On 20/03/2020 11:59, Alvaro Retana wrote:
On March 20, 2020 at 6:22:38 AM, Peter Psenak wrote:


...
Besides the in-line comments, I want to point out here that this
specification is incomplete. It needs to have (1) a formal description of
the new MSD-Type (similar to §5/rfc8491), and (2) a discussion of the
interaction with the BMI-MSD.

sorry, I missed it.

Entropy Readable Label Depth is defined in rfc8662.

I have modified the text as foolows:

"A new MSD-type [RFC8491], called ERLD-MSD is defined to
advertise the ERLD [RFC8662] of a given router. A MSD-Type code 2
has been assigned by IANA for EARLD-MSD."

Would that be good enough?

Not quite.  According to rfc8662, when a new MSD is defined, the
document MUST indicate the meaning of the absence of the MSD
advertisement.  For example, it says this about the BMI-MSD: "The
absence of BMI-MSD advertisements indicates only that the advertising
node does not support advertisement of this capability."

ok, I  will add that.



Also, I need you to talk about the interaction between ERLD-MSD and
BMI-MSD.  If both are present, what should happen?  Should one take
precedence, should both be ignored, can they coexist without issues???

how are BMI-MSD and EARLD-MSD related?

BMI-MSD signals the total number of MPLS labels that can be imposed.

EARLD-MSD - is defined as the number of labels a router can both:

   a.  Read in an MPLS packet received on its incoming interface(s)
       (starting from the top of the stack).

   b.  Use in its load-balancing function.

I don't really see why one would affect the other.

thanks,
Peter



Thanks!

Alvaro.



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