Re: [mpls] FW: New Version Notification for draft-xu-sfc-using-mpls-spring-04.txt

This draft seems to be written as if MPLS were a transport-independent 
forwarding mechanism for SFC.  While I expect MPLS (and MPLS-SPRING) to 
be used as a transport for MPLS, and sometimes as a transport across 
multiple service functions, I would NOT claim that it is itself 
transport independent.

As such, I am unclear on how the SFC working group could adopt this 
document.

Considered as a transport description, it does not appear to standardize 
anything, so it would seem at most to be an informational document.

Yours,
Joel M. Halpern

On 9/9/15 5:45 AM, Xuxiaohu wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Service chaining is an important function for all type of networks including those using the source routing paradigm as specified by the SPRING working group. This draft is especially focused on the SPRING/MPLS network scenario.
>
> When we posted the early versions (-00 to -02), the feedback from the SFC working group chairs was that the solution required changes to the MPLS architecture. We discussed this among the authors and posted a new version (-03) that does not require any change to the MPLS Architecture anymore. Version -04 merely corrects some typos.
>
> Now we would like to ask the SFC chairs and WGs if the draft can now be considered for adoption by the SFC working group.
>
> Best regards,
> Xiaohu
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: internet-drafts@ietf.org [mailto:internet-drafts@ietf.org]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2015 5:23 PM
>> To: Lizhenbin; Luis M. Contreras; Xuxiaohu; Himanshu C. Shah; Xuxiaohu;
>> Himanshu Shah; Luis M. Contreras; Lizhenbin
>> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-xu-sfc-using-mpls-spring-04.txt
>>
>>
>> A new version of I-D, draft-xu-sfc-using-mpls-spring-04.txt
>> has been successfully submitted by Xiaohu Xu and posted to the IETF repository.
>>
>> Name:		draft-xu-sfc-using-mpls-spring
>> Revision:	04
>> Title:		Service Function Chaining Using MPLS-SPRING
>> Document date:	2015-09-09
>> Group:		Individual Submission
>> Pages:		7
>> URL:
>> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-xu-sfc-using-mpls-spring-04.txt
>> Status:
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xu-sfc-using-mpls-spring/
>> Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-xu-sfc-using-mpls-spring-04
>> Diff:
>> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-xu-sfc-using-mpls-spring-04
>>
>> Abstract:
>>     Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING) WG specifies a special
>>     source routing mechanism.  Such source routing mechanism can be
>>     leveraged to realize the service path layer functionality of the
>>     service function chaining (i.e, steering traffic through a particular
>>     service function path) by encoding the service function path or the
>>     service function chain information as the explicit path information.
>>     This document describes how to leverage the MPLS-based source routing
>>     mechanism as developed by the SPRING WG to realize the service path
>>     layer functionality of the service function chaining.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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