Re: [pim] call for adoption: draft-zhou-pim-vrrp-01

Hi Mike,

It seems that both drafts seem to solve nearly the same problem (multiple routers on the multi-access interface and existence of first-hop redundancy protocols e.g. VRRP). 

Cheers,
Rajiv

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike McBride [mailto:mmcbride7@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 2:17 AM
> To: Xuxiaohu; sganesan@extremenetworks.com; Rajiv Asati (rajiva);
> Prashant Jhingran (pjhingra); Wei Zhou (weizho2)
> Cc: Stig Venaas; Mike McBride; pim@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [pim] call for adoption: draft-zhou-pim-vrrp-01
> 
> Folks,
> 
> We have this new draft-zhou-pim-vrrp-01 which we are about to adopt into
> the pim wg. It has been brought to the WGs attention that there is a older
> draft (draft-xu-pim-drpriority-auto-adjustment-03) which may have some
> overlap with the new one. That older draft does contain information about
> VRRP aware PIM which is attributed to Stig in the acknowledgements. If the
> five of you authors feel that there is some validity that the older draft
> contains some information being used in the new draft, you may want to
> acknowledge that in the references or acknowledgements. It appears the
> drafts are dissimilar enough to not be merged but I may be wrong. Please
> share your opinions on this so we can establish consensus within the group
> and move the document along.
> 
> If the broader WG participants have an opinion on this please speak up.
> 
> thanks,
> mike
> 
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Xuxiaohu <xuxiaohu@huawei.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This draft reminds me that there has been a draft
> (http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-xu-pim-drpriority-auto-adjustment-03)
> three years before which uses almost the same technology to save almost
> the same problem.
> >
> > The following is quoted from the above draft:
> >
> >    "In fact, if VRRP is run on the PIM routers and the VRRP has enabled
> >    the upstream link tracking mechanism, the PIM DR failover mechanism
> >    could be coupled with the VRRP so as to reuse the upstream link
> >    tracking mechanism of VRRP. One option is to synchronize the PIM DR
> >    priority value to the VRRP priority value always. In this way, the
> >    PIM DR and the VRRP master will always run on an identical router if
> >    the VRRP Preempt_Mode is set to True. Another option is to make the
> >    PIM DR and the VRRP master run on an identical router anyway (i.e.,
> >    regardless whether or not the VRRP Preempt_Mode is True). To achieve
> >    this goal, the PIM DR priority of the VRRP master router SHOULD
> >    always be set to a higher fixed value than that of the VRRP slave
> >    router automatically."
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Xiaohu
> >
> >> -----邮件原件-----
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> Mike
> >> McBride
> >> 发送时间: 2013年5月10日 3:48
> >> 收件人: pim@ietf.org
> >> 主题: [pim] call for adoption: draft-zhou-pim-vrrp-01
> >>
> >> draft-zhou-pim-vrrp-01 was presented in our most recent pim meeting
> >> in Orlando. 4 people were in favor of adopting the draft. Zero against.
> >> Please read the draft (its short) and provide an opinion either way
> >> by the end of next Friday the 17th.
> >>
> >> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-zhou-pim-vrrp-01.txt
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> mike
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