< as a WG member and co-author >

Hi Yingzhen,

I agree with you that the ac-flag is similar to the node-flag in RFC9129.

Thanks,
Ketan


On Fri, Sep 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM Yingzhen Qu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jeffrey,
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> I will answer only the questions to the data model and leave the rest to
> the authors.
>
> "
>      augment /rt:routing/rt:control-plane-protocols
>                /rt:control-plane-protocol/ospf:ospf/ospf:areas/ospf:area
>                /ospf:interfaces/ospf:interface:
>        +--rw anycast-flag?   boolean
>
> Should it be part of the interface or prefix configuration?
> An interface could have multiple addresses, and maybe only one/some of them
> may need the AC-flag?
> "
> I thought about this. When a prefix is configured as an anycast address,
> most likely it's a prefix on a loopback interface, that's why I have this
> configuration on an interface. Otherwise we can have it in the router mode
> with a prefix. Please let me know what you think.
>
> "
>      prefix ospf-anycast-flag;
>
> What does "prefix ospf-anycast-flag" mean here? Is it an interface or
> prefix
> property?
> The following mentions both interface and prefix.
> "
> This is just a YANG model's prefix.
>
> Thanks,
> Yingzhen
>
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM Zhaohui Zhang via Datatracker <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Document: draft-ietf-lsr-anycast-flag
> > Title: OSPFv2 Anycast Property Advertisement
> > Reviewer: Zhaohui Zhang
> > Review result: Has Nits
> >
> > For the following two paragraphs:
> >
> >    [RFC7684] defines OSPFv2 Opaque LSAs based on Type-Length-Value (TLV)
> >    tuples that can be used to associate additional attributes with
> >    prefixes or links.  The OSPFv2 Extended Prefix TLV that is contained
> >    in the OSPFv2 Extended Prefix Opaque LSA is used to advertise
> >    additional attributes associated with an IPv4 prefix, but the
> >    definition of anycast flag to identify the IPv4 prefix as anycast has
> >    not yet been defined.
> >
> >    The flags field of the OSPFv2 Extended Prefix TLV (Section 2.1 of
> >    [RFC7684]) can be found in "OSPFv2 Extended Prefix TLV Flags" IANA
> >    registry [IANA-OSPFv2-EPF].
> >
> > They could be combined into the following:
> >
> >    [RFC7684] defines OSPFv2 Opaque LSAs based on Type-Length-Value (TLV)
> >    tuples that can be used to associate additional attributes with
> >    prefixes or links.  The OSPFv2 Extended Prefix TLV that is contained
> >    in the OSPFv2 Extended Prefix Opaque LSA is used to advertise
> >    additional attributes associated with an IPv4 prefix, including a
> flags
> >    field (Section 2.1 of [RFC7684]) with an "OSPFv2 Extended Prefix TLV
> > Flags"
> >    IANA registry [IANA-OSPFv2-EPF].
> >
> > This would match the changes in the abstract (between the -04 and -05
> > revision)
> > of this draft.
> >
> > 2.  Use-case
> >
> >    In the absence of the N-flag, the node specific prefixes need to be
> >    identified from the anycast prefixs.  A prefix that is advertised by
> >    a single node and without an Anycast Flag (AC-flag) MUST be
> >    considered node specific.
> >
> > The above is not a use case, and the content is present below anyway.
> > I would suggest to remove the section, or give a real use case example.
> > I have one in mind and could provide text if you would like to include it
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