Re: [Network-tokens] [arch-d] Questions for APN: Q#6 and Q#7

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Hi Shuping,

> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-li-6man-app-aware-ipv6-network-02 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-li-6man-app-aware-ipv6-network-02>
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> Basically, the information carried in the IP layer is used for traffic steering policy selection within a limited APN network domain in order to guarantee the SLA requirements.
>  

I’m a little unclear on what I’m reading, so please pardon some clarifying questions.

In this document, I’m seeing two options defined for use in IPv6 extension headers.

The application aware ID option appears to be up to 255 bytes long, variable length, and consists of three different structures.

How does the forwarding engine determine which structure is in use? Can this option appear multiple times in the header? 
Within each structure, the fields are variable length, but there appears to be no way to determine how long the fields are.

The service-para option appears to be a bit more structured.  Again, this appears to be variable length, up to 255 bytes.
Within the option, we have numerous subTLVs. What is the purpose of the RESERVED fields? If you’re trying to retain alignment,
didn’t that go out the window with a two byte option header?

Does the delay sub-TLV indicate the overall path delay? Or the per-hop delay?  If the full path delay, how does a router know
whether this has been satisfied?  Do systems along the path decrease this value as the packet is forwarded? How does a router
know how much to decrement?

Is 24 bits really necessary for the Delay Variation?  Is a jitter of 16s even meaningful?

The packet loss ratio is a 24 bit (presumably unsigned) value.  Is this an integer? Normally ratios are expressed as a relation between multiple
integers. What are the semantics here?

Have you computed the amount of overhead that you will be introducing? It appears to me that you could easily have 1000 bytes of overhead per packet.  What does 
this do to service provider bandwidth consumption? What does this do to the ‘low-latency’ service that you want to provide?

Tony