Re: [babel] Martin Duke's No Objection on draft-ietf-babel-rfc6126bis-19: (with COMMENT)

Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr> Fri, 21 August 2020 20:35 UTC

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From: Juliusz Chroboczek <jch@irif.fr>
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Subject: Re: [babel] Martin Duke's No Objection on draft-ietf-babel-rfc6126bis-19: (with COMMENT)
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> 3.7.2 In the last paragraph, selection of a next hop is listed as both a "MAY"
> and a "SHOULD NOT".

Hmm.  What this paragraph is meant to say is that it MAY send an update
when the metric changes, including due to a new next hop being selected,
but it SHOULD NOT if the next hop changes without causing a significant
change in the metric.

I'll try to make it clearer.

-- Juliusz