I support WG adoption. This is a much needed traffic engineering capability independent of MPLS.
Thanks Gyan On Wed, Dec 2, 2020 at 8:32 PM Aijun Wang <wangai...@tsinghua.org.cn> wrote: > Hi, authors: > > > > Want to confirm one thing: > > Does the mechanism described in this draft support the automatic fallback > from “flex algorithm” to the “traditional least-cost algorithm”? > > That is to say, can one prefix exists both in the “flex algorithm” table > and “traditional least-cost algorithm” table, the router prefer to > forwarding the packet based on the former table, and if not hit, then > lookup the latter table? > > > > From the context of the document, the answer seems not, or even on the > contrary? > > In cases where a prefix advertisement is received in both a IPv4 > > Prefix Reachability TLV and an IPv4 Algorithm Prefix Reachability > > TLV, the IPv4 Prefix Reachability advertisement MUST be preferred > > when installing entries in the forwarding plane. > > > > If so, what the value to deploy such flexible algorithm within the > network? From my POV, the reason that we want to deploy such mechanism is > that we want to differentiate the path(result of flex algorithm) of some > traffic from that(result of traditional least-cost algorithm) of most other > normal traffic. > > > > Best Regards > > > > Aijun Wang > > China Telecom > > > > *From:* lsr-boun...@ietf.org <lsr-boun...@ietf.org> *On Behalf Of *Acee > Lindem (acee) > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 2, 2020 5:13 AM > *To:* lsr <lsr@ietf.org> > *Subject:* [Lsr] WG Adoption Call for "IGP Flexible Algorithms > (Flex-Algorithm) In IP Networks" - draft-bonica-lsr-ip-flexalgo-01 > > > > This IP Flex Algorithm draft generated quite a bit of discussion on use > cases and deployment prior to IETF 109 and there was generally support for > WG adoption. This begins a two week WG adoption call. Please indicate your > support or objection to WG adoption on this list prior to 12:00 AM UTC on > December 16th, 2020. Also, review comments are certainly welcome. > > Thanks, > > Acee > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Lsr mailing list > Lsr@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lsr > -- <http://www.verizon.com/> *Gyan Mishra* *Network Solutions A**rchitect * *M 301 502-134713101 Columbia Pike *Silver Spring, MD
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