Hi Anton, 
I really don't think "I am new" announcement (however signaled) is really
necessary. Hence, I'm not inclined to add it to this draft even as an
optional mechanism.
Thanks,
Acee 

On 2/7/14 9:17 AM, "Anton Smirnov" <[email protected]> wrote:

>    Hi Acee,
>    weighing probability of RID conflict against complexity of the
>proposed method I agree it does not look attractive.
>
>    I think RID conflict avoidance can be made optional.
>    What if feedback to change RID is given to device before it has
>joined the OSPF domain? I.e. before router established at least one FULL
>adjacency it advertises in its Hellos "I am new". Neighboring devices
>weigh if new RID looks conflicting or not and advise back to the new
>device via unicast Hellos.
>
>Anton
>
>
>On 02/05/2014 09:21 PM, Acee Lindem wrote:
>>
>> The OSPFv3 autoconfiguration draft was cloned and presented in the ISIS
>> WG (http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-liu-isis-auto-conf-00.txt). In the ISIS
>> WG, there was a concern that the resolution of a duplicate system ID did
>> not include the amount of time the router was operational when
>> determining which router would need to choose a new router ID. With
>> additional complexity, we could incorporate router uptime into the
>> resolution process. One way to do this would be to:
>>
>>       1. Add a Router Uptime TLV to the OSPFv3 AC-LSA. It would include
>> the uptime in seconds.
>>       2. Use the Router Uptime TLV as the primary determinant in
>> deciding which router must choose a new OSPFv3 Router ID. Router uptimes
>> less than 3600 (MaxAge) seconds apart are considered equal.
>>       3. When an OSPFv3 Hello is received with a different link-local
>> source address but a different router-id, unicast the OSPFv3 AC-LSA to
>> the neighbor so that OSPFv3 duplicate router resolution can proceed as
>> in the case where it is received through the normal flooding process.
>> This is somewhat of a hack as the we'd also need to accept OSPF Link
>> State Updates from a neighbor that is not in Exchange State or greater.
>>
>> An alternative to #3 would be to use Link-Local Signaling (LLS) for
>> signaling the contents of the OSPFv3 AC-LSA. However, you'd only want to
>> send the Router-Uptime and Router Hardware Fingerprint when a duplicate
>> Router-ID is detected. This requires implementing the resolution two
>> ways but may be preferable since it doesn't require violating the
>> flooding rules.
>>
>> In any case, I'd like to get other opinions as to whether this problem
>> is worth solving.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Acee
>>
>>
>>
>>
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