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Re: [Gen-art] [babel] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-babel-rfc6126bis-10

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Fri, 28 June 2019 12:31 UTC

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From: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
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Subject: Re: [Gen-art] [babel] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-babel-rfc6126bis-10
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Juliusz:

> Thank you very much for your review.  I agree with all of your comments
> save one, I'll publish a new revision taking your comments into account as
> soon as possible.
> 
>>   ...  A node SHOULD NOT send triggered updates
>>   for other reasons, such as when there is a minor fluctuation in a
>>   route's metric, when the selected next hop changes, or to propagate a
>>   new sequence number (except to satisfy a request, as specified in
>>   Section 3.8).
> 
>> This seem backwards to me.  Perhaps:
> 
>>   ...  The node MUST send triggered updates to satisfy a request, as
>>   specified in Section 3.8; however, a node SHOULD NOT send
>>   triggered updates for other reasons, including a minor fluctuation
>>   in a metric for a route, the selected next hop changes, or to
>>   propagate a new sequence number.
> 
> I disagree.  The requirement to send triggered updates is already present
> in 3.8.1.1, we should not repeat it.  This section is concerned with
> avoiding excessive noise.

I defer to your experience.

Russ

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