+1 Les

Cheers,
Jeff
On Apr 4, 2019, 10:44 AM -0700, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsb...@cisco.com>, 
wrote:
> But the point that Peter has made needs to be heeded.
> Changing IGP flooding to be unidirectional is non-trivial and should not be 
> done w/o justification.
>
> One of the things the FT draft has been very careful about thus far is to not 
> change the operation of the Update process on a given link.
> We allow links to be excluded from the FT but we do not change flooding 
> behavior on a link when it is part of the FT.
> We have also gone so far as to indicate that even if a link is NOT part of 
> the FT but we do receive an LSP on that link we acknowledge it in the 
> standard fashion.
>
> I think all of this simplifies the deployment of the feature and we should be 
> careful before introducing additional changes in standard protocol behavior.
>
> Les
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lsr <lsr-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of tony...@tony.li
> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2019 10:04 AM
> > To: David Allan I <david.i.al...@ericsson.com>
> > Cc: lsr@ietf.org; Jakob Heitz (jheitz) <jhe...@cisco.com>; Peter Psenak
> > (ppsenak) <ppse...@cisco.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Lsr] Flooding Path Direction
> >
> >
> > Hi Dave,
> >
> > > The algorithm in draft-allan actually has the notion of upstream,
> > downstream
> > > and both upstream and downstream FT adjacencies. However as a
> > generalized
> > > form is still a WIP and has yet to demonstrate merit against any of the
> > > other approaches on the table, I'd not be looking to suggest a specific
> > > encoding.
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > > If at some point it is decided that different classes of FT adjacency are
> > > required, simply using additional types that share the format of the
> > > flooding path TLV would appear to be sufficient....(?)
> >
> > Or perhaps having a separate TLV for a unidirectional path would suffice.
> >
> > That would allow both paths to be encoded most optimally.
> >
> > Tony
> >
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