Thanks Warren.

On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 8:33 PM Warren Kumari <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Thu, Oct 06, 2022 at 3:37 AM, Ketan Talaulikar <[email protected]>
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>> Hi Warren,
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>> Thanks for your review and comments. Please check inline below for
>> response.
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>> On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 4:10 AM Warren Kumari via Datatracker <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
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>>> Warren Kumari has entered the following ballot position for
>>> draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-bfd-strict-mode-09: Yes
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>>> Thank you for this document.
>>>
>>> When I started reading this document / read the Abstract, I must admit I
>>> thought "This is a silly idea, and smacks of creeping featuritis and
>>> premature
>>> optimization. This is an already solved problem - you bring up OSPF and
>>> *then*
>>> use that to signal that you want BFD...." and then I actually read the
>>> Introduction section and the use-case / utility became clear...
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>>> My only question (and I'm suspecting it has already been discussed) if
>>> is there
>>> should actually be some (small) delay after the BFD session
>>> establishment to
>>> allow the interface to "settle" / give BFD a second or two to figure out
>>> if the
>>> link is actually "stable" - having BFD come up and then immediately
>>> bringing up
>>> the adjacency, only to have BFD pull it down 10ms later doesn't seem to
>>> solve
>>> the issue really...
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>> KT> Agree. This was brought up during the WG discussions (as indicated by
>> Robert). As a result of that discussion, the document was updated. More
>> specifically to your point, please refer to
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-bfd-strict-mode-09#section-5
>> and the text below:
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>>    The use of OSPF BFD strict-
>>    mode along with mechanisms such as hold-down (a delay in the initial
>>    OSPF adjacency bringup following BFD session establishment) and/or
>>    dampening (a delay in the OSPF adjacency bringup following failure
>>    detected by BFD) may help reduce the frequency of adjacency flaps and
>>    therefore reduce the associated routing churn.  The details of these
>>    mechanisms are outside the scope of this document.
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>> The reason for these mechanisms being discussed but not standardized in
>> this draft is that there are different approaches (some already in
>> implementations for a long time). Things like the "hold-down" timer, that
>> you refer to, can be made per-protocol (clients of BFD) or can be done by
>> BFD (called BFD dampening by some implementations) on behalf of these
>> clients. For a per-protocol approach, a follow-on question is if this can
>> be simply a local configuration (also something provided by some
>> implementations) or if it needs to be signaled/negotiated - here we would
>> likely need similar work in multiple protocols. For the BFD approach, it
>> would be anyway outside the scope of this document.
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> Okey dokey, and thank you.
> Personally I would have preferred some guidance in the doc, but I
> understand (and am OK) with the above reasoning.
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> Thanks again,
> W
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>>> unless it is expected that the OSPF exchange is
>>> sufficiently slow that BFD would detect it before OSPF is actually
>>> working?
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>> KT> This is clearly not the expectation and we cannot make any such
>> assumptions.
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>> Thanks,
>> Ketan
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