a simple question

the document repeats twice that it critical to monitor the state of 
the PC chain (see below)


i try to understand reasoning - can authors clarify ?

for perf.mon ? is the PCC going to tack perfs of PC servers ?

for troubleshooting ? but for which trouble ? (this said, i am also
concerned by the fact that if each PCC for each path across a set of
PCEs starts to generate such state monitoring then for sure servers
may experience overload)

due to limited visibility ? why is this requiring "state monitoring" ?


---> in brief, i still believe a serious problem statement shall be
brought up before jumping in the specification of objects (the bits
of the wire)


thanks,
-d.
--

"In PCE-based environments, it is critical to monitor the state of the
   path computation chain that can be used for performance monitoring
   and troubleshooting purposes.  This document specifies procedures and
   extensions to the Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP)
   ([I-D.ietf-pce-pcep]) in order to monitor the path computation chain
   and gather various performance metrics.

   As discussed in [RFC4655], a TE LSP may be computed by one PCE
   (referred to as single PCE path computation) or several PCEs
   (referred to as multiple PCE path computation).  In the former case,
   the PCC may be able to use IGP extensions to check the liveness of
   the PCE (see [I-D.ietf-pce-disco-proto-ospf] and
   [I-D.ietf-pce-disco-proto-isis]) or PCEP using Keepalive messages.
   In contrast, when multiple PCEs are involved in the path computation
   chain an example of which is the BRPC procedure defined in
   [I-D.ietf-pce-brpc], the PCC's visibility may be limited to the first
   PCE involved in the path computation chain.  Thus, it is critical to
   define mechanisms in order to monitor the state of the path
   computation chain."

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                 Title                           : A set of monitoring 
tools for Path Computation Element based Architecture
                 Author(s)               : J. Le Roux, J. Vasseur
                 Filename                : 
draft-vasseur-pce-monitoring-02.txt
                 Pages                           : 18
                 Date                            : 2007-3-1
 
A Path Computation Element (PCE) based architecture has been
   specified for the computation of Traffic Engineering (TE) Label
   Switched Paths (LSPs) in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and
   Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) networks in the context of single or
   multiple domains (where a domain is referred to as a collection of
   network elements within a common sphere of address management or path  
computational responsibility such as IGP areas and Autonomous
   Systems).  In PCE-based environments it is thus critical to monitor
   the state of the path computation chain that can be used for
   performance monitoring and troubleshooting purposes.  This document
   specifies procedures and extensions to the Path Computation Element
   Protocol (PCEP) in order to gather such information.

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