Re: [mpls] Poll 2: New SPL vs re-purposed ELI for carrying Network Action Indicators

Hi,
I reviewed the draft draft-decraene-mpls-slid-encoded-entropy-label-id. It looks feasible and efficient.
I agree with Ali that we can consider to progress the draft.

B.R.
Weiqiang Cheng

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发件人: Zafar Ali (zali) [mailto:zali@cisco.com] 
发送时间: 2022年6月6日 11:36
收件人: Loa Andersson; mpls@ietf.org
抄送: mpls-chairs@ietf.org; pals-chairs@ietf.org; DetNet Chairs; Zafar Ali (zali)
主题: Re: [mpls] Poll 2: New SPL vs re-purposed ELI for carrying Network Action Indicators

Dear chairs and the WG: 

I feel, we need to qualify the scope of the “(2) re-purposing the ELI SPL” question 
I.e., we need to answer the poll from a short term perspective and the long term view

As discussed during the PALS session at IETF113, https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-decraene-mpls-slid-encoded-entropy-label-id/ meets our immediate needs; thanks to the following attributes: 
* Hardware efficient 
    + It minimized the label stack (EL is used for both the load-balancing and the immediate additional use-cases with "8" indicators) 
* Enables faster and incremental deployments 
    + Thanks to wide support of ELI on current HW
    + Preserves the backward compatibility (with legacy devices) 
* Reuses control plan 
    + Does not require extensions to signal support (in BGP, ISIS, OSPF, BGP-LS, LDP, RSVP-TE, etc.)

In summary, IMO the progression of draft-decraene-mpls-slid-encoded-entropy-label-id as the “starting” point should not be mixed up with the question in this poll

Thanks

Regards … Zafar

On 5/30/22, 5:22 PM, "mpls on behalf of Loa Andersson" <mpls-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of loa@pi.nu> wrote:

    MPLS Working Group, MPLS Open DT,

    The MPLS Network Actions (MNA) framework requires a method of indicating 
    the presence of a Network Action and any Ancillary Data.

    Is the consensus of the working group that we do this by:

       (1) allocating a new SPL for Network Action Indicators?

       (2) re-purposing the ELI SPL?

       (3) using some other method of indicating this such as making it an
           additional property of an ordinary label?

    Please respond to the MPLS WG mail list.

    Loa Andersson
    for the Open DT wg chairs

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