Re: [OSPF] OSPF Operator-Defined TLVs (https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-chunduri-ospf-operator-defined-tlvs-01.txt)

<mohamed.boucadair@orange.com> Tue, 27 October 2015 06:54 UTC

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From: mohamed.boucadair@orange.com
To: "Acee Lindem (acee)" <acee@cisco.com>, OSPF WG List <ospf@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: OSPF Operator-Defined TLVs (https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-chunduri-ospf-operator-defined-tlvs-01.txt)
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Subject: Re: [OSPF] OSPF Operator-Defined TLVs (https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-chunduri-ospf-operator-defined-tlvs-01.txt)
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Hi Acee, all, 

I support this draft. (I'm co-author)

The proposed approach allows to disseminate information that is deployment-specific without overloading IANA to maintain specific registries. 

Cheers,
Med

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : OSPF [mailto:ospf-bounces@ietf.org] De la part de Acee Lindem (acee)
> Envoyé : lundi 19 octobre 2015 22:29
> À : OSPF WG List
> Objet : [OSPF] OSPF Operator-Defined TLVs (https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-
> chunduri-ospf-operator-defined-tlvs-01.txt)
> 
> This draft has been presented at two IETFs and while I don’t agree with
> some of the proposed use cases as these applications reference should, if
> fact, be standardized, I can see that the use case for local applications
> could be compelling. This is the use where OSPF provides an API for local
> applications to advertise application-specific information throughout the
> routing domain and receive the same parameters from other routers running
> that application. Since this is to support local applications generically,
> one could see the reason to allow non-standard parameters to be flooded
> opaquely (i.e., OSPF is used solely as a flooding mechanism).
> 
> Please take a look at the draft and indicate whether or not you feel the
> OSPF WG should work on such a solution. If there is enough interest, we
> will adopt it as a WG document.
> 
> Thanks,
> Acee
> 
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