Hi Les, > Advertisement of the availability of an application is not within the scope of an IGP
Who proposes that ? AFAIK protocol Tony proposed indicates livness of an IGP node and specifically not any application on that node. Thx, R. On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 9:24 PM Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsberg= [email protected]> wrote: > Tony – > > > > Advertisement of the availability of an application is not within the > scope of an IGP no matter what level of TLV you use to do so. > > > > Existing capability advertisements (e.g., flex-algo participation, SR ) > are indicators of what the IGP implementation supports and/or is configured > to support. Not the same thing as what you are proposing here. > > > > Les > > > > > > *From:* Tony Li <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Tony Li > *Sent:* Monday, January 24, 2022 12:12 PM > *To:* Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]> > *Cc:* lsr <[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [Lsr] New Version Notification for > draft-li-lsr-liveness-00.txt > > > > > > Les, > > > > > > My precedent is the use Router Capability for advertising FlexAlgo > definitions. This is a service being provided by the area and it seems > equally relevant. Would you prefer a top level TLV? > > > > *[LES:] Flex Algo is a routing calculation being performed by the IGPs who > also advertise the algorithm specific attributes and algorithm specific > forwarding identifiers.* > > *I don’t see what you are doing as analogous.* > > > > > > Well, IMHO, I can understand the participation of the router in an algo as > a capability. The definition of the algo seems to be somewhat orthogonal. > But it’s there anyway. Similarly, the capability of node liveness is pretty > clear. Yes, the service access point information is orthogonal. > > > > You didn’t respond: Would you prefer a top level TLV? That would the > logical alternative. > > > > Tony > > > _______________________________________________ > Lsr mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr >
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