RE: A draft on the encapsulation of end-to-end IETF network slice information in IPv6 data plane

"Dongjie (Jimmy)" <jie.dong@huawei.com> Wed, 26 May 2021 15:25 UTC

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From: "Dongjie (Jimmy)" <jie.dong@huawei.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
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Subject: RE: A draft on the encapsulation of end-to-end IETF network slice information in IPv6 data plane
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Hi Carsten, 

I share the similar opinion with you on the packed HBH option approach. Some mechanism to determine how to process or skip an unknown field in the option needs to be considered. 

Best regards,
Jie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carsten Bormann [mailto:cabo@tzi.org]
> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2021 11:52 PM
> To: Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
> Cc: Dongjie (Jimmy) <jie.dong@huawei.com>; 6MAN <6man@ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: A draft on the encapsulation of end-to-end IETF network slice
> information in IPv6 data plane
> 
> On 2021-05-24, at 17:33, Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com> wrote:
> >
> > Also, this is a way to pack data into one option as opposed to using separate
> options (so less overhead and limiting number of options in HBH EH is a good
> thing).
> 
> I’m not sure the HBH concept can be saved, but the packing you suggest
> means that a recipient has to understand all the bits in order to be able to
> process all the packed fields in the HBH option.
> That makes it hard to incrementally start using another bit with elective
> semantics (you wouldn’t care if understanding the bit is critical anyway).
> 
> Grüße, Carsten