[Time] MEP and maintenance domain boundary

Qin Wu <bill.wu@huawei.com> Mon, 30 June 2014 07:52 UTC

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From: Qin Wu <bill.wu@huawei.com>
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Hi, Greg:
Thanks for your review to problem statement draft.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ww-opsawg-multi-layer-oam-01
Section 4 gives an architecture overview of management plane OAM,
You comment on the following quoted sentence
"MEP is a maintenance functional entity that is implemented into
   network entity at the maintenance domain boundary
"

as "Not necessarily, e.g. MEP at Level < 7 in Ethernet Service OAM as CFM or Y.1731".

Are you saying MEP can be placed either at the maintenance domain boundary or within maintenance domain?

Would you like to clarify a little bit on this?

Regards!

-Qin