Btw.: I have no strong opinions either way, and i am not the one who
put a + in front of objective for the flood-message. Aka would be curious
about the reason Brian wanted to support multiple objectives in it!

Cheers
    Toerless

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 09:14:42AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 26-Aug-22 08:59, Michael Richardson wrote:
> > 
> > Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> >      > (b) but it could be implemented *on top* of the current
> >      > definition of GRASP, if the floods in question were issued with a 
> > loop
> >      > count of 1 (so they would never be relayed per RFC8990), and there 
> > was
> >      > a flood consolidator - effectively just a special ASA as far as GRASP
> >      > is concerned - that sent out consolidated floods.
> > 
> > why couldn't the flood consolidator collect and relay things with higher 
> > loop
> > counts, as long as it didn't do it too often?
> > (is that called a "dam"? sluicegate? me wastes ten minutes reading about 
> > dams on wikipedia)
> 
> Yes, it could, once the consolidation was done.
> 
> I suspect this idea overlaps with the use cases for 
> draft-ietf-anima-grasp-distribution.
> 
>    Brian

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