Yours is a good operational point, Robert. I wonder what others might think.

Regards,
Greg

On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 9:30 AM Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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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