A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Virtual multi-instancing for link state protocols Authors : Shraddha Hegde Salih K.A Mannan Venkatesan Ross Callon Alia K. Atlas Filename : draft-hegde-rtgwg-virtual-multi-instance-01.txt Pages : 15 Date : 2016-03-21 Abstract: In networks with routers of different capabilities, some routers may not be able to participate fully in supporting new features or handling large databases and the associated flooding. In some cases, these restrictions can cause severe scalability issues for the network in general. This document proposes virtual multi-instances, a generic mechanism for OSPF and IS-IS, that allows groups of routers in specific topologies to have a reduced database and reduces the topology changes that are seen. The virtual multi-instances are specified so that no software or protocol changes are required in the restricted routers. Due to the potential number of virtual multi- instances in a network, the configuration is limited and is not specified per virtual instance. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hegde-rtgwg-virtual-multi-instance/ There's also a htmlized version available at: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hegde-rtgwg-virtual-multi-instance-01 A diff from the previous version is available at: https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-hegde-rtgwg-virtual-multi-instance-01 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt