Hi All, The following is dial-in information for Wednesday's NSI call: Time: 7:30 PDT 10:30 EDT, 15:30 BST, 16:30 CEST, 23:30 JST Call: +1-734-615-7474 (Please use if you do not pay for Long Distance) or +1-866-411-0013 (toll free US/Canada Only) Enter access code: 0155180 Agenda: 1. Review outstanding issues for NSI architecture 2. Review advance reservation issues (see below) Guy Issue v1.0 status Comments Synchronization of Provider/requester timers? required agreed NTP should be ok 1 or 2 phase commit? 1PC agreed 2PC is considered unnecessary for v1.0 Is automatic provisioning (initiated by timer) required? Yes agreed Is explicit provisioning (initiated by requester message) required? No agreement on this point Is advance reservation required? Yes agreed Is immediate reservation required? yes agreed What does start-time mean as used in protocol for auto mode? Start time refers to in-service begin time agreed It is the responsibility of the provider NSA to make sure that this in-service start time is met What does end-time mean as used in protocol for advance reservation? End time refers to in-service end time agreed Allow ASAP as start-time for immediate reservation? Yes agreed What does start-time mean as used in protocol for explicit mode? Reservation start time Could be: Start of reservation Start of provisioning Start of in-service What does end-time mean as used in protocol for explicit mode? Reservation end time Could be: end of in-service End of reservation Start of de-provisioning Is connection duration required? No agreement on this point Is unspecified end-time allowed? No agreement on this point Provider validation of start time? Validated agreed This is a constraint in path finding Once reservation has been granted, and start times is found to be the past how is this handled? No agreement on this point Is a flag necessary to indicate immediate vs. advance reservation Yes Agreed Does each Connection request need a flag to indicate how to expect provisioning to be initiated? Yes How does Provider know whether to wait for signal from Requester? Does a reservation request require a pass/fail response from the Provider NSA? Yes Agreed Is start time later than specified allowed? Yes Is a flag needed to indicate whether start time later than specified is allowed Yes Other option is to automatically treat all start times in the past as 'now' and send a warning. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Guy Roberts, Ph.D Network Engineering & Planning DANTE - www.dante.net<http://www.dante.net/> Tel: +44 (0)1223 371 316 City House, 126-130 Hills Road Cambridge, CB2 1PQ, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------