>From my understanding, to introduce the Multi-part TLV into the network, the following two things should be done: 1) The capability negotiation. Unless all of nodes support such capabilities, the advertisement of Multi-part TLV should not be initiated, or else, lack of the correct parsing of Mult-part TLV by one of the nodes will result in the inconsistence of LSDB, which may result in the forwarding loop. 2) The indication of the Multi-part TLV is present, similar with the fragment flag for IP packet encapsulation. Such indication can distinct the Multi-part TLV from the repeated advertisements of the same TLV.
Is there any other difficult points to be solved? Best Regards Aijun Wang China Telecom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Christian Hopps Sent: Sunday, October 9, 2022 8:49 AM To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]> Cc: Christian Hopps <[email protected]>; Tony Li <[email protected]>; Peter Psenak (ppsenak) <[email protected]>; Robert Raszuk <[email protected]>; Henk Smit <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Lsr] New Version Notification for draft-pkaneria-lsr-multi-tlv-01.txt Christian Hopps <[email protected]> writes: >>> I simply turned your question around and asked: should conforming >> >>> implementations be penalized? >> >> [LES:] Are you claiming that the absence of an explicit statement >> regarding support of MP for a given TLV is equivalent to a >> prohibition against sending them (which fails basic logic)? > > Why did we explicitly define multi-part TLVs? > > I agree we appear to not making any progress here. Perhaps it would be more productive to have a discussion in a different forum like an interim or something similar. > > Thanks, > Chris. > [as wg-chair] Gah, I meant "as wg-member"! However, the suggestion of a different forum could probably come from the chair hat as well. :) Thanks, Chris. _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr
