Les,

> [LES:] I do not object to the Generic-Metric TLV (I believe I stated that at 
> the beginning). I might not have chosen to do it that way myself - but I am 
> OK with it.
> But one of the consequences of this choice is that not all metric-types can 
> be advertised in this new format.
> This means that for each metric type in the IGP Metric Types Registry (now 
> and in the future) we need to state whether the type is encoded in 
> Generic-Metric sub-TLV or not.


Fair enough.  I would expect anything in the generic metric to a local matter 
anyway.  Anything that needs a new IGP Metric Type is clearly a global 
definition.


> IGP: This is not encoded in a sub-TLV of any flavor.
> TE: There is an existing sub-TLV - so yes - backwards compatibility is an 
> issue. I see no reason to reinvent the advertisement for this.
> Delay: The value used for this metric is derived from Min/Max Unidirectional 
> Link Delay sub-TLV(34). This encoding does not fit in the Generic-Metric 
> format and even if it did it would be redundant and not backwards compatible.


Of course, no objection. 


> For new metric-types:
> 
> Whether they can be advertised in Generic-Metric is dependent upon the value 
> associated with the advertisement.
> Since you say you do NOT want to define a restriction on new metric-types to 
> always match Generic-Metric format, that means for each new type we will also 
> need to indicate whether it is advertised in Generic-Metric or not.
> 
> I hope this is not controversial - just a detail that needs to be attended to 
> in the draft.


Not controversial.  Please propose wording that would make you comfortable.

Tony

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