Re: [Pce] Éric Vyncke's No Objection on draft-ietf-pce-stateful-path-protection-10: (with COMMENT)

[Dhruv Dhody <[e-mail]>]

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your comments.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 2:39 AM Éric Vyncke via Datatracker
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> draft-ietf-pce-stateful-path-protection-10: No Objection
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> Thank you for the work put into this document. I am trusting the routing AD for
> their deep understanding of this document and their approval.
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> Nevertheless, I have 2 COMMENTs which are mere questions of mine.
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> Regards,
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> -éric
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> == COMMENTS ==
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> -- Section 3.2 --
> C.1) Any reason to have a field named "unassigned flags" rather than
> "reserved"? After all, those bits could be used later for something different
> than flags. Also applicable to section 6.2.
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The encoding is to make the full 32 bits as a flag field called "Path
Protection Association Flags (32 bits)" with IANA registry for all 32
bits. RFC 4872 also considers "PT" as flags - "LSP (Protection Type)
Flags". We expect only flags (or fields represented as flags) in this
TLV in future. In case some other data needs to be encoded we expect
another TLV to be defined for it.

> C.2) is there any reason the "P", "S" and "PT" are described right to left ?
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I guess because of the order of importance, we could check with RFC
editor later in case they have a concern.

Thanks!
Dhruv