Are you sure this is operationally a good idea ?

It's cool when registrations and up notifications will not get lost. But I
would not like to be the one troubleshooting a network when some
registrations or up notifications packets get lost ... It sounds like a
nightmare to me.

Best,
R.

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 6:25 PM Greg Mirsky <[email protected]> wrote:

> Frankly, I don't see that registrations, at least for the node liveness
> use case, require using reliable transport. If the registration is lost,
> the faster convergence doesn't work for that node but the existing slower
> mechanism still does the job done. I want to note that I'm not proposing
> replacing any of the transport options listed in the document but adding
> optional unreliable transport.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 9:16 AM Tony Li <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>>
>> > thank you for your responses to my notes. I should have been more clear
>> in explaining the rationale for adding the UDP transport option to the
>> list. Reliability comes at a cost. If the system already has a mechanism
>> that guarantees convergence a faster, lightweight though not reliable
>> mechanism seems like a reasonable model.
>>
>>
>> Ok, yes, theoretically, notifications do not strictly require reliable
>> delivery and thus could be done with another mechanism. However,
>> registrations MUST be done reliably. Supporting two separate simultaneous
>> transports seems expensive and painful.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>>
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