Re: [Time] MEP and maintenance domain boundary

Yuji Tochio <tochio@jp.fujitsu.com> Wed, 02 July 2014 00:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Time] MEP and maintenance domain boundary
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Hi Qin,

(2014/07/01 20:42), Qin Wu wrote:
>
> Regarding RFC6371, why the IETF insisted on using only
> one maintenance level (MEL) per maintenance entity (ME) in MPLS-TP OAM?
>
> Why multiple MELs per ME is not allowed? Do we need to relax this restriction defined by RFC6371?
>
> If I uses both Ethernet OAM and IP OAM in the same maintenance entity, do I need to allow two MELs per ME?
>
> Or the layer the OAM is applied has nothing to do with MEL?
>
>

The reason of single MEL per ME (LSP) can be found in RFC 5317 and RFC 5860.
The slidew 33 - 38 as attached to RFC 5317 will help you.
Note that MEL is considered for Ethernet OAM but not for MPLS(-TP).

And I recommend you should read draft-ietf-mpls-tp-temporal-hitless-psm for your concern.

Regards, Yuji