Re: [Detnet] [mpls] Continuing with my comments on draft-decraene-mpls-slid-encoded-entropy-label-id

[Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>]

Hi Bruno,
thank you for your kind consideration of my comments. Please find follow-up
notes in-line below under the GIM>> tag.

Regards,
Greg

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 8:24 AM <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Greg, all
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> Greg, thanks for taking the time to read the draft and comment.
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> WG, for context, we are discussing a subset of the draft: the ability to
> advertise indicator as part of the existing Entropy Label TTL as described
> in section 2 of the draft (it’s 1 page):
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-decraene-mpls-slid-encoded-entropy-label-id-02#section-2
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> Please see inline [Bruno]
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> *From:* mpls <[e-mail]> *On Behalf Of *Greg Mirsky
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 13, 2022 11:41 PM
> *To:* mpls <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]; DetNet WG <[e-mail]>
> *Subject:* [mpls] Continuing with my comments on
> draft-decraene-mpls-slid-encoded-entropy-label-id
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> Hi Bruno, et al.
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> Thank you for presenting this work at the MPLS Open DT meeting today.
> Below please find the summary of my comments and questions with the
> additional thoughts that came after we've closed the call. I greatly
> appreciate the consideration and opinions of the authors and the group.
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>    - Compatibility with nodes that support only RFC 6790.
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>    - If the proposed indicators are used to signal the presence of an
>       ISD, that seems to create a problem for an RFC6790-only node as it might
>       not be able to process the ISD.
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> [Bruno]
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> - Draft(*) extends the use of the Entropy Label TTL field which is
> essentially specified as a Reserved field in RFC 6790. Hence draft is
> backward compatible with RFC 6790.
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GIM>> I agree, that if the mechanism is limited to re-use of the TTL
field of the label element that includes the entropy label, then there are
no possible issues. But then, how useful is a mechanism that allows for
only seven indicators of processing instructions? Of course, if the model
does not support a combination of instructions, then the new field might be
viewed not as a set of flags but as a scalar with each value defining a
different processing type.

- Draft does not specify ISD so this is out of scope of this draft. That
> been said:
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> -  You are right that before sending ISD in a new extension, the
> capability for the receiver/egress to support this ISD needs to be known by
> the sender. This is priori required by all ISD solution.
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> - You seemed to assume that ISD are always necessary but IMHO indicators
> and ISD are two different extensions and Indicators may be used without ISD
> extensions .e.g., cf sections 4, 5, 3 of the draft
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GIM>> I agree, that in some scenarios the ability to signal processing in a
label stack is sufficient and useful. Though, having a method of doing a
subset of what can be done with Ancillary Data and Action indication seems
like an unnecessary overlap.

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>    - If one of the indicators is to be used to signal the presence of the
>       extension, that, similarly to the scenario above, might not be correctly
>       processed by an RFC6790-only node.
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> [Bruno] idem
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>    - Scaling
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>    - If the proposed method to signal the ancillary data is used in, for
>       example, a strict explicit routing environment, the Entropy Label is not
>       needed. If that is the case, using the indicators, as described in the
>       draft, seems to waste 20 bits in a label element compared to the mechanism
>       proposed in draft-kompella-mpls-mspl4fa.
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> [Bruno] And for all other cases, the scaling is very good as we carry
> indicators with zero extra label. So the net benefit is dependent of the
> relative usage of strict explicit routing traffic vs traffic which can be
> ECMP. In my environment, the latter is much more prevalent, hence the net
> benefit is positive.
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GIM>> I agree that there are cases and scenarios when seven indicators can
solve the operator's immediate problems. Though I believe that a
future-proof solution is preferable.

PS : by « draft » I mean section 2 of the draft as this is the scope of the
> discussion.
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> Regards,
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> -Bruno
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> Regards,
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> Greg
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