Re: [mpls] Seeking feedback on I-D "MPLS-TP Linear Protection Applicability to MS-PW"

[Alexander Vainshtein <[e-mail]>]

Dear Ma and all,
Adding the PWE3 WG to my response.

The PW redundancy mechanism supports linear protection of MS-PWs as one of many additional application use cases:
Appendix A of the PW redundancy Bit draft<http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pwe3-redundancy-bit/?include_text=1> describes 5 application uses cases in addition to MS-PW with single-homed CEs (which is listed there as use case 5).
And it is equally applicable to IP/MPLS and MPLS - with the help of  the Static PW Status Messages draft<http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pwe3-static-pw-status/?include_text=1>( if, for whatever reason, you do not want  to, or cannot, use RFC 4447<http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc4447/?include_text=1>).

Hence I doubt the need for yet another PW redundancy  mechanism with narrow scope of applicability.

Regards,
     Sasha

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Hi all,

The linear protection mechanism for LSP and PW(including MS-PW) should be the same and it is valuable to describe it clearly.

BTW, there is a typo, it is "T-PE Z" instead of "T-PE B".

 "
  Figure 1 illustrates such a scenario, where two MS-PWs are
  established between T-PE A and T-PE B, over S-PEs 1-2 and 3-4
  respectively. Each PW segment is established over an LSP (e.g. PW-
  s12 over LSP12).
 "

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Cohn
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:14 PM
To: mpls
Subject: Seeking feedback on I-D "MPLS-TP Linear Protection
Applicability to MS-PW"
Importance: High

Hi MPLSers,

I uploaded "MPLS-TP Linear Protection Applicability to MS-PW" I-D
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cohn-mpls-tp-pw-protection-00)

The abstract goes:

One of the requirements of the MPLS transport profile [RFC 5654] is
to provide linear protection for transport paths, which include both
LSPs and PWs. The functional architecture described in [SurvivFwk]
is applicable to both LSP and PWs, however [LinearProt] does not
explicitly describe mechanisms for PW protection in MPLS-TP.

This document extends the applicability of the linear protection
mechanism described in [LinearProt] to MPLS-TP segmented PWs
(MS-PWs) as defined in [RFC 6073].

Could you please review it and send feedback to the mailing list or
directly to the author?

Looking forward to your feedback,

Daniel


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