Re: [bess] IETF 117 BESS - IPv6 Only PE Design & IPv4 Only PE Design ALL SAFI Supported

Dear BESS WG,

I support merging of the the drafts mentioned below.

Regards,
Mohana

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 5:32 PM Gyan Mishra <hayabusagsm@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear BESS WG,
>
> *From my presentation today discussion on "merging" of drafts I  would
> like to poll the BESS WG on merging of the two drafts labeled #1 & #2 below
> into the WG document labeled #3 below:*
> *Please respond  to this email.*
>
> *Some history:*
> *IPv6 Only PE design / ALL SAFI:*
> draft-ietf-bess-ipv6-only-pe-design-04 (BCP) (Original BCP testing draft
> with Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Huawei) *(WG document)*
> IPv6 Only PE design single IPv6 peer - testing SAFI 1,128,129
> draft-mishra-bess-ipv6-only-pe-design-all-safi-04 (Standards Track) (New
> Draft) - Extended Standards Track to support ALL IPv4 SAFI
>
> *IPv4 Only PE design / ALL SAFI:*
> The below drafts were two separate drafts but I have combined into single
> draft since they both were not WG documents
> draft-mishra-bess-ipv4-only-pe-design-02 -(BCP) (POC testing draft with
> Cisco, Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Huawei)
> IPv4 Only PE design single IPv4 peer - testing SAFI 1,128,129
> draft-mishra-bess-ipv4-only-pe-design-all-safi-05 (Standards track) (New
> Draft) - Extended Standards Track to support ALL IPv4 SAFI (Both v4
> drafts have been combined into this Draft early this year)
> (Introduces new IPv4 next hop encoding IANA capability codepoint
> standardization following RFC 8950 IPv4 next hop and not legacy IPv4 mapped
> IPv6 address next hop ::FFFF::1.1.1.1)
> (Today there is a mix of IPv4 next hop and IPv4 mapped IPv6 next hop
> across all vendors and within same vendor platform -afi/safi matrix to be
> added to merged draft)
>
> *Combine these two drafts --> So now we are left with  these 2 new drafts
> that extend to support ALL SAFI*
>
> #1 draft-mishra-bess-ipv6-only-pe-design-all-safi-03 (Standards Track)
> #2 draft-mishra-bess-ipv4-only-pe-design-all-safi-04 (Standard Track)
>
> *Into WG document below:*
>
> *#3 draft-ietf-bess-ipv6-only-pe-design-04 (BCP)*
>
> *And make the new combined draft "Standards Track" as it will have the
> operational process and procedure update for the alternative dual stacking
> method for all SAFI *
> *as well as New IANA capability code point for IPv4 next hop encoding
> similar to RFC 8950. *
>
> *NEW DRAFT NAME: *
>
> * draft-ietf-bess-v4-v6-pe-all-safi (Standards Track)*
>
> *Why combine?*
>
>    - Both IPv4 Only PE Design & IPv6 Only PE design are identical
>    concepts of single IPv4 peer or single IPv6 peer carrying SAFI 1,128.129
>    for both v4 & v6 prefixes being POC tested - can now be done in parallel
>    - Extensibility of both the IPv4 Only PE Design & IPv6 Only PE design
>    extends to the same set of ALL IPv4 / IPv6 SAFI's
>    - Saves both WG time on progressing 3 separate drafts
>    - Single draft that has the entire v4 / v6 design & architecture in
>    one spot versus being broken out into separate drafts added complexity
>
>
> Thank you
>
> <http://www.verizon.com/>
>
> *Gyan Mishra*
>
> *Network Solutions A**rchitect *
>
> *Email gyan.s.mishra@verizon.com <gyan.s.mishra@verizon.com>*
>
>
>
> *M 301 502-1347*
>
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