Re: [Pce] Comment on draft-ietf-pce-pcecp-interarea-reqs-00.txt

Hi, JP

Sorry for seeing your reply so late.
Thanks, see inline.

----- Original Message -----
From: JP Vasseur <jvasseur@cisco.com>
Date: Thursday, January 5, 2006 3:07 am
Subject: Re: [Pce] Comment on draft-ietf-pce-pcecp-interarea-reqs-00.txt

> Hi ,
> 
> On Dec 28, 2005, at 2:03 AM, Zhang Renhai wrote:
> 
> > Hi, Jean-Louis
> >
> >  I have some comment on the draft draft-ietf-pce-pcecp-interarea-
> 
> > reqs-00.txt
> >
> >  In section 7.11.1, In case of network failure, jittering will 
> be  
> > used to avoid
> > simultaneous requests sent to one PCE. Could more consideration 
> be  
> > given here to
> > the preemptment, becouse the jittering timeout is stochastic, 
> some  
> > lower request
> > may be served before a higher request and the path may be  
> > calculated differently.
> > which may increase the probability of a preemptment.
> >
> 
> The decision on the PCC request scheduling is out of the scope of  
> this ID. Note that the point that you mentioned also applies to 
> the  
> located-PCE case.
I am not sure what scope this point belongs to. I just considered more about what 
has been mentioned in the draft. 
Is this consideration important anough to be added somewhere?
> 
> >
> >  I have always been thinking a question: if a PCC will not 
> perform  
> > the CSPF
> > computation, why does it still maintain the TEDB any longer? 
> which  
> > may consume
> > a lot of memory and CPU of a LSR.This question dost not aid at 
> this  
> > draft.
> >
> 
> Because
> (1) The PCE may decide to use a remote PCE for some LSPs and not 
> for  
> others (for instance, inter versus intra-domain)
> (2) The PCE may decide to always use a PCE and fall back to local  
> path computation or loose hop routing under specific conditions
Agree, I just want to be convinced if some routers acting as a pure PCC
(no longer perform path computation)can save some CPU and memory so
there could be a lower requirement on capability to these routers
in PCE-based environment.Maybe this is a benefit to PCE Architecture.
> 
> >  In inter-area environment,sometimes, a PCC may wish to get as 
> many  
> > paths as possible,
> > for all kinds of purpose,so could the PCC send the request to 
> more  
> > than one PCEs?
> >
> 
> Yes, although this would clearly be very sub-optimal ....
I am not sure your point, could you please expand your explanation any more?
In my opinion, a ABR acting as a PCE usually can not have a full AS-scope information of TED.
so it may return a sub-optimal compuation result compared to some
latent path which can be returned by other ABR linked to a different
area. I know this can be solved by a ABR through sending the request to multiple
ABR in a area, otherwise, how to solve this problem?

Thanks,
Zhang

> 
> JP.
> 
> > Regards,
> > Zhang
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