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- Editor's Note: These minutes have not been edited.
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- A joint session of the OSPF and MOSPF Working Groups met on Wednesday,
- April 9th from 1300-1515 at the Memphis IETF. Minutes of the meeting
- follow:
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- (1) John Moy gave a summary of the current status of the following
- documents:
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- o The OSPFv2 specification, <draft-ietf-ospf-version2-10.txt>, is
- in IESG last call. It is expected to be published as an RFC, at
- Full Standard status, replacing RFC 1583.
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- o The MOSPF specification, RFC 1584, needs to be updated. There
- are small problems in inter-area multicasting in the presence of
- virtual links, and when adding stub links to the forwarding
- cache entries. Also, the document should mention that when
- IGMPv2 is being used, IGMP elects the querier instead of using
- the OSPF DR. Finally, John wants to add a feature where ranges
- of multicast addresses can be configured in area border routers
- as being "area local". After these changes are made, the
- document can probably be submitted for Draft Standard status, as
- there are now a number of implementations.
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- o The OSPF for IPv6 specification, <draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv6-
- 04.txt>, was recently updated: a) the IPv6 pseudo-header was
- added to the OSPF packet checksum, to protect against corruption
- of the IPv6 header, b) MTU was added to the Database Description
- packet, porting the MTU mismatch fix from OSPFv2, and c) the set
- of LSAs that cannot be flooded through stubs areas was
- clarified, allowing certain AS-scoped LSAs on a case-by-case
- basis. The only other pending changes involve the IPv6
- encapsulation: the setting of the priority field and possibly
- the setting of the TTL. The specification is still awaiting
- implementation experience before it will be published as an RFC.
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- (2) Dave Jacobson from IBM made the following patent disclosure: "IBM
- believes that it has patents(4644532, 4827411) which may relate to
- OSPF and in accordance with the intellectual property rights
- procedures of the IETF standards process, IBM is willing to offer
- non-exclusive licenses under reasonable and non-discriminatory
- terms and conditions. Any party wishing to request a license should
- write to: IBM Director of Licensing, IBM Corporation, 500 Columbus
- Avenue, Thornwood, New York 10594". No further information was made
- available.
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- (3) Rob Coltun presented the latest changes to his Opaque-LSAs draft,
- which will be published as an Internet Draft after the meeting. Two
- changes have been made: a) separate LS types have been assigned to
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- so that Opaque-LSAs with AS flooding scope will not be flooded
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- It was decided to give administration of the Opaque type field to
- IANA, since we already have a conflict (between Rob's ARA proposal
- and the MOSPF pruning proposal; see below). Sandy Murphy questioned
- why the stub area rules were different for Opaque-LSAs vs. the LSAs
- in OSPF for IPv6. The reason is that the "flood even if
- unrecognized" bit and the increased size of the Options field in
- IPv6 allows us finer control than the all or nothing decision (where
- nothing seems most appropriate for stub areas) possible with
- Opaque-LSAs.
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- Since we are now out of Options bits in OSPFv2, we expect all new
- OSPFv2 options to be implemented using Opaque-LSAs. For this reason,
- we will try to get the Opaque-LSA document published as a Proposed
- Standard as soon as possible.
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- (4) Rob Coltun then presented an application of Opaque-LSAs that he has
- developed together with Juha Heinanen (Telecom Finland) and Yiqun
- Cai (Nortel). Called the address resolution advertisement or ARA, it
- uses Opaque-LSAs to advertise mappings between IP addresses (or OSPF
- Router IDs) and ATM NSAPs. This allows the establishment of control
- driven shortcuts across legacy ATM clouds. This work was also
- presented to the ION working group.
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- (5) Pat Murphy (USGS) talked about the work he has been doing to update
- the NSSA area specification (RFC 1587). He has added two features:
- the ability to omit summary advertisements from NSSA areas, and the
- ability to configure which area border routers do the translation
- from type-7 LSAs to type-5 LSAs. The first can keep the NSSA
- database size even smaller (although can't be used when the NSSA
- area employs "private" defaults), while the second can optimize
- routing when aggregation is taking place (and so forwarding
- addresses cannot be used). There was some discussion of whether it
- would be better to have all border routers perform the translation,
- analogous to OSPF's treatment of summary-LSAs. Pat also updated the
- type-7 route calculation to make it compatible with the updated
- external route calculation in the latest OSPFv2 draft.
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- (6) Sanjay Kamat (IBM) presented a proposal for QoS path management with
- RSVP <draft-guerin-qospath-mgmt-rsvp-00.txt>. The goal of this work
- is to have RSVP set up the paths selected by QoS routing algorithms,
- and provide support for route pinning while detecting loops in path
- setup. Other goals were to change RSVP as little as possible, keep
- its soft state model, and work with any QoS routing protocol. The
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- the Tspec as well as source and destination addresses. The RSVP PATH
- messages are then forwarded along the path selected by the QoS
- routing algorithm. This work was also presented to the QoS routing
- WG.
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- (7) Tony Przygienda (FORE) gave an update on "QoS Routing Mechanisms and
- OSPF Extensions", <draft-guerin-qos-routing-ospf-01.txt>, joint
- work done by himself and Guerin, Kamat, Orda, and Williams (IBM).
- Tony restricted his talk to the changes since last meeting. Instead
- of changing the format of router-LSAs, they now encode their metrics
- using OSPF's TOS encodings. To enhance backward capability, TOS
- values were chosen so that OSPF implementations which only look at 4
- TOS bits would interpret their bandwidth metric (TOS 0x10100) as
- "maximize throughput", and their delay metric (TOS 0x11000) as
- "minimize delay". Metric values are encoded using exponential
- encoding, with a 7-bit exponent and a 5-bit mantissa, to fit in
- OSPF's 16-bits. They are also using a new Option bit, the Q-bit, to
- indicate that a router is running the QoS enhancements.
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- Ongoing work includes OSPF area support (whether to support
- heterogenous areas, and how to aggregate QoS metrics), and
- extensions to additional metrics (such as jitter).
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- (8) John Moy presented work he has been doing to add prune support to
- MOSPF. This has two independent parts. The first allows unnecessary
- wild-card multicast receivers to be pruned from multicast delivery
- trees during inter-area and inter-AS multicasting. Prune packets (a
- new OSPF packet type) are sent upstream (toward the source) when
- forwarding cache entries are built with no downstream interfaces.
- Prune packets contain a list of the wild-card receivers that need
- not be included in the delivery tree; this allows prune maintenance
- to be delegated to the wild-card multicast receivers themselves.
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- Jeffrey Zhang thought prune information should be advertised in
- LSAs; John's stated reason for using packets was that flooding the
- prune information forces routers to hold more information than they
- need. Tom Maufer (3com) said that prunes and prune deletes should be
- made reliable, rather than just relying on timeouts. Hal Sandick
- (IBM) asked whether interaction with shared tree multicast routing
- protocols had been considered; John admitted that he hadn't spent
- much time on that issue.
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- The second part of the work allows IGMPv3's source-specific group
- membership information to be advertised within MOSPF. Two new LSAs,
- the source-join-LSA and source-leave-LSA, are used. Both are built
- on top of the area-scoped Opaque-LSA. Both have properties similar
- to the MOSPF group-membership-LSA: they are specific to a single
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- This work will be published as an Internet Draft after the meeting.
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- (9) The meeting ended with Path Murphy describing his large inter-agency
- OSPF network, and the circumstances in which he would like to prefer
- inter-area routes over intra-area routes. Pat proposed protocol
- changes to accomplish his goal. Some discussion ensued as to whether
- it was better to make protocol changes, or to just configure
- multiple subnets per link, which could achieve the same thing.
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