Tony -

From: Lsr <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2019 9:16 AM
To: Tony Li <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]; Peter Psenak (ppsenak) <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Lsr] Open issues with Dynamic Flooding




On Mar 5, 2019, at 1:31 PM, [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> wrote:

Let me propose that we add something to sections 6.7.5, 6.7.9, and 6.7.11 like:

Addition of temporary flooding should be done with caution, as the addition of 
excessive connectivity to the flooding topology may trigger unwanted behavior. 
Routers SHOULD add temporary flooding in a rate limited manner, if not 
configured otherwise.

[Les:] The first sentence is OK with me. The second one I think goes beyond 
anything on which we can claim consensus.
Whether adding the first sentence alone is worth a new revision I think is 
questionable – but I certainly would not oppose it.

Regarding LANs, the encoding for OSPF is more problematic – basically we need 
to identify the value as a router id or a network LSA id (or something like 
that).
So, committing to this without consensus has a downside that we might live to 
regret.

I am in agreement with Peter’s position. LANs introduce additional complexity 
and it is not clear that including that support is a real benefit in the 
topologies in which we expect the flooding optimizations to be used.
I know you believe real deployments may need this support – but what I don’t 
know is whether we have hard evidence to support that position.

I am also wondering whether the following serves us better:

a)We keep LANs always enabled for flooding
b)The algorithms consider this and are biased towards using LANs when possible 
as this is a cheaper way to enable flooding to multiple nodes than many P2P 
interfaces.

IN this way we keep the simplicity of not having to define LAN 
behavior/encoding, yet reap benefits in topologies where LANs have a 
significant presence.

Let me know what problems you see with this approach.

   Les


Hi,

I haven’t heard any feedback on this.  Can we please adopt this?

The draft cutoff is Monday, March 11.  Could we please incorporate this change 
and the addition of the pseudonode identifier by then?

Tony

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