[RTG-DIR] RtgDir review: draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-ethernet-pbb-te

[John E Drake <[e-mail]>]

Hello,

I have been selected as the Routing Directorate reviewer for this draft. The Routing Directorate seeks to review all routing or routing-related drafts as they pass through IETF last call and IESG review. The purpose of the review is to provide assistance to the Routing ADs. For more information about the Routing Directorate, please see http://www.ietf.org/iesg/directorate/routing.html

Although these comments are primarily for the use of the Routing ADs, it would be helpful if you could consider them along with any other IETF Last Call comments that you receive, and strive to resolve them through discussion or by updating the draft.

Document: draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-ethernet-pbb-te
Reviewer: John Drake 
Review Date: 01 September 2010 
IETF LC End Date: 01 September 2010 
Intended Status: Proposed Standard

Summary: 
The document is well written but suffers from an over-abundance of unnecessary detail.

Comments: 
This document could be made more understandable by removing the material in section 2.1 and 3 describing the internal structure of a Backbone Edge Bridge.  Most of it is irrelevant to the operation of the GMPLS control plane and the description of internal components, particularly those that are not externally visible, is not typically useful.

Examples describing how ESP-VID and ESP-MAC DA are obtained would also be helpful.