Description of the Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic-Engineered (RSVP-TE) Graceful Restart Procedures
draft-ietf-ccamp-gr-description-04

[Ballot comment]
I know this is a nit, but there are extraneous commas in the two most important sentences
in this specification.  To remove ambiguity, I would suggest the following substitution in
Section 6:

OLD
  After a node restarts its control plane, it should ignore and
  silently drop all RSVP-TE messages, except Hello messages, it
  receives from any neighbor to which, no HELLO session has been
  established.
NEW
  After a node restarts its control plane, it should ignore and
  silently drop all RSVP-TE messages, except Hello messages, it
  receives from any neighbor to which no HELLO session has been
  established.

OLD
  The restarting node should follow [RFC3209] to establish Hello
  sessions with its neighbors, after its control plane becomes
  operational.
NEW
  The restarting node should follow [RFC3209] to establish Hello
  sessions with its neighbors after its control plane becomes
  operational.

PROTO writeup by Deborah Brungard:

Intended status : Informational

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This document has been reviewed by the CCAMP working group and received
some comments at IETF meetings and on the mailing list. Most importantly
it has had input from the authors of RFC 5063 that documents the
protocol procedures.

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The Hello message for the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) has
been defined to establish and maintain basic signaling node
adjacencies for Label Switching Routers (LSRs) participating in a
Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) traffic engineered (TE)
network. The Hello message has been extended for use in Generalized
MPLS (GMPLS) network for state recovery of control channel or nodal
faults.

GMPLS protocol definitions for RSVP also allow a restarting node to
learn the label that it previously allocated for use on a Label
Switching Path (LSP).

Further RSVP protocol extensions have been defined to enable a
restarting node to recover full control plane state by exchanging
RSVP messages with its upstream and downstream neighbors.

This document provides an informational clarification of the
control plane procedures for a GMPLS network when there are
multiple node failures, and describes how full control plane state
can be recovered in different scenarios where the order in which
the nodes restart is different.

This document does not define any new processes or procedures. All
protocol mechanisms are already defined in the referenced documents.

>        Working Group Summary
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There was some debate about the need for this work. It was suggested
that all of the necessary explanation of the operation of graceful
restart was included in RFC 5063. However, the repeated questions about
how to use the protocol extensions in corner cases and double faliure
scenarios makes this work valuable.

Otherwise, all parts of the WG process were normal.

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There are several implementations of the graceful restart processes
described in RFC 5063. Experience from these implementations has
provided valuable input to this document.