Issues Discussed on List is there a problem (need to prevent catastrophic network collapse) most seem to agree there is a problem several have observed ‘LSA storms’ & their ill effects storms triggered by hardware failure, software bug, faulty operational practice, etc., many different events sometimes network cannot recover unacceptable to operators vendors invited to analyze failure scenario given in draft no response yet how to solve problem better/smart implementation/coding of protocol within current specification e.g., ‘never losing an adjacency solves problem’ these are proprietary, single-vendor, implementation extensions standard protocol extensions for uniform implementation for multi-vendor interoperability already demonstrated with proprietary, single-vendor implementations |