Re: [bess] WG Adoption and IPR Poll for draft-brissette-bess-evpn-mh-pa-04

Support,

Same question on comment #1

Cheers,
Jeff
On Jan 21, 2020, 9:19 AM -0800, Krzysztof Grzegorz Szarkowicz <kszarkowicz@gmail.com>, wrote:
> Hello,
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>
> I have two comments regarding section 4.2
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> Comment 1:
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> draft-brissette-bess-evpn-mh-pa-04: “ES-Import RT community inherits from ESI only byte 1-7,”
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> As per RFC 7432, ES-Import RT community inherits from ESI only 6 (not 7, as in draft-brissette-bess-evpn-mh-pa-04) octets from ESI
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> Comment 2:
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> What is the benefit of restricting Modulo calculation to 5 octets only (draft-brissette-bess-evpn-mh-pa-04 specifies here octets 3-7), instead of taking all 9 (or even all 10) octets into account. For example, for HRW, RFC 8584 already describes computing a 32 bit CRC over the concatenation of Ethernet Tag and ESI, so *all 10* ESI octets are used for better entropy. What is the benefit of restricting here for only subset of ESI octets?
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> Thanks,
> Krzysztof
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> > On 2020 -Jan-21, at 17:58, Acee Lindem (acee) <acee@cisco.com> wrote:
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> > Support – though I’ve always thought MC-LAG was a hack, it is part of the landscape.
> > Thanks,
> > Acee
> >
> > From: BESS <bess-bounces@ietf.org> on behalf of "Bocci, Matthew (Nokia - GB)" <matthew.bocci@nokia.com>
> > Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 at 9:51 AM
> > To: "bess@ietf.org" <bess@ietf.org>
> > Cc: "draft-brissette-bess-evpn-mh-pa@ietf.org" <draft-brissette-bess-evpn-mh-pa@ietf.org>, "bess-chairs@ietf.org" <bess-chairs@ietf.org>
> > Subject: [bess] WG Adoption and IPR Poll for draft-brissette-bess-evpn-mh-pa-04
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This email begins a two-weeks WG adoption poll for draft-brissette-bess-evpn-mh-pa-04 [1] .
> >
> > Please review the draft and post any comments to the BESS working group list.
> >
> > We are also polling for knowledge of any undisclosed IPR that applies to this Document, to ensure that IPR has been disclosed in compliance with IETF IPR rules (see RFCs 3979, 4879, 3669 and 5378 for more details).
> >
> > If you are listed as an author or a contributor of this document, please respond to this email and indicate whether or not you are aware of any relevant undisclosed IPR, copying the BESS mailing list. The document won't progress without answers from all the authors and contributors.
> >
> > Currently, there are no IPR disclosures against this document.
> >
> > If you are not listed as an author or a contributor, then please explicitly respond only if you are aware of any IPR that has not yet been disclosed in conformance with IETF rules.
> >
> > This poll for adoption closes on Tuesday 4th February 2020.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Matthew and Stephane
> >
> > [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-brissette-bess-evpn-mh-pa/
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