Cyril,

Thank you for the review and discussion, please see inline ###.

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 1:09 AM, Cyril Margaria <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My comments on the document are:
>
>
> 1)  The format goes in the good,direction, but is not yet fully aligned
> with rfc6780, is this planned for a future revision?
>

### Yes, as we discussed with Loa at the IETF, we are changing the format,
a new version of the document will be published next week.


> 2)  My concern is the following statements:
>
>    "For both
>    cases, the association is uniquely identified by the combination of
>    an association identifier and the address of the PCE peer that
>    created the association."
>
>    "Association Source: 4 or 16 bytes - An IPv4 or IPv6 address, which is
>    associated to the PCE peer that originated the association."
>
> Those statement are not aligned with the RSVP association is managed.
> The reason stated is that the association state is tied to that PCE.
>
> Is this related to the fact that about any PCC/PCE can create association on 
> a LSP?
>
> ### Same as above


> 3) Association control : the PCC and any PCE can create associations:
>  this diverge from the existing mechanism from the statefull document.
> In my opinion this aspect makes the control and state maintenance more
> complicated. The use cases behind this multiple-controller model is not
> very clear.
>
> If the association is under the control a single entity (PCC or PCE), as
> in the stateful document, the association state then become part of the PCE
> state and the rules described in the stateful document  applies (it up to
> the PCE who as delegation to set the association.
>
> This would also allow to get rid of the R bit, as mentioned by adrian (to
> remove an association: simply not send it)
>

### I disagree, the ability to have either create an association and
allocate an identifier was a key requirement (you may recall that version
00 only allowed the PCE to create such associations, and we received a lot
of feedback asking to lift this limitation).

>
> Which use cases will not be permitted by that mode of operation?
>
>
>
>
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