Re: [Mter] Need to decide on potential next steps for MTER

JP Vasseur <jvasseur@cisco.com> Tue, 16 May 2006 11:26 UTC

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From: JP Vasseur <jvasseur@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [Mter] Need to decide on potential next steps for MTER
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 07:26:24 -0400
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Hi Michael,

Do you see any particular items in your work that would require  
standardization (protocol, MIBs, ...) ?

JP.

On May 16, 2006, at 3:12 AM, Michael Menth wrote:

> Dear JP, Jean-Louis, and Raymond,
>
> we are working on the field of multi-layer resilience, in  
> particular regarding the required backup capacity of protection and  
> restoration mechanisms, e.g. MPLS-FRR and others:
> http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~menth/Publications/ 
> Menth04c.pdf
> http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~menth/Publications/ 
> Menth05f.pdf
> http://www3.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~menth/Publications/ 
> Menth06f.pdf
>
> We, as a university, are interested in the mter discussion to share  
> our experience and to find new relevant issues for further  
> research. I hope that sufficiently many manufacturers and operators  
> also express their interest in this activity.
>
> Kind regards,
>
>    Michael
>
> JP Vasseur wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Below the email we sent to the list some time ago, seeking for  
>> feed-backs but so far the list has been pretty quiet. During the  
>> past few months we received a very few off-line positive feed- 
>> backs indicating some interest in this work. It is now a good time  
>> to decide on whether there is enough interest to work on this  
>> topic by the IETF community in which case we will request a BOF  
>> approval or whether the interest is too weak to pursue this work.
>>
>> So we will follow up with a few discussion threads related to the  
>> scenarios described in the problem statement ID, for which we'd  
>> like to get your feed-back relatively quickly, should you think  
>> that it is worth being pursed.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> JP, Jean-Louis and Raymond.
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It took a little while to come up with a clear problem statement  
>> but we now have an I-D (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft- 
>> ahmad- mter-problem-statement-00.txt (thanks to the authors)) that  
>> will hopefully trigger some discussion with the objective to see  
>> whether there is enough interest to pursue this work at the IETF.
>>
>> The draft has been structured so as to first show three scenarios  
>> where various recovery mechanisms could be used in combination.  
>> This does not aim to cover all possible cases but some pretty  
>> common deployment scenario for the sake of illustration. Then  
>> various Multi- TEchnology Recovery (MTER) issues are discussed.
>>
>> What is the objective of this work ?
>>
>> Let's start with the set of non-objective first ...
>> * There is no intention to come up with protocols extensions that  
>> are being worked out in existing WGs (ISIS, IDR, CCAMP, ....)
>> * Discuss implementation-specific issues
>>
>> Now the objectives ...
>>
>> What has been shown through the three MTER deployment cases making  
>> use of multiple recovery mechanisms in combination is the following:
>>
>> -> There are cases where being able to identify the root failure  
>> cause would significantly improve various recovery metrics such as  
>> the convergence time, required backup capacity, ... and so on. Do  
>> we need to work on such mechanisms at the IETF is an open question ?
>>
>> -> MIBs and OAM tools have been defined for most of the recovery  
>> techniques (IGP, BGP, MPLS FRR, GMPLS, ... ) and there are clearly  
>> no such tool for the aspects related to their combined use. It  
>> looks like the availability of such tools would help Service  
>> Providers to manage, tune and troubleshooting their network.  
>> Again, feed-backs from this ML are critical to see how to move  
>> forward and if the community expressed some interest.
>>
>> Thanks for your feed-backs.
>>
>> JP, Jean-Louis and Raymond.
>>
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