Re: [Pals] Brian Haberman's No Objection on draft-ietf-pals-vccv-for-gal-05: (with COMMENT)

[Stewart Bryant <[e-mail]>]

On 14/09/2015 14:04, Brian Haberman wrote:
> Brian Haberman has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-pals-vccv-for-gal-05: No Objection
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> Is there a particular reason to request that the assigned MPLS VCCV CC
> Type be bit 3?
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This is carried in a  bit field - one bit per CC type so that the 
receiving PE can
determine the set of CC types that its peer can support. The three previous
types used bit 0, 1, 2. It was therefore tidy if this used bit 3.

Please see:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/pwe3-parameters/pwe3-parameters.xhtml#pwe3-parameters-11

and look for

MPLS VCCV Control Channel (CC) Types

- Stewart