> On Mar 20, 2024, at 11:17 AM, Ketan Talaulikar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Acee/Jie,
> 
> The most common users of the anycast property of a prefix are external 
> controllers/PCE that perform path computation exercises. As an example, 
> knowing the anycast prefix of a pair of redundant ABRs allows that anycast 
> prefix SID to be in a SRTE path across the ABRs with protection against one 
> of those ABR nodes going down or getting disconnected. There are other use 
> cases. An example of local use on the router by IGPs is to avoid picking 
> anycast SIDs in the repair segment-list prepared for TI-LFA protection - this 
> is because it could cause an undesirable path that may not be aligned during 
> the FRR window and/or post-convergence.
> 
> That said, since ISIS (RFC9352) and OSPFv3 (RFC9513) didn't have the burden 
> of this justification of an use-case, I hope the same burden would not fall 
> on this OSPFv2 document simply because it only has this one specific 
> extension.

But they also weren't added in a draft specifically devoted to the Anycast 
flag. It would be good to list the examples above as  potential use cases.


Thanks,
Acee



> 
> Thanks,
> Ketan
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 8:16 PM Acee Lindem <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Jie,
> 
> I asked this when the flag was added to IS-IS and then to OSPFv3. I agree it 
> would be good to know why knowing a prefix is an Anycast address is "useful" 
> when the whole point is that you use the closest one (or some other 
> criteria). 
> 
> Thanks,
> Acee
> 
> > On Mar 20, 2024, at 9:09 AM, Dongjie (Jimmy) <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi authors,
> > 
> > I just read this document. Maybe I didn't follow the previous discussion, 
> > but it seems in the current version it does not describe how this newly 
> > defined flag would be used by the receiving IGP nodes? 
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Jie
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lsr <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Acee Lindem
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:43 AM
> > To: lsr <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: [Lsr] Working Group Adoption Poll for "Updates to Anycast Property 
> > advertisement for OSPFv2" - draft-chen-lsr-anycast-flag-06
> > 
> > 
> > This starts the Working Group adoption call for 
> > draft-chen-lsr-anycast-flag. This is a simple OSPFv2 maintenance draft 
> > adding an Anycast flag for IPv4 prefixes to align with IS-IS and OSPFv3. 
> > 
> > Please send your support or objection to this list before April 6th, 2024. 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Acee
> > 
> > 
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