Hi Anton,

On 10/23/13 5:09 AM, "Anton Smirnov" <[email protected]> wrote:

>    Hi Acce,
>    you are just not formulating your objections in the correct way. For
>example, if specification said that Tag TLV must not exceed 64 Kb in
>size that would technically put a bound but this would be both pointless
>and wouldn't satisfy you.

The applicability statement in section 3 of RFC 4970 is clear. It has
nothing to do with how I formulate my objections ;^)


>
>    Another part is why RI LSA is being singled out - why unbound data
>in, say, Network LSA is OK and unbound data in RI LSA is not? Especially
>given that RI LSA can be extended to the adjacent LSIDs and the Network
>LSA cannot.

This is a terrible analogy. The Network LSA has a single purpose and is
bounded by the number of OSPF routers on a LAN. In this case, the TLV has
no bound and implementors could come up with all sorts of clever ways to
encode the data. 

>
>    Tag data ARE expected to be very small and very stable, so the
>choice of RI LSA to advertise them is very reasonable.

I've heard requirements that contradict this statement in this E-mail
thread. 

Thanks,
Acee 



>
>Anton
>
>
>On 10/22/2013 10:05 PM, Acee Lindem wrote:
>> I don't disagree that the typical use case is a single tag with the
>> likelihood of mult-tag use cases diminishing exponentially as the
>> number of tags increases. My point is that unbounded TLVs MUST NOT be
>> included in the OSPF RI LSA. What part of that is hard to
>> understand? I think that 16 is a reasonable maximum and that beyond
>> 16 would imply encoding ulterior information that should have its own
>> TLV or LSA anyway. Acee
>>
>> On Oct 22, 2013, at 3:48 PM, Anton Smirnov wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Acee, it looks to me that the most probable deployment will use
>>> 1 tag. Router advertising 100 tags already sounds unreasonable.
>>> Defining new LSID to originate LSA with (typically) only 4 bytes of
>>> useful information is not optimal. Choice of RI LSA to advertise
>>> some small data is reasonable. RI LSA is far from getting too big.
>>> If there is a concern of RI LSA overfilling then we can extend
>>> range of opaque IDs - but is it really necessary at this point?
>>>
>>> Anton
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/21/2013 09:55 PM, Acee Lindem wrote:
>>>> I think we are in a circular argument here and I'm not discuss
>>>> this independently with each of the authors. Either you have to
>>>> limit the number of tags, define a new LSA, or do the work to
>>>> make RI LSA multi-instance. All are viable alternatives with
>>>> differing pros and cons - including it in the existing RI LSA is
>>>> not a viable alternative. Remember to request a session if you
>>>> plan to present it at IETF 88.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, Acee
>

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