Re: Two questions on draft-dimitri-ccamp-gmpls-ason-routing-ospf draft

[Igor Bryskin <i_bryskin@yahoo.com>]

Dimitri, no, it does not help.

You didn't answer the first question, which is:

Is the LinkID is the same as Remote TE Router ID? If no, what is the difference? If yes, why do you need the latter? Both your pointers explain why do you need advertising of the local TE Router ID (advertising router may cover multiple data plane nodes), However, LinkID unambiguosly identifies remote data plane node, and the need for the advertising of Remote TE Router ID is not obvious

BTW, You didn't answer the second question either.

Igor

PS, I have a suggestion for the working group: Let us disallow responding to the comments/questions by just pointing to RFCs or drafts. In my view it is quite unfriendly. It is always possible to cut and paste a piece from the relevant RFC or draft confirming the points the writer is trying to make.

Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel-lucent.be wrote:

igor


pls use version (or 03
when available to make comments)

in that version you will see in Section 5.2

" Note: The Link ID sub-TLV that identifies the other end of the link
(i.e. Router ID of the neighbor for point-to-point links) MUST
appear exactly once per Link TLV. This sub-TLV MUST be processed as
defined in [RFC3630]. "

now why this sub-TLV 17, well for the reason explained at the beginning of
par.5.2
but also in RFC 4652 Section 5.7

hope this helps,
-d.




Igor Bryskin
08/03/2007 22:11

To: Dimitri PAPADIMITRIOU/BE/ALCATEL@ALCATEL
cc: ccamp@ops.ietf.org, "Brungard, Deborah A, ALABS"

Subject: Two questions on
draft-dimitri-ccamp-gmpls-ason-routing-ospf draft


Dimitri,
I have a couple questions wrt the
draft-dimitri-ccamp-gmpls-ason-routing-ospf draft.
In 5.2 a TE Link sub-TLV is introduced for the purpose of advertising
local and remote TE Router ID:

0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| 17 | Length |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Local TE Router Identifier |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Remote TE Router Identifier |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Although I do understand why there is a need for advertising the Local TE
Router ID, I donâ??t understand why the Remote Te Router ID? Isnâ??t this is
the same
information
that is carried in the Link ID sub-TLV?
In 6. you write:

â??A RA may contain smaller RAs inter-connected by links.
The limit of the subdivision results in
a RA that contains two sub-networks interconnected by a single link.â??

In G.8080 I read:
â??.... A routing area is defined by a set of subnetworks, the SNPP links
that interconnect them, and the SNPPs representing the ends of the SNPP
links exiting that routing area. A routing area may contain smaller
routing areas interconnected by SNPP links. The limit of subdivision
results in a routing area that contains ]one subnetwork.â??

Why is the discrepancy?

Thanks,
Igor


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