Some feedback :

> (D) Potentially big number of targeted LDP sessions
[SLI] Based on our simulation, only 4 T-LDP sessions at max is needed (for our 
case), 2 or 1 only in most cases. (now routers are able to handle hundreds of 
LDP sessions without issue, so adding few is not a big deal)

> (E) Inability to provide 100% coverage with arbitrary cost structure
[SLI] What do you mean exactly ? Do you mean that with some topology, you are 
unable to have 100% coverage ? Yes, few topologies can't work with rLFA as for 
LFA ... But is it really an issue ? I'm always trying to see simplicity vs gain 
... As you mention rLFA is still an easy mechanism (as LFA is ...), it would 
provide you strong coverage extension. 
Note that as already mentionned in the draft (and I'm currently writing some 
more detail stuff on this), it is still possible to achieve 100% coverage but 
you should add explicit TE tunnel (implementation may be able to propose to 
establish it dynamically if it becomes a need).

(F) Presented coverage values are not fully convincing due to several reasons 
(if I was just missing results, then sorry!):

  (F1) Only relatively dense core-like topologies have been investigated, where 
LFA is mostly good enough anyway. However, IP/MPLS is getting pushed to the 
aggregation/access, where the topology is far from being that sparse, there ARE 
rings and there are (sparse) tree-like topologies which are extended with a few 
links here and there to boost redundancy. How does it work in such relatively 
sparse topos?

[SLI] It is already planned as far as I know to add new use cases within the 
doc. I can already say that rLFA works very well with rings. We have plenty 
variety of rings with different metric patterns, different size of ring, and 
LFA provides 100% coverage in all of these cases (bidirectional).


  (F3) Even if an operator tunes its topo to have high RLFA coverage, a topo 
change might ruin it (e.g. failures, etc.). So, what would be very useful is to 
see numbers on various topologies how a high coverage value changes with a 
small modification of the topology (e.g. one or two failures...)

[SLI] This is clearly a good point, I think most people are already aware of (I 
hope :) ), as it concerns already LFA ... If you have a good coverage with your 
nominal topo, a backup topology may not have a good coverage ... 

(G) Have not yet seen papers/guidelines how to tune the network to be more RLFA 
friendly (which is possible, see e.g. (B))

[SLI] this point could be addressed easily ...



I do understand that accepting it as a WG item still leaves the opportunity to 
answer some of these concerns.
If we adopt it, I think we should give guidelines on the RLFA friendly 
topologies and cost structures.

[SLI] Doable easily and necessary ;) (I already talked about this with Clarence 
F.)







> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
> Of Alia Atlas
> Sent: 2012. május 30. 18:59
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: opinions on adoption of draft-shand-remote-lfa as a WG draft
> 
> draft-shand-remote-lfa was presented favorably this last IETF.  There 
> is known IPR associated with it on file ( 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1770/ )  This draft presents a 
> solution for IP/LDP fast-reroute that does not guarantee 100% coverage 
> but can substantially improve coverage over LFAs.
> 
> We would like to initiate a WG poll to determine whether to adopt 
> draft- shand-remote-lfa.
> We are, of course, interested in opinions and reasoning rather than 
> simple yes/no.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alia
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