>> normative protocol specification of the piece within the
>> overlap.
>>
>> 3.  Where mechanisms in draft-wijnanads are needed in
>> draft-rekhter-mpls-pim-sm-over-mldp have the latter document
>> reference the necessary sections of the former document.
>
> This would be fine with me, *provided* that
> draft-wijnands-mpls-in-band-wildcard-encoding will add the encoding
> of two new mLDP TLVs: Transit IPv4 Shared Tree TLV, and Transit
> IPv6 Shared Tree TLV, as these two TLVs are required by the mechanisms
> defined in draft-rekhter-mpls-pim-sm-over-mldp.
>
> Yakov.
>

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