Subject: Fw: PCE capabilities

From: "Igor Bryskin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:04:11 -0400

Sorry, I meant a PCC/PCE can select proper PCEs to perform path computation.

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From: "Igor Bryskin" <[email-masked]>
To: "JP Vasseur" <>; "Adrian Farrel" <>; <>
Cc: "Adrian Farrel" <[email-masked]>; "Dimitri Papadimitriou"
<[email-masked]>; <>
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 4:00 PM
Subject: PCE capabilities

> Hi,
>
> I wonder if it would be a good idea for a PCE to advertise among other
> things the list of areaIDs/ AS numbers that it covers. Then a PCE can
select
> proper PCE(s) to work with, provided that it can identify (with the help
of
> routing) the area/AS of the path computation target. To go a step further
a
> PCE may separate areas/ASs that it covers directly (because it is within
> their TE visibility) from those covered indirectly (because it learned
about
> other PCEs taking care of such areas/ASs).
>
> Igor
>