Re: [bess] WG Last Call (including implem status) for draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-df

2018-01-30 Thread John E Drake
Hi, The HRW DF election draft defines a new extended community, the DF Election Extended Community (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-df-election-03#section-7), which contains a DF election type registry. Why don’t we define a value for AC-based DF election and have the PEs

Re: [bess] WG Last Call (including implem status) for draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-df

2018-01-30 Thread Rabadan, Jorge (Nokia - US/Mountain View)
Hi Gunter, Thanks for the feedback. About this: I was wondering why this document, even though being backward compatible with RFC7432, is Informational track, and not standard track. I just sent an email providing the initial reasoning discussed among the authors. If we still think Standards

Re: [bess] Shepherd's review of draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-df

2018-01-30 Thread Rabadan, Jorge (Nokia - US/Mountain View)
Hi Stephane, Thank you for your review. Please see in-line and let me know what you think. Thanks. Jorge -Original Message- From: "stephane.litkow...@orange.com" Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 at 10:35 AM To:

Re: [bess] Shepherd's review of draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-df

2018-01-30 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi again, There is one point that I have missed. Section 4 uses an old version of the requirement language. Please use the latest one: The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in

Re: [bess] WG Last Call (including implem status) for draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-df

2018-01-30 Thread Van De Velde, Gunter (Nokia - BE/Antwerp)
I support progress and publish as RFC. The document is well written and resolves with a reasonable approach logical failures or human errors, that would otherwise result in significant service problems. I was wondering why this document, eventhough being backward compatible with RFC7432, is

[bess] Shepherd's review of draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-df

2018-01-30 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, As shepherd of this document, please find below my comments. IMO, this is a very useful proposal. The document is quite easy to understand with a good illustrated example. Overall comments: - I would encourage to have an acronym section containing all abbreviations and the associated