Re: OSPFv3 Extension Future Direction (this ought to get your attention)

[Pyda Srisuresh <srisuresh at YAHOO.COM>]

Right. That is my opinion as well. 

cheers,
suresh

--- Vishwas Manral <Vishwas at SINETT.COM> wrote:
> Hi Acee,
> 
> I have not read the draft yet. 
> 
> Having implemented both OSPF and IS-IS from scratch, my view is that the
> OSPF LSA's have a big advantage of all relevant information being
> clubbed togather. I think having extensible LSA's with TLV's(hybrid
> approach) is the best approach (like in Pyda's draft) but I am not sure
> we want to go to a fully TLV based approach.
> 
> Thanks,
> Vishwas
> -----Original Message-----
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> Srisuresh
> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 9:28 AM
> To: OSPF at PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
> Subject: Re: OSPFv3 Extension Future Direction (this ought to get your
> attention)
> 
> Acee,
> 
> I had done some work previously on using new LSAs for advertising
> topology and
> prefix info into TE networks (draft-srisuresh-ospf-te-07.txt). This
> draft can
> be a good starting point to use for turning into future MT extensions to
> OSPFv3. 
> 
> I have not been active on this work recently due to my work priorities.
> However, if there are folks on the list interested in pursuing, I would
> be
> happy to work with you on the effort and discussion. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> cheers,
> suresh 
>  
> --- Acee Lindem <acee at CISCO.COM> wrote:
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> > At the Minneapolis IETF, I presented a comparision of  the
> > various options we have for extending OSPFv3. The reaction to the
> > presentation was very positive. However, it was last on the agenda and
> > the OSPF WG coincided with other WGs (most notably L2VPN).
> > 
> > At this point, I would like to initiate more discussion. The basic
> > question is whether we go with a TLV based approach or continue
> > to add new LSAs which need to be synchronized with the LSAs
> > advertising topology and prefix information. A TLV based approach
> > is described in:
> > 
> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mirtorabi-mt-ospfv3-01.txt
> > 
> > The crux of my presentation would be that this is gives us the
> powerful
> > extension capability while still allowing us to advertise information
> that
> > does not need to be synchronized in separate LSAs.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Acee
> > 
>