+1 to “Application-Specific”

Cheers,
Jeff
On Jun 18, 2020, 2:09 PM -0700, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) 
<[email protected]>, wrote:
> John –
>
> Yes – I like “Application-Specific” better. This matches the term we use 
> throughout the documents.
>
> Thanx.
>
>     Les
>
> From: John E Drake <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 1:37 PM
> To: Yingzhen Qu <[email protected]>; Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) 
> <[email protected]>; Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) 
> <[email protected]>; BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A <[email protected]>; 
> The IESG <[email protected]>
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> Subject: RE: [Lsr] Deborah Brungard's Discuss on draft-ietf-isis-te-app-14: 
> (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
>
> I had mentioned “Application Specific”
>
> Yours Irrespectively,
>
> John
>
>
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> From: Yingzhen Qu <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 4:30 PM
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> <[email protected]>; BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A <[email protected]>; 
> The IESG <[email protected]>
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> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Lsr] Deborah Brungard's Discuss on draft-ietf-isis-te-app-14: 
> (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
>
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>
> Hi Les,
>
> The proposed new titles are much better than the old ones. I’m debating 
> between “application-scoped” and “application-based”, but no strong opinion. 
> It’s up to you and Peter to decide a good name.
>
> Thanks,
> Yingzhen
>
> From: "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <[email protected]>
> Date: Thursday, June 18, 2020 at 11:04 AM
> To: Yingzhen Qu <[email protected]>, "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" 
> <[email protected]>, "BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A" 
> <[email protected]>, The IESG <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
> <[email protected]>, "Acee Lindem (acee)" <[email protected]>, 
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
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> Subject: RE: [Lsr] Deborah Brungard's Discuss on draft-ietf-isis-te-app-14: 
> (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
>
> Yingzhen –
>
> Thanx for providing the YANG example – and for taking on the additions to the 
> IGP YANG models.
>
> Regarding changing the titles of the documents, I see your point. The work 
> started because of issues related to different TE applications (RSVP-TE and 
> SR Policy) – but you are correct that the solution provided can be used by 
> applications that are NOT TE related.
>
> Peter and I are still mulling this over, but how about these for new titles?
>
> IS-IS Application-Scoped Link Attributes
> OSPF Application-Scoped Link Attributes
>
>    Les
>
>
>
>
> From: Yingzhen Qu <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:29 PM
> To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>; BRUNGARD, 
> DEBORAH A <[email protected]>; The IESG <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Acee Lindem (acee) 
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Lsr] Deborah Brungard's Discuss on draft-ietf-isis-te-app-14: 
> (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
>
> Hi Deborah and Les,
>
> From YANG model’s perspective, whether there is a default value is based on 
> the protocol definition and it is optional. For this case, if there is no 
> default value the following could be an example YANG definition:
>
>       choice te-app-op-mode {
>         mandatory "true";
>         leaf legacy {
>           type empty;
>         }
>         leaf transition {
>           type empty;
>         }
>         leaf app-specific{
>           type empty;
>         }
>         description
>           "Link attributes mode.";
>       }
>
> “mandatory true” is used here to make this configuration mandatory, which 
> means implementations supporting this draft need to explicitly config the 
> operation mode. I’ll add the YANG support of this feature for both OSPF and 
> ISIS into the next version of the augmentation drafts.
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-yang-augmentation-v1/
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-acee-lsr-isis-yang-augmentation-v1/
>
> BTW, I’m now wondering whether the title of the draft is precise? Instead of 
> “IS-IS TE Attributes per application”, maybe something like “IS-IS per 
> application link attributes”? considering more applications will be using the 
> sub-TLV and they may not be TE. Same for OSPF.
>
> Thanks,
> Yingzhen
>
> From: Lsr <[email protected]> on behalf of "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" 
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 at 4:19 PM
> To: "BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A" <[email protected]>, The IESG <[email protected]>
> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
> <[email protected]>, "Acee Lindem (acee)" <[email protected]>, 
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
> "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Lsr] Deborah Brungard's Discuss on draft-ietf-isis-te-app-14: 
> (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
> Resent-From: <[email protected]>
>
> Deborah –
>
> We have a protocol extension that provides alternative ways of supporting 
> legacy applications.
>
> Under the conditions noted in Section 6.1, implementations have a choice as 
> to which advertisements they use.
> There is nothing in the document to specify which choice is the default – nor 
> should there be.
> To do so  implies that you believe that an implementation which is otherwise 
> compliant (i.e., it sends/receives TLVs in accordance with the specification) 
> could or should be considered in violation of the specification because it 
> chose to use new advertisements as the default with an option to select 
> legacy advertisements rather than use legacy advertisements as the default 
> with an option to use new advertisements.
>
> Further, what makes sense to be the default – from a user convenience POV - 
> is likely to change over time. Initially the existence of legacy routers will 
> be large and the upgraded routers few. This argues for legacy being the 
> default. But a few years down the road and the numbers will be reversed – in 
> which case the “better” default will be “new”. Declaring conformant 
> implementations in violation simply because they decide to align their 
> defaults with their most common deployment scenarios seems like unreasonable 
> punishment.
>
> There are certainly past examples – not least of which is the introduction of 
> the “extended” TLVs in RFC 5305 - which have followed a similar path. 
> Initially it made sense to default to old style advertisements – but over 
> time it made more sense to default to new advertisements.
> Note that RFC 5305 was silent on this – which in my opinion is correct and 
> what we should do here.
>
> I also take issue with your assumption that a default MUST be specified in 
> the corresponding YANG model. I am far from a YANG expert – and will happily 
> defer to those with more experience – but I see no reason why this cannot be 
> modeled as a leaf which can take on one enumerated value – but there need not 
> be a default. It is simply required to have a value.
>
> A few more comments inline.
>
>
> From: BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 1:07 PM
> To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>; The IESG <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Acee 
> Lindem (acee) <[email protected]>; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: Deborah Brungard's Discuss on draft-ietf-isis-te-app-14: (with 
> DISCUSS and COMMENT)
>
> Les-
>
> To shortcut the discussion on the need for adding a default for “control”, 
> these two sections are inconsistent as currently worded:
>
> Section 6.1.1
> Specifies for SR Policy and/or LFA applications: “This will require 
> implementations to provide controls specifying which type of advertisements 
> are to be sent/processed on receive for these applications.”
>
> Section 6.3.3.
> “2)Enable the use of the application specific advertisements on all Routers”
> [Les:] What is being described here is a “hitless transition strategy”. It is 
> wrong to assume that the use of “enable” here means that the default is 
> “disable”.
> This is the action taken in Step 2 after you started (Step 1) by using legacy 
> only.
> None of this says or implies anything about what defaults are nor what config 
> commands (if any) were needed to place the box in the state specified at Step 
> 1.
> This document is not a vendor configuration guide – and I do not want to make 
> it one.
>    Les
> If one is “enabling” then the default is “OFF”? So this document already 
> assumes it. I don’t understand the reluctance to add also to section 6.1.1. 
> When the YANG model is defined, this will be the config default. So either 
> you specify now or later – later, may result in every vendor/platform having 
> a different default if they don’t read section 6.3.3. That will be a major 
> interoperability problem – even potentially among the same vendor for 
> different platforms.
> This same comment is for the OSPF document – it needs to specify a default.
> More notes below.
>
> Thanks,
> Deborah
>
> [Les:] “Legacy” refers to routers which do not support the extensions defined 
> in this document.
> “Legacy advertisements” are explicitly listed in Section 3.
> “Legacy advertisements” have been used (prior to this draft) in support of 
> all of the applications discussed in this draft (RSVP-TE, SRTE (renamed to SR 
> Policy as per your comment), and LFA) because there was nothing else 
> available.
> There is no intent to “upgrade RSVP-TE”. The new encodings can be used by 
> RSVP-TE (as discussed in Sections 6.3.4) – but this is not a main motivation 
> for the draft and if it never happens (i.e.., RSVP-TE implementations 
> continue to use legacy advertisements) that is fine.
> [Deborah:]
> Ok, but I still agree with Bruno – this is very confusing on what is being 
> referenced, especially what needs to be done for RSVP-TE deployments. The 
> addition of the default=off will clarify RSVP-TE deployments remain the same.
>
> [Les:]
> It is not an update to RFC 5305.
> As an analogy, are you suggesting that RFC 5120 should be considered  an 
> update to RFC 5305 because it introduces new forms of IS-Neighbor and Prefix 
> Reachability advertisements?
> [Deborah:]
> If this document is similar to RFC5120, why doesn’t it use similar wording? 
> It would be much clearer. RFC5120 abstract says “describes an optional 
> mechanism”. It does not use the confusing terms “upgraded” or “legacy”. The 
> abstract for this document says “This document introduces new link attribute 
> advertisements that address both of these shortcomings..” This document does 
> not say “optional”. It would really help to add similar wording to the 
> abstract. Again, specifying the default “OFF”, will ensure the reader knows 
> these are optional.
> [Les:]
> I see no reason to go beyond what the draft specifies. An implementation 
> which is working and conforms to the published standards in terms of the form 
> of advertisements sent/received is not going to change simply because an RFC 
> says you SHOULD.
> [Deborah:]
> Maybe some vendors won’t follow an RFC, maybe they will still “work”, but I 
> don’t see that as justification for not clearly defining a control default in 
> one of our RFCs.
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