Hi Stephane,

Please see in-line.

If you think we should add some text making my comments below more explicit, 
I’d be happy to do it.
Thank you.
Jorge

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Hi Authors,

I had a look on your draft and I have some concerns/questions that I would like 
to discuss.
I like the fact of being able to tune the pref DF election per VLAN range, 
however:

-          Don’t you think that using a local configuration may open to 
inconsistent configurations resulting in issues ?
[JORGE] We discussed quite a few times whether we should signal the vlan ranges 
for which you desire high_pref or low_pref. We ended up coming to the 
conclusion that it is better/simpler (and already supported) to define virtual 
ethernet segments for ranges of vlans and then have the default high_pref that 
is defined in the spec. That is less prone to errors. E.g. on a given port, 
define two ranges: vlan (1-2k) --> vES-1 and [(2k+1)-4k] -->vES-2. On a given 
PE, vES-1 and vES-2 have different pref values.


-          How does the high_or_low works if I have more than 2 links in the ES 
? (multihoming with 4 links with 4 levels of preference ?)
[JORGE] if you want 4 levels of preference so that each of the 4 PEs is DF for 
a range of vlans, the easiest way as discussed above is to define 4 vESes. The 
high_or_low is an easy way of having load balancing if you have only 2 PEs in 
the ES and you really want to define only one ES.

Thanks,

Stephane

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