Hi Stewart,

GDF is for any transportations, MPLS being of the transportations.
Here the question is, in case of MPLS, how do we do it.

I did design it to advertise a GDF label so that we know that a GDFH is at BoS; 
and I make the GDFH start with 0000b so that it won’t be mistaken as an IP 
header.

I don’t see why using 0000b in GDFH is contending with IOAM (even if it uses 
0000b) and PW CW?

I was incorrectly thinking that IOAM was using GAL, so I was thinking, if IOAM 
(which I think it is user traffic with OAM info embedded) could use GAL, then 
perhaps GAL’s restriction for user-traffic could be lifted, and in that case 
GDF go with G-ACH using GAL.

Now I realize that I can’t really use GAL. In that case, I think it’s better to 
be independent of PW and G-ACH – this is not only the fragmentation function.

Thanks.
Jeffrey

From: Stewart Bryant <[email protected]>
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To: Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Stewart Bryant <[email protected]>; Rakesh Gandhi 
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Subject: Re: [mpls] draft-zzhang-intarea-generic-delivery-functions

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The way that a forwarder processing a PW  knows that a CW follows is because it 
is a parameter of the FEC of the PW label that is BoS.

The CW then described whether the payload is a PW user payload of an ACH using 
the 0001

IF you want to run OAM on an MPLS LSP as we do in MPLS-TP you have no CW so you 
need another method of indicating the presence of the ACH and the way that is 
done is with a GAL.

The cleanest way to put fragmentation information at the BoS is to create a new 
type MPLS payload construct the “fragwire” if you like push the metadata, push 
a label advertised by the recipient that says that this is what is being done, 
then just the delivery label.

You have to know that the target can do this, so the target can advertise or 
otherwise provide a label saying what it needs as an indicator.

Job done and it is a private matter between sender and receiver.

This is just reusing what is already in place today.

Indeed if you make this a PW type, you only need a very short draft and it is 
all done.

- Stewart



On 19 Feb 2021, at 16:15, Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Hi Rakesh, Yangfan,

I agree that a GDFH can follow the IOAM header and the two do not contend.

It came to me though, the IOAM header could become a GDFH 😊 It can then be used 
for all transportations (MPLS, BIER, or even ethernet).

I see that in your -06 version you treat IOAM as  a G-ACH channel. That does 
not seem to go well with the following in RFC 5586:

   The G-ACh MUST NOT be used to transport user traffic.

However I am not against relaxing the above restriction a bit.
But I don’t understand why you need an “IOAM Indicator Label” – there is 
already a special label G-ACh Label (GAL).
For GDFH, I had designed to advertise regular labels to indicate that a GDFH 
follows (I am always a good citizen when it comes to requesting special 
labels). Seeing that G-Ach uses the GAL, and the following:


   The ACH used by CC Type 1 is depicted in figure below:



    0                   1                   2                   3

    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   |0 0 0 1|Version|   Reserved    |         Channel Type          |

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+



                    Figure 1: Associated Channel Header

If the user traffic restriction could be lifted, it’s tempting to treat GDFH as 
a G-Ach channel type. That way we don’t need to advertise GDFH labels.

To answer Yangfan’s question “what is the difference compared to G-AC” in 
another email: GDFH is for generic delivery function over different transports, 
and even when it is used over MPLS it is different from the (original intention 
of) G-ACH. However, as mentioned above, it’s tempting to treat GDFH as a 
channel type just to be able use the already assigned GAL.

Thanks.
Jeffrey

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Hi Stewart,
Hi Xiao, Loa,
FYI:
I believe the latest revision (06) addresses this comment. Welcome your 
feedback on that.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-gandhi-mpls-ioam-sr-06<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-gandhi-mpls-ioam-sr-06__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!VXglGy7lcO2Pe-wXQDgZaYzzz0Ckq57ZSdkkJ0Sz5yTrNvCrxSb9ClooNfsG5fW-$>

Thanks for your review.
Regards,
Rakesh

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:57 PM Rakesh Gandhi 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Stewart,
Thanks for your comments. If we have a mechanism like following, does that 
address the issue?

  1.  IOAM header is part of the MPLS encapsulation, any other control word is 
added after the IOAM header in the data packet.
  2.  The transit nodes can process the IOAM data field(s) after the EOS in 
data packets as it is proposed.
  3.  The decapsulating node removes the MPLS encapsulation including the IOAM 
header and then processes the other control word following it.
   0                   1                   2                   3
   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | IOAM Indicator Label                  | TC  |1|  TTL          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+<-+
   |0 0 0 1|Version| Reserved      | IOAM G-ACh                    |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   | Reserved      | Block Number  | IOAM-OPT-Type |IOAM HDR Length|  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  I
   |                                                               |  O
   |                                                               |  A
   ~                 IOAM Option and Data Space                    ~  M
   |                                                               |  |
   |                                                               |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+<-+
   |0 0 0 0| Rsved | This Header   | Header Length | Next Header   |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   ~              Variable field per “This header”                 ~
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   |                                                               |
   ~                 Payload Packet                                ~
   |                                                               |
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

Thanks,
Rakesh



On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:00 AM Stewart Bryant 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thank you Jeffery

Please see the note that I sent about iOAM who also want to sit after BoS … and 
both of you want the same space that PALS and DetNet is already using.

We plan to have a joint session on this hosted by PALS at the next IETF, but I 
think we also need to include the iOAM people.

This has scope to get very messy as we find new candidates for BoS metadata so 
we really need to take a holistic position to ensure the future health the MPLS 
protocol.

- Stewart


> On 12 Jan 2021, at 14:27, Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang 
> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just posted 
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zzhang-intarea-generic-delivery-functions/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zzhang-intarea-generic-delivery-functions/__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!VXglGy7lcO2Pe-wXQDgZaYzzz0Ckq57ZSdkkJ0Sz5yTrNvCrxSb9ClooNQ3VcEYN$>.
>
> The initial version was posted to the tsvwg 
> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zzhang-tsvwg-generic-transport-functions-00<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zzhang-tsvwg-generic-transport-functions-00__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!VXglGy7lcO2Pe-wXQDgZaYzzz0Ckq57ZSdkkJ0Sz5yTrNvCrxSb9ClooNdw0REUd$>).
>  After discussions/feedback we are re-homing it to intarea wg. This new 
> version also contains quite some changes based on the comments and feedback 
> that we received (special thanks to Stewart).
>
> Comments and suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Jeffrey
>
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