Jordi,

Your draft describes two aspects of the service performance impacted by the 
Computing: Service Deployment and  Service (Path) Selection. Those two should 
be separated, as the Service Deployment belongs to the OpsArea, and the Service 
selection (including Network Path & DCs that host the services) belongs to the 
Routing area.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-5g-edge-service-metadata/ has 
proposed a new Metadata Path Attribute and some Sub-TLVs  for egress routers to 
advertise the Metadata about the attached edge  services (ES).  The Edge 
Service Metadata can be used by the ingress routers in the 5G Local Data 
Network to make path selections not only based on the routing cost but also the 
running environment of the edge services.  The goal is to improve latency and 
performance for 5G  edge services.


Can this Metadata Path Attribute address the problem stated in your draft?  I 
CC'ed the IDR WG, so your comments on the Path Selection can be visible to them.

Thanks, Linda


From: Cats <cats-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Jordi Ros Giralt
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 6:47 AM
To: c...@ietf.org; alto@ietf.org
Subject: [Cats] New draft on joint exposure of network and compute information

Dear CATS and ALTO WG mailing list members,

We submitted a new draft on joint exposure of network and compute information 
for service placement and selection: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rcr-opsawg-operational-compute-metrics/


Joint Exposure of Network and Compute Information for Infrastructure-Aware 
Service DeploymentJoint Exposure of Network and Compute Information for 
Infrastructure-Aware Service Deployment
This draft focuses on the problem of exposing both network and compute 
information to the service provider/application to support service placement 
and selection decisions. ALTO provides an interface for network information 
exposure to the service provider/application; thus, an approach is to leverage 
and extend it with compute metrics. CATS also needs to develop compute metrics 
to support traffic steering decisions. The common ground is in these compute 
metrics, which could be reused across the various use cases (e.g., consumed by 
the network as in CATS or consumed by the application as in ALTO).

This draft also aims at providing a framework for continuing the discussion 
initiated during IETF 117 regarding the presentation "Compute-aware metrics: 
CATS working with ALTO": 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/slides-117-alto-compute-aware-metrics-cats-working-with-alto/

We would like to seek feedback from both working groups on developing compute 
metrics that can be reused for different use cases, to avoid duplicated work 
and increase the effectiveness of future standards.

Thanks,
Jordi


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