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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
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