RE: identifying IP address of targeted LDP session in draft-ietf-rtgwg-remote-lfa-00

"Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <ginsberg@cisco.com> Thu, 20 December 2012 08:46 UTC

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From: "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <ginsberg@cisco.com>
To: Rob Shakir <rjs@rob.sh>
Subject: RE: identifying IP address of targeted LDP session in draft-ietf-rtgwg-remote-lfa-00
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Rob -

So long as the WG is in agreement that what we are discussing is simply "best practice" - and that there is no interoperability issue - then I think we should have little trouble converging on text which is agreeable to everyone.

   Les

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rob Shakir [mailto:rjs@rob.sh]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 12:38 AM
> To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
> Cc: rtgwg@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: identifying IP address of targeted LDP session in draft-ietf-
> rtgwg-remote-lfa-00
> 
> Hi Les,
> 
> Apologies for the delay in responding.
> 
> On 13 Dec 2012, at 22:33, "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <ginsberg@cisco.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Frankly, I find the discussion of a preference algorithm in selecting the
> endpoint address as useful/interesting - but much more appropriate for a
> vendor deployment guide than a normative specification. Vendors often are
> faced with idiosyncratic deployment constraints from their customers which
> need to be accommodated. In which case responsive vendors will provide
> various knobs to allow override of default behavior - while retaining the
> ease of "zero config" for the majority of customers. This is simply good
> business. We should not attempt to "standardize" this.
> 
> I agree that there are likely to be a variety of requirements, and I am not
> saying that we need a MUST in this document - but some guidance to
> implementors on this kind of deployment consideration is always useful from
> my perspective (some guidance as to what *could* be best practice, tends to
> result in a higher probability that different vendor's kit actually
> interoperates with each other).
> 
> Cheers,
> r.