RE: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
18, 2010 4:53 PM To: JP Vasseur Cc: IPv6 WG; ROLL WG Subject: Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Le 18 sept. 2010 à 02:22, JP Vasseur a écrit : On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: ... However, it would be pretty easy to put something

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Rémi Després
: roll-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:roll-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Rémi Després Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 4:53 PM To: JP Vasseur Cc: IPv6 WG; ROLL WG Subject: Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Le 18 sept. 2010 à 02:22, JP Vasseur a écrit : On Sep 15

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Michael Richardson
Pascal == Pascal Thubert (pthubert) pthub...@cisco.com writes: Pascal Hi Rémi: Pascal We'll be very glad that 6LoWPAN compresses RPL Pascal optimally. But RPL being layer 2 agnostic cannot depend on Only when the security is provide by the layer 2 can the layer 2 do any

RE: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
today. Take care, Pascal -Original Message- From: Carsten Bormann [mailto:c...@tzi.org] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 4:18 PM To: Michael Richardson Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert); ROLL WG; IPv6 WG Subject: Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable On Sep

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Rémi Després
Pascal -Original Message- From: Rémi Després [mailto:remi.desp...@free.fr] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 2:28 PM To: Pascal Thubert (pthubert) Cc: JP Vasseur; IPv6 WG; ROLL WG Subject: Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Le 21 sept. 2010 à 14:08

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-21 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 21, 2010, at 15:48, Michael Richardson wrote: Pascal We'll be very glad that 6LoWPAN compresses RPL Pascal optimally. But RPL being layer 2 agnostic cannot depend on Only when the security is provide by the layer 2 can the layer 2 do any compression. Otherwise, the encryption

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-18 Thread JP Vasseur
On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? Yes. Ever since you proposed pretty much that at a previous IETF meeting, I've been thinking that architecturally it makes a lot of sense to

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-18 Thread Rémi Després
Le 18 sept. 2010 à 02:22, JP Vasseur a écrit : On Sep 15, 2010, at 8:51 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: ... However, it would be pretty easy to put something in 6lowpan to carry those 3 bytes. (Consider it an advanced form of header compression for the 48-byte IP-in-IP thing, if you don't

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? Yes. Ever since you proposed pretty much that at a previous IETF meeting, I've been thinking that architecturally it makes a lot of sense to think about ROLL as a sub-IP protocol. The downside is

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread Carsten Bormann
Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? Yes. Ever since you proposed pretty much that at a previous IETF meeting, I've been thinking that architecturally it makes a lot of sense to think about ROLL as a sub-IP protocol. The downside is

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread Rémi Després
Le 15 sept. 2010 à 04:35, Erik Nordmark a écrit : ... Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? That avoids the overhead. In www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ipv6/current/msg12204, I essentially proposed that (quote below). The downside is

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread Fred Baker
So that might use the mesh network header part of the 6lowpan header? On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need *before* the IP header? Yes. Ever since you proposed pretty much that at a previous IETF meeting,

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread JP Vasseur
On Sep 15, 2010, at 7:19 AM, Fred Baker wrote: So that might use the mesh network header part of the 6lowpan header? We would need be using the compressed ID header On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:06 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: Has anybody discussed adding a header with just the 3 bytes you need

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-15 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 15, 2010, at 16:19, Fred Baker wrote: So that might use the mesh network header part of the 6lowpan header? That would be a bit more radical, I think (and there is no place to put a rank or instance ID in RFC 4944). But the effect is similar, as the ROLL-specific information would

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-09-14 Thread Erik Nordmark
On 08/11/10 04:41 PM, Philip Levis wrote: Basically, RPL puts up to two pieces information in packets that it routes. The first is which routing topology this packet should be routed on: RPL supports multiple parallel topologies, e.g., one optimized for low latency and a second optimized for

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-17 Thread George, Wes E [NTK]
-Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Shane Amante Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Because of your last two bullets I have to ask the following. How would

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-17 Thread Shane Amante
Wes, On Aug 17, 2010, at 09:53 MDT, George, Wes E [NTK] wrote: -Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Shane Amante Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Because

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-17 Thread George, Wes E [NTK]
mutable and 8 bits immutable Wes, On Aug 17, 2010, at 09:53 MDT, George, Wes E [NTK] wrote: -Original Message- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Shane Amante Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 1:20 PM Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-08-18 07:10, George, Wes E [NTK] wrote: but I think it'll end up coming back to your original assertion about hosts vs network, and if we have to try to compromise so that both can use it, you might end up needing some of that complexity. That is completely obvious to me from this

RE: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-12 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
Pascal [Pascal] The FL based proposal for RPL uses 12 mutable bits. Pascal They are used as an in-band control plane that checks the Pascal consistency of routing states along a path. Those states can Pascal easily get out of sync due to the nature of the links, but

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-12 Thread Rémi Després
Le 12 août 2010 à 10:47, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) a écrit : We'll note that the Hop by Hop + IP in IP is costly but solves the generic problem *within* the RPL network. The use of the Flow label *within* the RPL network would be an alternate so it could have a more limited applicability,

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-12 Thread Rémi Després
Le 12 août 2010 à 04:02, Brian E Carpenter a écrit : On 2010-08-12 11:34, Philip Levis wrote: On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:12 PM, Rémi Després wrote: Le 10 août 2010 à 18:09, Michael Richardson a écrit : Rémi == Rémi Després remi.desp...@free.fr writes: Rémi RFC 3697 isn't concerned with

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-11 Thread Rémi Després
Le 10 août 2010 à 18:09, Michael Richardson a écrit : Rémi == Rémi Després remi.desp...@free.fr writes: Rémi RFC 3697 isn't concerned with ASes, and doesn't need to be. Rémi The proposal is only that, where load balancing is performed, Rémi 0 FLs MAY be replaced by meaningful

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-11 Thread Rémi Després
Le 10 août 2010 à 21:06, Fred Baker a écrit : I would find that surprising. There are ample cases where the originator of a high data rate flow (sensor data from a radio telescope to a number cruncher, to pick one example) might want to use the flow label to send data from one session

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-11 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
Pascal [Pascal] The FL based proposal for RPL uses 12 mutable bits. Pascal They are used as an in-band control plane that checks the Pascal consistency of routing states along a path. Those states can Pascal easily get out of sync due to the nature of the links, but

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-11 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 11, 2010, at 3:00 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: Pascal [Pascal] The FL based proposal for RPL uses 12 mutable bits. Pascal They are used as an in-band control plane that checks the Pascal consistency of routing states along a path. Those states can Pascal

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian == Brian E Carpenter Brian writes: With http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-rpl-07#section-7.2 I tried to stay within the lines of RFC 3697 as you also defend in your mail. I think the question we have now

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
] On Behalf Of Michael Richardson Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:05 AM To: r...@ietf.org; Carsten Bormann Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert); ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable {there is a thread which started on r...@ietf.org, and ipv6

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Michael Richardson Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:05 AM To: r...@ietf.org; Carsten Bormann Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert); ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
Pascal == Pascal Thubert (pthubert) pthub...@cisco.com writes: On 2010-08-09 22:17, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: Hi Michael: With http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-rpl-07#section-7.2 I tried to stay within the lines of RFC 3697 as you also defend

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Rémi Després
6man; Michael Richardson; r...@ietf.org; Carsten Bormann Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Le 9 août 2010 à 12:17, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) a écrit : Hi Michael: With http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-rpl-07#section-7.2 I tried to stay within

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joel == Joel M Halpern j...@joelhalpern.com writes: Joel Off-list, although you may decide that my confusion is wider, and take it Joel back to the list: okay, I think it's worthwhile. Joel When a ROLL network is talking to the rest

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
Rémi == Rémi Després remi.desp...@free.fr writes: Rémi RFC 3697 isn't concerned with ASes, and doesn't need to be. Rémi The proposal is only that, where load balancing is performed, Rémi 0 FLs MAY be replaced by meaningful values for this purpose. Rémi A FL, once set to a non

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carsten == Carsten Bormann caboc...@gmail.com writes: Carsten On Aug 10, 2010, at 14:57, Michael Richardson wrote: The only case where there is a problem is when there is a packet that arrives from the outside, to a ROLL border router

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 10, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carsten == Carsten Bormann caboc...@gmail.com writes: Carsten On Aug 10, 2010, at 14:57, Michael Richardson wrote: The only case where there is a problem is when there is a packet

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Fred Baker
I would find that surprising. There are ample cases where the originator of a high data rate flow (sensor data from a radio telescope to a number cruncher, to pick one example) might want to use the flow label to send data from one session down multiple paths. Multi-path TCP would be another

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 10, 2010, at 14:57, Michael Richardson wrote: The rational for lots of bits would be to encourage random allocation such that in the event that two uncoordinated ROLL networks happened to merge (even for a few minutes!!!) that the likelyhood of cross talk would be reduced. Hmm. If

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
RPL networks consists of leafs and routers. Both typically act as hosts. Routers are just hosts that happen to be between other nodes. (Although, some hosts are too weak to be routers) OK, I'm not talking of host as in originates or terminates traffic, but host in the sense of does not

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip == Philip Levis p...@cs.stanford.edu writes: Philip I feel like we're running in circles, in part due to Philip different expectations of how RPL will be used. Philip It's clear that in proprietary or vertically integrated

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carsten == Carsten Bormann caboc...@gmail.com writes: RPL networks consists of leafs and routers. Both typically act as hosts. Routers are just hosts that happen to be between other nodes. (Although, some hosts are too weak to be

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: OK, I'm not talking of host as in originates or terminates traffic, but host in the sense of does not participate in routing. It appears there is no such thing inside a RPL world then. A RPL or Manet world doesn't have the

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Mark Smith
) Cc: 6man 6man; Michael Richardson; r...@ietf.org; Carsten Bormann Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Le 9 août 2010 à 12:17, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) a écrit : Hi Michael: snip [Pascal] We agree here. The point if that there might be enough room

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 10, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: I guess I don't see the problem to be as big a deal as you suggest. I'm happy if flow label 0 gets some default RPLinstanceID. It would be convenient if the rules were relaxed such that on ingress, the RPL edge router could *set*

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-10 Thread Michael Richardson
Fred == Fred Baker f...@cisco.com writes: Fred I would find that surprising. There are ample cases where the Fred originator of a high data rate flow (sensor data from a radio Fred telescope to a number cruncher, to pick one example) might Fred want to use the flow label to send

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
or global). Cheers, Pascal -Original Message- From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 11:35 PM To: Michael Richardson Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert); ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Pascal Thubert (pthubert)
); ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable {there is a thread which started on r...@ietf.org, and ipv6@ietf.org, and then seemed to have dropped r...@ietf.org. I'm not on ipv6@ietf.org, so there likely are message there I've missed} okay, so I've read

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Rémi Després
- From: ipv6-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ipv6-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Michael Richardson Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:05 AM To: r...@ietf.org; Carsten Bormann Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert); ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

Re: [Roll] Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Philip Levis
On Aug 9, 2010, at 3:17 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: Hi Michael: With http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-roll-rpl-07#section-7.2 I tried to stay within the lines of RFC 3697 as you also defend in your mail. I think the question we have now is not whether that proposal is

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
...@ietf.org; Carsten Bormann Cc: Pascal Thubert (pthubert); ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable {there is a thread which started on r...@ietf.org, and ipv6@ietf.org, and then seemed to have dropped r...@ietf.org. I'm not on ipv6@ietf.org, so there likely

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-04 Thread Rémi Després
Hi Aleksi, Is it right to understand from your comments that you accept the proposed combination (mutable if and only if 0; stateless hash or stateful random number where it is set)? RD Le 4 août 2010 à 00:25, Aleksi Suhonen a écrit : Hi, On Aug 3, 2010, at 02:53 MDT, Rémi Després wrote:

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-04 Thread Rémi Després
Le 4 août 2010 à 05:21, Brian E Carpenter a écrit : On 2010-08-04 00:49, Rémi Després wrote: ... In my understanding, a reason why it is usually set to 0 is that a stateful operation, which is complex, is so far mandatory (because a pseudo-random number has to be assigned to each flow,

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-03 Thread Rémi Després
Subject: RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable Dear All, splitting this field not so obvious: - API should be changed - or at least truncate the existing flow field to 8 bit. - applications relying on 20 bits flow bits should be sought and fixed. I believe they assumed

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-08-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-08-04 00:49, Rémi Després wrote: ... In my understanding, a reason why it is usually set to 0 is that a stateful operation, which is complex, is so far mandatory (because a pseudo-random number has to be assigned to each flow, not a stateless hash). If a 5-tuple hash is permitted in

RE: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-07-30 Thread George, Wes E IV [NTK]
-Original Message- From: Tina TSOU [mailto:t...@huawei.com] Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 4:42 AM To: George, Wes E IV [NTK] Cc: Aleksi Suhonen; ipv6@ietf.org Subject: Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable So you mean either we solve the issue of checksum, or we rather

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Just on one point: On 2010-07-31 04:17, George, Wes E IV [NTK] wrote: ... we can't use flow label for something like draft-carpenter-flow-ecmp because 3697 says it has to be immutable But that is a completely false argument. The model described in that draft is 100% consistent with an

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-07-28 Thread Bob Hinden
Tina, On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Tina TSOU wrote: I like the proposal from Pascal Thurbert in today's meeting. I believe that It's more acceptable for the majority of the different camps. One of the problems with this idea is that it makes the sub-fields to small to be useful. Bob

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-07-28 Thread Tina TSOU
Bob, I understood. But this is one of the best compromises so far. B. R. Tina http://tinatsou.weebly.com/contact.html On Jul 28, 2010, at 2:27 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: Tina, On Jul 28, 2010, at 12:24 PM, Tina TSOU wrote: I like the proposal from Pascal Thurbert in today's meeting. I believe

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-07-28 Thread Aleksi Suhonen
Hi, On 07/28/10 13:24, Tina TSOU wrote: I like the proposal from Pascal Thurbert in today's meeting. I believe that It's more acceptable for the majority of the different camps. I hated it. :-( I feel that changing the structure of the IPv6 header like that at this stage is too late. And I

Re: Flow Label: 12 bits mutable and 8 bits immutable

2010-07-28 Thread Tina TSOU
Comments in line. B. R. Tina http://tinatsou.weebly.com/contact.html On Jul 28, 2010, at 5:01 PM, Aleksi Suhonen wrote: Hi, On 07/28/10 13:24, Tina TSOU wrote: I like the proposal from Pascal Thurbert in today's meeting. I believe that It's more acceptable for the majority of the