Hi Stephane and Alia,

I agree that these concerns can be remedied, even during WG doc phase, and 
there are results and sources to make it possible.

Also, as someone said already, the KISS beauty :-) of the solution anyway 
outweighs the concerns, so

I support the doc to become a WG doc and eventually an RFC.

We should consider probably what track, but that's another question.

András


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 2012. május 31. 10:33
> To: András Császár; Alia Atlas; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: opinions on adoption of draft-shand-remote-lfa as a WG
> draft
> 
> 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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