Re: [OSPF] Poll for WG Adoption of "draft-acee-ospfv3-lsa-extend"

Support.

This draft blurs yet another line of difference between ISIS and OSPF,
where folks from the former camp claimed that their LSPs were TLV encoded
and thus easily extensible, unlike OSPF which was hard encoded.

Glen

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Acee Lindem <acee.lindem@ericsson.com>wrote:

> This version includes changes in support of backward compatibility.
> Speaking as both a WG chair and author, this document is essential to
> OSPFv3 protocol extension. Please indicate your support or objections by
> September 30th, 2013.
> Thanks,
> Acee
>
> On Sep 10, 2013, at 5:54 PM, <internet-drafts@ietf.org>
>  <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > A new version of I-D, draft-acee-ospfv3-lsa-extend-02.txt
> > has been successfully submitted by Acee Lindem and posted to the
> > IETF repository.
> >
> > Filename:      draft-acee-ospfv3-lsa-extend
> > Revision:      02
> > Title:                 OSPFv3 LSA Extendibility
> > Creation date:         2013-09-10
> > Group:                 Individual Submission
> > Number of pages: 29
> > URL:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-acee-ospfv3-lsa-extend-02.txt
> > Status:
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-acee-ospfv3-lsa-extend
> > Htmlized:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-acee-ospfv3-lsa-extend-02
> > Diff:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-acee-ospfv3-lsa-extend-02
> >
> > Abstract:
> >   OSPFv3 requires functional extension beyond what can readily be done
> >   with the fixed-format Link State Advertisement (LSA) as described in
> >   RFC 5340.  Without LSA extension, attributes associated with OSPFv3
> >   links and advertised IPv6 prefixes must be advertised in separate
> >   LSAs and correlated to the fixed-format LSA.  This document extends
> >   the LSA format by allowing the optional inclusion of Type-Length-
> >   Value (TLV) tuples in the LSAs.  Backward compatibility mechanisms
> >   are also described.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
> submission
> > until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
> >
> > The IETF Secretariat
> >
>
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