Hi Robert, 

I guess you are now fine with the draft with this text.  

Thanks,
Acee

> On Apr 23, 2025, at 10:51 AM, Robert Raszuk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > ok, I'm fine adding some text for your case.
> 
> Thx Peter !
> 
> It is not "my use case" but ability to trigger UPA for make-before-break 
> which I think always is rather a good thing. 
> 
> Cheers,
> R.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM Peter Psenak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Robert,
> 
> On 23/04/2025 16:35, Robert Raszuk wrote:
>> Hi Peter, 
>>> If the egress PE is the only BGP NH, then reacting to max-metric or OL-bit 
>>> set would make some BGP destinations unreachable.
>> 
>> Well this entirely depends on how one reacts on UPA if UPA is signalling the 
>> only one left BGP path/NH as down irrespective of the trigger. Does it stop 
>> the service to the destination or not ... 
>> 
>> If there are alternate paths the best path can install new next hop. 
>> 
>> If there are no alternate paths I would rather keep one installed active - 
>> for example to address the case where one ABR can still reach egress PE and 
>> the other one generated UPA. 
>> 
>>> So why not trigger UPA in such cases to hint him to switch to alternate 
>>> next hops if available ?
>> I'm not saying it can not be done. The implementation can chose to advertise 
>> the UPA for the summary component prefix if the such prefix metric in the 
>> source area/domain crosses certain value or if the prefix originator is 
>> overloaded.
>> But this would make it not compliant with current text in section 4 which 
>> was the main point of my question. So why not leave the door a bit open for 
>> it in the spec ?
> ok, I'm fine adding some text for your case.
> thanks,
> Peter
> 
>> 
>> Thx,
>> R.
> 

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