Thank you Andrew for the detailed review and the suggestions.

Please see replies inline with <RG>..

On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM Andrew Stone (Nokia) <andrew.stone=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi authors, PCE WG.
>
> The draft appears to be well structured, and pretty clear in its
> instructions. Some comments/feedback:
>
>
>    - I’m still a bit unclear on the use case why a PCC needs to know
>    "status and all other path related information”. Knowing the ERO
>    information is clearer to me, but knowing all state info for the LSP is a
>    bit unclear.  Perhaps it’s just because I didn’t dive deeper into the
>    related documents…
>
>
<RG> You are right, PCC doesn't need all the information about the reverse
LSP, except the ERO.
<RG> I think Samuel also commented along the same line.
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/pce/ylEPl6MC9XfqBDokzss0fv8rjyc/

<RG> Do you agree that it could just use the reverse ERO from the
multi-path draft?
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-pce-multipath-16.txt



>
>    -
>
>
>
>    - The document points to a lot of other RFC details, while good, means
>    jumping and scanning. Would be useful if some of the references pointed to
>    specific sections of detailed relevancy - specifically to details found in
>    RFC9059 since it’s tightly related.
>
>
<RG> Acking.


>
>    -
>    -
>    - Section 3.1 - Says a SR path must not be part of more than one
>    'Double-Sided Bidirectional with Reverse LSP Association'. If this happens
>    (misconfig), what should the resulting action be? IMO simply stating the
>    PCE should not send down reverse path information to any PCC is likely
>    sufficient, but it would be worth describing an expected outcome.
>
>
<RG> How about following?

   *  An SR Path (forward or reverse) MUST NOT be part of more than one
      'Double-Sided Bidirectional with Reverse LSP Association'.  A PCE,
      upon detecting this condition, MUST NOT send the reverse SR Path
      to ingress node PCC.



>    -
>    -
>    - Section 4.2 - to confirm my understanding:  for PCC-initiated
>    forward LSP config, the LSP must be pre-configured on PCC with the
>    Double-Sided Bidirectional with Reverse LSP Association values.
>
>
<RG> Right.


>
>    - When PCE notifies the PCC about the reverse path info, it then
>    re-uses these same association values, this is what will allow the PCC (and
>    another PCE) to correlate which is the "information-only" LSP info?
>
>
<RG> Right.



>
>    -  i.e so the original PCC-init config is not blank and is
>    pre-established with an association identifier? If so, sounds good.
>
>
<RG> I am not 100% clear on "the original PCC-init config is not blank"
part. Just wanted to make sure I am not missing anything.



>
>    -
>    -
>    - Section 3.1.1 - it says it "uses" the Bidirectional LSP Association
>    group TLV. Should this be changed to MUST INCLUDE for the reverse path?
>    since RFC9059 indicates the TLV is optional and when omitted means the path
>    is a forward LSP and not co-routed? in other words, when PCE uses PCE-INIT
>    to inform a PCC about the reverse path, it MUST carry the Bidirectional LSP
>    Association group TLV.
>
>
<RG> How about following?

3.1.1.  Bidirectional LSP Association Group TLV

   When a PCE informs ingress node PCC about the reverse SR Path using
   the 'Double-Sided Bidirectional with Reverse LSP Association', it
   MUST include the 'Bidirectional LSP Association Group TLV' to
   indicate the reverse direction and the co-routed path properties as
   defined in Section 4.2 of [RFC9059].  All fields and processing rules
   for this association group are followed as per Section 4 of
   [RFC9059].




>
>    -
>
>
> Nit:
>
>
>    - Abstract last sentence says "can also" but I'm not sure what "also"
>    references here. Perhaps simply:  The mechanisms defined in this document
>    are applicable to both stateless and stateful PCEs for PCE-initiated and
>    PCC-initiated LSPs.
>
>
<RG> Fixed.

Thanks,
Rakesh (for authors)




>
>    -
>
>
> Thanks!
> Andrew
>
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