[Bier] draft-chen-bier-frr-02 - relation to tunnel-based bier-frr

Michael Menth <menth@uni-tuebingen.de> Tue, 16 March 2021 09:10 UTC

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Subject: [Bier] draft-chen-bier-frr-02 - relation to tunnel-based bier-frr
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Hi all, in particular authors of draft-chen-bier-frr,

in the introduction of your draft you state issues with tunnel-based
frr, but the text is unclear to me:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-chen-bier-frr-02#section-1

To avoid this supposed shortcoming, you propose a different bier-frr
approach. Can you clarify, please?

An in-depts comparison between tunnel-based frr, which leverages frr of
the underlay, and "native frr on the bier layer" can be found here:
https://atlas.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/~menth/papers/Menth20c.pdf

The latter approach has been first published as
[3] I. Wijnands, G. J. Shepherd, C. J. Martin, and R. Asati, Per-Prefix
LFA FRR with Bit Indexed Explicit Replication,
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180278470A1/en, Sep.2018.

AFAIK this is also the concept followed by draft-chen-bier-frr, but I am
not fully sure as this has not been cited. Reaction speeds of both
mechanisms should be similar as they depend mainly on the time to
notification about the failure. Experimental results for
draft-merling-bier-frr are provided in the paper cited in my previous email.

Kind regards

Michael

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