[190291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP and Optical domains?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Masataka Ohta)
Wed Jun 22 05:59:07 2016
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To: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 18:58:51 +0900
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Mark Tinka wrote:
>> By not managing transport characteristics at all except
>> that links are on or off (or, if you want to guarantee QoS,
>> a little more than that).
>
> But how do Layer 3 protocols manage transport characteristics today?
Today??? You asked "can be better designed", didn't you?
And, don't miss the following assumption:
> L3 HELO generated frequently enough.
> Again, this does not seem too removed from what happens already today.
The problem, if any, is that doing much more than that
results in "heavily underutilized" network.
> I don't disagree with what you imply by "heavily".
The implication is not mine.
Masataka Ohta
