Re: OSPF WG Charter Proposal

[Dave Katz <[e-mail]>]

   And no need to address to ways of reducing the LSAs that need to be flooded
   in a timely manner? When both sides have synced up LSDB then only the  link
   is declared FULL. But all the auxliary information is also exchanged before a l
   ink is declared FULL. Shouldn't that be part of protocol - to declare adjacency
   is FULL once basic link/node information is in sync and in the second phase the
   neighbors can exchange auxiliary information such as link colors etc i.e phased DB exchange. This all
   This all boils down to seperating the basic functionality from extended functionality which
   should reduce the congestion.

Deciding when the adjacency is declared FULL has no direct impact on
congestion, only on convergence time.

Playing games along these lines certainly requires protocol spec changes;
whether they are sufficiently worthwhile in OSPFv2 to make such changes
is open to debate.