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[mpls] Question on avoiding TLVs

Loa Andersson <loa@pi.nu> Mon, 31 January 2022 11:27 UTC

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Haoyu,

In the slides you uploaded to the "We should try the best to avoid TLV 
style and variable sized header".

MPLS is full of TLVs (LDP, RSVP/TE, LSP Ping, the OAM) are you 
suggesting we'd change this?

Given your advice above what should we do?

/Loa
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