Hi Bruno, > As you know, there are several TLVs that have been MP-TLV for a very long > time (e.g. ROUTER CAPABILITY). Having these be MP is a practical operational > necessity already today. Disabling this on any node would likely break any > network that has some fairly common features (e.g. FlexAlgo) enabled. > > [Bruno] I meant for the newly defined MP-TLV. The one for which MP handling > is changed by this document. TLVs which have been defined with MP-TLV from > day one do not create interop issue. It’s the change of behavior when > handling TLV X of a new implementation which create an interop issue with the > handling of TLV X from old implementations. > If it’s just a wording issue, I’m confident that someone can craft the right > wording. > > What is the point of a knob that cannot be turned off? > [Bruno] I agree that the point is to be able to turn it off.
Then you’re back to requiring per-TLV configuration. No thanks. Also, I don’t think we’re trying to create any “newly defined MP-TLV”. The point is to codify what has been done and create a default path moving forward. T
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