Re: [bess] John Scudder's Discuss on draft-ietf-bess-evpn-oam-req-frmwk-08: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 10:04 PM John Scudder via Datatracker <
[e-mail]> wrote:
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> John Scudder has entered the following ballot position for
> draft-ietf-bess-evpn-oam-req-frmwk-08: Discuss
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> ...
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> DISCUSS:
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> Section 2.3:
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>    EVPN Network OAM mechanisms MUST provide in-band monitoring
>    capabilities. As such, OAM messages MUST be encoded so that they
>    exhibit identical entropy characteristics to data traffic in order
>    that they share the same fate.
>
> It’s not obvious to me what you mean by “identical entropy
characteristics to
> data traffic”. Surely, different flows may have different entropy
> characteristics, so, *which* data traffic? Similarly, with which data
traffic
> are you saying the OAM messages must share fate?

I guess when you changed your COMMENT to a DISCUSS it creates a new thread
so I should reply here as I did to this when it was a COMMENT:

How about something more like:

EVPN Network OAM mechanisms MUST provide in-band monitoring capabilities.
OAM messages SHOULD be encoded so that they exhibit similar entropy
characteristics to data traffic in order maximize the fate sharing between
OAM and data.


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> COMMENT:
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> Thanks for the clear and readable document. I have one nit and one
question.
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> 1. Section 1, nit:
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> “EVPN is an Layer 2” s/an/a/

OK.

Thanks,
Donald
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