RE: WG Consensus Call: draft-swallow-gmpls-overlay-00.txt

[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

Hi Hamid,

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Hamid Ould-Brahim wrote:

> It seems there are two components in this discussion:
>
> a) Progress a draft that describes from procedure point of view
>    how GMPLS protocols as defined in ietf can be used to build
>    an overlay model, and by the same token correct a misperception
>    that GMPLS can only be used for a peer model.
>
> b) The relationship of the overlay draft to the OIF-UNI
>    spec.

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> I think b) should not stop a) from progressing since it is
> natural to describe how GMPlS protocols can be used to provide
> an overlay deployment scenario regardless of OIF-UNI discussions
> (this doesn't mean b) should not be discussed...).

Excellent summary.

Kireeti.