Re: [mpls] draft-decraene-mpls-slid-encoded-entropy-label-id (was RE: Please review the PALS/MPLS/DetNet Joint Session minutes)

Tony Li <[email protected]> Fri, 1 Apr 2022 09:38:56 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.pwe3,gmane.ietf.mpls
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bruno,

> However, this is not a guarantee. Any design that attempts to reuse this TTL field does run a non-zero risk of being impacted by designs that do check and reject such entries.
> [Bruno] RFC 6790 also says that on the Egress LSR “The EL's TTL MUST be ignored.”
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6790#section-4.1 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6790#section-4.1>

Thank you, that’s a good point.  However, that’s still not a guarantee (i.e. 100% mathematical certainty). There is still risk involved. Small, but non-zero.

T

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