Hi Tony,

> Because in the case of the wakeup message, it is initiated by the headend.

GoWakeUp is defined in section 4.

"Section 4 defines how RSVP-TE carries those procedures *for a directly
connected RSVP-TE link.*"

Is there any indication in the draft that GoWakeUp will be initiated by the
headends ?

Kind regards,
Robert







On Sun, Oct 4, 2026 at 7:35 PM Tony Li <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi Robert,
>
> It seems that the complexity why this procedure is proposed lies in
> suggestion to exchange those 4 messages:
>
>
>
>
> *SleepPrepareAck 1 Receiver accepts preparationSleepPrepareNak 2 Receiver
> rejects preparation*
>
> *GoSleep 3 Sender authorizes power-sleepGoSleepAck 4 Receiver confirms
> power-sleep*
>
> In respect to the first reply the draft  just says this:
>
> " If it cannot participate, it continues to be in Operating mode and sends
> negative acknowledgement. If it can participate, it sends acknowledgement
> and transitions to Ready mode."
>
> What are the criteria the receiver should use to make the above judgement
> ?
>
>
>
> That’s a matter of local policy plus whether there are active LSPs on the
> link.
>
>
> Also how is this related to timing of flooding "sleep capable" state for a
> link in ISIS ?
>
>
>
> It is not.  All of the IS-IS flooding is not timing sensitive and is all
> static information.
>
>
> Should Sender even attempt to send anything to the peer here if there was
> no indication in flooding that specific interface of specific power group
> is sleep capable ?
>
>
>
> Probably not.  If the interface is not power-sleep capable, requesting
> that it go to sleep is pointless.
>
>
> Or is that flooding to start after SleepPrepare Ack ?  Not clear.
>
>
>
> Again, the flooding is static information and should happen after a
> configuration change.
>
>
> Now what happens after sending GoSleep and never receiving the GoSleepAck
> ?
>
>
>
> As always, time out and retry.  Binary exponential backoff with a ceiling
> is your friend.
>
>
> Last but not least ... why for this p2p communication would one use the
> RSVP protocol ? Couldn't those indications be instead part of ISIS new
> Hello Capabilities Les is proposing ?
>
>
>
> Because in the case of the wakeup message, it is initiated by the
> headend.  This cannot be carried by IS-IS IIH PDUs.
>
> Cheers,
> Tony Li
>
>
>
>
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