Re: [IPFIX] Search comments and feedbacks about the draft of IPFIX IE extension when considering BGP community

[Benoit Claise <[e-mail]>]

On 7/20/2016 4:49 PM, PJ Aitken wrote:
> When a draft specifies one of the list types, should it also specify 
> the type of the list elements and the expected semantics?
Yes. And I suppose that it would come from a BGP community reference in 
a BGP RFC in this case.

Regards, B.
>
> Else we could have non-interoperable implementations exporting the 
> same "IANA standard" information element, where one is a "basicList of 
> X" while another is a "basicList of Y".
> ie, although the IE is the same, the basicList Field ID and semantics 
> are different. See RFC 6313, Figure 1.)
>
> eg, the BGP community draft referenced below creates a new 
> bgpSourceCommunityList. I suppose this may be a list of 
> bgpSourceAsNumber, but that's not specified in the draft - so it could 
> equally be a list of sourceIPv4Address or any other IE.
>
> Alternatively, devices could simply export IE #291 (basicList), with 
> the bgpSourceCommunityList and bgpDestinationCommunityList 
> disambiguated by the basicList Field ID contained in the basicList 
> header. However that would be horrendous for collectors...
>
> P.
>
>
> On 20/07/16 08:12, Benoit Claise wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> We know that the IANA considerations 
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tools.ietf.org_html_rfc7012-23section-2D7&d=CwMDEA&c=IL_XqQWOjubgfqINi2jTzg&r=Xx9729xYDYoCgBDdcp1FKt5PyYd1TCoXNKhyPY8CFp8&m=ZslthyAR_pCMk0ceVDm68IQNaZBed3zfEKAlZ4zaux4&s=PT25lVmWADTBAoRFJls07fJ6PTOd2XWc0L4bTWxB3MY&e=> 
>> mentions "expert review" for the IPFIX registry 
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.iana.org_assignments_ipfix_ipfix.xhtml&d=CwMDEA&c=IL_XqQWOjubgfqINi2jTzg&r=Xx9729xYDYoCgBDdcp1FKt5PyYd1TCoXNKhyPY8CFp8&m=ZslthyAR_pCMk0ceVDm68IQNaZBed3zfEKAlZ4zaux4&s=tbt3wdaVgevcKVTqBEKX_MhNO7g_oaW3XiywAp65WgY&e=>.
>> This BGP community is actually a special IPFIX Information Element as 
>> this is the first one based on RFC 6313 
>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__tools.ietf.org_html_rfc6313&d=CwMDEA&c=IL_XqQWOjubgfqINi2jTzg&r=Xx9729xYDYoCgBDdcp1FKt5PyYd1TCoXNKhyPY8CFp8&m=ZslthyAR_pCMk0ceVDm68IQNaZBed3zfEKAlZ4zaux4&s=R9ipRubr7eEQrMnskDLzBjeZqhpnmefnWc59t3_ab7s&e=>(basicList, 
>> subTemplateList, subTemplateMultiList)
>> So it deserves special attention, review, and potential documentation 
>> as its own RFC.
>>
>> Regards, Benoit
>>
>>> Hi, dear all.
>>>
>>> Nice meeting you in the mail-list of IPFIX. This IETF in Berlin 
>>> right now, we submit a draft and present it about the IPFIX IE 
>>> extension when considering BGP community. I’m looking for comments 
>>> and feedbacks about our idea in new IE added in exporting the flow 
>>> information correlated with BGP community. As dear chair told me 
>>> that the mail-list is still alive, I follow the suggestion of 
>>> putting my draft here and searching for advice and suggestions in 
>>> the right place.
>>>
>>> Before that, I made a short summary of my draft which may be helpful 
>>> in quick looking at the draft. When we consider traffic steering in 
>>> our backbone network, we feel that the flow information based on BGP 
>>> community is quite suitable. That’s the reason why we write the 
>>> draft. And we now recommend two IEs which may be assigned by IANA: 
>>> bgpSourceCommunityList and bgpDestinationCommunityList.
>>>
>>> If you are facing up with this situations as us, then we can discuss 
>>> about the IEs especially the details.
>>>
>>> The information of my draft: 
>>> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-li-opsawg-ipfix-bgp-community-00.txt 
>>> <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ietf.org_internet-2Ddrafts_draft-2Dli-2Dopsawg-2Dipfix-2Dbgp-2Dcommunity-2D00.txt&d=CwMDEA&c=IL_XqQWOjubgfqINi2jTzg&r=Xx9729xYDYoCgBDdcp1FKt5PyYd1TCoXNKhyPY8CFp8&m=ZslthyAR_pCMk0ceVDm68IQNaZBed3zfEKAlZ4zaux4&s=T9dMbA_3xk8ZMfCI0dkNONKt1xL04aoMa8vn_-9FBns&e=>
>>>
>>> I’m looking forward for your comments.
>>>
>>> Best regards and have a nice trip in Berlin.
>>>
>>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Rong Gu
>>> China Mobile Research Institute
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>>> Beijing, China, 100053
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>>>
>>
>>
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