Tony -

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Li <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected]
> Sent: Monday, April 01, 2019 8:44 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Lsr] FW: New Version Notification for draft-white-distoptflood-
> 00.txt
> 
> >
> >> 3)The adjacency formation logic discussed in Section 2 isn’t directly
> relevant
> >> to calculating a flooding topology. There are existing implementations
> which
> >> use the techniques you define as a means of reducing redundant flooding
> >> associated with adjacency bringup when there are parallel links between
> two
> >> nodes. Note this can be (and is) done without  requiring protocol
> >> extensions/specification i.e., a node can do this today without introducing
> >> any interoperability issues. So while this is definitely a good idea, it 
> >> isn’t
> >> directly related to the work on flooding topologies and I think is better
> >> removed from the draft.
> >
> > Okay -- it seems like this technique is not documented anyplace, and could
> be used for all adjacencies.
> 
> 
> I’m going to risk disagreeing with Les again

[Les:] :-)

 and suggest that this should be
> documented.  It need not be in this draft, but it is useful to have in an RFC
> somewhere.

[Les:] If someone wants to write this up in a draft that's fine with me - but 
it should be an Informational/BCP draft.

My point in the context of this thread is that it isn’t directly related to 
flooding optimization work and therefore doesn’t belong in such drafts.

   Les

> 
> Tony
> 

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