Dear Les,

Thanks a lot for your comments. I will take your suggestion to add description 
on how to use the IFIT Capability information when the submission is opened.

As described in my reply to Acee, following is my quick reply:

IFIT is deployed in a specific domain referred as the IFIT domain. One network 
domain may consists of multiple IFIT domain. Within the IFIT domain, one or 
more IFIT-options are added into packet at the IFIT-enabled head node that is 
referred to as the “IFIT encapsulating node”. Then IFIT data fields MAY be 
updated by IFIT transit nodes that the packet traverses. Finally, the data 
fields are removed at a device that is referred to as the “IFIT decapsulating 
node”.

The IFIT data fields must not leak to other domains. So, the IFIT encapsulating 
node need to know if the decapsulating node is able to support the IFIT 
capability. So that it can decide whether to add the IFIT-option or not.

The solution is similar to RFC8491. We use IGP to advertise the capability, so 
that head node can use. By using BGP-LS, a centralized controller can also 
learn the IFIT Capability of nodes to determine whether a particular IFIT 
Option type can be supported in a given network.

Best regards,
Yali

发件人: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) [mailto:ginsb...@cisco.com]
发送时间: 2020年3月10日 5:07
收件人: wangyali <wangyal...@huawei.com>; lsr@ietf.org
主题: RE: A new version of I-D, draft-liu-lsr-isis-ifit-node-capability-02

Yali �C

What is missing for me is an explanation of why IFIT Capability information is 
something that is appropriate to be sent using IGP Router Capability 
advertisements.

Generally speaking, we prefer to restrict IGP advertisements to information 
which is of direct use to the protocol. However, it is fair to say that we have 
relaxed this restriction in some cases e.g.:

https://www.iana.org/go/rfc7883
https://www.iana.org/go/rfc8491

However, even in these cases the information advertised is of value to some 
entity executing on the protocol peers �C even if not directly by the IGP 
itself.

I see no such value add here i.e., the IFIT capability information may well be 
of value to a controller but I do not see any use case for any entity on 
protocol peers.
So why should we use IGPs to send this information to all other IGP peers when 
none of them can make use of this information?

    Les


From: Lsr <lsr-boun...@ietf.org<mailto:lsr-boun...@ietf.org>> On Behalf Of 
wangyali
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2020 1:21 AM
To: lsr@ietf.org<mailto:lsr@ietf.org>
Subject: [Lsr] A new version of I-D, draft-liu-lsr-isis-ifit-node-capability-02

Dear all,

I’m Yali. Following is a new version of I-D, 
draft-liu-lsr-isis-ifit-node-capability-02 I submitted recently.

Please let me know your questions and comments. Thank you.

>>>>>>>>>

Name:               draft-liu-lsr-isis-ifit-node-capability

Revision:  02

Title:                  IS-IS Extensions for Advertising IFIT Node Capability

Document date:       2020-03-09

Group:               Individual Submission

Pages:               7

URL:            
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-liu-lsr-isis-ifit-node-capability-02.txt

Status:         
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-lsr-isis-ifit-node-capability/

Htmlized:       
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-liu-lsr-isis-ifit-node-capability-02

Htmlized:       
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-liu-lsr-isis-ifit-node-capability

Diff:           
https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-liu-lsr-isis-ifit-node-capability-02



Abstract:

   This document defines a way for an Intermediate System to

   Intermediate System (IS-IS) routers to advertise IFIT(in-situ Flow

   Information Telemetry) capabilities.  This document extends a new

   optional sub-TLV in the IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV [RFC7981], which

   allows a router to announce its IFIT node capabilities within an IS-

   IS level or the entire routing domain.  Such advertisements enable

   IFIT applications in the network domain.


Best Regards,
Yali WANG
E: wangyal...@huawei.com<mailto:wangyal...@huawei.com>

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