[Int-area] Re: ICMP Extensions for environmental information

2024-07-13 Thread Bill Fenner
Hi Carlos, My high level question is: why does this belong in ICMP? More particularly, why would a provider be interested in the sustainability aspects of a single path as seen by traceroute, as opposed to a wholistic view of the network that could be gathered by a centralized NMS using a netconf

[Int-area] New version of ICMP Node Identification draft

2024-07-13 Thread Bill Fenner
Hi, I've submitted version -02 of https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fenner-intarea-extended-icmp-hostid/ , which is an RFC4884-based ICMP extension that allows supplying a textual hostname and/or a single identifying IPv4/IPv6 address for a node. This is intended to address deployments where

[Int-area] Re: ICMP Extensions for environmental information

2024-07-13 Thread Carlos Pignataro
Hi, Bill, Thanks for the review and the note! Please see inline. > On Jul 13, 2024, at 11:51 AM, Bill Fenner wrote: > > Hi Carlos, > > My high level question is: why does this belong in ICMP? More particularly, > why would a provider be interested in the sustainability aspects of a single >