Re: Fw: more changes to the base draft

Hi Weiming,

comments inline.

On onsdag, nov 26, 2003, at 17:52 Asia/Seoul, Wang,Weiming wrote:

>
>  Hi Avri,
>
>  I'm writing to seek the possiblity in GSMP base header to add 
> following items:
>
>  1. A proirity flag to indicate the processing priority for the 
> message.

Can you explain how you would think this should be used?

>  2. An optional checksum part in GSMP for error control.

Again, can you explain how you would want to see this used?

>
>  If possible, I also ask to leave some space in the Version field for 
> possible including of other
>  possible protocols like GRMP 
> (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-wang-forces-grmp-01.txt).

  If the two protocols were to be merged it would seem to make the most 
sense to me for there to be one base protocol which supported the MPLS 
and GMPLS mode as well as the router mode.  I would personally be 
uncomfortable with one version of the protocol for switches and one for 
routers.  In many respects I think that the support  one would need for 
adding messages for router support already exists.

If this merge is something that is of interest to the Wg and something 
we can get IESG support for (i think it would require a charter 
amendment) then I think we could certainly work out the details here on 
the list.

I do think your first 2 requests can be discussed within the current  
work without any charter  problems.  For the other, I would like to 
hear from other list members on whether it is something that the WG 
should pursue.

a.