[mpls] question to the authors of draft-fang-mpls-label-forwarding-no-swap

Loa Andersson <loa@pi.nu> Sat, 25 July 2015 08:05 UTC

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Subject: [mpls] question to the authors of draft-fang-mpls-label-forwarding-no-swap
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Authors,

In the discussion on the mailing list it has been alleged that the
no-swap operation proposed in the draft will not decrement the TTL
and not look at the TC field, is that the intent of the authors?

/Loa
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