Hi Ketan, 

> On Mar 20, 2024, at 12:07, Ketan Talaulikar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Sure, Acee. We can take that on :-)
> 
> I hope it is ok that this is done post adoption?

Yup. I realize this is a simple draft to fill an IGP gap but I did ask the 
question below. Hopefully, we can get to WG last call quickly. 

Thanks,
Acee



> 
> Thanks,
> Ketan
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 9:35 PM Acee Lindem <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > On Mar 20, 2024, at 11:17 AM, Ketan Talaulikar <[email protected] 
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > 
>> > Hi Acee/Jie,
>> > 
>> > The most common users of the anycast property of a prefix are external 
>> > controllers/PCE that perform path computation exercises. As an example, 
>> > knowing the anycast prefix of a pair of redundant ABRs allows that anycast 
>> > prefix SID to be in a SRTE path across the ABRs with protection against 
>> > one of those ABR nodes going down or getting disconnected. There are other 
>> > use cases. An example of local use on the router by IGPs is to avoid 
>> > picking anycast SIDs in the repair segment-list prepared for TI-LFA 
>> > protection - this is because it could cause an undesirable path that may 
>> > not be aligned during the FRR window and/or post-convergence.
>> > 
>> > That said, since ISIS (RFC9352) and OSPFv3 (RFC9513) didn't have the 
>> > burden of this justification of an use-case, I hope the same burden would 
>> > not fall on this OSPFv2 document simply because it only has this one 
>> > specific extension.
>> 
>> But they also weren't added in a draft specifically devoted to the Anycast 
>> flag. It would be good to list the examples above as  potential use cases.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Acee
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > Ketan
>> > 
>> > 
>> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 8:16 PM Acee Lindem <[email protected] 
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > Hi Jie,
>> > 
>> > I asked this when the flag was added to IS-IS and then to OSPFv3. I agree 
>> > it would be good to know why knowing a prefix is an Anycast address is 
>> > "useful" when the whole point is that you use the closest one (or some 
>> > other criteria). 
>> > 
>> > Thanks,
>> > Acee
>> > 
>> > > On Mar 20, 2024, at 9:09 AM, Dongjie (Jimmy) <[email protected] 
>> > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > Hi authors,
>> > > 
>> > > I just read this document. Maybe I didn't follow the previous 
>> > > discussion, but it seems in the current version it does not describe how 
>> > > this newly defined flag would be used by the receiving IGP nodes? 
>> > > 
>> > > Best regards,
>> > > Jie
>> > > 
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: Lsr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> On Behalf 
>> > > Of Acee Lindem
>> > > Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 4:43 AM
>> > > To: lsr <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>> > > Cc: [email protected] 
>> > > <mailto:[email protected]>
>> > > Subject: [Lsr] Working Group Adoption Poll for "Updates to Anycast 
>> > > Property advertisement for OSPFv2" - draft-chen-lsr-anycast-flag-06
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > > This starts the Working Group adoption call for 
>> > > draft-chen-lsr-anycast-flag. This is a simple OSPFv2 maintenance draft 
>> > > adding an Anycast flag for IPv4 prefixes to align with IS-IS and OSPFv3. 
>> > > 
>> > > Please send your support or objection to this list before April 6th, 
>> > > 2024. 
>> > > 
>> > > Thanks,
>> > > Acee
>> > > 
>> > > 
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>> 

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