Thanks Anton - I agree with that this enhancement should support P2MP as
well. Note that the disclosed IPR abstracts the LSA scoping to a stub-site
specific database so P2MP and other use cases, e.g. parallel links to the
same site, can be accommodated.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20140010117

Acee 

On 1/31/16, 3:14 PM, "Anton Smirnov (asmirnov)" <[email protected]> wrote:

>    Hello,
>    Hub-and-Spoke topology is a known topology where OSPF traditionally
>performed poorly and in my opinion work in this area is very important.
>    On the other hand, I have number of concerns regarding usability of
>approach chosen in this draft and I think in its current state the draft
>is not ready for WG adoption.
>    I have big concerns regarding implementation simplicity and solution
>applicability (i.e. hub-and-spoke networks where proposed solution
>doesn't work). But first of all I want to make a comment on the text as
>it is.
>    Some hub-and-spoke topologies are point-to-multipoint networks. 10
>years ago it was a fraction of all hub-and-spoke WAN, nowadays it is a
>majority. Draft doesn't consider multipoint operations (at least it
>doesn't have word 'multipoint' in it). But multipoint has very big
>implications on having multiple spoofed Router LSAs and their filtering
>- since all stub neighbors are on the same interface, one can't use
>per-interface filtering (which is tightly related to per-interface
>flooding). Spoofed Router LSA will have a new type of flooding behavior
>- per-neighbor. This is doable but it is not specified anywhere and is
>not coded by any implementation I am aware of (i.e. existing filtering
>mechanisms are between different interfaces, not between neighbors on
>the same multipoint interface).
>    So the draft needs to define new LSA flooding scope - per-neighbor
>flooding scope, much like interface-scope flooding had to be devised for
>Opaque LSAs.
>    This is not all for implementation complexity not covered in the
>draft but it will be a good start.
>
>Anton
>
>
>On 01/26/2016 05:39 PM, Acee Lindem (acee) wrote:
>> This draft was has gone through some refinements after being presented
>>in
>> Hawaii and in Yokohama there was some support of this protocol
>>extension.
>> Here is a URL for you convenience.
>>
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-raza-ospf-stub-neighbor/
>>
>> Please indicate your support (or concerns) for adopting this as a WG
>> Document. The WG Adoption call will end in 2 weeks.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Acee
>>
>>
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