RE: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-link-overload-11

["Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <ginsberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think the point here is that the link is not necessarily going to be shutdown in all cases.

 

For example, the operator needs to do some testing of the link. They set max-metric to divert traffic, then keep the link up so they can send OAM traffic over the link and try to determine what problems may exist.

 

It is a mistake to assume that this mechanism is always intended to be used as a precursor to link shutdown.

 

   Les

 

 

From: Acee Lindem (acee)
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 8:47 AM
To: Shraddha Hegde <shraddha@xxxxxxxxxxx>; Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsberg@xxxxxxxxx>; Ketan Talaulikar (ketant) <ketant@xxxxxxxxx>; Joel Halpern <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; gen-art@xxxxxxxx
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Subject: Re: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-link-overload-11

 

Works for me.

Acee 

 

From: Shraddha Hegde <shraddha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, January 5, 2018 at 11:15 AM
To: Acee Lindem <acee@xxxxxxxxx>, "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <ginsberg@xxxxxxxxx>, "Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)" <ketant@xxxxxxxxx>, "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "gen-art@xxxxxxxx" <gen-art@xxxxxxxx>
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Subject: RE: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-link-overload-11

 

How about “graceful-link-shutdown” ?

 

Rgds

Shraddha

 

 

 

From: Acee Lindem (acee) [mailto:acee@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 6:50 PM
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Subject: Re: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-link-overload-11

 

It is not in “maintenance" mode yet as it is still being used. However, it is better than “overload”. “pending-maintenance” is a bit long which is why I suggested “pending-shutdown” since “shutdown” is term that vendors have used for eons to described an interface that is not in service.

Thanks,

Acee 

 

From: "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <ginsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 11:56 PM
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Subject: RE: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-link-overload-11

 

Ketan –

 

“maintenance” I could live with.

 

“GIR” seems to not be generic enough.

 

   Les

 

 

From: Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 8:09 PM
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Subject: RE: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-link-overload-11

 

Hello,

 

May I suggest something more generic like “Maintenance Mode” or “Graceful Insertion/Removal (GIR) Mode” which could be defined so as to cover the multiple scenarios in question (e.g. pending shutdown, down for repairs, last resort due to poor link quality, etc.).

 

Thanks,

Ketan

 

From: OSPF [mailto:ospf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Acee Lindem (acee)
Sent: 05 January 2018 08:14
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Subject: Re: [OSPF] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-link-overload-11

 

Hi Les, 

 

From: "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <ginsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, January 4, 2018 at 9:26 PM
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Subject: RE: Genart last call review of draft-ietf-ospf-link-overload-11

 

> >Minor issues:

> >    I understand the WG likes using the term "overload" for a link

> >being taken

> >    out of service.  I think people will learn what we mean.  I do wish

> >we had

> >    not chosen to misuse the words in this fashion.  This is much more a

> >    graceful-link-close indication (or clsoe-pending indication) than

> >it is an

> >    overload indication.

>

> I agree with this comment but I wasn’t sure we’d reach consensus on a

> better alternative. However, after some though and consideration of current

> OSPF router terminology, I’d propose we use the term “Pending-Shutdown”.

> Does anyone not agree that this is a more appropriate moniker for the TLV

> and state?

> 

[Les:] I agree with Joel's comment. The use of the term "overload" is unfortunate.

But "pending-shutdown" isn’t appealing to me because - at least in most use cases - you aren't actually going to shutdown the link. What you are going to do is make a link the "link of last resort".

This seems a better choice.

 

That is not the use case - you are going to take the link down. It is not going to be the "link of last resort”, it is the currently the “link of last resort” and will imminently be taken down. 

 

 

The suggestion from Shraddha that this term was borrowed from IS-IS isn't accurate. "overload" in IS-IS has a very different meaning - it indicates a node either has an incomplete LSDB or (a la RFC 3277 )an incomplete forwarding plane.

 

The only use of "link overload" in IS-IS occurs in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-isis-reverse-metric-07#section-3.6 and this was added recently to support the (very useful) TE use case which was defined in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ospf-link-overload-11 . When this was done the term "link-overload" was cut and pasted from the OSPF draft. I think this should also be changed in the IS-IS draft.

 

Agreed. 

 

Thanks,

Acee 

 

   Les

 

> Thanks,

> Acee

> >

> >

> >

>

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