Re: [Isis-wg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-isis-encapsulation-cap-01.txt

Philip Christian <philip.christian@pscan.eu> Tue, 25 April 2017 07:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Isis-wg] I-D Action: draft-ietf-isis-encapsulation-cap-01.txt
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There is already an existing standard for encapsulation capability TLV
in IS-IS.

Please see Annex B of ITU-T G.7712 here:-
https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-G.7712-201009-I!!PDF-E&type=items

In summary it already defines a tunnelling capability TLV 16.
Within TLV 16 it defines subTLV 1 with the sets of 47,NLPID,NLPID for
GRE unencapsulation capabilities.

Surely it would be better to re-use this and use 1-46 for encapsulation
techniques other than GRE.

regards, Philip Christian



On 25/04/2017 04:13, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the IS-IS for IP Internets of the IETF.
> 
>         Title           : Advertising Tunnelling Capability in IS-IS
>         Authors         : Xiaohu Xu
>                           Bruno Decraene 
>                           Robert Raszuk
>                           Uma Chunduri
>                           Luis M. Contreras
>                           Luay Jalil
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-isis-encapsulation-cap-01.txt
> 	Pages           : 11
> 	Date            : 2017-04-24
> 
> Abstract:
>    Some networks use tunnels for a variety of reasons.  A large variety
>    of tunnel types are defined and the ingress needs to select a type of
>    tunnel which is supported by the egress.  This document defines how
>    to advertise egress tunnel capabilities in IS-IS Router Capability
>    TLV.
> 
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-isis-encapsulation-cap/
> 
> There are also htmlized versions available at:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-isis-encapsulation-cap-01
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-isis-encapsulation-cap-01
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-isis-encapsulation-cap-01
> 
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