Re: [bess] A comment about draft-ietf-bess-evpn-virtual-eth-segment

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From: "Ali Sajassi (sajassi)" <sajassi@cisco.com>
To: Alexander Vainshtein <Alexander.Vainshtein@rbbn.com>, "draft-ietf-bess-evpn-virtual-eth-segment@ietf.org" <draft-ietf-bess-evpn-virtual-eth-segment@ietf.org>
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Hi Sasha,

Thanks for the comment. I welcome any comment for better clarification of this draft. As such your comment is well taken and I’ll remove “multipoint” word from the sentence. So, the new sentence will read: “… a family of solutions for Ethernet services over MPLS/IP network …”

Regards,
Ali

From: Alexander Vainshtein <Alexander.Vainshtein@rbbn.com>
Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 at 8:34 AM
To: draft-ietf-bess-evpn-virtual-eth-segment@ietf.org <draft-ietf-bess-evpn-virtual-eth-segment@ietf.org>
Cc: bess@ietf.org <bess@ietf.org>, Nitsan Dolev <Nitsan.Dolev@rbbn.com>
Subject: A comment about draft-ietf-bess-evpn-virtual-eth-segment
Hi,
I have a comment about the Virtual Ethernet Segment draft<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-virtual-eth-segment-12>.

The first two sentences of the Introduction to this draft says (the problematic text is highlighted):

RFC7432<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7432>] and [RFC7623<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7623>] introduce a family of solutions for multipoint Ethernet services over MPLS/IP network with many advanced features among which their multi‑homing capabilities. These solutions introduce Single-Active and All-Active redundancy modes for an Ethernet Segment (ES), itself defined as a set of links between the multi‑homed device/network and a set of PE devices that they are connected to.

Thie highlighted text above can be interpreted as restricting multi-homing capabilities of EVPN (including capabilities provided by using multi-homed virtual Ethernet segments defined in the draft) as being limited to just multipoint Ethernet service but not to EVPN-VPWS as defined in RFC 8214<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8214>.

In fact, EVPN-VPWS is fully compatible with All-Active and Single-Active redundancy modes, and RFC 8214 is quite unambiguous about that. What’s more, IMHO and FWIW, multi-homing support in EVPN-VPWS is fully applicable to all aspects of virtual multi-homed Ethernet Segments.

May I suggest modifying the quoted text in the Introduction to prevent possible misunderstanding?

Regards, and lots of thanks in advance,
Sasha






Regards,
Sasha



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