Re: [Pce] [mpls] Comments on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label

2018-07-06 Thread stephane.litkowski
[Xiaohu] Yes there is no need for them to advertise the ELC. However, there is a need for them to advertise the capability of reading the maximum label stack depth and performing EL-based load-balancing, if I understood it correctly. IMHO, it seems better that the ELC and the ERLD are defined

Re: [Pce] [mpls] Comments on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label

2018-07-05 Thread Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)
Hi Xiaohu, The IGP drafts define MSD as a framework that enable advertisements for various type of SID limits – starting with the Base MSD Type – 1. You are referring to this generic construct of MSD in the text you quote below. It is, however, the Base MSD (type 1) which is aligned with the

Re: [Pce] [mpls] Comments on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label

2018-07-05 Thread 徐小虎(义先)
Hi Jeff, Thanks for your clarification. IMHO, no matter the MSD information is provided by whatever protocol, the semantics of the MSD itself should be unified in the IETF community. Otherwise, it would introduce unnecessary confusion to implementors and operators. It said in the OSPF-MSD

Re: [Pce] [mpls] Comments on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label

2018-07-05 Thread Jeff Tantsura
Hi, Please see inline (MSD section). Hope this clarifies, thanks! Cheers, Jeff [jeff] both IGP drafts have identical description of the BMI-MSD: “Base MPLS Imposition MSD (BMI-MSD) signals the total number of MPLS labels a node is capable of imposing, including all

Re: [Pce] [mpls] Comments on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label

2018-07-05 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, Thanks for your comment. Pls find some inline replies Brgds, Stephane From: mpls [mailto:mpls-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of ???(??) Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 05:34 To: m...@ietf.org Cc: l...@ietf.org; pce@ietf.org Subject: [mpls] Comments on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label Hi