Re: Transport Directorate review of: draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-mcast-14

2013-09-26 Thread Yakov Rekhter
David, Yakov, How about if I'll add the following at the end of 5.5: Aggregation procedures would require two labels stack. This does not introduce any new implications on MTU, as even VPLS multicast supported by ingress replication requires two labels stack. Sure,

Re: Transport Directorate review of: draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-mcast-14

2013-09-25 Thread Yakov Rekhter
RFC4761 or RFC4762 describe any of such countermeasures. Yakov. -Original Message- From: Yakov Rekhter [mailto:ya...@juniper.net] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 10:27 AM To: Black, David Cc: tsv-...@ietf.org; raggarw...@yahoo.com; y.kam...@ntt.com; luf...@cisco.com; ya

Re: Transport Directorate review of: draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-mcast-14

2013-09-24 Thread Yakov Rekhter
David, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their information and to allow them to address any

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-bgp (BGP Encodings andProcedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs) to Proposed Standard

2009-11-09 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Jie, Hi, Here are some comments on this draft. (hope this is not too late:) see in-line... 1. 4-octets ASN support The IANA Consideration section says the Source AS extended community is 2-octet AS specific. Consider that 4-octet ASN is supported in other sections of this draft, a

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-bgp-07

2009-09-29 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Spencer, I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document:

Re: When to DISCUSS?

2005-07-11 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Scott, On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 03:42:14PM +0200, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote: Phill, Just picking out the nub of your message: There is however one area that should be made very explicit as a non issue for DISCUSS, failure to employ a specific technology platform. I have

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Ned, To state that somewhat differently, since we cannot effectively prohibit the deployment of an extension or option of which the IETF disapproves, the best things we can do for the Internet are make it as easy as possible to identify the use of the extension so it can be effectively

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-06 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Jefsey, On 19:22 05/05/2005, Joe Touch said: The set of people disagreeing with ADs include both technically astute people and egocentric fools. Ditto for the ADs themselves. Has this a real importance? The control is by IETF as a whole, _if_ rough consensus is the rule. What is

Re: improving WG operation

2005-05-06 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Keith, - The working group gets to pick at least some of its own chairs. Sorry, but I do not think the last bullet is correct. I was talking about community expectation, which is not always consistent with what is written in the RFCs just like implementations of networking

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-02 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Keith, The case John outlines is the one I am concerned about as well. [...] And, FWIW, when the AD suggests specific text changes, it's often enough the desire of that AD rather than based on feedback from some other WG. I don't see anything wrong with that. It's the ADs' job to

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-02 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Keith, It's as likely to boil down to how do we get this WG to realize that there really is a serious technical problem with what they've created? How about requiring to produce working code (and perhaps operational experience) ? working code is valuable in some cases -

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-02 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Keith, I don't see anything wrong with that. It's the ADs' job to push back on documents with technical flaws. They're supposed to use their judgments as technical experts, not just be conduits of information supplied by others. I disagree that the ADs are necessarily that much

Re: improving WG operation

2005-05-02 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Keith, [clipped...] 2. There is a considerable cultural inertia within IETF that largely dictates how working groups operate, and which is extremely difficult to change. For instance, community expectations include: - If there is a BOF held and sufficient constituency

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-19 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Dave, Brian, Er, yes, I think it's known as collective responsibility in some circles. When it is used well, yes. When it is used to reflect the personal preferences of the AD -- no matter the history of the working group -- then it is known as something else, and it happens with

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-04 Thread Yakov Rekhter
John, In this context, my precise objection to what is going on now rests on a comparison with that style of leadership. Jon's style involved persuasion, logic, facts, and trying to understand the point of view of those with whom he disagreed. Like you, I disagreed with some of his

Re: Community Collaboration, versus Central Management

2004-03-15 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Dave, [clipped...] A critical danger in central management is an inherent fragility in decision-making. Real diversity is lost. This becomes even more serious, as the central management becomes more homogeneous and more isolated. On the subject of central management, quoting from the IESG

Re: The requirements cycle

2003-07-14 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Alex, Eric, Looking at this from the high-level perspective... Though I became the responsible AD for PPVPN just recently, I was exposed to certain aspects of interaction between ADs are PPVPN WG chairs. There was clearly a communication problem there. I believe it's been

Re: WG review: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (l2vpn)

2003-06-25 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Paul, Alternatively, we can own up that it is OUR problem, i.e., the IETF, and if we want a solution, we will create one here. If we decide that the problem is one in our realm, I fully agree. But transporting layer 2 stuff over IP is not a problem that affects the Internet. It is a

Re: WG review: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (l2vpn)

2003-06-25 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Paul, At 10:15 AM +0200 6/18/03, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: I can think of some possible reasons, not necessarily exclusive - this is a bad idea/impossible to do well, so we shouldn't do it - some other organization is already doing it, so we shouldn't - we're too stupid to get it

Re: WG review: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (l2vpn)

2003-06-25 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Paul, At 10:15 AM +0200 6/18/03, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: I can think of some possible reasons, not necessarily exclusive - this is a bad idea/impossible to do well, so we shouldn't do it - some other organization is already doing it, so we shouldn't - we're too stupid to get it

Re: WG review: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (l2vpn)

2003-06-25 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Melinda, Primarily, folks want to use it as in Ethernet-over-MPLS. That may not necessarily go down well with you either, but think of MPLS as a logical FR. I think we need to retain a focus on connectionless, packet-oriented delivery and how to build on that. What makes you think

Re: WG review: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (l2vpn)

2003-06-25 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Pekka, [clipped...] From your message, I can't tell which of those, or of any number of other possible objections, is the basis of your objection. BTW - all these things were already being worked on in PPVPN. Some were even described in the charter. Fair question, I probably

RE: WG review: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (l2vpn)

2003-06-25 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Randy, We're doing it is a statement of fact. However, we've been doing it for over two years. Pseudo-wire work has been ongoing for over 4 years. MPLS has been ongoing since 1996 or thereabouts. no disagreement. the question i am hearing is not why is this being done, but

Re: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informational

2003-01-24 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Bert, [clipped...] Two points: - the extensions to LDP were found to be in space that requires IETF Consensus, and so Scott and I asked for an IETF Last Call on the document. That is an explicit OPEN process Quoting from the e-mail you sent recently: If not enough people (and 10 is

Re: Last Call: Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Version 2 to Proposed Standard

2002-12-22 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Suresh, My recommendation against using this draft as the basis for building further TE-extensions to inter-area and mixed networks was in the context of OSPF Autonomous System (AS). I also mentioned the draft has scalability limitations in extending this to inter-area and mixed

Re: Last Call: Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Version 2 to Proposed Standard

2002-12-19 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Suresh, As for the comment from John Moy (circa July 2001) about the availability of an inter-area OSPF draft, I do recall responding that the inter-area draft was assuming additive properties to TE metrics to advertise summary info. It is a mistake to assume that all TE metrics

Re: Last Call: Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Version 2 to Proposed Standard

2002-12-19 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Suresh, Please look at draft-kompella-mpls-multiarea-te-03.txt, as at least some of the approaches described in that draft do *not* assume additive properties of TE metrics (and do not advertise summary info). Yakov. Yakov - You are right. The draft does talk about

Re: Last Call: Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Version 2 to Proposed Standard

2002-12-17 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Suresh, Rohit, My comments were made solely in reference to the draft-katz-yeung draft; not in comparison to any specific draft, as you might believe. As for the comment from John Moy (circa July 2001) about the availability of an inter-area OSPF draft, I do recall responding that the

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input

2002-12-04 Thread Yakov Rekhter
[clipped...] Discussions about the options: 1/ Move WGs (back) to permanent areas and close the area For: Each WG within SUB-IP definitely has a strong feature that maps it to a given permanent area [1]. The property that logically holds them together in SUB-IP now is the need

Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-05-09 Thread Yakov Rekhter
/~jnc/tech/addr_charging.txt It never turned into an RFC (shame, I thought it was a really well thought out draft), and I don't think it's anywhere else permanent. See http://www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/piara/index.html, by Paul, Yakov Rekhter, and myself. This paper was also

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-08 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Noel, From: Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] maybe this is what the market wants -- a multiple-protocol Internet, where tools for IPv4/IPv6 interoperation will be needed ... and valued. This relates to an approach that seems more fruitful, to me - let's try and figure out

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-04 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Perry, Jon Crowcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Having said that, I ask you: What do you foresee as a realistic IPv6 transition plan? Dual stacks? I don't see it happening, to tell you the truth. (Maybe this 6-in-4 stuff will actually help here.) well, how about we just start to

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-02 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Perry, Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, let's not focus on Bill's data. Frankly, I haven't seen any data on this topic from any source that really convinces me that it means much. All I know is that we have thousands of sites using private address space, which