Hi,

I find Acee's proposal reasonable and support it "as is".

Regards,
Jeff

> On Jul 5, 2017, at 10:36, Acee Lindem (acee) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chao, 
> 
> I think rules (e) 1 and (e) 2 should remain to handle the case of an NSSA 
> that receives both the intra-NSSA LSA and a translated AS External LSA (via a 
> backbone path). I only think that rule (e) 3 needs to be relaxed. If we were 
> doing another NSSA BIS,  I’d remove it completely but since we are just 
> talking about an Errata, I think we should just make the Router ID 
> tie-breaker optional. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Acee 
> 
> From: Chao Fu <[email protected]>
> Date: Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at 3:02 AM
> To: "Balaji Ganesh (balagane)" <[email protected]>, OSPF WG List 
> <[email protected]>, Acee Lindem <[email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [OSPF] RFC 3101 NSSA/External Route preference clarification
> 
> Hi all,
>  
> In my opinion rule (e) should be removed. ( 
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=ospf&q=%5BTechnical+Errata+Reported%5D+RFC3101
>  ).
> If not, it should be clarified more including removing “2. A Type-5 LSA.”
>  
> Regards,
> Chao Fu
>  
> From: OSPF [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Balaji Ganesh 
> (balagane)
> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2017 14:01
> To: OSPF WG List <[email protected]>; Acee Lindem (acee) <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OSPF] RFC 3101 NSSA/External Route preference clarification
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> Any views/comments on the below?
>  
> Regards,
> Balaji
>  
> From: Acee Lindem (acee) 
> Sent: 19 June 2017 00:08
> To: Balaji Ganesh (balagane) <[email protected]>; OSPF WG List 
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OSPF] RFC 3101 NSSA/External Route preference clarification
>  
> Hi –  I encouraged Balaji to post to the list is that I think many 
> implementations have ignored #3. I know that I changed the IBM implementation 
> to compute ECMP routes to multiple ASBRs and had the Redback implementation 
> do this from the start. Consequently, we’d like to solicit input as to what 
> other implementations do. If we can reach consensus on this, we could issue 
> an Errata to make this optional. 
>  
> Thanks,
> Acee 
>  
> From: OSPF <[email protected]> on behalf of "Balaji Ganesh (balagane)" 
> <[email protected]>
> Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2017 at 4:13 AM
> To: OSPF WG List <[email protected]>
> Subject: [OSPF] RFC 3101 NSSA/External Route preference clarification
>  
> Hi all,
>  
> When the metrics are same, RFC 3101 specifies the preference for 
> NSSA/External routes as follows.
> In the section 2.5 Calculating Type-7 AS External Routes - 2.5.6.(e), it 
> says..
>  
>           (e) If the current LSA is functionally the same as an
>               installed LSA (i.e., same destination, cost and non-zero
>               forwarding address) then apply the following priorities in
>               deciding which LSA is preferred:
>  
>                  1. A Type-7 LSA with the P-bit set.
>  
>                  2. A Type-5 LSA.
>  
>                  3. The LSA with the higher router ID.  
>  
>  
> Points 1 and 2 are clear..
>  
> However Point 3 specifies preference of an LSA with a higher router ID. Why 
> is it so?
>  
> Should we not install ECMP paths in this case?
> Is point 3 actually intended for NSSA translators to prefer a Type 7 LSA 
> which needs to be used for translation to Type 5?
>  
> Considering the above 2 points, I guess point 3 needs to be modified in the 
> RFC to probably say..
>  
>                     3. Preference is same, install ECMP paths.
>                        Additionally if the router is an NSSA translator, 
> prefer the LSA with higher router ID for Type 7-Type 5 translation. 
>  
> Please let know any views/comments on the same.
>  
> Regards,
> Balaji
>  
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