Subject: Re: [Pce] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce-18: (with COMMENT)

From: Jonathan Hardwick <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:00:04 +0000

Hi Mirja

Many thanks for your comment.  I'm picking up this thread and replying as PCE working group chair, as the authors are unavailable.  I apologise for the delay.

It is possible for a PCC or a stateful PCE not to support updates and still to advertise the STATEFUL-PCE-CAPABILITY TLV.  This scenario is called a "passive stateful PCE".  A passive stateful PCE does not update LSP state, but it does still synchronize LSP state with its PCCs, which allows it to take account of dependencies with existing LSPs when calculating paths for new LSPs (for example, to avoid two LSPs traversing the same link).  It is discussed in section 5.8.1.

Best regards
Jon

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From: Mirja Kühlewind [mailto:[email-masked]] 
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Subject: Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce-18: (with COMMENT)

Mirja Kühlewind has entered the following ballot position for
draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce-18: No Objection

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COMMENT:
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Minor comment:
The U flag in the STATEFUL-PCE-CAPABILITY TLV is probably not necessary as the presents of this TVL already indicates that updates are supported; however not an issue.