Les: 

 

As you know, part of the chair’s duty is to determine if the authors have 
missed mentioning something in their draft proposal.  My questions were about 
the BGP-only features since it seemed obvious to me after working with the 
draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps as a shepherd.   BGP has had direct routes since 
BGP-v3.  

 

There is appears to be interest in working on the BGP-only network and this 
topic.   The authors plan to resubmit the draft with a different name and 
details on BGP-only.  

 

One way to accomplish the evaluation of the “BGP only” service is to extend 
this WG Adoption call 1 week to allow discussion of that the revision that 
contains that information.   

 

Cheerily, Susan Hares 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

From: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) [mailto:ginsb...@cisco.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 6:58 PM
To: Ketan Talaulikar (ketant); Susan Hares; 'Jeff Tantsura'; 'Stephane 
Litkowski (slitkows)'; i...@ietf.org; 'Acee Lindem (acee)'
Cc: lsr@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [Idr] WG Adoption for draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu (11/1/2020 to 
11/16/2020)

 

The points which Ketan has made regarding the use of MTU advertisements defined 
in RFC 7176 are very valid. Indeed, the contents of the sub-TLV defined in 
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7176.html#section-2.4 depend upon the TRILL 
specific MTU-probe/MTU-ack procedures defined in 
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6325#section-4.4.3. These procedures are not 
currently applicable to non-TRILL environments.

 

So, there are no existing IGP advertisements defined which can support the 
goals of this draft.

 

As Ketan has also indicated, there is no discussion in the draft of how a BGP 
only network (for example) could provide the information of interest.

 

>From my perspective, WG adoption of this draft in ANY WG is premature.

This might be a useful functionality to have – but at the moment we simply have 
an idea with no definition of how to implement/deploy it.

 

So I therefore oppose WG adoption of this draft by IDR.

 

Continuing the discussion is certainly useful – and I would encourage the 
current authors to investigate and propose relevant mechanisms in all the 
protocols of interest in some future version of the draft.

At that point we could then have a far more meaningful WG adoption call.

 

   Les

 

 

From: Idr <idr-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2020 1:35 AM
To: Susan Hares <sha...@ndzh.com>; 'Jeff Tantsura' <jefftant.i...@gmail.com>; 
'Stephane Litkowski (slitkows)' <slitkows=40cisco....@dmarc.ietf.org>; 
i...@ietf.org; 'Acee Lindem (acee)' <acee=40cisco....@dmarc.ietf.org>
Cc: lsr@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Idr] WG Adoption for draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu (11/1/2020 to 
11/16/2020)

 

Hi Authors,

 

I believe this work is useful and should be taken up. It has value in providing 
the link MTU as part of the topology information via BGP-LS. However, as 
pointed out by others on this thread, the draft should remain scoped to just 
that – i.e. providing link MTU information. The discussion related to Path MTU 
and applicability to SR networks are best left outside the scope of this 
standards track draft.

 

Hi Sue,

 

I would support the points made by Acee for not taking up this draft in IDR WG 
and instead doing this in LSR. 

 

Besides the missing coverage for OSPFv2/v3, there are also issues with how this 
would work with ISIS. The reference to the ISIS Trill specification points to 
this TLV https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7176#section-2.4 – if you see, there is 
more here than just the MTU value. What is more critical is the ISIS procedures 
(in non-Trill deployments) on how this value is determined. Please do not mix 
the following :

 

The MTU sub-TLV is used to optionally announce the MTU of a link as

   specified in [RFC6325], Section 
<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6325#section-4.2.4.4>  4.2.4.4.

 

Are the authors trying to specify that these Trill procedures for testing MTU 
need to be adopted for regular ISIS deployments.

 

My take is that while the ISIS TLV defined for Trill may be re-used in normal 
ISIS deployments, its usage and procedures need to be specified. Copying the 
LSR WG so that I may be corrected if I am wrong here.

 

Coming to the point of BGP-only networks, the draft has zero text related to 
that scenario. Moreover, the procedures for BGP-LS advertisements in BGP only 
fabric need to be specified as a base. The 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ketant-idr-bgp-ls-bgp-only-fabric/ was 
my attempt to specify those procedures and it would be great if the IDR WG 
could review and provide feedback to this document and consider for adoption so 
we can cover the BGP-only networks.

 

I would also like to offer support/help to the authors in adding the necessary 
OSPFv2/v3 support for the same in an LSR draft where we could tackle both the 
IGPs and BGP-LS encoding and procedures together.

 

Thanks,

Ketan

 

From: Idr <idr-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Susan Hares
Sent: 13 November 2020 00:20
To: 'Jeff Tantsura' <jefftant.i...@gmail.com>; 'Stephane Litkowski (slitkows)' 
<slitkows=40cisco....@dmarc.ietf.org>; i...@ietf.org; 'Acee Lindem (acee)' 
<acee=40cisco....@dmarc.ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [Idr] WG Adoption for draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu (11/1/2020 to 
11/16/2020)

 

Jeff and Authors of draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu: 

 

I do believe the authors agreed to renaming the draft.   

 

Does the name:   draft-xxx-idr-bgp-ls-link-mtu work for 

the authors and interested IDR participants. 

 

As the end of 12 days of the 14 day WG LC, this draft appears 

to have general consensus from the WG as a useful draft. 

 

I plan to allow 2 more days of comment, but at this point 

it appears the WG wishes to adopt this draft.  

 

Here’s my understanding of the best way forward: 

 

If LSR adopts a version of the draft, IDR will allow the 

LSR WG to be the main source as long as cross-working 

review occurs so the BGP-only function can be reviewed. 

 

Please continue to comment on the draft and 

the planned progression. 

 

Cheers,  Sue 

 

From: Jeff Tantsura [mailto:jefftant.i...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2020 12:53 PM
To: Susan Hares; Stephane Litkowski (slitkows); i...@ietf.org; Acee Lindem 
(acee)
Subject: Re: [Idr] WG Adoption for draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu (11/1/2020 to 
11/16/2020)

 

+1 to everything Acee said

 

Cheers, 

Jeff

On Nov 10, 2020, 1:01 PM -0800, Acee Lindem (acee) 
<acee=40cisco....@dmarc.ietf.org>, wrote:

Speaking as an IDR WG member:

 

The name of the draft is wrong – the extension is for a Link MTU and not a path 
MTU.

 

Speaking as LSR Chair:

 

We could this in LSR as there is currently no MTU advertisement in the LSAs for 
OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. Implementations already make use of this information as it 
is used in the OSPF DBD packets and for LSA packing. Of course, we’d require a 
more accurate draft name and title.

 

Thanks,

Acee

 

From: Idr <idr-boun...@ietf.org> on behalf of Susan Hares <sha...@ndzh.com>
Date: Monday, November 9, 2020 at 4:20 PM
To: "'Stephane Litkowski (slitkows)'" <slitkows=40cisco....@dmarc.ietf.org>, 
IDR List <i...@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [Idr] WG Adoption for draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu (11/1/2020 to 
11/16/2020)

 

Stephane:

 

My second message to this thread asked a few questions about the technology.   

 

This information can be more than IGP information.   If SR segments statically 
defined (static or direct interfaces) tunnels and pass the endpoints via BGP 
tunnel-encaps draft with SR Policy tunnel type, this can just be BGP.

 

I’ll keep this WG adoption call going until we can be sure if:  1) it something 
LSR wants to standardize, and 2) whether there is a BGP only case.   It is 
clear to me that standardizing MTU for a SR segments with stacked tunnel 
segments passed by BGP was useful.

 

The authors should be the ones to propose this in LSR.       

 

Cheers,  Sue

 

From: Idr [mailto:idr-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Stephane Litkowski 
(slitkows)
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2020 4:28 AM
To: Susan Hares; i...@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [Idr] WG Adoption for draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu (11/1/2020 to 
11/16/2020)

 

Hi Sue,

 

> The purpose behind this mechanism is to reduce administrative work rather 
> than to reduce the review on drafts.

 

That’s exactly my point. If we don’t do OSPF extension now and in the same 
draft, we leave a gap that will require a new draft for a very very small 
extension. Just adds process overhead for nothing…

 

 

Stephane

 

 

From: Susan Hares <sha...@ndzh.com>
Sent: lundi 9 novembre 2020 10:10
To: Stephane Litkowski (slitkows) <slitk...@cisco.com>; i...@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [Idr] WG Adoption for draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu (11/1/2020 to 
11/16/2020)

 

Stephane:

 

I want to pick up on your email from two points:

 

1)  Why not do everything in LSR? 

<WG-chair hat>

If the feature comes with interest in doing all 3 (ISIS, OSPF, and BGP-LS data 
gathering), then the authors may select to do everything in LSR rather than 
have 2 or 3 drafts to maintain.

 

This is optional and the mechanism may not fit every draft.   The drafts may 
also start out adopted and vetted in LSR and IDR.    The purpose behind this 
mechanism is to reduce administrative work rather than to reduce the review on 
drafts.

 

</wg-chair hat off>

 

 

2) TRILL implementations of IS-IS has some MTU subTLV - 

 

If you are interested in whether this has been implemented in TRILL, you might 
want to check with Donald Eastlake.   My vague and foggy recollection is that 
had some implementations or came from pre-TRILL implementations.

 

 

Cheers, Susan Hares

 

 

 

From: Stephane Litkowski (slitkows) [mailto:slitk...@cisco.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 4, 2020 3:03 AM
To: Susan Hares; i...@ietf.org
Subject: RE: [Idr] WG Adoption for draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu (11/1/2020 to 
11/16/2020)

 

Hi,

 

“a) Are there ways to pass IGP link MTUs in

the IGPs?  If so, is this needed in BGP-LS”

 

This is a valid point, most of the time BGP-LS is feeded by IGP LSDBs (of 
course there are other ways too). While I see that IS-IS has some MTU subTLV 
coming from TRILL RFC7176 (possibly never been implemented), I don’t see 
anything for OSPF (I’m not an OSPF expert, so I may have missed it).

Shouldn’t this be checked and validated with LSR WG before adopting ?

 

 

Stephane

 

 

From: Idr <idr-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Susan Hares
Sent: lundi 2 novembre 2020 06:04
To: i...@ietf.org
Subject: [Idr] WG Adoption for draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu (11/1/2020 to 
11/16/2020)

 

This begins a 2 week WG adoption call for

draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu-04.txt (11/1 – 11/16/2020).

 

The authors should send in an IPR statement for this draft

by 11/5 so the WG can include the IPR status in their decision.

 

You can access the draft at:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhu-idr-bgp-ls-path-mtu/

 

Since this draft is reference by an existing IDR draft

I’ve included a bit of background below to help you place  

this draft into the larger context of the SR additions to BGP-LS

and the draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps-19.txt.

 

This draft does continue BGP-LS additions.  if you 

are opposed to any BGP-LS additions rather than 

this specific addition, please make that clear in your 

comment in this discussion.   

 

The authors requested a WG adoption at IETF 108. 

The IDR co-chairs thank the authors for their patience.   

This draft has been delayed by process of having a

new document shepherd (Sue Hares) come up to speed

on draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encapsulation.

 

Cheers, Sue

 

Background

===========

Segment Routing technology creates SR tunnels that are

directly overlaid on MPLS or SRv6.  While existing MPLS technology

(LDP and RSV-TE) provides mechanisms to negotiate path MTU

based on individual link MTU limits, the Segment Routing (SR)

on BGP-LS Link Attribute does not pass information on

MTU size per link.   

 

draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-path-mtu-02.txt sends PATH MTU

information in the tunnel-encapsulation attribute for the tunnel type  

SR-Policy that handles segment routing (SR) paths.       

However, it lacks the information to create a reasonable

Path size since the BGP-LS Link Attribute does distribute

this information.

 

The draft proposes adding a new sub-TLV for MTU size

to the BGP-LS Link Attribute TLV, and

draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-path-mtu-02.txt mentions this

draft as one possible way to distribute the per link

MTU.  

 

Questions for the authors might be:

a) Are there ways to pass IGP link MTUs in

the IGPs?  If so, is this needed in BGP-LS

 

b) What other mechanisms pass link MTU?   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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