Re: [Idr] 2 week WG LC for draft-ietf-idr-shutdown-02 (1/17 to 1/31/2017)

[Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 03:21:19PM -0800, Matthew Walster wrote:
> On 27 January 2017 at 13:38, Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> > I believe the draft should cover both administrative sub-codes.
[...] Suggestions of other cases to expand the text-form of the notification
to other sub-codes.

> There is obvious scope-creep at this point, I would like to suggest either
> the draft considered as-is or to allow all Cease sub-codes to have shutdown
> communication possible.

I certainly hadn't intended to try to push for a more general widening of
the scope; just point out something under the existing use case.

While you give three other examples of places that could benefit from
additional data regarding why the session has been sent a CEASE, I don't
think all of them are equally clear with respect to that data being text.

As an example, the max prefixes might benefit from a simple tuple.  E.g.
AFI,SAFI,<limit>.  Although keeping this within even a light-weight TLV
would permit space for the machine-readable portion along with a human
readable one.

I would suggest in the absence of a strong case for text strings in the
other sub-codes that for now the draft stay restricted to the administrative
reset cases.  As this draft proves, if there's consenus to add additional
DATA to one of the code points, it can move fast.

-- Jeff