RE: Accepting OAM Configuration I-Ds

["Attila Takacs" <Attila.Takacs@ericsson.com>]

Hi Adrian,

> We see reasonable consensus for adoption, but are aware that 
> several people expressed a concern that this work would 
> deprecate LSP Ping as a bootstrap mechanism for OAM in 
> certain environments.
> 
> We believe that it is not the authors' intention to deprecate 
> the use of LSP Ping in this way, and that it would not be 
> wise to make such a change.
> 

Agreed.

> Therefore, we accept these two I-Ds as working group drafts, 
> but request the authors to add to 
> draft-takacs-ccamp-oam-configuration-fwk-01.txt to say:
> 
> The mechansim described in this document provides an 
> additional option for bootstrapping OAM that is not intended 
> to replace or deprecate the use of other OAM bootstrapping 
> techniques such as LSP Ping [RFC4379]. The procedures 
> specified in this document are intended only for use in 
> environments where RSVP-TE signaling is already in use to set 
> up the LSPs that are to be monitored using OAM.
> 

Will add the note and resubmit.

Thanks and best regards,
Attila




> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org 
> [mailto:owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Farrel
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 11:32 AM
> To: ccamp@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Accepting OAM Configuration I-Ds
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Deborah and I have listened to the discussion about accepting 
> the two OAM configuration I-Ds 
> (draft-takacs-ccamp-oam-configuration-fwk-01.txt and
> draft-takacs-ccamp-rsvp-te-eth-oam-ext-03.txt) as working 
> group drafts.
> 
> We see reasonable consensus for adoption, but are aware that 
> several people expressed a concern that this work would 
> deprecate LSP Ping as a bootstrap mechanism for OAM in 
> certain environments.
> 
> We believe that it is not the authors' intention to deprecate 
> the use of LSP Ping in this way, and that it would not be 
> wise to make such a change.
> 
> Therefore, we accept these two I-Ds as working group drafts, 
> but request the authors to add to 
> draft-takacs-ccamp-oam-configuration-fwk-01.txt to say:
> 
> The mechansim described in this document provides an 
> additional option for bootstrapping OAM that is not intended 
> to replace or deprecate the use of other OAM bootstrapping 
> techniques such as LSP Ping [RFC4379]. The procedures 
> specified in this document are intended only for use in 
> environments where RSVP-TE signaling is already in use to set 
> up the LSPs that are to be monitored using OAM.
> 
> 
> We believe that this text goes some way to address the 
> concerns raised and we note that the draft will be the 
> property of the working group allowing additional changes to 
> be made according to working group consensus.
> 
> 
> Authors, please make the textual change and submit
> 
> draft-takacs-ccamp-oam-configuration-fwk-01.txt
> as
> draft-ietf-ccamp-oam-configuration-fwk-00.txt
> 
> and
> draft-takacs-ccamp-rsvp-te-eth-oam-ext-03.txt
> as
> draft-ietf-ccamp-rsvp-te-eth-oam-ext-00.txt
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Adrian and Deborah 
> 
> 
>