Re: working group last call for PPP TRILL protocol control protocol [was Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-pppext-trill-protocol-02.txt]

William Allen Simpson wrote:
> In any case, I disagree with section 3 item 3 regarding the OUI.  I'm a big
> fan of completely finishing a specification, not leaving holes for later.
> And a bigger fan of zero configuration that eliminates even the possibility
> of an additional operational consideration!

I agree that it'd be nice to fill in this hole, but I'm not so sure how
to accomplish that task.  I don't think IETF OUI plus LCP Magic Number
works -- the Magic Number value is unique for a given endpoint on a
given link, but is not guaranteed to be unique across a network.  But
the IS-IS System ID number does need to be unique across the network,
and its construction based on MAC addresses normally protects that
requirement.

One way to avoid the hole would be to outlaw the use of systems that
lack any way to form an IS-IS System ID, but that seems a little harsh.
 Forcing that corner case to use manual configuration is distasteful,
but the alternatives seem worse, at least to me.

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James Carlson         42.703N 71.076W         <[email protected]>
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