No,  summary can’t achieve the same aim of the “Explicit Withdrawn Signal”, for 
example, switch back to the application’s original state.

 

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On 26/05/2025 03:29, Aijun Wang wrote:

Then one new deficiency for the mechanism is emerging:

 

The lack of the Explicit Withdrawn Signal(EWS) when the prefix is reachable 
again.

Please note, stop sending the UPA message doesn’t mean the prefix is reachable 
again.

If there is no EWS, then the network can’t back to its original state before 
the UPA signaling when the reachable of prefix recover.

there is still a summary that covers the prefix reachability.

Peter

 

 

Best Regards

 

Aijun Wang

China Telecom

 

 

 

发件人: Peter Psenak [mailto:[email protected]] 
发送时间: 2025年5月23日 19:11
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draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-06.txt

 

On 23/05/2025 12:48, Aijun Wang wrote:

Then nothing needs to be standardized when the prefix becomes reachable again.

 

1) In some critical scenarios, when the ABR sends one UPA message out and the 
prefix becomes reachable immediately, what the ABR can do is to stop 
advertising UPA.

and that is exactly what the text says.

Peter

 

 

The sent UPA message will eventually trigger the action on the receiver, even 
the prefix is reachable immediately.

 

2) In normal situations, the ABR sends the UPA message for some time and stop 
sending it further. At this time, when the prefix becomes reachable, nothing 
needs to be done at ABR.

 

The receiver will also act on the UPA signaling.

 

It’s irrelevant then whether the prefix is reachable or not after the UPA 
signaling is sent out. 

 

 

Aijun Wang 

China Telecom






On May 23, 2025, at 17:18, Peter Psenak  <mailto:[email protected]> 
<[email protected]> wrote:

On 23/05/2025 10:10, Aijun Wang wrote:

Then, what’s the differences between the two statements:

first is for case when the prefix reachability is not regained after UPA was 
generated. 

Second is when the prefix reachability was regained before the UPA was 
withdrawn. It basically says UPA must be  withdrawn at the time the prefix 
becomes reachable.

 

 

“UPA advertisements SHOULD therefore be withdrawn after some amount of time, 
that would provides sufficient time for UPA to be flooded network-wide and 
acted upon by receiving nodes, but limits the presence of UPA in the network.”

 

And:

 

“ABR or ASBR MUST withdraw the previously advertised UPA when the reason for 
which the UPA was generated was lost - e.g. prefix reachability was restored or 
its metric has changed such that it does not represent the protocol specific 
maximum prefix metric.”

 

Here, does  “withdraw” just mean to “stop advertisement”?  

yes.

Peter

 

If no, what’s the mechanism of second “withdraw”?

 

 

Best Regards

 

Aijun Wang

China Telecom

 

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On 23/05/2025 03:32, Aijun Wang wrote:

Hi, All:

 

I must point out that the updated draft doesn't address previous issues that 
described in [1].

Especially, the activation of flawed LSInfinity feature(there is detail 
analysis for this flawed feature that is defined in OSPF 2328).

 

And, some updated contents will deteriorate the traffic pattern within the 
network. 

For example, It says: “ABR or ASBR MUST withdraw the previously advertised UPA 
when the reason for which the UPA was generated was lost”.

The above requirement will advertise the specific prefixes within the network, 
which will weaken the original summary effect, and attract the traffic via one 
or some of ABRs.  

no, above is not true, the new text does not say to advertise reachablity for a 
summarized prefix, it only talks about removing the previously advertised UPA. 

Please read carefully before commenting.

Peter

 

 

[1]: Reasons of abandoning UPA: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wang-lsr-reasons-of-abandon-upa-proposal/

 

 

Best Regards

 

Aijun Wang

China Telecom

 

 

 

 

 

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Internet-Draft draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-06.txt is now 
available. It is a work item of the Link State Routing (LSR) WG of the IETF.

 

   Title:   IGP Unreachable Prefix Announcement

   Authors: Peter Psenak

            Clarence Filsfils

            Daniel Voyer

            Shraddha Hegde

            Gyan Mishra

   Name:    draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-06.txt

   Pages:   14

   Dates:   2025-05-22

 

Abstract:

 

   In the presence of summarization, there is a need to signal loss of

   reachability to an individual prefix covered by the summary.  This

   enables fast convergence by steering traffic away from the node which

   owns the prefix and is no longer reachable.

 

   This document describes how to use the existing protocol mechanisms

   in IS-IS and OSPF, together with the two new flags, to advertise such

   prefix reachability loss.

 

The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is:

 <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce/> 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce/

 

There is also an HTMLized version available at:

 
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-06>
 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-06

 

A diff from the previous version is available at:

 
<https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-06>
 
https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-06

 

Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:

rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts

 

 

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