Re: [Isis-wg] draft-amante-isis-reverse-metric-01

[Robert Raszuk <[e-mail]>]

All,

> On a more serious note, it's important to recognize that in order to
> mitigate human-error, we need to reduce the burden on operators to
> "always get it right", as you seem to imply above, and certainly as
> our executives (and customers) want us to.

Watching this thread with deep interest I must say that I am with Les here.

The problem is that this is nearly 2011 and we still do not have a good 
way to configure networks as an entire abstraction. We do at most - in 
sophisticated networks - have scripts to configure routers on a box to 
box basis.

Instead of working on network wide level config tool/protocol we are 
extending protocols to achieve the equivalent functionality. And this is 
not only in ISIS, we do the same in BGP, we do the same in MPLS etc ...

So while I am not seeing any harm with this draft as is I think at some 
point we should put serious effort to look at the network as an 
abstraction layer and configure such abstraction layer rather then 
continue the trend of extending routing protocols to deliver equivalent 
functionality.

That IMHO would be the best way to address the "human error" issue.

Cheers,
R.