Hi Authors

The Section 2, doesn't provide any clarification on the 'Instance' part of
the Link ID of
OSPFv2 Extended Prefix Opaque LSA.

There can be two possible implementations

1) When a Segment routing enabled router is advertising multiple Ext Prefix
TLV, it can keep repacking it into a single Ext Prefix LSA, as has been
mentioned in end of section 2 and keep increasing the instance . The lowest
instance is taken. Higher instance from same router for same prefix is
ignored.

2) Another possible way is, not to go for this repacking. Instead it should
be possible to originate separate Ext Prefix LSAs for every Ext Prefix TLV,
and only one TLV per LSA. The instance number or Opaque id can be derived
from the prefix/interface so as to ensure its unique for every prefix
originating from the same advertising router.

The draft is not clear on whether (2) can be allowed. It hasn't mentioned
that the instance is topology independent and dependent on how we choose to
implement it. The TE RFC however has a section devoted to this
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3630#section-2.2

Please give your thoughts on this.

Regards
Santanu
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