Re: [Teas] WG Last Call on draft-ietf-teas-gmpls-scsi

["Adrian Farrel" <[e-mail]>]

> I like the way you cut threads, let me see if I can be as efficient as you've 
[snip ;-]

> > > > Will you not pre-populate the registry with the TLVs from one of
> > > > 7138 and 7688?
> [snip]
> > Makes me wonder whether there are any switching types left to make use of
> > this document :-Z
> 
> Yours is a good point (even if I'm confident new wonderful switching types will
> pop up between now and my retirement). I would like to get this document done
> without any allocation so that value 1 can be allocated for the Availability TLV.
> In order to have other existing switching types use this TLV (and be backward
> compatible) we need duplicate the switching types for which we want to allow it.
> If this makes sense and someone is interested in doing it we can welcome new
> contributions.

How about talking with the authors of draft-ietf-ccamp-flexible-grid-ospf-ext and the CCAMP/TEAS WG chairs, and the AD?

I don't think there is great urgency to that I-D and it could possibly be pulled back to use the generic TLV space instead of creating its own.

You'd have to act fast and would need the AD to pull on the brake lever.

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