Re: [Lsvr] Initiating LSVR re-chartering discussion - draft#1 proposal

["Gunter van de Velde (Nokia)" <[e-mail]>]

[co-chair hat on]

Hi Linda,

Thanks for sharing these thoughts.  
The current low hanging fruit focus for ongoing re-charter exercise is to include the L3DL technology into lsvr charter. 
The L3DL documents went (long ago) through WGLC and are have been ready to be published since long.

Once both BGP-SPF and L3DL documents are published, there is a preliminary idea floating around for a second re-charter exercise (in approx. 12 months), intended to tune the charter of LSVR WG to new innovative use-cases and enhancements associated with BGP-SPF Link State Vector Routing. The question if we should morph LSVR into a generic superscale BGP based dc routing WG is a big step away from current lsvr charter. At first glance the BGP WG may be an reasonable fit for such focus also. It is an item to consider in the grander scheme for LSVR futures during the re-charter exercise once BGP-SPF and L3DL are published.

G/


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Gunter, et al. ,

Thanks for initiating the re-chartering discussion.

With many large-scale  data centers using only Path Vector based routing, as described in RFC7938 (Use of BGP for Routing in Large-Scale Data Centers), and the trend towards congestion control in hyperscale DC for ML training models, the LSVR rechartering should consider addressing those issues.
For example, the new LSVR WG can explore potential mechanisms to enable data centers with only path vector-based routing (e.g., BGP) for superscale computing..

Cheers,
Linda

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[Lsvr] Initiating LSVR re-chartering discussion - draft#1 proposal "Gunter van de Velde (Nokia)" <[e-mail]> Tue, 05 December 2023 10:49 UTCShow header

Hi LSVR WG,

We would like to initiate the convergence towards a first LSVR charter update.
During IETF LSVR118 WG session there was consensus we should initially embrace the L3DL work, and consider additional enhancements in a later follow-up charter update

Look for the embedded L3DL text <new>text</new> .

Thoughts, suggestions and constructive feedback on the draft#1 charter proposal is appreciated.
If necessary we could setup an interim to discuss detailed nuances.


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Charter for Working Group

Data Centers have been steadily growing to commonly host tens of thousands of end points, or more, in a single network. Because of their topologies (traditional and emerging), traffic patterns, need for fast restoration, and for low human intervention, data center networks have a unique set of requirements that is resulting in the design of routing solutions specific to them.

The Link-State Vector Routing (LSVR) Working Group is chartered to develop and document a hybrid routing protocol utilizing a combination of link-state and path-vector routing mechanisms <new> and the Layer-3 Discovery and Liveness (L3DL) protocol to discover IP Layer-3 attributes of links, such as neighbor IP addressing, logical link IP encapsulation abilities, and link liveness </new>.
The LSVR WG will utilize existing IPv4/IPv6 transport, packet formats and error handling of BGP-4 consistent with BGP-LS NLRI encoding mechanisms (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7752/) to facilitate Link-State Vector (LSV) routing information distribution. An LSV is intended to be specified as a data structure comprised of link attributes, neighbor information, and other and other potential attributes that can be utilized to make routing decisions.

The LSVR specification is initially focused on operation within a single datacenter (DC) as a single distribution domain, which is defined as a set of participating nodes in a single administrative domain. Routing protocol functionality defined by LSVR would be typically routing within a datacenter's underlay routing plane. The work will include coexistence considerations with BGP IPv4/IPv6 unicast address families installing and advertising routes into the same RIB.

<new>The L3DL protocol is developed to discover link IP Layer-3 attributes and is focused upon discovering mutually supported layer-3 encapsulations for IP and/or MPLS interface addressing. The discovery protocol must present this data to BGP-SPF so that topology and routing tables can be build. L3DL should provide support for authenticity verification of protocol messages and provide a mechanism for Layer-2 keep-alive messaging to support session continuity, and finally support build-up for Layer-3 link liveness such as BFD.</new>

The WG will consider the effects (if any) of deploying the LSVR protocol while concurrently using the same transport session as other existing BGP address families. These considerations will be documented as part of the main protocol specification. A mechanism to be able to independently deploy LSVR from other address families may be defined (as needed).

The LSVR protocol is intended as a self-standing routing protocol even if using existing BGP transport mechanisms and encodings, or if sharing the same transport session with other existing BGP address families. Similar as existing routing protocols, the LSVR protocol will not internally combine the route selection mechanisms or share routing information, except through common external interaction methods in the RIB.

In order to achieve the noted objective, the working group will focus on standardization of protocol functionality, defining Link-State Vectors (LSVs) and defining standard path-vector route selection utilizing the Dijkstra SPF based algorithm, BGP-4 protocol mechanics and BGP-LS NRLI encoding.

The working group will provide specifications to manage routing information from other unicast routing protocols or BGP address families to common prefixes.

The LSVR WG is chartered to deliver the following documents:
. Specification document describing LSV with standard Dijkstra SPF route/path selection (calculation) utilizing existing BGP protocol baseline functionality and BGP-LS packet encoding formats . Specification documenting protocol extensions required to efficiently reuse BGP to distribute LSVs within an IPv4/IPv6 DC with scope to include privacy and security considerations
        o The impact of these extensions to the security properties of BGP will be studied and documented
        o New attack vectors will be explored and documented
        o Mitigations to any new attack vectors identified will be discussed and documented <new> . Specification documenting L3DL  protocol considering usage with BGP-SPF
        o A base protocol documenting Layer-3 Discovery and Liveness protocol
        o Protocol extensions documenting Layer-3 Discovery and Liveness Signing
        o Protocol extension to communicate the parameters needed to exchange inter-device
        Upper Layer Protocol Configuration for upper-layer protocols such as the BGP family L3DL
        Upper-Layer Protocol Configuration </new> . Applicability Statement for the use of LSVR in the Datacenter . YANG model specification for LSVR management . YANG model specification for L3DL management

The WG will closely collaborate with the idr WG. Any modifications or extension to BGP that will not be specifically constrained to be used by LSVR must be carried out in the idr WG, but may be done in this WG after agreement with all the relevant chairs and the responsible Area Directors.

(revision proposal) Milestones:
. Mar 2024      Applicability statement for LSVR in DCs
. Mar 2024      LSV distribution using BGP transport
. Mar 2024      LSVR with standard Dijkstra path selection
. Dec 2024      YANG specification for LSVR
. <new>Jul 2024        Layer-3 Discovery and Liveness
. Jul 2024        Layer-3 Discovery and Liveness Signing
. Jul 2024        L3DL Upper-Layer Protocol Configuration
. Dec 2024      YANG specification for L3DL</new>

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