Re: [trill] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-irb-13: (with COMMENT)

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Tue, 05 July 2016 13:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [trill] Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-trill-irb-13: (with COMMENT)
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Hi Mirja,

A -14 version has been uploaded that is intended to resolve your comment.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 9:49 PM, Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mirja,
>
> Thanks for your comments. See below.
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 6:13 PM, Mirja Kuehlewind <ietf@kuehlewind.net> wrote:
>> Mirja Kühlewind has entered the following ballot position for
>> draft-ietf-trill-irb-13: No Objection
>>
>> ...
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> COMMENT:
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Two minor comments:
>>
>> 1) There are only a few SHOULDs and MUSTs in this whole document
>>    and where they are used it is often not very clear what the action
>>    is that should follow and how it should be implemented
>>   (e.g. "The network operator MUST ensure the consistency of the
>>    tenant ID on each edge RBridge for each routing domain.").
>>   And maybe there are actually more case where normative
>>   language should be used?
>>   Please double-check the use of normative language in this document!
>
> OK.
>
>>  2) A similar question on the following part:
>>   „If a tenant is deleted on an edge RBridge RB1, RB1 SHOULD re-
>>    advertise the local tenant Data Label, tenant gateway MAC, and
>>    related IP prefixes information of the rest tenants to other edge
>>    RBridges. […] Therefore the transient routes consistency won't
>>   cause issues other than wasting some network bandwidth.“
>>   Wasting network resources actually can be an issue.
>>   So why is this not an MUST?
>
> Wasting bandwidth can be an issue but is not necessarily an issue,
> particularly if it occurs only during a brief transient period. TRILL
> does not make it mandatory to implement with the maximum link
> utilization efficiency. For example, TRILL multi-destination traffic
> is send over a distribution tree. If there are no devices interested
> in traffic in a particular VLAN further down a branch of the tree, it
> is recommended that traffic heading down that branch be pruned. But
> this is not mandatory. The TRILL campus will operate "correctly"
> without such pruning and if someone wants to make a very simple, low
> end implementation without pruning, so be it. (As far as I know, all
> existing TRILL implementation do prune distribution trees.)
>
> Thanks,
> Donald
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>  Donald E. Eastlake 3rd   +1-508-333-2270 (cell)
>  155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA
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