The corresponding section is contrary to the guideline in RFC2328:

"Else, if the routing table cost equals or exceeds the value LSInfinity, a 
summary-LSA cannot be generated for this route."

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Psenak [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2025 2:14 PM
To: Aijun Wang <[email protected]>; 'James Guichard' 
<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Lsr] One simple example that can prove current UPA don't 
work-----RE: I-D Action: draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-08.txt

On 10/06/2025 02:59, Aijun Wang wrote:
> Hi, Jim and All:
>
> Here is another simple example that can prove current UPA don't work.
> Let's image one normal topology:
>
> PE1(area 1)----ABR1---P2(area 0)----ABR2---PE2(area 2)
>
> When one prefix P0 on PE2 in area 2 became unreachable, according to the 
> current procedure, ABR2 will generate the UPA signal.
> The UPA signal will be flooding within area 0.
> But such UPA signal can't pass ABR1, then PE1 in another area can't get the 
> unreachable information.

above is not correct, please read the UPA draft:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-08#section-4.2

Peter

>
> PE1 can't do any switchover action based on the expected UPA signal.
>
> Current UPA proposal is broken in cross-area scenario.
>
>
> Best Regards
>
> Aijun Wang
> China Telecom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of [email protected]
> Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2025 3:46 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: [Lsr] I-D Action: draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-08.txt
>
> Internet-Draft draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-08.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-08.txt
>     Pages:   15
>     Dates:   2025-06-05
>
> Abstract:
>
>     Summarization is often used in multi-area or multi-domain networks to
>     improve network efficiency and scalability.  With summarization in
>     place, 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/
>
> There is also an HTMLized version available at:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-08
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-lsr-igp-ureach-prefix-announce-08
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at:
> rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts
>
>
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