Stephane -

The use case for this proposal is to support inter-AS scenarios in the absence 
of a controller.
If the WG agrees that this use case needs to be addressed I believe the 
proposal below is a good and viable compromise.

I say "compromise" because - as you mention below - ELC/ELRD are functionally 
node capabilities. But the inter-AS use case requires signaling between AS's 
and the vehicle we have for doing that is a prefix advertisement. The 
compromise is to advertise ELC associated with a prefix - but not do so for 
ERLD.
This seems reasonable to me.

One change to what you state below - I think "when a prefix is leaked or 
redistributed, the ELC associated to the prefix MUST also be 
leaked/redistributed.".

   Les


From: Lsr <lsr-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of stephane.litkow...@orange.com
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2018 6:30 AM
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Subject: [Lsr] draft-ietf-isis-mpls-elc & draft-ietf-ospf-mpls-elc

Hi WG,

Some discussions occurred on the mailing list on how to encode the entropy 
label capability for SR but we hadn't found a consensus on the target solution.
IETF 103 was the opportunity to meet face to face various people that have 
participated to this discussion.

Following this discussion, we are coming with the following proposal that the 
WG need to validate:

The entropy label capability is still considered as a per node property (for 
simplicity reason, we do not want to have an ELC per linecard).
The ERLD is considered as a per node property (for simplicity reason, we do not 
want to have an ERLD per linecard).

However IGPs may advertise prefixes that are not belonging to the node itself 
in addition to the local prefixes of the nodes.
A typical use case is when two IGP domains (running the same protocol or a 
different one) are redistributing routes between each other.
The inter-area use case is also creating a similar situation.

When an ingress node pushes an entropy label below a segment  it must ensure 
that the tail-end of the segment is entropy label capable otherwise packets 
will be dropped.

As a consequence, when prefixes are redistributed, the entropy label capability 
of the node who has firstly originated the prefix, should be associated to the 
prefix during the redistribution.

In terms of encoding, we propose to associate an entropy label capability for 
each prefix advertised by a node.
The entropy label capability will be encoded as part of the Prefix Attributes 
IGP extension (RFC7794 and RFC7684).
The entropy label capability may be set for local prefixes (e.g. loopbacks) by 
a local configuration and for leaked/redistributed prefixes. When a prefix is 
leaked or redistributed, the ELC associated to the prefix may be also 
leaked/redistributed.

An ingress should set the entropy label below a Node/Prefix segment only if the 
prefix associated to the Node/Prefix segment as the ELC set in the Prefix 
Attributes.
An ingress should set the entropy label below an Adjacency segment only if the 
adjacent neighbor of the node that has advertised the Adj SID is advertising an 
ERLD (and so is entropy label capable).

For the binding SID, as IGPs are not involved in the signaling of the binding 
SID, there is nothing to do in these drafts.


Let us know your comments/feedback on this proposal so we can progress these 
documents.

Brgds,

Stephane


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