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4.0.- Advertisement of Link State information  

The new link metrics need to be advertised across the network, so that each router can compute accurate and consistent QoS routes. One important aspect of such distribution is its frequency. In general, there is a trade-off between the protocol overhead of frequent updates and the accuracy of the network state information available to have a path selection decision.
  The idea would be to trigger link state advertisement only when there is significant change in the value of metrics since the last advertisement. This change can be scaled "absolute" or "relative". Absolute means partitioning the range of values of a metric in classes, and triggering an update whenever the metric changes to cross a class boundary. Relative trigger updates when the percentage change in the metric exceeds a predefined threshold. Also a periodic trigger constraint should be added using a hold-down timer to force minimum spacing between consecutive updates.
The OSPF extensions described in this document are based on metric updates sent using the standard, and reliable, OSPF flooding mechanism.