RE: [spring] CRH is back to the SPRING Use-Case - Re: Size of CR in CRH

[Ron Bonica <[e-mail]>]

Ketan,

Neither of these forwarding methods are unique to SR. In Section 3.1 of RFC 791, you will see that IPv4 had a Strict Source Route Option and a Loose Source Route Option. These predate SR by roughly twenty-five years.

                                                                                 Ron



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From: Ketan Talaulikar (ketant) <ketant=[e-mail]>
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Subject: RE: [spring] CRH is back to the SPRING Use-Case - Re: Size of CR in CRH

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Hi Ron,



Some of the operators may not care about the SR name, but it is clear to me that the proposal in the CRH draft is a subset of Segment Routing (i.e. a reduced portion of Spring Architecture) that only supports prefix and adjacency SIDs as indicated by the two "forwarding methods".



https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bonica-6man-comp-rtg-hdr-22#section-4<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bonica-6man-comp-rtg-hdr-22*section-4__;Iw!!NEt6yMaO-gk!WUUoiYhNiQq44bqITjU9p16KKdON00tbtfOIgQoDmKHLycmNLLtVobJe9BtxN6V1$>


   o  Forward the packet to the next-hop along the least-cost path to >>> Prefix SID
      the next segment endpoint.

   o  Forward the packet through a specified interface to the next >>> Adjacency SID
      segment endpoint.



Given the use of mapping IDs and mapping FIB, the proposal is comparable more to SR-MPLS than SRv6. It is better to do a holistic analysis of any proposal such as CRH that is introducing an MPLS label like mapping construct into IPv6 architecture - doing so should be considered as a significant change to IPv6.



Thanks,

Ketan



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From: Ron Bonica <rbonica=[e-mail]<mailto:rbonica=[e-mail]>>

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Subject: RE: [spring] CRH is back to the SPRING Use-Case - Re: Size of CR in CRH



Ketan,



It would not be fair to say that these operators  "wish to deploy a Traffic Engineering solution using a subset of Segment Routing".



It would be fair to say that these operators  "wish to deploy IPv6 Traffic Engineering".  Some of these operators don't care about SR. Some are actively averse to SRv6. All they want is a Routing header.



                                                                 Ron















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Subject: RE: [spring] CRH is back to the SPRING Use-Case - Re: Size of CR in CRH



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Hi Ron,



Thanks for that clarification.



I note that you are not anymore saying "Are not interested in SR" like you had mentioned before the WG adoption call : https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ipv6/LheyFD_uwuHp7tiG8Y1CwKngDYI/__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!X2qW2zTZEbZRfBSE6c_KM-k7aIvZTIT9bycp3jyFJ3sTbf8MtGo4E_uGX7zYZ7lk$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ipv6/LheyFD_uwuHp7tiG8Y1CwKngDYI/__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!X2qW2zTZEbZRfBSE6c_KM-k7aIvZTIT9bycp3jyFJ3sTbf8MtGo4E_uGX7zYZ7lk$>



So, would it be fair to say that the operator that you are referring to below, wishes to deploy a Traffic Engineering solution using a subset of Segment Routing (i.e. a reduced portion of Spring Architecture) that only supports prefix and adjacency SIDs as indicated by the two "forwarding methods" that are referred to in draft-bonica-6man-comp-rtg-hdr?



Thanks,

Ketan



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Subject: RE: [spring] CRH is back to the SPRING Use-Case - Re: Size of CR in CRH



Ketan,



Please consider an operator who:



- Wants a way to steer IPv6 packets through a specified path that includes many nodes (>8)

- Does not want any of the following:

        - A new VPN encapsulation technique

        - A new service function chaining technique

        - Network programming

        - MPLS and uSID

        - To encoding instructions in IPv6 addresses.



These operators want a compact routing header, nothing more.



                                                                           Ron





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Subject: RE: [spring] CRH is back to the SPRING Use-Case - Re: Size of CR in CRH



[SNIP]



I am looking for explanation of the "other ways" that CRH can be used (i.e. those outside the Spring architecture). I am trying to understand from the authors what would be the applicability of that solution, it's use-cases and it's requirements. That is what, I believe, will help us evaluate the CRH proposal in the context of this working call. That will help us answer these questions like the scope of the SID, 32-bit or 16-bit or something else and what the CRH-FIB is going to turn out like.





[SNIP]

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