Re: WGLC for BFD Multipoint documents (last round)

[Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>]

Hi Carlos and Jeff,
thank you for responding so expediently. I think we've reached the rough
consensus. Attached are the diffs for both BFD documents and the updated
copies. Please let me know if the changes being made have addressed all the
comments received during the WGLC. I'll then upload new versions.

Regards,
Greg

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 8:05 AM, Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]> wrote:

> [Speaking as an individual contributor.]
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 02:20:11AM +0000, Carlos Pignataro (cpignata)
> wrote:
> > S-BFD currently specified for p2p but I don't see a reason why S-BFD
> cannot be applied to p2mp cases. So, for a BFD node that supports both RFC
> 7880 and draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint values of variables may be SBFDInitiator
> and PointToPoint. And, at some time, there will be interest to define
> behavior of the SBFDInitiator/MultipointHead and
> SBFDReflector/MultipointTail combinations.
> >
> > Thus I see this issue as name conflict that can be resolved by changing
> the name in draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint-* to something other than
> bfd.SessionType. Perhaps we can change the name to bfd.SessionTopology.
>
> I concur with Carlos.  This really isn't a topology, simply a session type.
> (And one that is core to even the original BFD spec, albeit simply a bit
> that wasn't well defined!)
>
> I also agree that the solution to permitting S-BFD with multipoint is to
> simply have a value that expresses that combination.  At this point, S-BFD
> with multipoint is undefined.
>
> At this point it is also worth noting that the session type has no
> centralized location covering their enumerations.  This leads to two
> interesting observations:
> - We could have an IANA registry for such things.  However, I'm not sure
>   this is really need.  But this also means:
> - Here's another case why some pieces of the BFD yang module likely shoudl
>   be IANA maintained.  In this case, the bfd-path-type identity as the
>   relevant example.
>
> -- Jeff
>