Hi, John:
Please note if the node is down, the service will not be accessed.
We are discussing the “DOWN” notification, not the “UP” notification.

Aijun Wang
China Telecom

> On Jan 15, 2022, at 00:25, John E Drake <jdrake=40juniper....@dmarc.ietf.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
>  
> Comment inline below.
>  
> Yours Irrespectively,
>  
> John
>  
>  
> Juniper Business Use Only
> From: Lsr <lsr-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Robert Raszuk
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 7:15 PM
> To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsb...@cisco.com>
> Cc: Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org>; Aijun Wang 
> <wangai...@tsinghua.org.cn>; Shraddha Hegde <shrad...@juniper.net>; Tony Li 
> <tony...@tony.li>; Hannes Gredler <han...@gredler.at>; lsr <lsr@ietf.org>; 
> Peter Psenak (ppsenak) <ppse...@cisco.com>
> Subject: Re: [Lsr] BGP vs PUA/PULSE
>  
> [External Email. Be cautious of content]
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> Hi Les,
>  
> > You seem focused on the notification delivery mechanism only.
>  
> Not really. For me, an advertised summary is like a prefix when you are 
> dialing a country code. Call signaling knows to go north if you are calling a 
> crab shop in Alaska. 
>  
> Now such direction does not indicate if the shop is open or has crabs. 
>  
> That info you need to get over the top as a service. So I am much more in 
> favor to make the service to tell you directly or indirectly that it is 
> available. 
>  
> [JD]  Right.  Just because a node is up and connected to the network does not 
> imply that a given application is active on it.
>  
> Best,
> R.
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:07 AM Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsb...@cisco.com> 
> wrote:
> Robert -
>  
> From: Robert Raszuk <rob...@raszuk.net> 
> Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 2:56 PM
> To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsb...@cisco.com>
> Cc: Tony Li <tony...@tony.li>; Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org>; Peter 
> Psenak (ppsenak) <ppse...@cisco.com>; Shraddha Hegde <shrad...@juniper.net>; 
> Aijun Wang <wangai...@tsinghua.org.cn>; Hannes Gredler <han...@gredler.at>; 
> lsr <lsr@ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: [Lsr] BGP vs PUA/PULSE
>  
> Les,
>  
> We have received requests from real customers who both need to summarize AND 
> would like better response time to loss of reachability to individual nodes.
>  
> We all agree the request is legitimate. 
>  
> [LES:] It does not seem to me that everyone does agree on that – but I 
> appreciate that you agree.
>  
> But do they realize that to practically employ what you are proposing (new 
> PDU flooding) requires 100% software upgrade to all IGP nodes in the entire 
> network ? Do they also realize that to effectively use it requires data plane 
> change (sure software but data plane code is not as simple as PI) on all 
> ingress PEs ? 
>  
> [LES:] As far as forwarding, as Peter has indicated, we have a POC and it 
> works fine. And there are many possible ways for implementations to go.
> It may or may not require 100% software upgrade – but I agree a significant 
> number of nodes have to be upgraded to at least support pulse flooding.
>  
>  
> And with scale requirements you are describing it seems this would be 1000s 
> of nodes (if not more). That's massive if compared to alternative approaches 
> to achieve the same or even better results. 
>  
> [LES:] Be happy to review other solutions if/when someone writes them up.
> I think what is overlooked in the discussion of other solutions is that 
> reachability info is provided by the IGP. If all the IGP advertises is a 
> summary then how would individual loss of reachability become known at scale?
> You seem focused on the notification delivery mechanism only.
>  
>    Les
>  
> Many thx,
> Robert
>  
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