Re: [spring] [mpls] Special purpose labels in draft-hegde-spring-traffic-accounting-for-sr-paths

2017-11-21 Thread Zafar Ali (zali)
Hi Adrian, I could not agree more with Robert. Martin Horneffer, Stephane Litkowski and others have shared similar view from their operation experiences. Nailing down on minor details will just create additional rat-holes. Before jumping into solutions, what we need to do is to formally

[spring] I-D Action: draft-filsfils-spring-large-scale-interconnect-07.txt

2017-11-21 Thread internet-drafts
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Source Packet Routing in Networking WG of the IETF. Title : Interconnecting Millions Of Endpoints With Segment Routing Authors : Clarence Filsfils

Re: [spring] [mpls] Special purpose labels in draft-hegde-spring-traffic-accounting-for-sr-paths

2017-11-21 Thread Robert Raszuk
Hi Adrian, I am not going to defend beauty of any architecture. I think there is much bigger fundamental misunderstanding how in practice someone will use SR-MPLS and I think this is the root cause for this little thread and different perspectives of its participants. So SR-MPLS is not RSVP-TE

Re: [spring] [mpls] Special purpose labels in draft-hegde-spring-traffic-accounting-for-sr-paths

2017-11-21 Thread Adrian Farrel
Hi, I understand that you doubt that this thread will yield anything productive, but there are a couple of things you're raising that need to be nailed down. Probably the most important of these is the concern that you express that maintaining counters in the network goes against the beauty of