Re: OSPFv2 Opaque LSAs in OSPFv3

[Kireeti Kompella <[e-mail]>]

Thanks for your support, Venkata!

One thing I would like to reiterate: there are a *small* number of
currently defined Opaque LSAs -- TE, Grace LSA, and perhaps one more.
If we analyse the applicability of those LSAs to OSPF v3, and mandate
that any future definition of an OSPFv2 Opaque LSA MUST have a similar
analysis, that seems to me to address the "backdoor" problem.

The "backdoor" issue is an excellent example of a *theoretical*
problem that has little *practical* relevance, given the above mandate.

As a consequence, we have at least two independent efforts to migrate
just the TE document to v3, when in fact it should be really simple.
Then we do it again for Grace LSAs.  And possibly again in the future.

And then we hear that the IETF is overloaded, and the IESG overburdened.
Oh, well ...

Kireeti.