Hi Kireeti, (Responding on-list for completeness - and a reminder to myself.)
On 23 Jul 2014, at 12:54, Kireeti Kompella <kire...@juniper.net> wrote: >> - I feel that it would be useful to provide some clarification as to where we >> expect entropy to be required for load-sharing in the draft. > > There are three questions hiding here: > 1) is ECMP needed with MPLS SPRING (in particular, Adj-SID)? > Valid question, as ECMP wasn't seen at first as necessary with RSVP-TE, which > shares intent with Adj-SID. I'd say the answer is Yes. You give an example > of why; analogies from the multi path RSVP draft can also be used. > > 2) is EL the way to achieve ECMP with MPLS SPRING? > I sincerely hope so; having two mechanisms in MPLS to enable ECMP wouldn't be > ideal. But I won't rule out other ways. > > [Your point is taken: laying out (1) and (2) more clearly would help the > draft.] rjs> I agree with both points. Let me work to contribute some material to expand on the couple of points I raised following the meeting this week. > > 3) Given Yeses to (1) and (2), how? > That's the current focus of the draft. This part is for now an exploration. I > agree that at some point, we have to narrow the options down to a few > (ideally one). This would be an action for vendors, knowing their chips, and > providers, knowing their requirements to sit together and work it out. > > There is an aspect of the draft that hasn't come out, which is along the > lines of the MPLS forwarding draft, soon to be an RFC: what is the best way > in the future, given the requirements of SPRING and EL? I.e., if you built > new chips today, knowing what we know, which option would you choose? > Getting a sense of that would help the community to come to a common choice > for the future -- as someone mentioned, today's choices/compromises may end > up varying widely vendor-to-vendor. rjs> Agreed — if we can determine whether we think that the list of options is complete following the exercise of solving (1) and (2), then perhaps we can start to address these questions and try to conclude the discussions at the next meeting. Cheers, r. _______________________________________________ spring mailing list spring@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/spring
