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

[Michael J Barnes <mjbarnes at CISCO.COM>]

Hey Acee,

I want to pass this thought by you personally before sending it to the 
whole list, to see what you think.

It seems to me that we should be talking about OSPFv4. Radical? Perhaps, 
but here's why I think this:

OSPFv3, while it has many improvements over OPSFv2, was still not really 
designed to be extended. I really agree with you in general about the 
future direction for OSPF, by including TLVs in certain data structures, 
etc., are great ideas, but the solutions are nasty hacks. But the point I 
really want to make is not that we shouldn't be extending v3, it's that 
IMHO the future direction of OSPF should first, be a version of the 
protocol that has been designed from the base to be extendable. OSPFv3 is 
part way there, and I agree with the ideas you presented for the future 
direction, but I just think it would be better in the long run to have a 
new version of OSPF for this.

If you're interested, I do have some specific ideas for functionality.

Is that too radical of an idea, or something that would be worth more thought?

Thanks,
Michael