Subject: [mpls] Mail regarding draft-chen-mpls-source-label

From: Yimin Shen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 16:02:40 +0000

Hi authors,

Can you please clarify if SL is expected to be used only by egress node, or by intermediate node as well ?

Section 3.2 "Traffic Matrix Measurement and Steering" describes a use case for intermediate node, but I think congestion should in general be resolved by control plane to reroute traffic based on a global view of network resources, rather than by data plane based on a SL. In your case, would the intermediate node move the traffic to an LSP that is different than the LSP intended by the ingress node ? I don't think it is the right thing to do.

Regarding the use case of section 3.3 "Source Filtering". If somebody is doing DoS attack, why would he put an SL in the packets ?

Thanks,

/Yimin