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RE: Solicit the comments on LMP Data Channel Status I-D



We in BT would also agree with you Julien...a CP is useful (noting that
signalling and routing functions don't have to be lumped together) but
the MP is always essential.

regards, Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of MEURIC Julien 
> RD-CORE-LAN
> Sent: 04 April 2007 09:45
> To: Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel-lucent.be; Diego Caviglia (GA/ERI)
> Cc: ccamp@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: RE: Solicit the comments on LMP Data Channel Status I-D
> 
> 
> Hi Dimitri.
> 
> I must disagree with you. Let us get out of the pure CCAMP 
> context to come to the real world.
> 
> In transmission networks, we will see both control and 
> management planes being used together for a long time. In 
> transmission networks, operators are used to making manual 
> operations even if equipments are control plane-enabled: 
> programmed work, configuration of legacy rings where control 
> plane does not exist, maintenance... More generally, one 
> could always find some specific operational cases which need 
> human intervention but which does not justify the development 
> of a specific control plane feature. You may try to solve 
> this problem by saying this pool of resource is "purely" 
> (provided  this means something in terms of operations) 
> handled by the control plane and that other pool is not seen; 
> however, besides the fact that that kind of partitionning 
> would still be configured manually with possible mistakes, 
> you would have major drawbacks in terms of operations and 
> resource optimization.
> 
> What is proposed in the ID is just a mechanism relying on a 
> control plane protocol to detect *data plane* discrepencies 
> which may occur because of the cross-connection nature of the 
> circuit-switched world and of the manual operations you will 
> never completely get rid of.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Julien
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of 
> Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel-lucent.be
> 
> hi diego
> 
> not sure to understand, an automated control plane (at the 
> end the purpose 
> of this WG) is used to control XC, and other related resource 
> reservations
> 
> now you state that there could be manual operations that 
> fails ??? i think 
> this simply falls outside the scope of the WG, on the other 
> hand if some 
> TS are unproper for cross-connection i assume the CP does not 
> even take 
> them into account, as label are downstream assigned where is 
> the issue ?
> 
> thanks,
> - d.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Diego Caviglia \(GA/ERI\)" <diego.caviglia@ericsson.com>
> 
> Hi Dimitri,
>            there can an HW problem with the unit and some of 
> its TS are 
> not good or for some reason that TS have been cross-connected 
> by NMS for 
> error or may for testing at commissioning of the TNE and due to human 
> error have not been deleted and so on....
> 
> BR
> 
> Diego
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel-lucent.be 
> [mailto:Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel-lucent.be] 
> 
> diego
> 
> > I think that the reason wht timeslot 2 is not usable is out of the 
> > scope of the ID.
> 
> but this is kernel of the problem, the origin tells where the 
> solution shall be targeted 
> 
> the i-d refers to the deletion case (2.2), fine but there is cleanup 
> timeout interval to free resources in rsvp
> 
> thanks,
> -d.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Diego Caviglia \(GA/ERI\)" <diego.caviglia@ericsson.com>
> 
> This was bounced.
>  
> D
>  
> 
> > Hi Dimitri,
> >            my understunding of the ID was that it tries to 
> > 'synchronize' the status of the timeslots that are facing the same 
> > link.
> >
> > Otherwise downstream NE can choose a timeslot that is not 
> good for the 
> > upstream node
> >
> >
> > NE-A                          NE-B
> > Timeslots                     Timeslots
> > 1-OK                          1-OK
> > 2-OK                          2-KO
> > 3-OK                          3-OK
> > 4-OK                          4-OK
> >
> > So NE-A can choose Timeslot 2 because it see it good while 
> is not good
> in
> > NE-B.  I think that the reason wht timeslot 2 is not usable 
> is out of
> the
> > scope of the ID.
> >
> > BR
> >
> > Diego
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel-lucent.be on 03/04/2007 11.57.12
> >
> > diego & dan
> >
> > "Since the error condition can arise from a variety of situations 
> > (including control plane failure and restart, management plane 
> > intervention,
> attempt
> > to clean up a partitioned control plane, etc.) we believe that it 
> > would
> be
> > useful to have optional extensions to LMP to detect and report the 
> > problem. Resolution of the problem remains an issue for the 
> management 
> > plane."
> >
> > we have three classes of "errors" those outside scope of 
> the CP, those 
> > resulting from CP operations 
> (bug-fixing/mis-use/mis-config/etc.) and 
> > then those that are strictly specific to the LMP and operations
> >
> > only the latter shall be in-scope - all these circular 
> dependencies we 
> > are introducing in this control plane are just breaking one of the 
> > main design principle of networks
> >
> > -> which are the remaining "situations" ?
> >
> > thanks,
> > -d.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Diego Caviglia" <Diego.Caviglia@marconi.com>
> > 03/04/2007 11:35
> >
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >        as stated in Prague I think that the ID addresses a real 
> > problem.
> >
> > BR
> >
> > Diego
> >
> >
> >
> > Dan Li <danli@huawei.com> on 03/04/2007 10.47.58
> >
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In Prague we saw three optical vendors stating that this 
> I-D addresses 
> > a real problem that they see in deployed networks. We also saw one
> operator
> > expressing interest in the work.
> >
> > To summarise the problem that we are addressing:
> >
> > Under some circumstances the opposite ends of data links 
> may get into 
> > mismatched states. For example, one end of the data link may be
> allocated
> > and cross-connected, while the other end is available for use. This 
> > represents an error condition.
> >
> > The problem is particularly bad when the data link is a 
> component link
> of
> > a
> >
> > bundle, because the problem cannot be detected from the TE
> advertisements.
> > Further, existing LMP mechanisms do not allow us to discover the
> problem.
> >
> > If left undetected and unresolved, the situation may lead 
> to LSP setup 
> > failures or to misconnection of LSPs.
> >
> > Since the error condition can arise from a variety of situations 
> > (including
> >
> > control plane failure and restart, management plane intervention,
> attempt
> > to
> > clean up a partitioned control plane, etc.) we believe that 
> it would 
> > be useful to have optional extensions to LMP to detect and 
> report the 
> > problem.
> >
> > Resolution of the problem remains an issue for the management plane.
> >
> > We would like to hear from people who believe that this is 
> or is not a 
> > real
> >
> > problem in the network so that we can judge whether to ask 
> the chairs 
> > to make this a WG draft. Best regards,
> >
> >
> > Dan Li
> >
> > Advanced Technology Department
> > Wireline Networking Business Unit
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