Hi Peter, > On Oct 20, 2025, at 8:20 AM, Peter Psenak <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Acee, > > On 20/10/2025 13:58, Acee Lindem wrote: >> Hi Les, >> >>> On Oct 17, 2025, at 11:29 AM, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Esteemed WG chairs - >>> >>> What is the conclusion of the WG adoption call for >>> draft-ginsberg-lsr-flex-soft-dataplane ?? >>> >>> We are long past the intended deadline. >>> >>> I note that multiple people expressed support for adoption. >> And a couple were even authors 😎 >> >>> One person expressed concern about the document - which we tried to address >>> when we published V2 of the draft on August 28, 2025. >> That was me and I still don't see why the use case couldn't be satisfied >> with a constrained flex-algo in the multicast IP topology. > > Flex-algo is tight with the data-plane that is used to forward the traffic > over the FA paths - e.g., to be able to compute FA paths, routers need to > participate in one of the supported data-planes - SR-MPLS, SRv6 or IP > flex-algo.
Well, in practice, implementations are not that strict about requiring a data plane for base IP computation and are using the mulitcast topology in a "soft" manner. Thanks, Acee > > The requirement here is to detach the flex-algo from any specific data-plane > - application just needs the FA paths on top of regular IP topology and it > will setup its own data-plane for forwarding over them. > > thanks, > Peter > > >> >> >>> Please let us know next steps. >> Nevertheless, we'll move forward with LSR WG adoption. >> >> Thanks, >> Acee >> >> >>> Thanx. >>> >>> Les (on behalf of the authors) >>> >>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Acee Lindem <[email protected]> >>>> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2025 2:23 PM >>>> To: lsr <[email protected]> >>>> Cc: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>; Peter Psenak (ppsenak) >>>> <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> Subject: LSR WG Adoption Poll for "IGP Flex Soft Dataplane" - >>>> draft-ginsberg- >>>> lsr-flex-soft-dataplane-01 >>>> >>>> LSR WG, >>>> >>>> The begins the LSR WG adoption call for "IGP Flex Soft Dataplane" - draft- >>>> ginsberg-lsr-flex-soft-dataplane-01. Please express your support or >>>> objection >>>> on this list prior to Saturday September 6, 2025. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Acee > > _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
