Re: OSPFv3 Applications Support

[Kunihiro Ishiguro <kunihiro at IPINFUSION.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.

Well, besides I wrote a draft for OSPFv3 TE, I support defining a new
LS type for new application.  OSPFv3 already has clean design and very
flexible architecture for new application.
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Kunihiro Ishiguro