I have the same consideration as Peter.

Aijun Wang
China Telecom

> On Mar 29, 2020, at 17:10, Peter Psenak <ppsenak=40cisco....@dmarc.ietf.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Les,
> 
>> On 29/03/2020 00:00, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) wrote:
>> Tony –
>> There are a few misunderstandings in your post.
>> Let me try to correct them.
>> RFC 8668 defines a new top-level TLV (25). This is NOT a sub-TLV(sic) of 
>> TLVs 22,23,141,222,223.
>> Conceptually, it could have been defined as a sub-TLV, but because of the 
>> limited length of a TLV in IS-IS (255 octets) and the likelihood that 
>> advertising L2Bundle member attributes would consume a significant amount of 
>> space, we decided to use a new top-level TLV which references the associated 
>> L3 adjacency advertised in TLV 22. This means TLV22 advertisements are not 
>> impacted by the presence of TLV 25. In particular, the use of TLV 25 does 
>> not lead to multiple TLV 22 advertisements for the same adjacency, which we 
>> thought was a desirable outcome.
>> The equivalent OSPF draft 
>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ketant-lsr-ospf-l2bundles-01 ) takes the 
>> sub-TLV approach, but since OSPF has a 16 bit length for TLVs it does not 
>> face the same encoding issues.
>> I fully agree with you that an L2 bundle is a Layer 3 construct – and as 
>> such can be associated with any Layer 3 MTID in theory. However, when 
>> writing RFC 8668 we did not consider that there was a use case for topology 
>> specific link attributes. The current encoding does not support MTID.
> 
> RFC 8668 defines a TLV to advertise attributes of the individual L2 link 
> members. While the TLV itself can be considered as L3 construct (and have MT 
> associated with it), the individual L2 Bundle Member Links inside this TLV 
> are not L3 constructs IMHO and should never have a MTID associated with them. 
> The ask here is to advertise different MTID for each individual L2 bundle 
> member link.
> 
> MTID is used to construct a topology. I do not see how a L2 bundle link 
> member would ever become part of the L3 topology.
> 
> my 2c,
> Peter
> 
> 
>> At this point, if we needed to extend RFC 8668 to support MTID we would need 
>> to allocate an additional TLV code point that included MTID – similar to the 
>> distinction between TLV 22 and TLV 222.
>> HTH
>>    Les
>> *From:* Lsr <lsr-boun...@ietf.org> *On Behalf Of * Tony Przygienda
>> *Sent:* Saturday, March 28, 2020 10:25 AM
>> *To:* peng.shaofu@

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