Hi, All:

I have uploaded the updated draft with the new name 
“draft-wang-lsr-stub-link-attributes” at 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-lsr-stub-link-attributes/, which 
replaces the previous passive interface draft.

Any comments are welcome.
We think it is ready for WG adoption call.

Aijun Wang
China Telecom

> On Jul 31, 2021, at 10:35, Aijun Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Acee:
> 
> Regarding to your comments on the meetings that where to put the attributes 
> of these stub-link attributes, I had reviewed again the previous discussions 
> on the mail list. Please see it at 
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/lsr/LbsiUl9iL_9zTXnxtuAnKVpfmGs/. Then 
> putting it into link related attributes is more reasonable.
> 
> Regarding your concerns for the associated prefixes to be advertised in 
> different places, I checked also 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8362#section-3.7 and we can see for 
> Intra-Area-Prefix TLV, it can also be included in two different places. The 
> redundancy information has no influence for any other aspects, just used for 
> easy correlation.
> 
> And, based on the discussion along with 5G edge use case and the ASLA 
> attributes(please see       
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/lsr/0Lk8IPxsD1BJYT9D-NcRQJEnwHU/ ). It 
> is then more reasonable to put these attributes into link related TLV, that 
> is, the newly defined Stub-Link TLV/Sub-TLV.
> 
> If there is no other comments/argues on this draft, we will update the draft 
> in recent days, change the name to “draft-wang-lsr-stub-link-attributes” and 
> ask for WG adoption.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Aijun Wang
> China Telecom
> 
>> On Jul 31, 2021, at 06:45, Aijun Wang <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi, Acee:
>> 
>> Thanks for your comments.
>> Please see the replies inline.
>> 
>> Aijun Wang
>> China Telecom
>> 
>>> On Jul 31, 2021, at 01:00, Acee Lindem (acee) <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Gyan,
>>>  
>>> See brief inlines.
>>>  
>>> From: Gyan Mishra <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Thursday, July 29, 2021 at 10:24 PM
>>> To: Acee Lindem <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: "[email protected]" 
>>> <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" 
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [Lsr] Comments on "Passive Interface Attribute" - 
>>> draft-wang-lsr-passive-interface-attribute
>>>  
>>>  
>>> Hi Acee 
>>>  
>>> In-line 
>>>  
>>> On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 4:24 PM Acee Lindem (acee) 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Speaking as WG member:
>>>  
>>> Authors,
>>>  
>>> I think this draft is still flawed. Regarding the terminology, I don’t 
>>> think it should refer to passive interfaces at all since they aren’t 
>>> referenced in protocol documents. Rather, you should use stub-link 
>>> consistently – including the title. However, I don’t think this makes any 
>>> difference as I think you need to “go back to the drawing board”.
>>>  Gyan> Agreed.  We will change any references to passive  to stub.
>>> Why do other routers in the domain need to know the link if it isn’t 
>>> connected to any other routers? The stub-link is an artifact of OSPFv2 used 
>>> to advertise local prefixes. As you noticed, it was removed in OSPFv3 and 
>>> local prefixes are advertised in Intra-Area-Prefix LSAs (and 
>>> E-Inter-Area-Prefix-LSAs). I really think you are trying to advertise 
>>> attributes of a prefix and not a link. In fact, in OSPFv3 there is no 
>>> address associated with the link – I see you have attempted to remedy this 
>>> by adding a sub-TLV to advertise the prefix associated with the link ;^). 
>>> So, now this local prefix will be advertised two different ways?
>>> Gyan>(We did remedy as you asked)  Per yours and I believe Peters a d 
>>> others recommendation with OSPFV2 update RFC 7684 change from fixed format 
>>> LSA to TLV based similar to OSPFV3 RFC 8362 which the other big change was 
>>> the breakout of “topological” construct from the prefix creating separate 
>>> router links LSA for “topological” and prefix LSA for prefixes.  As the 
>>> passive or stub concept as you have reiterated to the authors is really 
>>> topological and  of prefix based to use router links and not router prefix 
>>> to add the new stub TLV so that is what we did for both OSPFV2 and OSPFV3 
>>> and added new top level stub  TLV for ISIS.
>>> I’m glad you didn’t modify the base LSAs. However, my question is why the 
>>> entity you are trying to describe isn’t just a local prefix – why do we 
>>> need to create a stub-link?
>> 
>> [WAJ] There are other attributes need to be associated and advertised with 
>> these stub links. Please refer to the discussion at 
>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/lsr/0Lk8IPxsD1BJYT9D-NcRQJEnwHU/ for 
>> 5G edge computation use case.
>> 
>>>  
>>> Specifically, what is BGP controller going to do with the stub link 
>>> advertisement that it couldn’t do with a prefix advertisement?  Also, why 
>>> can’t the AS boundary router report the inter-AS prefix via BGP-LS? The 
>>> other routers in the IGP domain have no use for this information.
>>>  Gyan> From a use case perspective the goal is to make this new stub TLV 
>>> generic so it can be used for any use case where you have a stub LSA that 
>>> is advertised that can be tracked by the PCE controller for the NB BGP-LS 
>>> building of the topological graphs and being able to distinguish any stub 
>>> nets from  transit nets with neighbors.
>>> What is the use-case for knowing that a prefix is associated with a 
>>> loopback? We already have the N-Flag (Node) for prefixes… What is your 
>>> loopback use case?
>>> Gyan> When NBI BGP-LS builds the topological graphs it’s any stub link 
>>> which could be inter-as or loopbacks or any interfaces so they can be 
>>> differentiated when the LSDB is build for the TEDs database.
>>> Also, what is the Vlan interface use case? What possible use could other 
>>> routers in the domain have for this information?
>>> Gyan> I believe vlan is just another example but it’s really any interface 
>>> that is a stub link with no neighbors can be treated differently by the NBI 
>>> BGP-LS, when the topological graph is built.
>>> I don’t see why this attribute can’t be associated with a prefix and why we 
>>> need a link. Furthermore, I don’t see any of the types as being useful 
>>> other than inter-AS. And for inter-AS, it can be advertised in BGP-LS. 
>>> Clearly, if there is an inter-AS interface, the router is running BGP.
>> 
>> [WAJ] As stated above, there are other attributes that should be associated 
>> with the stub links. There are also other use cases for theses information 
>> on the controller. For example, the controller can deploy network boundaries 
>> security policy once it knows which interfaces are facing the external world.
>> It can also release the operator from deploying BGP-LS on every border 
>> router for inter-AS use case.
>> The 5G edge computation that described in 
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-lsr-5g-edge-compute/ is 
>> another use case for these stub links on IGP routers.
>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Acee
>>>  
>>>  
>>> Thanks,
>>> Acee
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>>> 
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