Hi Acee,

I beg to differ.  Without a consistent, uniform algorithm selection, havoc will 
necessarily ensue.  The algorithm itself can be distributed. The decision of 
which algorithm to use cannot be inconsistent.

For this reason, I oppose moving forward as the document currently stands.

Tony


> On Aug 16, 2024, at 7:48 AM, Acee Lindem <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Speaking as WG member:
> 
> From a technical standpoint, I don’t have a problem with the addition of the 
> flooding signaling (though I’m not fond of the prunner/zero prunner 
> terminology). 
> 
> The existing area leader election and flooding algorithm selection 
> (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lsr-dynamic-flooding/) was 
> originally targeted at centralized flooding reduction. While it has been made 
> to work for distributed flooding reduction, electing an area leader is not 
> needed. Rather, the described one-hop signaling is all that is needed to 
> assure correct operation and more suited to distributed flooding reduction 
> algorithms. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Acee
> 
>> On Aug 2, 2024, at 2:06 PM, Acee Lindem <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> The subject draft was adopted as a WG document containing only the flooding 
>> reduction algorithm (section 2). 
>> 
>> Procedures and signaling have been added to the current version allowing 
>> concurrent operation within an IS-IS area of IS-IS routers running different 
>> flooding reduction algorithms or no flooding reduction at all  (section 1).
>> 
>> WG members are questioning if this extra requirement needs to be met and 
>> included in this document. There was an extensive discussion during the IETF 
>> 120 LSR meeting and a MeetEcho show-of-hands poll was taken - 
>> https://notes.ietf.org/notes-ietf-120-lsr
>> 
>> Please indicate your preference and reasoning amongst the following options 
>> by August 17, 2024: 
>> 
>>     1) The document remains in its current form describing both the flooding 
>> reduction algorithm signaling/procedures and the new flooding reduction 
>> algorithm.  
>>     2) The flooding reduction algorithm and procedures will be split into a 
>> separate document with its own LSR WG adoption call. 
>>     3) Some other resolution?  
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Yingzhen, Chris, and Acee (LSR Chairs)    
> 
> 
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