Hi Robert,

Thanks for your comments. But one process N threads or N processes, which is 
indeed a implementation not a protocol. Hence, we do not discuss this problem 
in this draft.

I fully agree with Gyan. MFIs share a common adjacencies, and a single LSDB. 
And each MFI can have its own flooding sub topology and its customized flooding 
parameters.

Best regards,
Yali


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MFI seems more like flex algo with multiple sub topologies sharing a common 
links in a  topology where RFC 8202 MI is separated at the process level 
separate LSDB.  So completely different and of course different goals and use 
cases for MI versus MFI.

 MFI also seems to be a flood reduction mechanism by creating multiple sub 
topology instances within a common LSDB.  There are a number of flood reduction 
drafts and this seems to be another method of achieving the same.

Gyan

On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 7:10 AM Robert Raszuk 
<rob...@raszuk.net<mailto:rob...@raszuk.net>> wrote:
Aijun,

How multi instance is implemented is at the discretion of a vendor. It can be 
one process N threads or N processes. It can be both and operator may choose.

MFI is just one process - by the spec - so it is inferior.

Cheers,
R.


On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:44 PM Aijun Wang 
<wang...@chinatelecom.cn<mailto:wang...@chinatelecom.cn>> wrote:
Hi, Robert:

Separate into different protocol instances can accomplish the similar task, but 
it has some deployment overhead.
MFIs within one instance can avoid such cumbersome work, and doesn’t affect the 
basic routing calculation process.
Aijun Wang
China Telecom


On Feb 26, 2021, at 19:00, Robert Raszuk 
<rob...@raszuk.net<mailto:rob...@raszuk.net>> wrote:

Hi Yali,

If this was precise, then the existing multi-instance mechanism would be 
sufficient.
[Yali]: MFI is a different solution we recommend to solve this same and 
valuable issue.

Well the way I understand this proposal MFI is much weaker solution in terms of 
required separation.

In contrast RFC8202 allows to separate ISIS instances at the process level, but 
here MFIs as defined must be handled by the same ISIS process


   This document defines an extension to

   IS-IS to allow one standard instance of

   the protocol to support multiple update

   process operations.

Thx,
R.

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