Thanks to both Linda and Basil,
My response is a little unthought as I am currently following two simultaneous sessions (sorry about that), but it seems to me that the answers from the two of you seem to be slightly at odds. Basil is talking about steering whole traffic flows onto tunnels to be carried over the network; Linda is talking about routing individual packets within the network. I would still caution you to avoid tying too tightly to the term “application”. A single application may generate multiple flows with different performance criteria and you will treat the flows differently. Conversely, two applications may generate flows that have identical performance criteria. Thanks, Adrian From: Linda Dunbar <linda.dun...@futurewei.com> Sent: 28 July 2020 14:05 To: Najem, Basil <basil.na...@bell.ca>; adr...@olddog.co.uk; bess@ietf.org Cc: draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-us...@ietf.org Subject: RE: Thought about "Application Routing" in draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage Adrian, You said: As will be seen from the Application Aware Networking (APN) effort, the concept of traffic flows being routed according to the identity of the application is made complicated by various privacy and security concerns, not to mention issues of registering application identities. The "Application" doesn't necessary mean all the bits in the payload. The "Application" can be any criteria that Client has indicated to Network Operators, for example the IPsec SA header bits, the TCP/UDP port number, the Source Addresses, etc. The network will not alter the forwarding behavior unless there is the request from the client to inform the network to forward their traffic based on its provided criteria. This draft, which was written 2 years ago, is indeed to show that BGP can be effectively used to “do something similar to APN: that is, to classify the service that a particular application-sourced flow wants to receive from the network”. Since SDWAN is over different types of underlay networks, with different performance and security aspects, clients may want their specific traffic to traverse specific underlay networks, or specific peers. Yes, indeed that the goal is to “ the packets are 'coloured' for routing and treatment in the network.” There is another draft in IDR to describe the encoding “Color” or “IPsec SA ID”: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-idr-sdwan-edge-discovery/ Welcome your comments to that draft. I will attend the APN side meeting on Thurs to understand more. Linda Dunbar -----Original Message----- From: Najem, Basil <basil.na...@bell.ca> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 7:10 AM To: adr...@olddog.co.uk; bess@ietf.org Cc: draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-us...@ietf.org Subject: RE: Thought about "Application Routing" in draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage Thanks Adrian for your comment. How about changing the paragraph to something like: "The application can be routed based on specific performance criteria (e.g. packets delay, packet lose, jitter) to provide a better experience by choosing a tunnel over an underlay that meets or exceeds the specified performance criteria threshold for that application" Regards; Basil -----Original Message----- From: Adrian Farrel <adr...@olddog.co.uk <mailto:adr...@olddog.co.uk> > Sent: July-28-20 8:01 AM To: bess@ietf.org <mailto:bess@ietf.org> Cc: draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-us...@ietf.org <mailto:draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-us...@ietf.org> Subject: [EXT]Thought about "Application Routing" in draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage Hi, As Linda noted in her agenda slot today, draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage version 08 introduced a new paragraph in the Introduction that says: - The Application Routing can also be based on specific performance criteria (e.g. packets delay, packet loos, jitter) to provide better application performance by choosing the right underlay that meets or exceeds the specified criteria. Firstly, s/loos/loss/ 😊 But I am concerned by the concept of "application routing" and I note that the term is not used elsewhere in the document nor is the concept expanded upon. As will be seen from the Application Aware Networking (APN) effort, the concept of traffic flows being routed according to the identity of the application is made complicated by various privacy and security concerns, not to mention issues of registering application identities. Fortunately, I suspect that this draft wants to do something similar to APN: that is, to classify the service that a particular application-sourced flow wants to receive from the network. This may be considerably more complex than DSCP, but the concept is the same that either a tunnel/pipe/flow is negotiated and established for use by the application, or the packets are 'coloured' for routing and treatment in the network. I would suggest two things: 1. Be a lot more clear about what is meant by "application routing" possibly even using a different term 2. Have a look at the APN work - side meeting on Thursday; see https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAPN-Community%2FIETF108-Side-Meeting-APN <https://nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FAPN-Community%2FIETF108-Side-Meeting-APN&data=02%7C01%7Clinda.dunbar%40futurewei.com%7C456da5e6ae9e4fc3ff6808d832ef2ef0%7C0fee8ff2a3b240189c753a1d5591fedc%7C1%7C0%7C637315350161504633&sdata=B4QkVHS%2FkUs%2BWFZgAFQ64BDIhNlIqYxnSrlQNOx%2Bblg%3D&reserved=0> &data=02%7C01%7Clinda.dunbar%40futurewei.com%7C456da5e6ae9e4fc3ff6808d832ef2ef0%7C0fee8ff2a3b240189c753a1d5591fedc%7C1%7C0%7C637315350161504633&sdata=B4QkVHS%2FkUs%2BWFZgAFQ64BDIhNlIqYxnSrlQNOx%2Bblg%3D&reserved=0 for all the details Best, Adrian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ External Email: Please use caution when opening links and attachments / Courriel externe: Soyez prudent avec les liens et documents joints
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