Re: [Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible Algorithms: Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" - draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02

[Christian Hopps <[e-mail]>]

"Acee Lindem (acee)" <acee=[e-mail]> writes:

> Hi Greg,
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> Additionally, in a vacuum light will only travel 300 meters in a
> microsecond. So, in a nanosecond, that is less than a foot. What
> transmission technology and application do you anticipate that will
> require this this precision?

Off by a few magnitude; light travels just shy of 300,000,000 meters per second.

Consider that 100Gbps links transmit 100 bits every nanosecond. So about 5 nanoseconds to send a minimum sized ethernet frame (sans the pre/postamble).

Thanks,
Chris.


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> Thanks,
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> Acee
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> From: Tony Li <[e-mail]> on behalf of Tony Li
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> Date: Sunday, May 23, 2021 at 4:56 PM
> To: Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>
> Cc: Shraddha Hegde <[e-mail]>, "[e-mail]"
> <[e-mail]>, "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>,
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> Subject: Re: [Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible Algorithms:
> Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" -
> draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02
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> Hi Greg,
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> That’s a very fair question and not one that has been discussed.
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> Do we have that kind of accuracy from any of our measurement tools?
> Is that even on the horizon?  I haven’t seen that…
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> If it is time for nanosecond level measurement, then is it time to
> shift to floating point to give us more range?
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> Tony
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>     On May 23, 2021, at 1:04 PM, Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>
>     wrote:
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>     Hi Shraddha, Authors, et al.,
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>     I apologize if my question has already been discussed. The unit
>     for the maximum link delay in the draft is a microsecond. There
>     is a group of services that require a highly accurate bounded
>     delay. Have you considered using a nanosecond as the unit for the
>     link delay?
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>     Regards,
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>     Greg
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>     On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 9:17 PM Shraddha Hegde <shraddha=
>     [e-mail]> wrote:
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>         Hi Pengshaofu,
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>         Pls see inline..
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>         From: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
>         Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2021 7:26 AM
>         To: Shraddha Hegde <[e-mail]>
>         Cc: acee=[e-mail]; [e-mail];
>         [e-mail]
>         Subject: Re:[Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible
>         Algorithms: Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" -
>         draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02
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>         Hi Shraddha,
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>         Thanks. Actually, I don't really want to define other metric
>         types.
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>         Let's go back to the bandwidth-metric related to bandwidth
>         capability. My worry is that bandwidth-metric (whether it is
>         automatically calculated or manually configured) is not
>         cumulative in nature,
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>         <Shraddha> Yes that is correct.
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>         which is different from IGP default metric/TE metric/delay
>         metric,
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>         so that SPF based on bandwidth-metric may get an unexpected
>         path (see the example of the original mail).
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>         Can more text be added in the draft to describe why this can
>         work ?
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>         <Shraddha> Knowing that metric derived inversely from the
>         link bandwidth is not additive in nature, should set the
>         expectation right. I can add some text in this regard.
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>         Regards,
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>         PSF
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>                                   原始邮件
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>         发件人：ShraddhaHegde
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>         收件人：彭少富10053815;
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>         抄送人：acee=[e-mail];[e-mail];
>         [e-mail];
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>         日期：2021年05月18日 13:01
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>         主题：RE: Re:[Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible
>         Algorithms: Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" -
>         draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02
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>         Hi Pengshaofu,
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>         If an operator wants to configure any other metric type draft
>         provides a mechanism with generic metric.
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>         Generic metric allows any standard or user-defined type
>         metric to be configured.
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>         The draft allows for any computing application such as
>         Flex-algo, CSPF etc to make use of the
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>         Metric. The intention of the draft is that for a particular
>         computation same metric-type is used
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>         throughout the network. If that is not clear, I’ll add some
>         text in the draft.
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>         Using a combination of different metrics for a single
>         computation would need significant change to SPF algorithm
>         and it is not in the scope of the draft "Flexible Algorithms:
>         Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints".
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>         Hope that clarifies.
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>         Rgds
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>         Shraddha
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>         From: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
>         Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 12:49 PM
>         To: Shraddha Hegde <[e-mail]>
>         Cc: acee=[e-mail]; [e-mail];
>         [e-mail]
>         Subject: Re:[Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible
>         Algorithms: Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" -
>         draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02
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>         Hi Shraddha,
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>         The two methods of automatic generation of BW-metric
>         introduced in the draft are also likely to be the method of
>         manual configuration of BW-metric by operators. Operators
>         can certainly manually configure any  BW-metric he wants to
>         configure.
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>         However, the manually configured BW-metric cannot deviate
>         from the actual bandwidth capacity of the link, otherwise it
>         could be any other names such as BX-metric.
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>         For manual assignment, the problem may still exist We can
>         find an example that  the accumulated bandwidth-metric on the
>         path may offset the manually increased bandwidth-metric of
>         links on the path.
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>         Combination of bandwidth attribute of link and other metric
>         that is cumulative may be another co-exist way to completely
>         address this issue.
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>         Regards,
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>         PSF
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>                                   原始邮件
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>         发件人：ShraddhaHegde
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>         收件人：彭少富10053815;
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>         抄送人：acee=[e-mail];[e-mail];
>         [e-mail];
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>         日期：2021年05月17日 12:15
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>         主题：RE: Re:[Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible
>         Algorithms: Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" -
>         draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02
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>         Hi Pengshaofu,
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>         I was suggesting to manually assign bandwidth metric which
>         will override the automatic metric calculation
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>         as described in the draft section 5. Physically adding more
>         fiber/capacity is not a feasible solution.
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>         Rgds
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>         Shraddha
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>         From: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
>         Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021 7:40 AM
>         To: Shraddha Hegde <[e-mail]>
>         Cc: acee=[e-mail]; [e-mail];
>         [e-mail]
>         Subject: Re:[Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible
>         Algorithms: Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" -
>         draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02
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>         Hi Shraddha,
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>         Thanks for your rely.
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>         So it seems that the scheme may lead to the selection of
>         links with less bandwidth. To address this point, the method
>         as you described to assign more bandwidth to high bandwidth
>         links seems not always possible, e.g, adding more fiber ?
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>         Can this point can be addressed by combination of bandwidth
>         attribute of link and other metric that is cumulative ? IMO,
>         bandwidth is not cumulative.
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>         Regards
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>         PSF
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>                                   原始邮件
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>         发件人：ShraddhaHegde
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>         收件人：彭少富10053815;
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>         抄送人：acee=[e-mail];[e-mail];
>         [e-mail];
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>         日期：2021年05月13日 21:01
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>         主题：RE: Re:[Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible
>         Algorithms: Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" -
>         draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02
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>         Hi Peng shaofu,
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>         As per the draft, if automatic metric calculation with
>         reference bandwidth method is used to calculate the metric
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>         Then as per your example s->D path will be chosen since
>         metric is 10.
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>         Lets say operator wants to choose S->X1->X2-àX10->D path then
>         operator can manually assign higher bandwidth
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>         Metric on S->D link which will ensure S->D path is not the
>         least cost path.
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>         Rgds
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>         Shraddha
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>         Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2021 1:05 PM
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>         Cc: acee=[e-mail]; [e-mail];
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>         Subject: Re:[Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible
>         Algorithms: Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" -
>         draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02
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>         Sorry for spelling mistakens in the previous email.
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>         updated text:
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>         Hi WG,
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>         I have a little doubt about the scheme described in this
>         document.
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>         See the following example:
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>         S ---- X1 ----- X2 ---- ... ... ----- X10 ----- D
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>             \----------------------------------------------/
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>         Suppose the links in S---X1---X2...---D have the same
>         bandwidth  10G, and the link S-D has bandwidth 1G.
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>         Suppose that we select "reference bandwidth = 100G", then,
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>         each link  in S---X1---X2...---D will have the same
>         bandwidth-metric  10 (i.e., 100/10)
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>         link S-D will have a bandwidth-metric 100 (i.e., 100/1)
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>         So flex-algo path from S to D based on bandwidth-metric will
>         be S-D, not S---X1---X2...---D, because the later has a large
>         cumulative bandwitdh-metric (i.e., 11*10).
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>         But our expect path should not be S-D, but
>         S---X1---X2...---D, as it has large bandwidth.
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>         Do I misunderstand anything ?
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>         Regards,
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>         PSF
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>         发件人：AceeLindem(acee)
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>         收件人：[e-mail];
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>         抄送人：[e-mail];
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>         日期：2021年05月13日 05:49
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>         主题：[Lsr] LSR WG Adoption Poll for "Flexible Algorithms:
>         Bandwidth, Delay, Metrics and Constraints" -
>         draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con-02
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>         Esteemed Members of the LSR WG,
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>         This begins a 2 week WG adoption call for the following
>         draft:
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>              https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/
>         draft-hegde-lsr-flex-algo-bw-con/
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>         Please indicate your support or objection by May 27^th, 2021.
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>         Authors, please respond to the list indicating whether you
>         are aware of any IPR that applies to this draft.
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>         Thanks,
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>         Chris and Acee
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