Re: [Idr] [RTG-DIR] RtgDir review: draft-ietf-idr-sla-exchange-10

["Susan Hares" <[e-mail]>]

Shitanshu: 

 

Ron is discussing your point #2 - you need to engage him on issue #2.    You
can provide input from operators who indicate this is necessary, but it is
important to have this discussion.  Alvaro was concerned about the
deployments of these attributes. 

 

Sue 

 

From: Shitanshu Shah [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Monday, March 6, 2017 10:31 AM
To: Susan Hares; 'Ron Bonica'; [e-mail];
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Subject: Re: [RTG-DIR] RtgDir review: draft-ietf-idr-sla-exchange-10

 

Hi Sue,

 

Following is what I had responded to Ron. Hopefully that
addresses/clarifies.

 

To break it down in two point response,

 

1) This draft is not changing how SLA is established at first place. The
draft is providing a method to convey this a priori established SLA to help
reduce lot of manual complexities and errors to admin. Thus given a
knowledge of what SLA is established, in general devices should be capable
to support that established SLA.

 

 

2) If there still are any issues in implementing exchanged SLA in
forwarding, we think they either are implementation specific or of temporary
nature where for example enough resources not available at any specific
point of a time.

 

We feel that in current state of the draft, it can be largely useful in
deployments.

 

 

 

One can imagine though even establishment of SLA also can be done via
exchanging it over bgp. However, negotiation of SLA does not have to be
clubbed with exchange of SLA. Negotiation of SLA is not in this scope.

 

Regards,

Shitanshu

 

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Shitanshu: 

 

Please address Ron's comment about widely deployed.  I believe this was part
of Alvaro's comments. 

 

Sue 

 

From: rtg-dir [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Ron Bonica
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Hello,

 

The draft is internally consistent. But given what is left out of scope, I
wonder if the new attributes will ever be widely deployed.

 

 
Ron

 

 


This document might benefit from discussion of operational issues. I assume
that when a BGP listener learns a route with the SLA Exchange Attribute, it
provisions class of service forwarding classes on interfaces.

 

##svshah, though this is one desired use of exchanging SLA content, the
draft focuses on transporting SLA content from the SLA Producer to the SLA
Consumer. Processing of the QoS attribute content, at the SLA Consumer, is
outside the scope of this document.

 

##svshah, Let me know if you have a suggestion to make description clearer
in Section 1 and 2 to highlight this.

 

 

I also assume that a) it takes time to provision class of service forwarding
classes and b) the number of forwarding classes that can be provisioned are
finite. What does the BGP listener do when the number of forwarding classes
requested exceeds its capacity to deliver? 

 

##svshah, Since scope of the document is to transport SLA content from the
SLA Producer to the SLA Consumer, the document considers error handling in
the context of transporting data and thus any formating errors and semantics
errors within that context. Any errors in the context of processing QoS
attribute content at the SLA Consumer is outside the scope of the document.