Re: [mpls] [spring] Special purpose labels in draft-hegde-spring-traffic-accounting-for-sr-paths

[Greg Mirsky <[e-mail]>]

Dear All,
I cannot imagine that operators will agree to deploy network that lacks
critical OAM tools to monitor performance and troubleshoot the network.
True, some will brave the challenge and be the early adopters but even they
will likely request that the OAM toolbox be sufficient to support their
operational needs. I see that this work clearly describes the problem and
why ability to quantify the flow behavior at internal nodes is important
for efficient network operation. First let's discuss whether the case and
requirement towards OAM is real and valid. Then we can continue to
discussion of what measurement method to use.

Regards,
Greg

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Xuxiaohu <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Concur. Although it has some values, it's not cost-efficient from my point
> of view. Network simplicity should be the first priority object. Hence we
> would have to make some compromise.
>
> Best regards,
> Xiaohu
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> *发件人： *Zafar Ali (zali)
> *收件人： *Greg Mirsky<[e-mail]>;draft-hegde-spring-traffic-
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> draft-hegde-spring-traffic-accounting-for-sr-paths
> *时间： *2017-11-16 02:24:10
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> This draft breaks the SR architecture. I am quoting a snippet from
> abstract of SR Architecture document https://tools.ietf.org/html/
> draft-ietf-spring-segment-routing-13, which states:
>
> “SR allows to enforce a flow through any topological path while
> maintaining per-flow state only at the ingress nodes to the SR domain.”
>
>
>
> In addition to creating states at transit and egress nodes, the procedure
> also affects the data plane and makes it unscalable. It also makes
> controller job much harder and error prune. In summary, I find the
> procedure very complex and unscalable.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Regards … Zafar
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>
>
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> *From: *spring <[e-mail]> on behalf of Greg Mirsky <
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> *Date: *Wednesday, November 15, 2017 at 11:10 AM
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> *Subject: *[spring] Special purpose labels in draft-hegde-spring-traffic-
> accounting-for-sr-paths
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>
> Hi Shraddha,
>
> thank you for very well written and thought through draft. I have these
> questions I'd like to discuss:
>
>    - Have you thought of using not one special purpose label for both SR
>    Path Identifier and SR Path Identifier+Source SID cases but request two
>    special purpose labels, one for each case. Then the SR Path Identifier
>    would not have to lose the bit for C flag.
>    - And how you envision to collect the counters along the path? Of
>    course, a Controller may query LSR for all counters or counters for the
>    particular flow (SR Path Identifier+Source SID). But in addition I'd
>    propose to use in-band mechanism, perhaps another special purpose label, to
>    trigger the LSR to send counters of the same flow with the timestamp
>    out-band to the predefined Collector.
>    - And the last, have you considered ability to flush counters per
>    flow. In Scalability Considerations you've stated that counters are
>    maintained as long as collection of statistics is enabled. If that is on
>    the node scope, you may have to turn off/on the collection to flush off
>    some old counters. I think that finer granularity, per flow granularity
>    would be useful for operators. Again, perhaps the flow itself may be used
>    to signal the end of the measurement and trigger release of counters.
>
> Regards,
>
> Greg
>