Hi Spencer,

This document is on how a PCE utilizes the IGP information of RFC7471 (OSPF) 
and RFC7810 (ISIS). Both documents use the term “current” in their definitions. 
And also use “actual”. For this document, we don’t want to re-invent 
terms/definitions for already defined IGP information.

Now I need to get to my “current” lunch before it’s not current☺
(Thanks for all the interest!)
Deborah


From: Spencer Dawkins at IETF [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 11:43 AM
To: BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A <[email protected]>
Cc: Dhruv Dhody <[email protected]>; Mirja Kuehlewind 
<[email protected]>; The IESG <[email protected]>; Dhruv Dhody 
<[email protected]>; [email protected]; 
[email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Pce] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on 
draft-ietf-pce-pcep-service-aware-12: (with COMMENT)

Hi, Deborah/Dhruv,

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 9:03 AM, BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Mirja,

Yes, thanks Mirja for you detailed review.

As Dhruv noted, this is not representing an average utilization, but the 
current bandwidth utilization. As Dhruv noted, we could swap this sentence in 
the Abstract for the term later used in section 4.2.2 "actual". For me, though, 
current bandwidth utilization is a common (simple) term used often by 
operational folks, and it has a time element clarification. The document has 
been reviewed quite extensively by others, so I'm not convinced about the need 
to change this sentence of the Abstract. We'll discuss it more among the Chairs 
and authors.

Mirja may be having a post-telechat beer, and this is for her ballot position, 
but I'm thinking that "time element clarification" is key here. If "current 
bandwidth utilization" is measured on a scale of minutes or larger, it usually 
doesn't freak out TSV folk, but if it's measured on a scale of single-digit 
seconds or smaller, it usually does.

At least, it freaks me out. I spent most of the time I was responsible AD for 
one particular working group talking to them about how frequently they should 
be adjusting cost maps based on bandwidth utilization and other, basically 
instantaneous, transport metrics. The more frequently people make adjustments, 
the more likely you are to see oscillation between paths that you don't really 
want to see. For a distributed system, you're always basing decisions on 
something in the past that may have changed since you found out about it.

I'll let Mirja take it from here on resolving her comment (because she might be 
talking about something completely different), but wanted to chime in, so that 
her comment doesn't become my comment, too.

Thanks,

Spencer
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