Re: [RTG-DIR] defining signaling parameters for GMPLS

[Lou Berger <[e-mail]>]

Tom,

Good catch!

I'll talk this over with the various co chairs and come back with a 
suggestion on how to reconcile the LSR and TEAS drafts.

Lou

(TEAS Co-chair)

On 1/2/2019 5:20 AM, tom petch wrote:
> The TEAS WG is producing a te-types I-D which contains definitions, in
> YANG form, for many of the signaling parameters used by GMPLS.
>
> Meanwhile, the LSR WG has a need to defind the signaling parameters used
> for TE and so has created its own definitions thereof.
>
> There is an expired I2RS I-D with similar definitions.
>
> Perhaps, in future, the MPLS or CCAMP WG will also find a need to define
> these parameters and create their own definitions.
>
> Meanwhile, these parameters have, for over 15 years, been registered
> with IANA.
>
> Defining things good, defining things in standards multiple times, not
> so good.
>
> I think there is a need for these parameters, some, although perhaps not
> all, of
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/gmpls-sig-parameters/gmpls-sig-parameter
> s.xhtml#gmpls-sig-parameters-3
>
> to be turned into a YANG module for all WG to use.  Such an exercise has
> been successfully carried out by the NETMOD WG for interface definitions
> (RFC7224).
>
> Tom Petch
>