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On Sat, Mar 9, 2024 at 4:37 PM Acee Lindem <[email protected]> wrote:

> All,
>
> With respect to the naming of the OSPF constants, I think we should go
> with:
>
>      LSLinkInfinity                    - 0xffff
>      MaxReachableLinkMetric - 0xfffe
>
> LSLinkInfinity is analogous to LSInfinity.
>
> See inline.
>
>
>
> On Mar 2, 2024, at 06:16, Liyan Gong <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Gyan and Jie,
>
> I am not entirely sure if the suggestions from Ketan in previous email can
> address these two concerns. If not fully addressed, please feel free to let
> us know.
>
> Overall, this feature is applicable to all FAs, including FA0. The next
> version will further elaborate on the relationships between new features
> and FAs, as well as optimize the use-case descriptions and corresponding
> name to reflect "Unreachable" in a way that is easier to understand.
>
> Appreciate everyone's discussion. It is very helpful.
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Liyan
>
>
>
> ----邮件原文----
> *发件人:*Gyan Mishra  <[email protected]>
> *收件人:*"Dongjie (Jimmy)" <[email protected]>
> *抄 送: *Yingzhen Qu  <[email protected]>,lsr  <[email protected]
> >,lsr-chairs  <[email protected]>
> *发送时间:*2024-03-01 11:27:32
> *主题:*
> Re: [Lsr] WG Adoption Call - draft-gong-lsr-ospf-unreachable-link(02/23/24 - 
> 03/08/24)
>
> Hi Jie
>
> Some answers in-line
>
> On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 2:31 AM Dongjie (Jimmy) <jie.dong=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Yingzhen,
>
>
> I’ve read the latest version of this document and support its adoption.
> It is a useful feature in general to exclude some of the links from SPF
>  computation.
>
>
> I also have some comments for the authors to consider, they can be solved
> after the adoption.
>
>
> 1.       I’m not sure the purpose is to advertise an unreachable link in
> OSPF, from the use cases in the draft, the link is still reachable and  can
> be used for some services, just it needs be excluded from normal SPF
> calculation. If this is correct, it is better the title of the draft and
> the name of the new capability Flag need to be updated to reflect this.
>
>
> LSLinkInfinity would always indicate the link is unreachable. However,
> there is no real need to advertise it for other services since in these
> cases the advertisement is optional.
>
>
>
>  Gyan> I agree with you and that is as well stated in the draft that 
> MaxLinkMetric
> (0xFFFF) does not exclude the link from SPF and thus requires RI LSA with
> capability bit set for MaxLinkMetric (0xFFFF) for link to be excluded
> from SPF. Maybe “OSPF RI Capability LSA”.
>
>
> I think the capability should be LSLinkInfinity support.
>
>
>
>
>> 2.       In the Flex-Algo use case, if the metric of a link is set to
>> MaxLinkMetric (0xFFFF) to exclude it from normal SPF computation, while a
>>  Flex-Algo is defined to use the same metric type for path calculation,
>> will it cause the link also be excluded from the Flex-Algo path
>> computation? If not, will metric value 0xFFFF be used in the Flex-Algo
>> computation? In other word, the interaction between  this new feature and
>> Flex-Algo needs to be further elaborated.
>>
>>     Gyan>  I agree that the RI LSA capability flag for MaxLinkMetric
>> (0xFFFF) is applicable to base Algo 0 and any Algo.  However AFAIK you
>> would have to explicitly set the RI flag the particular Algo.  The use case
>> described in this draft is when you are using flex algo for network slicing
>> meaning you have both algo 0 and 128 on the same links and not a separate
>> sub topology and in that case in order to avoid best effort traffic from
>> going over the same link used for algo 128  you would need to use this RI
>> capability flag.  This concept we have talked about comes into play of
>> degree of network slicing and isolation to meet SLO SLE  requirements.
>>
>
> LSLinkInfinity would exclude the link from a flex algorithm as well.
> However, the correct way to exclude it by omitting the advertisement.
>
> Thanks,
> Acee
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>>
>> Jie
>>
>>
>> *From:* Lsr [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Yingzhen Qu
>> *Sent:* Friday, February 23, 2024 1:28 PM
>> *To:* lsr <[email protected]>; lsr-chairs <[email protected]>
>> *Subject:* [Lsr] WG Adoption Call - draft-gong-lsr-ospf-unreachable-link
>> (02/23/24 - 03/08/24)
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> This email begins a 2 week WG adoption poll for the following draft:
>>
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gong-lsr-ospf-unreachable-link/
>>
>>
>>
>> Please review the document and indicate your support or objections by March 
>> 8th, 2024.
>>
>> Authors and contributors, please respond to the list indicating whether you 
>> are aware of any IPR that applies to the draft.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Yingzhen
>>
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