Subject: [OSPF] [Errata Rejected] RFC3101 (4767)

From: RFC Errata System <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 06:34:42 -0700 (PDT)

The following errata report has been rejected for RFC3101,
"The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option".

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http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=3101&eid=4767

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Status: Rejected
Type: Technical

Reported by: Chao Fu <[email-masked]>
Date Reported: 2016-08-08
Rejected by: Alia Atlas (IESG)

Section: 2.5.(6).(e)

Original Text
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          (e) If the current LSA is functionally the same as an
              installed LSA (i.e., same destination, cost and non-zero
              forwarding address) then apply the following priorities in
              deciding which LSA is preferred:

                 1. A Type-7 LSA with the P-bit set.

                 2. A Type-5 LSA.

                 3. The LSA with the higher router ID.

              [NSSA]

Corrected Text
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NULL (it should be deleted because no LSAs would be compared here.)

Notes
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If one LSA is Type-5 and the other is Type-7, one of them would be rejected at step (2.5.(3) ( please refer to OSPF mail list: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ospf/KBoh5T75o-s7n_bL1knrc6uVlTs ). If both of them are Type-7 LSAs, one of them would be flushed according 2.4: 
   If two NSSA routers, both
   reachable from one another over the NSSA, originate functionally
   equivalent Type-7 LSAs (i.e., same destination, cost and non-zero
   forwarding address), then the router having the least preferred LSA
   should flush its LSA.

As a result, rule (e) would never be applied and should be removed.

 --VERIFIER NOTES-- 
It is easy to envision a topology where an ABR for an NSSA receives an NSSA-LSA from an NSSA internal router and an AS-Exernal-LSA from originating routers that do not receive each others equivalent LSAs. Furthermore, even if this were not the case, the  referenced text refers to LSAs that are both NSSA-LSAs as opposed to a
mixture of an NSSA-LSA and an AS-External-LSA.

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RFC3101 (draft-ietf-ospf-nssa-update-11)
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Title               : The OSPF Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA) Option
Publication Date    : January 2003
Author(s)           : P. Murphy
Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
Source              : Open Shortest Path First IGP
Area                : Routing
Stream              : IETF
Verifying Party     : IESG