OSPFv3 Applications Support

[Acee Lindem <acee at REDBACK.COM>]

At the 55th IETF WG meeting, there were two proposals for
supporting additional OSPF applications. There was quite
a lively discussion of the relative merits of each and
we decided that it would be best to discuss it further on
the OSPF WG list. Heretofore, there hasn't been any further
discussion so I figure it is time to get the ball rolling (or
in this case, the E-mails flying).

  - OSPFv2 Opaque LSAs in OSPFv3
    http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kompella-ospf-opaquev2-00.txt

  - Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF version 3
    http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ishiguro-ospf-ospfv3-traffic-01.txt

The first defines the transformations necessary to map OSPFv2
opaque LSAs to OSPFv3. The second defines how to map the most
widely implemented and deployed OSPFv2 opaque to OSPFv3 using
new LSA types.

I'll defer any opinions of my own to separate E-mail speaking
as a WG member. In any case, we need to reach a rough concensus
on this as it will impact future work.

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Acee