[bess] [Shepherding AD review] Pre-IETF Last-Call review of draft-ietf-bess-evpn-virtual-eth-segment-15

2024-06-07 Thread Gunter van de Velde (Nokia)
Hi Authors, The review includes several questions and observations that arose during a thorough examination of the document. Please find my review notes below. Before proceeding further requesting an IETF Last-Call and consequently with the IESG, I would appreciate it if you could consider my

[bess] Re: FW: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09.txt

2024-06-07 Thread Greg Mirsky
Hi Menachem, Thank you for a great explanation of the risk of not using the Control Word to transport non-IP payloads over the MPLS network. Although very reasonable, the processing you described might be one possible implementation of selecting the load-balancing mechanism. But, if I understand it

[bess] Re: FW: I-D Action: draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-09.txt

2024-06-07 Thread Greg Mirsky
Hi Ali, thank you for your response. I have to admit that I still cannot find the relationship between the label distribution protocol and topology of an LSP, on the one hand, and the load-balancing mechanism of a P node in the MPLS data plane. To the best of my understanding, draft-ietf-mpls-1stni