Re: Working Group Last Call on "Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPF" (draft-ietf-ospf-mt-03.txt) - Corrected

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov at JUNIPER.NET>]

Peter,

> >>This is the start of a Working Group last call for
> >>"Multi-Topology (MT) Routing in OSPF" (draft-ietf-ospf-mt-03.txt).
> >>All comments should be sent to this list by 12 AM (EDT), 04/19/2005.
> >>
> >>A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> >>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ospf-mt-03.txt
> >>
> >>The RFC 3978 IPR notices will be updated in the next revision.
> > 
> > 
> > As the draft correctly points out:
> > 
> >    TOS based routing as described in [RFC1583] was never
> >    deployed and was subsequently deprecated.
> > 
> > So, why computing different paths for different classes of service
> > be any different ?
> 
> because MTR allows people to do things that were not possible with the 
> TOS based routing as described in [RFC1583].

Then the draft should document how this addressed and solved the problems 
that caused TOS routing being never deployed.

Yakov.