Hi, John:
If you follow Les, then also follow my responses to Les.

Aijun Wang
China Telecom

> 在 2022年2月19日,06:28,John E Drake <[email protected]> 写道:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I completely agree with the email from Les, below.  "Do no harm" is an 
> insufficient reason to adopt a draft of redundant and dubious functionality. 
> 
> Yours Irrespectively,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> Juniper Business Use Only
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Lsr <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
>> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2022 4:59 PM
>> To: Christian Hopps <[email protected]>; Peter Psenak
>> <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [Lsr] Adoption Question Stub-Link vs RFC5316
>> 
>> [External Email. Be cautious of content]
>> 
>> 
>> Chris -
>> 
>> My objections to this draft are similar to Peter's - the use of a prefix to 
>> identify a
>> link is flawed - does not work in all cases. And the use case for the draft 
>> can be
>> met using RFC 5316.
>> 
>> It is also incorrect to state that a bis of RFC 5316 is required. That 
>> statement was
>> made based on the requirement of RFC 5316 to include AS numbers and the
>> concern that if BGP were not running that you would not have an AS #. But it
>> was pointed out in the thread that this issue could be addressed by using 
>> one of
>> the reserved ASNs (0 or 65535) or one of the private ASNs.
>> 
>> I also strongly object to your statement below:
>> 
>> " I've asked for cases that this draft would break things, not whether it 
>> has warts
>> or not."
>> 
>> This suggests (intentionally or not) that so long as a draft doesn't break 
>> anything
>> it is OK to consider it for adoption. I hope we have a higher bar than that.
>> 
>> In summary, this draft is at best redundant with RFC 5316 and introduces the 
>> use
>> of a flawed construct in doing so.
>> This should NOT be adopted.
>> 
>>    Les
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Lsr <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Christian Hopps
>>> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2022 5:48 AM
>>> To: Peter Psenak <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: [email protected]; Christian Hopps <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [Lsr] Adoption Question Stub-Link vs RFC5316
>>> 
>>> [resent with correct CC's]
>>> 
>>> Peter Psenak <[email protected]> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Chris,
>>>> 
>>>> I looked at ver-3.
>>>> 
>>>> It defines a new top-level TLV, that advertises prefix  and supports
>>>> all existing sub-TLVs defined for link advertisement ("IS-IS
>>>> Sub-TLVs for TLVs Advertising Neighbor Information").
>>>> 
>>>> And why? Because authors want to use common subnet to identify two
>>> endpoints of
>>>> the same link.
>>>> 
>>>> Does not sound right to me.
>>> 
>>> That is not required though, and that is how they addressed the
>>> unnumbered case.  but...
>>> 
>>>> - we have more than enough TLVs in ISIS to advertise prefix already,
>>> actually
>>>> too many of them. We don't need another one.
>>>> 
>>>> - using common subnet to identify two endpoints of the same link is wrong.
>>> We
>>>> have existing mechanisms for that as as well.
>>> 
>>> This is rehashing the old arguments, we're passed that point now.
>>> 
>>> I've asked for cases that this draft would break things, not whether
>>> it has warts or not.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Chris.
>>> [as wg chair]
>>> 
>>>> thanks,
>>>> Peter
>>>> 
>>>>> On 18/02/2022 13:14, Christian Hopps wrote:
>>>>>> Peter Psenak <[email protected]> writes:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Chris,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> the draft attempt to use the local subnet information for
>>>>>>> identifying two endpoints of the same link. That seems wrong in itself. 
>>>>>>> In
>>> addition:
>>>>>> The -03 revision uses other methods to identify an inter-AS link
>>>>>> (the same that are used in RFC5316 if I'm not mistaken).
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 1) We have link local/remote IDs (and IP addresses) to pair the
>>>>>>> two endpoints of the link in both OSPF and ISIS. We do not need
>>>>>>> another
>>> mechanism
>>>>>> for the same.
>>>>> Tony Li (at least) seemed to think that it was useful to be able to
>>>>> attach TE attributes to a link, not just to prefixes. Perhaps I've
>>>>> missed this in the thread but what current mechanism (rfc?) are you
>>>>> referring to, to identify
>>> a
>>>>> link and attach TE attributes to it?
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 2) What is proposed does not work for unnumbered links.
>>>>> Can you clarify if you are saying this b/c you are refusing to look
>>>>> at the -03 revision as "out of process" or does the -03 revision
>>>>> also still fail on this point?
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Chris.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> thanks,
>>>>>> Peter
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 18/02/2022 05:45, Christian Hopps wrote:
>>>>>>> [As WG Chair]
>>>>>>> Hi LSR-WG,
>>>>>>> As my co-chair has joined the draft as a co-author making the
>>>>>>> call on
>>> whether
>>>>>>> we have rough consensus to adopt
>>>>>>> draft-wang-lsr-stub-link-attributes-
>>> 02 now
>>>>>>> falls to me alone.
>>>>>>> I've reread the numerous emails on this adoption call and I see
>>>>>>> some
>>> support,
>>>>>>> and a few objections, and most of the objections are not that
>>>>>>> there is
>>> no
>>>>>>> problem to solve here, but they think this draft isn't the right
>>>>>>> way to do
>>> it
>>>>>>> and a revision of RFC5316 could be done instead.
>>>>>>> "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush"
>>>>>>> While it might be nice that there is another way to accomplish
>>>>>>> things by re-using an existing TLV, that work has not been done,
>>>>>>> whereas we
>>> have a
>>>>>>> written draft in front of us -- that has now been beaten up and
>>> reviewed a
>>>>>>> good deal -- that does seem to provide a solution to an actual problem.
>>>>>>> So I'd like to give the WG a final chance to comment here, is
>>>>>>> there a
>>> strongly
>>>>>>> compelling reason to reject the work that is done here. Examples
>>>>>>> of
>>> "strongly
>>>>>>> compelling" would be something like "This will break the (IS-IS)
>>>>>>> decision process" or "this will badly affect scaling" or "this
>>>>>>> will significantly complicate a protocol implementation", but not
>>>>>>> "this can be done
>>> differently"
>>>>>>> as the latter is work not done (i.e., it's two birds "in the
>>>>>>> bush") I am *not* looking to rehash the entire discussion we've
>>>>>>> already had so
>>> please
>>>>>>> restrict your replies to the above question only.
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Chris.
>>>>>>> [As WG Chair]
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