Re: [mpls] applicability of draft-wijnands-mpls-mldp-in-band-signaling-02

[IJsbrand Wijnands <ice at cisco.com>]

Yakov,

> > This prevents receiving a (S,G) from the P2MP LSP and send it down  
> > the
> > (*,G) PIM tree. This is the behavior we want to support in  
> > combination
> > with out-of-band source discovery via MSDP. The only thing we want to
> > restrict is transport (*,G) traffic down the P2MP LSP, that is  
> > covered
> > by section 2.3.
>
> Then the draft should explicitly spell out "the behavior we want
> to support", *and* the mechanisms/procedures to support such behavior,
> including the interaction with the out-of-band source discovery via  
> MSDP.

There are no additional mechanisms/procedures to support this  
behavior. This is basic PIM Sparse-mode behavior.

Maybe this goes back to my comment on the other email, that PIM  
messages are not translated into mLDP messages. The multicast routing  
state is used to drive the creating of the mLDP LSPs.

Thx,

Ice.