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

Anton,

On 9/17/13 14:48 , Anton Smirnov wrote:
>     I strongly support this work.
>     IMO we need the same work to be done with OSPFv2. Shall it be part
> of this document or work on its own is a separate question.
>     Number of I-Ds submitted against OSPFv2 shows that this version of
> the protocol is still being actively worked on and in medium term many
> extensions will have to be simultaneously proposed for v2 and v3. Having
> Extendable LSAs in both protocol versions would greatly simplify
> standardization and development of such extensions.

I have posted a similar comment on the list when I started the SR 
extensions for OSPFv2. The consensus at that time was to take the path 
of the complimentary Opaque LSAs rather then redefining existing LSAs 
types. This has been reflected in the 
draft-psenak-ospf-segment-routing-extensions.

thanks,
Peter

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>     I have a few notes on current draft but I do not want to hijack this
> thread for technical discussion and better send another email.
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> Thanks,
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> Anton
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> On 09/16/2013 02:24 PM, Acee Lindem 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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