Hi, Julien and Young, I fully agree on that we should try our best on reusing the existing object/TLVs. FYI, when we are working on GMPLS extensions from fixed-grid (WSON) to flexi-grid, we have some TLVs in parallel (switching types) for fixed/flexi-grid.
I assume this is exactly what we are doing in this draft, the split occurs when it is difficult to use existing TLV to represent the new features. In some cases, the meaning of flags/TLVs need to be changed to support different scenarios, so the similarity on object does not necessarily mean the equivalent on functionality. My 2 cents, Haomian -----邮件原件----- 发件人: Pce [mailto:[email protected]] 代表 Leeyoung 发送时间: 2017年7月20日 16:41 收件人: Julien Meuric; [email protected]; [email protected] 主题: Re: [Pce] My Comment on draft-lee-pce-flexible-grid Hi Julien, I agree. A New flag on the object header (WA Object, I assume that is what you are pointing to) where we have a flag to indicate if this is fixed (WSON) or flexi-grid is reasonable instead of creating a new object for a new Spectrum Assignment Object. TLVs require a bit different encoding due to the nature of additional parameters for flexi-grid. So strict re-use of WSON TLV may not be sufficient for some cases in flexi-grid. Best regards, Young -----Original Message----- From: Julien Meuric [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2017 10:28 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: My Comment on draft-lee-pce-flexible-grid Hi, The discussion during the meeting suggests that I need to clarify my comment about draft-lee-pce-flexible-grid. This I-D is very similar to draft-ietf-pce-wson-rwa-ext, which addresses the exact same problem over a slightly different WDM label space (running a side-by-side diff between them appears to be very practical). This new I-D requests the creation of one object and 3 TLVs, which are identical to the ones created in the WSON. As a result, I believe the latter should be reused as a starting popint. Covering the flexi-grid case may just need to allocate new flag in the object header to identify the WDM type we're dealing with, and document the flexi-grid-specific assumptions (if any). Thanks, Julien _______________________________________________ Pce mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pce _______________________________________________ Pce mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pce
