Hi Peter, 

On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Peter Psenak <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Acee,
> 
> I do not see any problem with routers with various compatibility modes living 
> in area/network together. With all the modes we have, we provide the 
> possibility of graceful migration from old to new LSA types. I don't think we 
> need to restrict any combination. Sure, if someone mix "full" and "none", 
> then it can not expect the full reachability between them, but that does not 
> mean we have to prohibit it.

I agree. 

> 
> Separate routing is the possibility, but probably not the easiest one. I 
> would certainly not enforce it as the only possibility.

We started with this as the only migration mechanism. It is still one option 
and I will attempt to assure both migration paths are clear. 

Thanks,
Acee 


> 
> thanks,
> Peter
> 
> On 4/18/14 18:22 , Acee Lindem wrote:
>> Hi Peter,
>> You are correct - I’d thought about these situations myself but didn’t 
>> strike this statement. I’m thinking I will remove this and discuss the 
>> options of separate routing domains in more detail.
>> Thanks,
>> Acee
>> On Apr 18, 2014, at 12:18 PM, Peter Psenak <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Acee,
>>> 
>>> quote From section (5):
>>> 
>>>   "In this manner, OSPFv3 routers using new encodings can be
>>>   completely isolated from those OSPFv3 routers depending on the RFC
>>>   5340 encoding and not setting their options field EL-bits since the
>>>   default setting indicates no support for extended LSAs."
>>> 
>>> Even though you prevent adjacency to be formed between routers with certain 
>>> compatibility modes, it still does not prevent all modes to coexist in the 
>>> area/network.
>>> 
>>> Let's imagine you have a chain of routers with following modes:
>>> 
>>> Full---MixedModeOriginateSPF----MixedModeOriginateOnly-----None
>>> 
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> Peter
>>> 
>>> On 4/18/14 17:58 , Acee Lindem wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>> This version has been reorganized to separate the definitions of the TLVs
>>>> and sub-TLVs from the Extended LSAs (Alan Davey's suggestion).
>>>> It also includes the changes to the compatibility section discussed during
>>>> the OSPF WG meeting in London (David Lamparter's input).
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Acee
>>>> 
>>>> On 4/18/14 8:36 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> A new version of I-D, draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-lsa-extend-02.txt
>>>>> has been successfully submitted by Acee Lindem and posted to the
>>>>> IETF repository.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Name:             draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-lsa-extend
>>>>> Revision: 02
>>>>> Title:            OSPFv3 LSA Extendibility
>>>>> Document date:    2014-04-18
>>>>> Group:            ospf
>>>>> Pages:            35
>>>>> URL:
>>>>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-lsa-extend-02.t
>>>>> xt
>>>>> Status:
>>>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-lsa-extend/
>>>>> Htmlized:
>>>>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-lsa-extend-02
>>>>> Diff:
>>>>> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-lsa-extend-02
>>>>> 
>>>>> Abstract:
>>>>>   OSPFv3 requires functional extension beyond what can readily be done
>>>>>   with the fixed-format Link State Advertisement (LSA) as described in
>>>>>   RFC 5340.  Without LSA extension, attributes associated with OSPFv3
>>>>>   links and advertised IPv6 prefixes must be advertised in separate
>>>>>   LSAs and correlated to the fixed-format LSAs.  This document extends
>>>>>   the LSA format by encoding the existing OSPFv3 LSA information in
>>>>>   Type-Length-Value (TLV) tuples and allowing advertisement of
>>>>>   additional information with additional TLVs.  Backward compatibility
>>>>>   mechanisms are also described.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
>>>>> submission
>>>>> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The IETF Secretariat
>>>>> 
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