Agree with Les, why reinvent the wheel?

Regards,
Jeff

On Dec 13, 2012, at 20:36, "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hannes -
> 
>> 
>> should be go down and spin off dedicated drafts for OSPF and IS-IS to
>> explicitly advertise the
>> transport IP address ?
> 
> Speaking specifically about IS-IS, why would we need to invent yet another 
> type of advertisement specifically for remote LFA? Here's a snippet from RFC 
> 5305 Section 4.3:
> 
> <snip>
>   The router ID TLV contains the 4-octet router ID of the router
>   originating the LSP.  This is useful in several regards:
> 
>      For traffic engineering, it guarantees that we have a single
>      stable address that can always be referenced in a path that will
>      be reachable from multiple hops away, regardless of the state of
>      the node's interfaces...
> 
>   If a router does not implement traffic engineering, it MAY add or
>   omit the Traffic Engineering router ID TLV.
> <end snip>
> 
> Does this not provide exactly what is required for remote LFA support? And 
> the RFC even specifically allows this to be present even if TE is not in use. 
> What would your suggested "advertise the transport IP address do" that is not 
> already done by TLV 134 (and the matching IP reachability advertisement)???
> 
>   Les
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