[dev] Request for a BGP-LS development branch

[Jeff Tantsura]

Please note, RFC7752 has a number of inconsistencies and is being updated, as well as implementations based on it.
New document is - draft-ietf-idr-rfc7752bis-02

Cheers,
Jeff

> On Nov 5, 2019, at 11:41 AM, <olivier.dugeon at orange.com> <olivier.dugeon at orange.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I got request from FRR developers to share our respective work on BGP Link State (BGP-LS a.k.a RFC7752)
> 
> This new functionality has been identify in the feature request list (see
> https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/wiki/Feature-Requests <https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/wiki/Feature-Requests>) following issue 3520
> (see https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/issues/3520 <https://github.com/FRRouting/frr/issues/3520>).
> 
> The development branch is necessary as:
>  - No one have a complete solution and we would build a global solution without redeveloping everything
>    from scratch: we have parser & serializer, others have integration in latest FRR version ...
>  - This is a complex feature which re-use BGP as transport protocol, but which is completely new in FRR
>    and need large amount of work
>  - BGP-LS needs to collect Link State information from OSPF or IS-IS. For that purpose, new Traffic
>    Engineering Database will be introduce in lib directory. This TED will be fulfil by OSPF or IS-IS and
>    modification sent to BGP through new ZAPI message. This method will avoid to code an OSPF parser and
>    an IS-IS parser inside BGP-LS code and reduce the amount of data that transit through zebra layer.
> 
> Please inform me once the branch created.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Olivier
> 
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