Subject: [Teas] A basic question on draft-ietf-teas-rsvp-egress-protection

From: Lou Berger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:09:14 -0500

Hi,
    I have a question on draft-ietf-teas-rsvp-egress-protection that is
prompted by today's interim and can be covered there and/or on list:

Given that the draft says:
>    The egress local protection may be generalized and used with the
>    segment protection defined in RFC 4873 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4873>.  How it is generalized and
>    used is out of scope for this document.
>

Why define a new set of formats and mechanisms when an existing set of
formats and mechanisms can be used or adapted to (a) provide the same
function and (b) do so in a more general way?

I look forward to hearing/discussing the rational for not not reusing
what we already have defined.

Thanks,
Lou