Re: [Idr] draft-scholl-idr-advisory

[john heasley <heas at shrubbery.net>]

Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:46:06PM -0400, Curtis Villamizar:
> I'm not sure why this could not be done with the existing
> NOTIFICATION.  The Cease code has no subcodes, but 'over prefix limit'
> and 'reboot' could certainly be added and there is already a data
> field which is unused for Cease and could be defined as human readable
> free form, zero padded.

I believe thats been suggested in past discussion about this draft.

> As long as we can live with 256 Cease subcodes this should be OK.  The
> catch is where we *don't* want to drop the session.

unless soft-notify is added, which has been suggested in this thread.

> The original question was "should this be a WG draft".  The answer
> seems to be "yes" and we are already debating the details.

I suggest that notification/soft-notify is a better solution, which
implies a code/subcode that can be meaningful to a program.