Re: [trill] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-aa-multi-attach-04: (with COMMENT)

[Mingui Zhang <[e-mail]>]

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the suggestions!

> Good improvements. For this (fairly ignorant) reader though, saying "keep all
> the attachments" is still a bit puzzling. If that's normal trill phraseology then
> it's probably best as-is, but if not, maybe it'd be better something like:
> 
> NEWNEW
>     Thus, remote edge RBridges (who are not in the group) will see
>     one host MAC address being associated with the multiple RBridges
>     in the group. Such remote edge RBridges are required to
>     maintain all those associations and to not flip-flop among them
>     which would be the behaviour prior to this specification.
> NEWNEW

[MZ] I agree the word "association" is more easily to be understood. Let's incorporate the text. And, since the word "attach" is used everywhere, it'd be helpful to relate them as below.

...maintain all those associations (i.e., MAC attachments) and ...

> Heh:-) I'm not so sure I agree that faking an ESADI message from the right
> place within the campus would be that hard.

[MZ] Yes, I agree. Faking an ESADI message is possible and it has been captured in [RFC7357].

> But I also note that you've
> answered that my example doesn't work which is fine, but you didn't explicitly
> say that the general analysis had been done. I'll assume that you did mean that
> though:-)

[MZ] Yes, we did:-)

Thanks,
Mingui