[Bgp-autoconf] Minutes and action points of the conference call

["Dongjie (Jimmy)" <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

First of all, thank you for attending the conference call, we had good discussion on several items, and many thanks to Sue and others who helped with the minutes.

The minutes is on https://etherpad.ietf.org:9009/p/bgp-autoconf-feb-25, please check if you want to make any change to it.

I also summarized our discussion and action points as below:

- We agreed to work on DC first, while keep an eye on what makes the other cases different.

- For DC case, will focus on intra-data center which uses BGP as underlay, either interface addresses or loopbacks can be used for peering. Inter-DC and VPNs are out of scope.

- We had some discussion about whether we should cover the misconnectivity or misconfiguration detection, there is still no clear result.

- The team agrees that discovering the role of a device could be useful, something similar has been used in RIFT.

- We discussed the security requirements, the authentication has two properties, transport or object security, and authenticating the peer.

- In order to reduce the number of parallel peers between two nodes, need to use loopbacks to setup only one session, then need to consider how to automatically generate the configuration of routes to peer's loopback.

- Enablement of BFD based on auto-discovery is considered as one optional function, while the complexity needs to be considered.

- Some considerations on Zero touch provisioning (ZTP). It is assumed some level of provisioning/pre-configuration is still required.

The team agrees to look at the list of solution drafts, summarize the requirements from each draft, and find a minimal common set.

Action points:
1. The author of each draft to summarize the list of requirement from his draft, and share it on design team list. (by end of this Friday)
2. Other people can provide additional comments to the summarized requirements. (in next week)
3. The team to provide a minimal common set.

Best regards,
Jie