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Re: [mpls] Draft submitted - MPLS Entropy Block

Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 02 June 2020 21:18 UTC

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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2020 14:18:04 -0700
From: Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.ietf@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [mpls] Draft submitted - MPLS Entropy Block
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Joel,

My assertion is based on reading the draft, no magic involved. None of what you have mentioned below is discussed in the draft, hence ignored.
8662 goes in details as to why particular options have been chosen/rejected.

Cheers,
Jeff
On Jun 2, 2020, 2:01 PM -0700, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@joelhalpern.com>, wrote:
> Jeff, you assertion that the authors are ignoring existing work seems to
> border on mind-reading. Binding SIDs (ala 8662) are a way to reduce
> label stack depth. It is a useful tool. Being able to remove the
> Entropy Label Indicator would also be beneficial.
>
> The proposal does recognize that one may well need more than one entropy
> label (and thus labels aimed at different targets) in the stack. The
> initial portion of the document does focus on the single entropy label
> case to make the idea clear. The authors (i am not one of them) are
> well aware of the work on advertising various attributes of label depeth
> for generation and processing.
>
> Yours,
> Joel
>
> On 6/2/2020 4:54 PM, Jeff Tantsura wrote:
> > Hello co-authors,
> >
> > The solution proposed ignores all the previous work done to address this
> > particular issue. Without going into more details
> > Please read RFC8662 to better understand all the different pieces involved.
> > draft-ietf-isis-mpls-elc/draft-ietf-ospf-mpls-elc specifically to
> > understand control plane involved.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jeff
> > On Jun 2, 2020, 1:47 AM -0700, Jiang He
> > <jiang.he=40ericsson.com@dmarc.ietf.org>, wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > I just submitted a draft,
> > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-jiang-mpls-entropy-block/ .  it
> > > describes an approach for MPLS load balance, by  allocating a specific
> > > MPLS label block for entropy usage.
> > >
> > > The purpose is to mitigate the limitation of the number of labels can
> > > be pushed and the number of labels can be inspected when looking for
> > > entropy information.
> > >
> > > Your comments are highly appreciated!
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Jiang
> > >
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