Re: Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-ospf-2547-dnbit-01.txt to both lists

Eric Rosen <erosen@CISCO.COM> Thu, 20 November 2003 20:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-ospf-2547-dnbit-01.txt to both lists
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In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:09:19 +0000. <002001c3aec0$3f8a7be0$0301a8c0@tom3>
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> In the abstract, I would like the text to include LSA Header in the reference
> to options, as OSPF has options in other places

No problem.

> Throughout, VPN-IP address should be VPN-IPv4 address as in (mostly) the base
> VPN documents

I  prefer to  leave it  as is,  since there  is nothing  v4-specific  in the
procedures.

> The  dn  bit  stops  OSPF   route  calculation.   What  about  other  OSPF
> processing?   I  assume  that the  LSA  will  be  put in  the  topological
> database, aged, flooded etc just as if  dn was not set.  In which case, or
> if not, I would like that specifically stated.

We will add a  statement saying that LSAs with the DN  bit set still get put
in the topological database, aged, flooded, etc.