Re: [OSPF] OSPF Link Local Signalling

This draft seems like good reading.
Why we might want to waste the TLV space now ?
We also have the OSPFv2 router capabilities draft with local LSA's.
 - Abhay D.S

Acee Lindem wrote:
> As you all know, we have OSPF Link-local Signaling 
> (draft-ietf-ospf-lls-01.txt)
> as WG document. However, I don't believe we can get IANA to manage the
> TLV type number space until the document is published.
>
> In the interim, Abhay Roy <akr@cisco.com> has volunteered to manage the
> allocations for LLS TLVs. Please contact him directly if you have a 
> draft that
> will require a unique code point. I'm more concerned with collisions 
> than having
> holes in the space due to drafts not making it all the way to RFC.
>
> I've excerpted the IANA considerations section from the draft below:
>
>   LLS TLV types are maintained by the IANA.  Extensions to OSPF which
>   require a new LLS TLV type MUST be reviewed by an designated expert
>   from the routing area.
>
>   Following the policies outlined in [IANA], LLS type values in the
>   range of 0-32767 are allocated through an IETF Consensus action and
>   LLS type values in the range of 32768-65536 are reserved for private
>   and experimental use.
>
>   This document assigns the following LLS TLV types in OSPFv2/OSPFv3.
>
>     TLV Type    Name                                      Reference
>         0       Reserved
>         1       Extended Options                          [RFCNNNN]*
>         2       Cryptographic Authentication+             [RFCNNNN]*
>         3-32767 Reserved for assignment by the IANA
>     32768-65535 Private Use
>
>     *[RFCNNNN] refers to the RFC number-to-be for this document.
>     + Cryptographic Authentication TLV is only defined for OSPFv2
>
>
>   This document also assigns the following bits for the Extended
>   Options bits field in the EO-TLV outlined in Section 2.5:
>
>     Extended Options Bit      Name                        Reference
>       0x00000001              LSDB Resynchronization (LR) [OOB]
>       0x00000002              Restart Signal (RS-bit)     [RESTART]
>
>
>   Other Extended Options bits will be allocated through an IETF
>   consensus action.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Acee
>
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Re: [OSPF] OSPF Link Local Signalling

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