Subject: RE: managing output label ranges

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:23:08 -0600

Hi,

I accept the reasoning in your note, but have a question.
Is there any reason why the assignment of labels cannot be symmetrical?
That is, when a range of labels is assigned, the set of 
labels would be the range assigned for both incoming and outgoing 
labels.

This simplifies the mechanisms yet should give the same protections.
Perhaps some text would need to added discussing the principle that 
a partition can only use the labels in its range; regardless of
whether that use be for incoming or outgoing.

regards,

a.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: EXT Jaroslaw Sydir [mailto:[email-masked]]
> Sent: 02 March, 2000 4:50 PM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: managing output label ranges
> 
> 
...
> 
> So to summarize my lengthy note, we believe that it is a fundamental
> responsiblity of a partitionable switch to disallow a controller of a
> partition from interferring with the operation of any other partition.
> Furthermore, we believe that the resources of a partition should
> explicitly include outgoing labels and that the GSMP connection
> management requests be policed to disallow connections from 
> using labels
> outside this range. We therefore restate our proposal that the Port
> information message response include both incoming and outgoing label
> ranges and the the GSMP slave police the use of both incoming and
> outgoing labels.
> 
> Regards,
> Jerry Sydir
>