Re: [Idr] IDR WG Charter (Re: Adoption call for draft-dawra-idr-bgpls-srv6-ext [5/2 - 5/16/2018])

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

> My hope is this will reduce overhead for all concerned.

While clearly it may reduce the IDR WG work overhead in the same time
aren't we worried that it may generate uncontrolled overhead of the
protocol itself ?

Thx,
R.


On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 5:27 PM John Scudder <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Jun 5, 2019, at 8:43 AM, Alvaro Retana <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> I have also had the conversation with the Chairs about the load that
> BGP-LS represents to idr and the general topic of information transport
> (note that BGP is not the only protocol in the Routing Area being used to
> transport stuff…so it is a much wider topic).  The last time was a few
> months ago.  I don’t remember having the discussion on the list.
>
> At that time, the general consensus (between the Chairs and me) was that
> the operation of BGP-LS should be maintained in idr (it is BGP!).
>
> One further outcome of that discussion was that we agreed that LSR would
> include a BGP-LS encoding when progressing uncomplicated drafts that
> already contain OSPF and IS-IS encodings. We reported this to the WG at our
> meeting and it’s come up on the mailing list since then. My hope is this
> will reduce overhead for all concerned.
>
> —John
>
>