Re: [OPSAWG] 答复: Rtgdir early review of draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-bgp-community-06

["Joel M. Halpern" <[e-mail]>]

There seem to be two separate issues.

The first issue is what information from BGP would one like to correlate 
with the traffic flows.  I understand that there is useful information. 
The motivation given in the draft seems to apply to more cases than I 
thought, but still it is of limited applicability.

More importantly is the question of whether the proposed method is the 
right way to get the information.  As the draft acknowledges, there are 
other ways to get the information.  Ways that do not need new router 
software much less modifications of the fast path.
There is an argument in the draft about timeliness.  At least for the 
use case document in the draft, that argument does not hold water.

Yours,
Joel

On 4/15/18 10:45 PM, Aijun Wang wrote:
>     Hi, Joel:
> 
>     Can we consider this draft from other viewpoints? If the router can
>     report and correlate the traffic with its associated community, the
>     usage of the community to differentiate the customer, the service
>     category that be accessed and the geographical region etc. will be
>     flourished.
> 
>     And currently, China Telecom has some internal usage regulation for
>     community to differentiate some important customers and the related
>     services.
> 
>     Best Regards.
> 
>     Aijun Wang
> 
>     Network R&D and Operation Support Department
> 
>     China Telecom Corporation Limited Beijing Research
>     Institute,Beijing, China.
> 
> *From:*Joel Halpern <mailto:[e-mail]>
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> *Date:* 2018-04-13 22:44
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> *Subject:* Rtgdir early review of draft-ietf-opsawg-ipfix-bgp-community-06
> 
> Reviewer: Joel Halpern
> 
> Review result: Not Ready
> 
> This is both a gen-art re-review and a routing directorate requested review.
> 
> The revisions from draft-04 to -06 show some improvement.  However, I still
> 
> have serious problems with this work.
> 
> The primary problem is that this seems to violate the designed work
> 
> distribution in the IPFIX architecture.  The draft itself notes that the
> 
> correlation requested could be done in the collector.  Which is where
> 
> correlation is designed to be done.  Instead, it puts a significant new
> 
> processing load on the router that is delivering the IPFIX information.  For
> 
> example, if one delivers IPFIX from the router data plane, one either has to
> 
> modify the router architecture to include additional complex computed
> 
> information in the data plane architecture (a bad place to add 
> complexity) or
> 
> one has to give up and move all the information through the control 
> plane.  And
> 
> even the control plane likely has to add complexity to its RIB logic, as 
> it has
> 
> to move additional information from BGP to the common structures.
> 
> The secondary problem is that this additional work is justified for the 
> router
> 
> by the claim that the unusual usage of applying community tags for 
> geographical
> 
> location of customers is a common practice.  It is a legal practice.  And I
> 
> presume it is done somewhere or the authors would not be asking for 
> it.   But
> 
> it is not common.
> 
> In short, since even the draft admits that this is not needed, I recommend
> 
> against publishing this document as an RFC.
>