Re: [Gen-art] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-te-link-attr-reuse-12

[Peter Psenak <[e-mail]>]

Hi Linda,

On 28/05/2020 19:02, Linda Dunbar via Datatracker wrote:
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> Review result: Not Ready
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> Document: draft-ietf-ospf-te-link-attr-reuse-??
> Reviewer: Linda Dunbar
> Review Date: 2020-05-28
> IETF LC End Date: 2020-05-29
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
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> Summary: this document introduces a new link attribute advertisement in OSPFv2
> and OSPFv3 to address general link properties needed for new applications, such
> as Segment Routing.
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> Major issues:
> The document has good description on the TLV structure of the Application
> specific Advertisements, but fails to describe what are the NEW Link attributes
> needed by Segment Routing. Page 7 (section 5) has a really good description on
> all the link properties added to OSFP (RFC4203, RFC 7308, RFC7471, RFC3630) to
> achieve TE. I can see Segment Routing would need each node to advertise its own
> SID and the SIDs of adjacent nodes. Can't they be encoded (or extended) in
> OSPF's NODE ID?

we are not defining any new attributes.

We are allowing an existing link attributes to be used by other 
applications, including, but not limited to SRTE.

thanks,
Peter

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> Nits/editorial comments:
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> Best regards,
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> Linda Dunbar
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