Re: [pim] Erik Kline's No Objection on draft-ietf-pim-assert-packing-10: (with COMMENT)

[Erik Kline <[e-mail]>]

Sounds good; thanks for the extra explanation!

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 12:10 PM Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Thanks, Eric.
>
> The simple answer is: No, the document intends to solve the problem for
> subnets with 3 or more PIM routers. So for the purpose of just the document
> being correct i think we're fine.
>
> Having said this:
>
> The complex answer is: There can be asserts not caused by PIM itself, but
> because of IGMP/MLD, and these can happen with 2 or more routers. But the
> document does not explicitly try to address them, because there should be
> better solutions than asserts (and hence assert packing) to solve
> duplicates
> resulting from IGMP/MLD. So i would not even want to promote assert packing
> to solve this issue, even if it potentially could help as long as the
> better solutions are not deployed.
>
> Cheers
>     Toerless
>
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 09:42:17PM -0800, Erik Kline via Datatracker wrote:
> > Erik Kline has entered the following ballot position for
> > draft-ietf-pim-assert-packing-10: No Objection
> >
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> > COMMENT:
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> >
> > # Internet AD comments for draft-ietf-pim-assert-packing-10
> > CC @ekline
> >
> > ## Nits
> >
> > ### S2
> >
> > * "with more than 2 PIM routers"
> >
> >   Should this actually read "with 2 or more PIM routers"?
> >
> >
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