Hi Ketan,
I'm not against this suggested change.
I noticed however, that Acee suggested this a while back and at that time you
mentioned an issue when flex-algo locators where advertised this way,
see snip below. Can you elaborate on why this is no longer an issue?
Thx,
Dirk

<snip>
[Acee]
Why do you define a separate SRv6 Locator LSA to advertise SRv6 reachability? 
One of the primary benefits of RFC8362 is to advertise all the information 
associated with a prefix in one LSA. Now you have negated that benefit by 
putting this information in a separate LSA.
[KT] We need to define a new LSA since this is not an extension for the normal 
prefix reachability. For doing FlexAlgo with SRv6, the locators are used for 
reachability computation within the FlexAlgo. If these were advertised as 
normal prefix reachability then routers which are not part of the FlexAlgo or 
even routers not supporting SRv6 would program them. We've tried to explain 
this in 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-li-ospf-ospfv3-srv6-extensions-07#section-5.


-----Original Message-----
From: Lsr <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2021 6:29 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Lsr] Proposed changes for OSPFv3 SRv6 encoding

Hello All,

Some feedback has been received with suggestions to change the encoding 
currently proposed in the draft - more specifically related to 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lsr-ospfv3-srv6-extensions-02#section-6

The proposal is to do away with the need for introduction of a new LSA for SRv6 
Locator and instead advertise the SRv6 Locator as a new top-level TLV within 
all the extended Prefix LSAs introduced in RFC8362. The advantage is simpler 
processing for the scenarios where the prefix is advertised as both a normal 
prefix reachability as well as SRv6 Locator. It also results in avoiding the 
handling of a new LSA type in OSPFv3.

I would like to poll the WG to check if there are any existing implementations 
of the draft in the current form (even though codepoints have not yet been 
allocated). Also, if there is any objection to introducing this change.

Thanks,
Ketan

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