Lizhenbin <lizhen...@huawei.com> writes:

Hi Chris & Acee,

- Jan 2, 2018 Publication: draft-li-dynamic-flooding and 
drfat-li-dynamic-flooding-isis
  published centralized solution.

- Mar 5, 2018 Publication: draft-cc-isis-flooding-reduction and 
draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction
  published distributed solution

Thanks for your summary we know the fact that at beginning there was not any 
confliction between the two drafts.


- Jun 28, 2018 draft-li-dynamic-flooding-05 published (2 authors)
  - *SMALL CHANGE TO SUPPORT DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM*.
  - Does not specify distributed algorithm only how to indicate one in use, 
small change.

I do not think it is a small change. It is to introduced the totally new 
solution which was already defined in the other existing draft. It is not an 
appropariate behavior and the root cause of the potential confliction.

It added 8 bits to signal which distributed algorithm (if any) was in use. How 
is that not small?

I also think the distributed solution includes more than the algorithms defined 
in the draft-cc-lsr-flooding-reduction-00  and the overlapped signallings  
defined in the draft-cc-lsr-flooding-reduction-00/draft-li-dynamic-flooding-03. 
Since the co-authors could not merge the draft, though the existing suggestion 
proposed is try to separate the two drafts, there is still overlap on the 
distributed solution between the two drafts which may be the source of 
continuous confliction in the future. In order to avoid the situation I would 
like to propose following suggestions:

Yes, the CC draft added a ton of new signaling after the fact. We didn't need 
this, and it has been the root cause of the conflict.

The signaling is not the hard part to solve here and we don't need to be 
spending all this time and effort (15 authors now?!) on it.

Instead of spending more time on signaling, we need to get rid of this 
conflict, and have people working on the *actual hard problems* of the flooding 
topology calculation. There's no conflict here, there's room for multiple 
solutions, and it's the hard part.

Thanks,
Chris.

- move both the two drafts forward in parallel keeping 
draft-li-dynamic-flooding focus on the centralized solution and 
draft-cc-lsr-flooding-reduction on the distributed solution.
- draft-li-dynamic-flooding can keep on refining the centralized solution 
without mentioning distibuted solutions.
- draft-cc-lsr-flooding-reduction can keep on refining the distributed 
solutions. For the sigalling which can be shared by the two modes, the draft 
can indicate the distributed solutions reuse the signalling defined in 
draft-li-dynamic-flooding without defining new signalling.
- both drafts change the draft names to reflect different solutions without 
causing confusion.


Thanks & Regards,
Zhenbin (Robin)





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发件人: Lsr [lsr-boun...@ietf.org] 代表 Christian Hopps [cho...@chopps.org]
发送时间: 2019年2月1日 20:25
收件人: lsr@ietf.org
抄送: cho...@chopps.org
主题: [Lsr] Moving Forward [Re: Flooding Reduction Draft Redux]

Summary of where we are at with dynamic flooding reduction:

 - We have a well written original work that came first and described the 
problems as well as a TLVs to allow for a centralized solution 
(draft-li-dyanmic-flooding). We do not need to standardize the centralized 
algorithm.

 - A small change to this work allowed for distributed algorithms and for 
outside work on distributed algorithms to continue in parallel.

 - We have another original work that started primarily as a distributed 
algorithm
   (draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction)

 - Finally we also have:
   - Cross-pollination of ideas.
   - Failed attempts at merging.
   - An authors list "Arms-Race".

Moving forward:

- During IETF 103 I proposed we have no conflict if we:

   1) adopt draft-li-lsr-dyanmic-flooding as the base WG document.
   2) have authors of draft-cc-lsr-flooding-reduction work on a distributed 
algorithm as they started with.

- Acee agreed during the meeting (as chair) that this was the best way forward. 
We had some agreement form the floor as well.

- Any good ideas regarding the distribution of a centralized topology can be 
debated and added (with appropriate attribution) to the base document after we 
adopt one.

- This is what happens when we adopt a document as WG work, we work on it.

- The original authors of the distributed solution can continue to work on 
their distributed algorithm in a separate document which would also need 
standardization.

Does anyone see a serious problem with this path forward?

Thanks,
Chris & Acee.
LSR Chairs.

Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org> writes:

We've had the authors of the individual conflicting drafts take a shot at 
merging their work.

   This has failed.

Here is the full history (which I also summarized during IETF103 as well). I 
will send a second email discussing this.

- Jan 2, 2018 Publication: draft-li-dynamic-flooding and 
drfat-li-dynamic-flooding-isis
  published centralized solution.

- Mar 5, 2018 Publication: draft-cc-isis-flooding-reduction and 
draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction
  published distributed solution.
  - mention of centralized solution asserting it is not good choice.

- IETF 101 (Mar 2018)
  - Video: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHmT4ytMn4w&list=PLC86T-6ZTP5j_HaBNdfPbgxGIp22cnaWS
  - Minutes: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/101/materials/minutes-101-lsr-00
  - draft-li-dynamic-flooding-02 presented (1 author). at IETF 101
    - Generally well received.
  - draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction-00 (4 authors) presented.
    - Serious problems immediately found during presentation -- not fully baked.

- Mar 18, 2018 draft-li-dynamic-flooding-03 published (1 author)
- Mar 27, 2018 draft-li-dynamic-flooding-04 published (1 author)
- Apr 20, 2018 draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction-01 revised
- Jun 28, 2018 draft-li-dynamic-flooding-05 published (2 authors)
  - *SMALL CHANGE TO SUPPORT DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHM*.
  - Does not specify distributed algorithm only how to indicate one in use, 
small change.

- Jul 2, 2018 draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction-02 published

- IETF 102 (Jul 14, 2018)
  - draft-li-dynamic-flooding-05 presented.
  - draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction-02 presented.

- Sep 12, 2018 draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction-03 (4 authors)
  - *LARGE CHANGE ADDS NEW CENTRALIZED SOLUTION*.

- Sep 20, 2018 draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction-04 (4 authors)

- Oct 21, 2018 draft-li-lsr-dynamic-flooding-00 and -01 (5 authors)

- IETF 103 (Nov 3, 2018)

  - Chairs give direction

    - draft-li-lsr-dynamic-flooding-05 having come first, being well written 
and not
      specifying a distributed algorithm (merely allowing for one) is the 
correct vehicle
      to adopt as a base document.

    - Distributed algorithm work (the original basis for 
draft-cc-ospf-flooding-reduction)
      should continue as a separate document form the base which would thus we 
have no
      conflicts.

- In the meantime the authors try and merge work, this fails.

- Dec 3, 2018 draft-li-lsr-dynamic-flooding-02 (7 authors)

- Dec 10, 2018 draft-cc-lsr-flooding-reduction-00 (4 authors)

- Jan 7, 2019  draft-cc-lsr-flooding-reduction-01 (8 authors)

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