Alia (and everyone) –

Let’s focus on the relevant questions.

1)Disruption to existing deployments

draft-ppsenak-ospf-te-link-attr-reuse is non-disruptive i.e. legacy systems are 
not impacted

draft-hegde-ospf-advertising-te-protocols is disruptive – all legacy routers 
have to have additional configuration in order to avoid misinterpreting non 
RSVP-TE advertisements as if they are RSVP-TE related

So if the primary concern is impact on existing deployments we have a clear 
choice.

2)Support for per application advertisements

Only draft-ppsenak-ospf-te-link-attr-reuse supports this.

Again we have a clear choice.

3)The question has been raised as to use case for application specific 
attributes– here are a few:


·         Using TE metric/bandwidth to influence LFA selection.

·         Use different attributes for SR-TE vs RSVP-TE engineered paths.

·         Defining a separate set of SRLGs in support of rerouting around a 
non-local catastrophic event e.g. a natural disaster affecting all traffic 
through a particular geographic area.

Both drafts agree that supporting multiple applications utilizing link 
attributes is a problem which needs to be solved. However, only 
draft-ppsenak-ospf-te-link-attr-reuse provides support for both sharing common 
attributes without duplicate advertisements and advertising application 
specific attributes when necessary.

The proponents of draft-hegde-ospf-advertising-te-protocols would have us 
believe that there is no need for per application attributes – but as we have 
examples of when it is necessary – and the recognition that all future use 
cases cannot be imagined now (just as the original TE support never anticipated 
multiple applications) this isn’t a credible position.

The more apt question to ask is why we would want to constrain multiple 
application support when we have the opportunity to define a more flexible 
framework which also provides efficient encoding whenever possible. Given that 
we have agreed to support multiple applications I think the onus should be on 
why we should NOT provide per application value support rather than why we 
should.

   Les



From: OSPF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alia Atlas
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 12:20 PM
To: Robert Raszuk
Cc: OSPF List
Subject: Re: [OSPF] draft-ppsenak-ospf-te-link-attr-reuse

Robert,

Take a read through RFC 7282.  Consensus calls aren't about majority rules.
It is about hearing technical objections and understanding and responding to 
them.
It is quite quite clear that there are technical objections to either solution.

Regards,
Alia

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 3:15 PM, Robert Raszuk 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi,

Based on the discussion so far I see that:

A) producing use case document will only delay things further as each use case 
presented will be questioned as possible already today via MTR, MI, building 
new separate network etc ...

B) WG members in majority support adoption of 
draft-ppsenak-ospf-te-link-attr-reuse. Can we get at least sense in the room 
who is in support of which draft ?

Thx,
R.

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