[Pce] Re: Gorry Fairhurst's No Objection on draft-ietf-pce-multipath-26: (with COMMENT)

[Gorry Fairhurst <[e-mail]>]

On 09/06/2026 08:59, Samuel Sidor (ssidor) wrote:
> Hi Gorry,
>
> Please check v27.
>
> Added clarification into section 9.6, but in general this is not 
> something PCEP specific and should be considered as out of scope as 
> ECMP/W-ECMP is generic concept.
>
> Regards,
> Samuel
>
Thanks.

Gorry

> *From: *Gorry Fairhurst via Datatracker <[e-mail]>
> *Date: *Monday, 8 June 2026 at 14:34
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> *Subject: *Gorry Fairhurst's No Objection on 
> draft-ietf-pce-multipath-26: (with COMMENT)
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> Gorry Fairhurst has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-pce-multipath-26: No Objection
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> I read Section 2.2: Is "Splitting of Requested Bandwidth" as an 
> example, but I
> didn't see any text saying so.
>
> When I read "Paths within a single LSP may have significantly different
> properties, such as MTU, latency, and available bandwidth." I think 
> this is
> true, but it does not lend weight to the problems this can follow any 
> change of
> path that changes the path characteristics, and in particular frequent 
> changes
> are disruptive - I'd expected this document to caution against frequent
> re-mapping of the forwarding plane. e.g., although PMTUD/DPLPMTUD 
> could help
> for instance when there is a change of the effective PMTU, it is not 
> without
> impact on the application/user; there is also impact on the congestion 
> control,
> etc.
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