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PCE Communications Protocol Requirements
PCC-PCE & PCE-PCE path request message MUST support carrying various constraints including (but not limited to):
resources (links/nodes), resource affinities & SRLGs to use/avoid
exclusions
unsorted list of links/nodes/SRLGs that must not appear in the resulting path(s)
inclusions
sorted list of links/nodes that must appear in resulting path(s) in specified order
strict & loose inclusions
specify if additional links can appear in resulting path(s)
sharables
unsorted list of links that must not be excluded in resulting path(s) because of insufficient resources
switching type, encoding type, GPID
switching capabilities to be included/excluded from the path
carrying multiple requests, correlated or not
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