Hi Les,

Thanks for these comments.

Please see inline,

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Adrian Farrel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Envoyé : mercredi 21 février 2007 11:53
> À : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Objet : [Pce] Comments on 
> draft-ietf-pce-disco-proto-isis-02.txt from ISISWG
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
> From: "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Adrian Farrel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
> Cc: "Jean Philippe Vasseur (jvasseur)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 6:56 PM
> Subject: RE: [Isis-wg] PCE working group last call
> 
> ondraft-ietf-pce-disco-proto-isis-02.txt
> 
> 
> Section 1
> 
>       ABR: IGP Area Border Router (L1L2 router).
> 
> LES: Use "L2 capable router" instead - or eliminate the 
> definition since as Mike points out it is not used in the document.

OK, to be eliminated

> 
>       Examples of domains include IGP areas and Autonomous Systems.
> 
> LES: area and domain are not the same - though a domain may 
> have only one area. I would omit this sentence.

In the PCE context the defintion of a domain is as follows (as per RFC 4655):

"A domain is any collection of network elements within a common sphere of 
address management or path computation responsibility.  Examples of domains 
include IGP areas, Autonomous Systems (ASes), and multiple ASes within a 
Service Provider network.  Domains of path computation responsibility may also 
exist as sub-domains of areas or ASes."

Is that OK if we refer to [RFC4655] and indicate that this definition applies 
to a PCE context?


> 
> Section 3.1.1
> 
>      inter-area, inter-AS, inter-layer\205
> 
> LES: Remove Formatting character \205

OK

> 
> Section 3.2
> 
>    The flooding scope for PCE information advertised through IS-IS can
>    be limited to one or more IS-IS areas the PCE belongs to, or can be
> 
> LES: Flooding can only be area or domain scoped flooding. 
> There is no defined method to restrict flooding to some 
> subset of the areas in a domain.

Right. We are going to rephrase as follows:

The flooding scope for PCE information advertised through IS-IS can be a single 
L1 area, a L1 area and the L2 sub-domain (when the PCE is a L1L2 node), or the 
entire IS-IS domain (S bit set in the Router Capability TLV). 

Does that make sense?

> 
>    extended across the entire IS-IS routing domain.
>    Note that some PCEs may belong to multiple areas, in which case the
>    flooding scope may comprise these areas. This could be the 
> case for a
> 
>    L1L2 router for instance advertising its PCE information within the
>    L2 area and/or a subset of its attached L1 area(s).
> 
> LES: There is no such thing as an L2 area. There is the L2 
> sub-domain, which consists of all L2 routers in a domain.

OK, we are going to remove the above paragraph

> 
> Section 4.1. The IS-IS PCED TLV
> 
> LES: This is a sub-TLV. As Mike has pointed out, it is 
> important to use that terminology consistently throughout the 
> document.

OK

> 
>    The format of the IS-IS PCED TLV and its sub-TLVs is the 
> identical to
> 
> 
> LES: s/the identical/identical

OK

> 
> At the end of Section 4.1 it might be helpful to add:
> 
> "The following sub-sections describe the sub-TLVs which may 
> be carried within the PCED sub-TLV."

OK

> 
> Section 4.1.3
> 
>    Two DOMAIN sub-TLVs are defined
> 
>             Sub-TLV type   Length        Name
>                  1         Variable     Area ID sub-TLV
>                  2           4          AS number sub-TLV
> 
> LES: These codepoints are not mentioned in the IANA section.

OK, to be added.

> 
> Section 4.1.3.1
> 
>    VALUE: This comprises a variable length IS-IS area ID. This is the
> 
>           combination of an Initial Domain Part (IDP) and High Order
>           part of the Domain Specific part (HO-DSP)
> 
> LES: Rather than invent a term (HO-DSP) which ISO 10589 does 
> not use, say "this is the area address as defined in [ISO]". 

OK

> Which causes me to mention that you have no reference to ISO 
> 10589 in the references section, a most serious breach of 
> etiquette indeed!!

OK, to be added

> 
> Section 4.1.4
> 
> LES: The domain/area sub-TLVs (nested level 3) which are defined in
> 4.1.3 appear to be "reused" here. This should be explicitly 
> stated as the scope of the sub-TLV codepoint for domain/area 
> sub-TLVs is the parent sub-TLV (PCE-domain or 
> PCE-NEIG-DOMAIN) and therefore the codepoints cannot be 
> assumed to be the same - it MUST be explicitly stated.

OK

> 
> Section 5
> 
>    defined in [IS-IS-CAP]. A such, elements of procedures are 
> inherited
> 
> 
> LES: s/A such/As such

OK

> 
>    domain, itMUST be carried within an IS-IS CAPABILITY TLV 
> having the S
> 
> 
> LES: s/itMUST/it MUST

OK

> 
>    A PCE MUST originate a new IS-IS LSP whenever the content
> 
> LES: There is a generic issue here. As a PCE is not a router 
> running the IS-IS protocol, it cannot generate any LSPs. :-) 
> Therefore you cannot say (as you do in multiple places) "a 
> PCE originates a new IS-IS LSP".

You are right the PCE is a functional block. But it is often assimilated to the 
node hosting the PCE function, which is an IS-IS node in this draft.
Is that OK if we say "An IS-IS node acting as PCE MUST originate"...

> Similarly, you say:
> 
>    A PCC MUST be
>    able to detect that the PCED TLV has been removed from an 
> IS-IS LSP.
> 
> As a PCC is also not equivalent to a router running the IS-IS 
> protocol, perhaps you want to say "A PCC MUST be informed..." 

Let say "An IS-IS node acting as PCC..." ?

> - although I tend to think that all of the communication 
> between the applications (PCE and
> PCC) and the IS-IS protocol instance is out of scope for this 
> document.

Yes it is out of the scope.



> 
>    The PCE address, i.e. the address indicated within the PCE ADDRESS
>    sub-TLV, MUST be distributed as part of IS-IS routing;
> 
> LES: I am not sure what you mean here. Do you mean that there 
> MUST be a host route advertisement for the PCE address(es)? 
> Or do you simply mean that the PCE address(es) must be 
> reachable via some prefix(es) advertised by IS-IS? If the 
> latter, then please change the wording. As written it 
> suggests there is a special advertisement required.

Yes this is the latter, we are going to rephrase as suggested.

> 
>  Section 8
> 
>   IS-IS provides no mechanism for protecting the privacy of LSAs, and
> 
> LES: I don't know what you are trying to say here. Do you mean TLVs?
> Certainly not LSAs!

Yes TLVs :-)

> 
> 
>    in particular the privacy PCE discovery information.
> 
> LES: s/privacy/privacy of

OK

Again, thanks a lot for these comments. 
Once the last call is completed, we are going to submit a new revision that 
accounts for all these comments.

Best Regards,

JL

> 
>    Les
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Adrian Farrel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 9:36 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: Jean Philippe Vasseur (jvasseur)
> > Subject: [Isis-wg] PCE working group last call 
> ondraft-ietf-pce-disco- 
> > proto-isis-02.txt
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The PCE working group is holding a last call on
> >
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pce-disco-proto
> -isis-02.t
> xt
> >
> > Since this I-D proposes protocol extensions to ISIS we 
> would like the
> ISIS
> > working group to participate in this last call, and we have
> accordingly
> > made
> > the last call period three weeks in order to give you plenty of time
> to
> > respond.
> >
> > The last call will end at 12 noon GMT on Thursday 8th March.
> >
> > Please send your comments to the PCE mailing list if you are
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> > Otherwise, please channel your comments through the PCE 
> working group 
> > chairs ([EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> > Background reading is:
> > RFC4655 - The PCE Architecture
> > RFC4674 - Requirements for Path Computation Element (PCE) Discovery
> >                   (These are the requirements that this I-D is
> addressing)
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Adrian
> >
> >
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