OSPF Reverse Metric
draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-reverse-metric-13

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'OSPF Reverse Metric' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-reverse-metric-13.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'OSPF Reverse Metric'
  (draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-reverse-metric-13.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Link State Routing Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Andrew Alston and John Scudder.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lsr-ospf-reverse-metric/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

This document provides extensions to OSPF to support dynamic modification of
link metrics by ingress router on the link. In other words, an OSPF router can
request an adjacent OSPF router to advertise a higher link metric.

Working Group Summary

Given that the draft is implementing function already supported for IS-IS with
RFC 8500, there wasn't a lot of excitement over the draft. During the WG last
call, a number of WG members the draft with the only issue being the
predominant use cases. The draft is generally supported.

Document Quality

The document describes a relatively simple OSPF extension and is analogous to
similar function in IS-IS (RFC 8500). It is of high quality and ready for
publication.

Personnel

 Document Shepherd: Acee Lindem
 Responsible AD: John Scudder

RFC Editor Note