Re: [armd] draft-dunbar-armd-arp-nd-scaling

Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net> Thu, 29 March 2012 13:46 UTC

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On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Linda Dunbar wrote:

>> Also, is there a sense of how comprehensive this discussion of
>> techniques for scaling ARP/ND is?
> 
> [Linda] The draft is about practices which can be used to reduce the amount of ARP/ND requests to be handled by L2/L3 boundary routers.  So we call it "scaling ARP/ND". Do you have a better term? We need to change the name in removing the wording "BCP". 

How about:
Common Practices for Scaling ARP and ND Request Handling

>> j) 3.4: calling this technique "elegant" is a value judgment whose
>> validity I cannot comment on; however, it seems out of place.
>> 
> [Linda] Is it better to remove this section? 

No, especially if, as it says, this is an extensively used technique.  If folks think that this technique is elegant, that's fine.  Otherwise change last sentence to:

However, this technique may not be appropriate for generic host migration.

Kireeti.