Re: [EFM] Active to active connections are useful
John,
I must admit to not following the Clause 57 OAM very closely.
However, from the reading that I have done, I certainly was under the
assumption that the OAM capability was symmetric. That is, the
customer can perform any and all OAM actions. The CPE end was no
different from the CO end. A customer must be able to test their
connectivity to the CO. If this is not permitted, then the draft
must change. Do you need any support on this for the next draft?
You must not be at the Italy meeting.
A copy to Alan as he is interested in OAM.
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Tom
>Hi,
>
>I read the comments about "local_satisfied" in the proposed resolutions
>(#594, #679) and I agree that it would be helpful to include diagnostics
>about why discovery won't complete. However it raises a couple of issues:
>
>1. The ability to initiate a loopback from the CPE to the CO is useful for
>commissioning. This requires the CPE to be in Active mode. (Just because
>you let the other end be Active doesn't mean you have to support his
>Variable Requests.) I'd be interested to know whether switch vendors intend
>to support OAM loopback paths for this purpose?
>
>2. I anticipate implementations that propose their favoured configuration
>and see if it is acceptable to the other end, but if it is not
>(local_satisfed remains false after a few cycles of discovery) then back off
>to a less-favoured but still operable configuration. For example a CPE
>might propose to be active and if that was not OK, back off to proposing to
>be passive. As we do not specify the behaviour of the OAM Client, this is a
>point that implementors need to bear in mind - discovery should be a
>negotiation, not a "take it or leave it" conversation.
>
>If anyone would be willing to summarise the resolution at the interim for
>me, I'd be grateful.
>
> -- John
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