Re: [Idr] BGP Auto-Discovery Protocol State Requirements

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From: "Acee Lindem (acee)" <acee@cisco.com>
To: Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org>, "idr@ietf.org" <idr@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [Idr] BGP Auto-Discovery Protocol State Requirements
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The avoidance of the these complexities is one advantage of an independent discovery protocol. Another advantage is that it could serve use cases beyond BGP. 

Thanks,
Acee

On 3/18/21, 3:00 PM, "Idr on behalf of Jeffrey Haas" <idr-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of jhaas@pfrc.org> wrote:

    Further off-list conversation with Tony Przygienda offer a related
    observation on the BGP Session State: They serve as the "offer", and the
    management of its lifetime is to a large extent the critical detail covered
    by the "retry" behavior.

    This potentially creates an option between 1 and 2 below.  A BGP
    Auto-Discovery listener that is implementing "discover at OPEN" mostly needs
    the hint that "something has changed" for the parameters that may be
    discovered at OPEN.

    A version/generation or similar field in the auto-discovery protocol would
    suit this purpose and permit a "discover at OPEN" BGP Speaker to minimize
    the load upon the auto-discovered device.  

    This would permit the entire set of BGP Session Protocol State to be omitted
    from the protocol, as long as "discover at OPEN" was acceptable.  It also
    addresses the consistency issue noted in section 3.6 of the
    autconf-considerations draft.

    ---

    Note that the majority of proposals analyzed for BGP auto-configuration in
    Appendix A published some subset of the state in the BGP Session Protocol
    State requirements.  Authors of those proposals may wish to comment on their
    reasoning for that state in their protocol.

    -- Jeff


    On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 05:02:03PM -0400, Jeffrey Haas wrote:
    > Once you have the capability of bringing up a BGP session, you have to
    > decide if you even want to.  There are at least two design choices, each
    > with specific consequences:
    > 
    > 1. The implementation is willing to determine if a peer is acceptable or not
    >    based on the information exchanged in the BGP OPEN message.  Call this
    >    "discover at OPEN".  A further implication of this mode is the
    >    implementation must be willing to service incoming sessions that may drop
    >    just so they can figure out if they find each other mutually agreeable.
    >    This becomes a scaling discussion.
    > 
    > 2. The implementation wants to know the properties of its potential peer to
    >    decide if it wants even try to bring up a session.  This enables "peer
    >    selection".
    > 
    >    The good property is that the peer sending such messages doesn't have to
    >    service sessions only to immediately drop them.
    > 
    >    The bad property is that this increases disclosure of some BGP
    >    information to parties that may not eventually be permitted to peer.
    >    (Security consideration.)

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