2.5.6 Open Shortest Path First IGP (ospf)


In addition to this official charter maintained by the IETF Secretariat, there is additional information about this working group on the Web at:

       Additional OSPF Web Page

Last Modified: 2003-08-26

Chair(s):
John Moy <john.moy@sycamorenet.com>
Acee Lindem <acee@redback.com>
Rohit Dube <rohit@utstar.com>
Routing Area Director(s):
Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>
Routing Area Advisor:
Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Mailing Lists:
General Discussion: OSPF@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM
To Subscribe: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=ospf&A=1
Archive: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ospf.html
Description of Working Group:
The OSPF Working develops and documents extensions and bug fixes to the
OSPF protocol, as well as documenting OSPF usage scenarios.
The specific protocol work items area listed in the Goals and
Milestones section below. Additional work items will require
rechartering.
Goals and Milestones:
Done  Gather operational experience with the OSPF protocol and submit the document as an Informational RFC.
Done  Develop multiple implementations, and test against each other.
Done  Design the routing protocol, and write its specification.
Done  Obtain performance data for the protocol.
Done  Make changes to the specification (if necessary) and publish the protocol as a Draft Standard RFC.
Done  Submit OSPF for IPv6 to IESG for consideration as a Standard.
Done  Update the OSPF NSSA option specified in RFC 1587 and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard
Done  Develop Traffic Engineering extensions for OSPFv2 and submit it to the IESG as a Proposed Standard
Done  Submit to IESG a document which updates RFC 1793 allowing detection of demand circuit neighbors whose OSPF process has exited.
Done  Submit to IESG a BCP advocating that OSPF LSA refreshes be spread out over time
Done  Develop a hitless restart mechanism for OSPF and submit it to the IESG as a Proposed Standard.
Done  Document Alternative ABR implementations and submit ti IESG as an Informational RFC
Nov 03  Develop OSPF for IPv6 MIB and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard.
Nov 03  Extend the hitless restart mechanism to OSPFv3 and submit it to the IESG as a Proposed Standard
Nov 03  Develop Traffic Engineering extensions for OSPFv3 and submit it to the IESG as a Proposed Standard.
Nov 03  Submit to IESG a BCP advocating that OSPF Hellos be given preference over other OSPF control traffic.
Nov 03  Update OSPFv2 MIB and submit to IESG as a Standard, replacing RFC 1850
Nov 03  Specify IPSEC usage with OSPFv3 and submit to IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard
Internet-Drafts:
  • - draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic-10.txt
  • - draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-mib-07.txt
  • - draft-pillay-esnault-ospf-flooding-07.txt
  • - draft-ietf-ospf-mib-update-06.txt
  • - draft-ietf-ospf-dc-06.txt
  • - draft-ietf-ospf-hitless-restart-08.txt
  • - draft-ietf-ospf-scalability-06.txt
  • - draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-03.txt
  • - draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-traffic-01.txt
  • - draft-ietf-ospf-2547-dnbit-00.txt
  • - draft-ietf-ospf-cap-00.txt
  • Request For Comments:
    OSPF specification (RFC 1131) (268 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 1247
    OSPF Version 2 (RFC 1247) (433332 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 1583
    Experience with the OSPF Protocol (RFC 1246) (70441 bytes)
    OSPF Protocol Analysis (RFC 1245) (26819 bytes)
    OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 1248) (74772 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 1252
    OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 1248) (74772 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 1349
    OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 1252) (74896 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 1253
    OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 1253) (74878 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 1850
    OSPF Version 2 (RFC 1583) (523636 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 2178
    Guidelines for Running OSPF Over Frame Relay Networks (RFC 1586) (14968 bytes)
    The OSPF NSSA Option (RFC 1587) (37412 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 3101
    OSPF Database Overflow (RFC 1765) (21613 bytes)
    Extending OSPF to Support Demand Circuits (RFC 1793) (78728 bytes)
    OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base (RFC 1850) (140255 bytes)
    IP Forwarding Table MIB (RFC 2096) (35930 bytes)
    OSPF Version 2 (RFC 2178) (495874 bytes) obsoleted by RFC 2328
    OSPF Version 2 (RFC 2328) (524985 bytes)
    OSPF Standardization Report (RFC 2329) (15130 bytes)
    The OSPF Opaque LSA Option (RFC 2370) (33789 bytes)
    OSPF for IPv6 (RFC 2740) (189810 bytes)
    OSPF over ATM and Proxy PAR (RFC 2844) (32146 bytes)
    OSPF Stub Router Advertisement (RFC 3137) (8140 bytes)
    The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option (RFC 3101) (76243 bytes)
    Alternative Implementations of OSPF Area Border Routers (RFC 3509) (24326 bytes)

    Current Meeting Report

    
    Open Shortest Path First IGP WG (ospf)
    
    
    Tuesday, July 15 at 1700-1800 
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    REPORTED BY: Dimitri Papadimitriou 
    <Dimitri.Papadimitriou@ALCATEL.BE>
    
    
    CHAIRS: Rohit Dube  <rohit@utstar.com> 
            Acee Lindem <acee@redback.com>
    
    
    AGENDA:
    
    
    1. Agenda Bashing                               5 Mins    Chairs
    
    
    2. Administativia and Document Status           10 Mins   Chairs
    
    
    3. IGP Capabilities                             10 Mins   Rahul 
    Aggarwal 
    <http://www.ietf.org/internet-draf
    ts/draft-lindem-ospf-cap-01.txt>
    
    
    4. Traffic Engineering Capability TLV for OSPF  10 Mins   Jean Philippe 
    Vasseur
    
    
    
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    1. Agenda Bashing (5 Mins)
    
    
    - No change in the proposed agenda
    
    
    
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    2.1 Administrativia:
    
    
    o Implementation Report for Hitless restart
      - request issued June 13, 2003
      - please respond to Acee (acee@redback.com)
    
    
    o Additional OSPF Page at <http://rtg.ietf.org/ospf>
      - with thanks to Bill Fenner!
    
    
    o Routing Area Meeting: 
      - Hall NO
      - Thursday 1530-1730
    
    
    2.2 OSPF Document Status
    
    
    o Documents Progressing:
    
    
      - Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Version 2  
    <draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic-10.txt>
    
        . IANA section updated
        . Second IETF Last Call completed
        . Under IESG evaluation 
    
    
      - OSPF Hitless Restart 
    <draft-ietf-ospf-hitless-restart-07.txt> 
        . Comments from WG Last Call incorporated 
        . Under IESG Evaluation
        . New version forthcoming incorporating initial IESG comments 
      
      - Detecting Inactive Neighbors over Demand Circuits 
    <draft-ietf-ospf-dc-06.txt> 
        . New version incorporating IESG comments required
    
    
      - Prioritized Treatment of Specific OSPF Packets and Congestion 
    Avoidance 
    <draft-ietf-ospf-scalability-05.txt>  
        . WG Last call completed
        . Under AD review
    
    
      - OSPF Refresh and Flooding Reduction in Stable Topologies  
    <draft-pillay-esnault-ospf-flooding-07.txt>
        . WG Last Call and AD review completed
        . Will be published as informational RFC
    
    
      - Traffic Engineering Extension to OSPF version 3 
    <draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-traffic-00.txt>
        . Refreshed as WG document
        . Please review and discuss
    
    
    o Document at Same Status:
    
    
      - OSPF Version 2 Management Information Base 
    <draft-ietf-ospf-mib-update-06.txt>
        . One more update needed prior to WG last call
    
    
      - OSPF Version 3 Management Information Base 
    <draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-mib-06.txt>
        . Vishwas Manral added as author
        . Recently refreshed
        . Please review and discuss on list
     
      - Authentication/Confidentiality for OSPFv3 
    <draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-auth-01.txt>
        . Refreshed with comments
        . Please review and discuss
    
    
    Discussions:
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    - Bill Fenner: Did you receive our comments ?
    
    
    - Rohit Dube: Yes, we've received them from Alex Zinin
    
    
    - Bill Fenner: I will send my comments to the mailing list
    
    
    o New Documents:
    
    
      - Using an LSA Options Bit to Prevent Looping in BGP/MPLS IP VPNs 
    <draft-ietf-ospf-2547-dnbit-00.txt> 
        . Accepted as WG document
        . Please review and discuss
     
      - Extensions to OSPF for Advertising Optional Router Capabilities 
    <draft-lindem-ospf-cap-01.txt>
        . Will be refreshed as WG document
    
    
    o Document Tracker:
    
    
      - http://rtg.ietf.org/ospf/
      - Click on "Status of OSPF WG Drafts"
      - Click on "AD watching and Beyond"
    
    
    
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    3. IGP Capabilities (10 Mins) - Rahul Aggarwal 
    <http://www.iet
    f.org/internet-drafts/draft-lindem-ospf-cap-01.txt>
    
    
    Summary: 
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    o This draft proposes extensions to OSPF for advertising optional router 
    capabilities by proposing a method that overcomes the lack of bits 
    remaining unassigned in the options field of the hello packet. Router 
    Information (RI) opaque LSA is here proposed to advertise new optional 
    router capabilities or MPLS TE capabilities. The existing 
    applications are PCS, Mesh Groups, and iBGP auto-mesh.
    
    
    Discussions:
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    - Rahul Aggarwal (addressing the working group): any questions ?
    
    
    - Rohit Dube: the draft has a couple of TLV's assigned for drafts not yet 
    officially adopted by an paticular working group  
    
    
    - Rahul Aggarwal: the documents are the Path Compuation Server (PCS) and 
    auto-mesh i-d's. Should they be added when they become WG documents?
    
    
    - Rohit Dube: yes (this is the procedure to follow)
    
    
    
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    4. IGP Traffic Engineering TLV for OSPF (10 Mins) - Jean-Philippe 
    Vasseur
    
    
    Topic: 
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    o Definition of the Mesh-Group TLV and the PCSD TLV as OSPF Traffic 
    Engineering capability TLVs to be included in the OSPF Router 
    Information LSA (with Opaque Type of 4, Opaque ID of 0 and Type 10/11 LSA 
    depending on the application) - Scope of the current discussion is first to 
    introduce the applications
    
    
    Summary:
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    o Mesh-Group TLV:
      . Used by an LSR to indicate its desire to participate to a mesh of TE 
    LSPs (identified by a mesh-group number)
      . Useful to automate the creation of full meshes of TE LSPs with 
    coloring
      . Discussion on the structure of the proposed TLV
    
    
    o PCS Discovery (PCSD) TLV:
      - Allows an LSR to announce its PCS capability to other LSRs within an 
    OSPF area or a routing domain (and thus deliver PCS discovery 
    capability)
      - PCSD TLV includes several sub-TLVs:
        . PCS scope
        . PCS address             
        . PCS capability 
        . AS-domain
      - Applicability: 
        . situation in inter-area traffic-engineering - reference to the 
    multi-area draft of Kireeti Kompella (scenarios 2, 4 and 5). situation in 
    inter-AS traffic-engineering
     
    Discussions:
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    - Jean-Philippe Vasseur: scope here is to discuss the applications
    
    
    - Rohit Dube: for now this draft is presented to the OSPF WG for 
    information only - where this particular work can progress has to be 
    discussed on the list.
    
    
    - Rohit Dube: other questions or comments on this topic ?
    
    
    => no reaction from the room
    
    Rohit Dube: questions or comments on any other topic ?
    
    => no reaction from the room
    
    Rohit Dube: meeting is adjourned
    
    
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