The IESG has received a request from the Link State Routing WG (lsr) to consider the following document: - 'Advertising Unreachable Links in OSPF' <draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-ls-link-infinity-17.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the [email protected] mailing lists by 2026-02-12. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to [email protected] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract In certain scenarios, it is necessary to advertise OSPF links that are not applicable to the default SPF (Shortest Path First) calculation for other purposes. In order to advertise these links and not use them in the base SPF calculation, the metric LSLinkInfinity (0xffff) is used to specify that the link is unreachable. MaxReachableLinkMetric (0xfffe) is defined to provide backward compatible reachability in specifications that previously specified advertisement of MaxLinkMetric (0xffff). This document updates RFC 5443, RFC 6987, and RFC 8770 with respect to the advertisement of MaxReachableLinkMetric (0xfffe) rather than MaxLinkMetric (0xffff). The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-ls-link-infinity/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/6313/ _______________________________________________ Lsr mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
