Once upon a time, in a working group far, far away, PCE was basically stateless. PCE acted in response to questions asked by PCCs.
These days, everyone is excited by stateful PCEs and there is a lot of initiation (of LSPs or of control of LSPs). In the jabber room during today's meeting Ravi noted that not a lot of the new drafts (maybe none of them) talk about PCReq messages. This raises the question in our minds as to whether stateless PCE is obsolete. If (and only if) this mode of PCE usage has gone out of fashion, we *might* consider cleaning up the protocol and architecture so that we don't need to make protocol extensions to PCReq and PCRep messages when we make extensions to PCInit messages. Thoughts? Adrian _______________________________________________ Pce mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pce
