[manet] Default metric in OLSRv2

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On Oct 14, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote:

Can people please read the draft. Use of just hop count is NOT what
is in the proposal. You only get hop count if you don't even use the
metric TLV (so you get a default value, and all values default is - for
any metric - equivalent to hop count, just not one per hop).

And adding more to the base draft is not the way to go. (In fact in an
ideal world I'd go in exactly the opposite direction and break the base
draft into about three modular pieces.) A specific discussion of the
particular merits of specific metrics, and reservation of a code point
(group of TLV type extensions) is highly suited as a separate document.

Maybe from the design point of documents you are right (adding stuff just creates big clogs).

But - try to read it from the perspective of OLSR implementors.

They will - as you stated above - try to read as little as possible ;))

So, I am also in favor of ETX *as an example* for how to add metrics but *within the v2* draft.

In that example section then you can point to further documents.

It is also about how people read it.