Re: status of draft-ietf-ospf-rfc3137bis

I agree with Shishio that high-link metric should certainly be covered. There
are some cases where one method may be preferred to the other, so network
operators should have the choice.

Regards,
Michael

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Received: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:02:57 PM PDT
From: Shishio Tsuchiya <shtsuchi <at> cisco.com>
To: acee.lindem <at> ericsson.comCc: ospf <at> ietf.org,
draft-ietf-ospf-rfc3137bis <at> tools.ietf.org
Subject: Re: [OSPF] status of draft-ietf-ospf-rfc3137bis

> I could not find any difference essentially in 2 modes when I wrote the
draft and discuss about this topic.
> But merit of high-link metric are
> -easy to implementation : most of vendor already supported this mode.
> -same operation OSPFv2 and OSPFv3: the operator needs to check metric
value.(do not need to know new bit)
> 
> I agree R-bit should be preferred option, but I think the draft should
describe high-link metric also.
> 
> Regards,
> -Shishio