Hi Reshad,
thank you for the great suggestion. Below is the proposed update to section
4.3.1 New State Variables:
OLD TEXT
This variable is only pertinent when bfd.SessionType is
MultipointTail.
NEW TEXT
This variable is only pertinent when bfd.SessionType is
MultipointTail and SHOULD NOT be modified after the
MultipointTail session has been created.
Greg Mirsky
Sr. Standardization Expert
预研标准部/有线研究院/有线产品经营部 Standard Preresearch Dept./Wireline Product R&D
Institute/Wireline Product Operation Division
E: [email protected]
www.zte.com.cn
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Sender: ReshadRahman(rrahman) <[email protected]>
To: gregory mirsky10211915;[email protected] <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Date: 2018/02/08 11:22
Subject: Re: WGLC for BFD Multipoint documents (last round)
Hi Greg,
Regarding changing bfd.SilentTail on the fly, I think we should consider adding
some text “… SHOULD not be modified after the MultipointTail session has been
created.“. This is to prevent false failure detections as you mentioned.
Regards,
Reshad.
From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 8:18 PM
To: "Reshad Rahman (rrahman)" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: WGLC for BFD Multipoint documents (last round)
Hi Reshad,
<have to switch my contact for a week>
You've said:
Hi Greg, The question about whether we need a new variable wasn’t referring
to MultipointClient state (I agree this is well explained). Since I mentioned
“state variable” I realize the confusion… The question was whether we need a
new state variable (not for the MultipointClient state) to control the behavior
explained in this paragraph, e.g the new state variable could be called
bfd.TrackTails. If the head wishes to know the identity of the tails, it
sends multipoint Polls as needed. Previously known tails that don't
respond to the Polls will be detected. Regards, Reshad. I agree that an
operator should have control over whether the head does tail discovery, tail
monitoring. But I think that that may require whole suite of parameters and
some might need coordidation for the MultipointHead with MultipointTail, e.g.
when the given MultipointTail has bfd.SilentTail changed from 0 to 1 or vice
versa. Would that trigger false negative on the head? I think that there's lots
of open space ofr the innovation in the area of monitoring p2mp tails. I hope
that someone will be interested to continue and produce more detailed
specification than draft-ietf-bfd-multipoint-active-tail. For example, time
interval between multicast Poll and relationship to unicast BFD control
packets to tail(s).
Best regards,
Greg Mirsky
Sr. Standardization Expert
预研标准部/有线研究院/有线产品经营部 Standard Preresearch Dept./Wireline Product R&D
Institute/Wireline Product Operation Division
E: [email protected]
www.zte.com.cn