Re: [bess] Last Call: <draft-ietf-bess-evpn-df-election-framework-06.txt> (Framework for EVPN Designated Forwarder Election Extensibility) to Proposed Standard

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On Dec 18, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Neeraj Malhotra <neeraj.ietf@gmail.com<mailto:neeraj.ietf@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi,

Very solid and understandable. Couple of minor comments [NM]:

Section 2.1: Layer-2 devices are particularly susceptible to forwarding loops because of the broadcast nature of the Ethernet traffic.

[NM]: better to refer to "Layer-2 services" instead of "Layer-2 devices" as the CE or PE devices themselves may be layer-3 capable.

Section 4.2: Note that while the DF election algorithm in [RFC7432] uses PE address and vlan as inputs, this document uses Ethernet Tag, PE address and ESI as inputs.

[NM]: I think the text in this context uses "vlan" and "Ethernet Tag" interchangeably. Since the above is trying to emphasize the use of "ESI" in this document as the key differentiation, clearer to have other two variables (vlan and PE address) read the same, or else it makes you wonder if there is a difference between vlan and ethernet tag in this context.

JD:  Actually vlan and Ethernet Tag are very different.  Please see the terminology section.  This is a significant difference from RFC 7432.

Thanks,

Neeraj

On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 4:59 PM The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org<mailto:iesg-secretary@ietf.org>> wrote:

The IESG has received a request from the BGP Enabled ServiceS WG (bess) to
consider the following document: - 'Framework for EVPN Designated Forwarder
Election Extensibility'
  <draft-ietf-bess-evpn-df-election-framework-06.txt> as Proposed Standard

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Abstract

   The Designated Forwarder (DF) in EVPN networks is the Provider Edge
   (PE) router responsible for sending broadcast, unknown unicast and
   multicast (BUM) traffic to a multi-homed Customer Equipment (CE)
   device, on a given VLAN on a particular Ethernet Segment (ES). The DF
   is selected out of a list of candidate PEs that advertise the same
   Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) to the EVPN network. By default,
   EVPN uses a DF Election algorithm referred to as "Service Carving"
   and it is based on a modulus function (V mod N) that takes the number
   of PEs in the ES (N) and the VLAN value (V) as input. This default DF
   Election algorithm has some inefficiencies that this document
   addresses by defining a new DF Election algorithm and a capability to
   influence the DF Election result for a VLAN, depending on the state
   of the associated Attachment Circuit (AC). In addition, this document
   creates a registry with IANA, for future DF Election Algorithms and
   Capabilities. It also presents a formal definition and clarification
   of the DF Election Finite State Machine.

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