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 –
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>    Les
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> *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
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> Les,
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> 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?
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> *[LES:] Flex Algo is a routing calculation being performed by the IGPs who
> also advertise the algorithm specific attributes and algorithm specific
> forwarding identifiers.*
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> *I don’t see what you are doing as analogous.*
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> 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.
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> You didn’t respond: Would you prefer a top level TLV?  That would the
> logical alternative.
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> Tony
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