Re: Status of "alternative ABR implementations" draft?

[Acee Lindem <[e-mail]>]

Nohl Attila Rajmund wrote:

> Hello!


Hello NAR,


>
> I would like to know the current status of the
> draft-ietf-ospf-abr-alt-04.txt document. It is listed on the workgroup's
> homepage at http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/ospf-charter.html but
> according to its header, it expired last September.


I believe the draft is going to be published as an informational RFC. I'll
ping Alex to see where we stand with the last set of comments.

>
>>From the draft it looks like that some vendors already implemented this
> draft. I know, that in the GNU zebra routing software, one can configure
> the router to use one of the techniques specified in the document. Do
> you have any information about how widespread is the implementation of
> this draft among the router vendors?


Note that this is an informational RFC (vis-a-vis, a standards track RFC).
A properly designed OSPF network would not require the behavior described
in the draft. As a co-author, my primary motivation for implementing the
alternate ABR behavior was a satisfy a strong customer requirement.

In answer to your question, I'm not sure how many router vendors (other
than the ones listed in the draft) have implemented it.


>
>                                 Bye,NAR
>
>


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Acee