All,

Reading the below I have a tiny question -

Can UPA be a (sub)summary route covering in one shot more than one address
which went down ? Or is there any mandate in the draft that UPA MUST ALWAYS
be /32 or /128 only ?

Apologies if I missed an answer to it in the text of the draft.

Thx,
R.



> KT> Section 2 has the following text:
>
> Implementations MAY limit the UPA generation to specific prefixes, e.g.
> host prefixes, SRv6 locators, or similar. Such filtering is optional and
> MAY be controlled via configuration.
>
> It is also RECOMMENDED that implementations limit the number of UPA
> advertisements which can be originated at a given time.
>
> I assume the reason for this is to ensure that in some pathological cases,
> there is not a storm of UPAs or a large number of UPAs being generated. If
> we consider access, aggregation, and core layers, then at each progressive
> level the propagation involves the UPAs of the lower level of
> hierarchy being sent towards the core. In this case, the propagating
> ABR/ASBRs are also kind of originating from the UPAs from the lower layer
> in its LSAs/LSPs. So, shouldn't the same controls/limits apply at those
> routers as well? Perhaps consider tweaking the language in the above text
> to cover both origination and propagation? I am not looking for mention of
> specific knobs.
>
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