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[Jonathan Lang <jplang@calient.net>]

Lou,
  To clarify, it is not our intent to have the Notify message replace the
PathError message.

-Jonathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lou Berger [mailto:lberger@labn.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 4:40 AM
> To: Adrian Farrel
> Cc: Lou Berger; mpls@UU.NET
> Subject: RE: Multi-LSP Notify in GMPLS 
> 
> 
> At 05:51 AM 9/29/00, Adrian Farrel wrote:
> > >>Because the Notify message is sent instead of a regular PathErr
> > >>message, a node that receives the Notify but does not support it
> > >>will not get any error indication from RSVP signalling at all!
> > >
> > >I think it's worth pointing out that Adrian's version differs
> > >from the most recent draft, which says "The Notify message does
> > >not replace existing error messages. "  I think any attempt to
> > >replace base RSVP messages with a notify would be misguided.
> > >I don't know if this is what Adrian meant to
> > >imply.  (Although this is one reading of the his text.)
> >
> >Not my intention (except with consent of the LSRs involved).
> >see my response to Markus.
> >
> >Adrian
> 
> The exception is surprising.  Why would you want to remove 
> base (rfc2205 
> specified) error messages?
> 
> Lou
>