Re: [Lsr] Guidance for IANA flags field registry creation.

Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org> Wed, 21 April 2021 16:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Lsr] Guidance for IANA flags field registry creation.
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Is this really that big of an issue? This seems to be taking a lot of the WGs time at this point for a fairly trivial thing.

Thanks,
Chris.

> On Apr 21, 2021, at 12:11 PM, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsberg@cisco.com> wrote:
> 
> Tony -
> 
> Because this is shared between OSPF and IS-IS the related registry is in a different location.
> 
> https://www.iana.org/assignments/igp-parameters/igp-parameters.xhtml#link-attribute-application-identifiers
> 
> as defined in
> 
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8919.html#section-7.4
> 
> For me, this falls into the same category as https://www.iana.org/assignments/isis-tlv-codepoints/isis-tlv-codepoints.xhtml#prefix-attribute-flags .
> It is a general purpose flags field that was expected to be updated by a variety of otherwise unrelated documents and so we defined a registry for it.
> This category of flags field was never under discussion - I thought you and I had agreed on this explicitly early on.
> 
>   Les
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tony Li <tony1athome@gmail.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2021 7:47 AM
>> To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsberg@cisco.com>
>> Cc: Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org>; lsr@ietf.org; lsr-ads@ietf.org; lsr-
>> chairs@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [Lsr] Guidance for IANA flags field registry creation.
>> 
>> 
>> Les,
>> 
>>> I did (an admittedly casual) review of such fields in all TLVs defined during
>> the existence of the IS-IS/LSR WGs - which covers over 20 years. I did not find
>> a single occurrence where the flags field ever got extended.
>> 
>> 
>> draft-ietf-isis-te-app defines the Application Specific Link Attributes TLV.
>> That includes the Standard Application Identifier Bit Mask and defines three
>> bits.
>> 
>> draft-ietf-lsr-flex-algo extends this with one bit for FlexAlgo.
>> 
>> So there is one example.
>> 
>> Tony
>