Re: [OSPF] I-D Action: draft-ietf-ospf-segment-routing-extensions-13.txt

Hi Shraddha,

please see inline:

On 10/05/17 07:34 , Shraddha Hegde wrote:
> Authors,
>
> Apologies for being late with this comment in the process of standardization.
>
> The below section 5 describes the PHP for mapping server
>
>
> " As the Mapping Server does not specify the originator of a prefix
>     advertisement, it is not possible to determine PHP behavior solely
>     based on the Mapping Server advertisement.  However, PHP behavior
>     SHOULD be done in following cases:
>
>        The Prefix is intra-area type and the downstream neighbor is the
>        originator of the prefix.
>
>        The Prefix is inter-area type and downstream neighbor is an ABR,
>        which is advertising prefix reachability and is also generating
>        the Extended Prefix TLV with the A-flag set for this prefix as
>        described in section 2.1 of [RFC7684]."
>
>
> The text says "PHP behavior" should be done in following cases.
> In the second case here it's an ABR re-advertising a prefix and SID being advertised for this
> Prefix from a mapping server. If we interpret "PHP behavior should be done"
> As the penultimate router removing the label and forwarding the packet to ABR,
> It does not work since the inner labels gets exposed at the ABR.

above texts clearly specifies that PHP is done only for case where ABR 
is originating a prefix, not propagating it from other area. You can 
distinguish between the two based on the A-flag in the Extended Prefix 
TLV as specified in RFC7684, which the above text mentions.

thanks,
Peter
>
> Request authors to add clarification text around "PHP behavior".
>
> Rgds
> Shraddha
>
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Open Shortest Path First IGP of the IETF.
>
>          Title           : OSPF Extensions for Segment Routing
>          Authors         : Peter Psenak
>                            Stefano Previdi
>                            Clarence Filsfils
>                            Hannes Gredler
>                            Rob Shakir
>                            Wim Henderickx
>                            Jeff Tantsura
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-ospf-segment-routing-extensions-13.txt
> 	Pages           : 35
> 	Date            : 2017-05-04
>
> Abstract:
>     Segment Routing (SR) allows a flexible definition of end-to-end paths
>     within IGP topologies by encoding paths as sequences of topological
>     sub-paths, called "segments".  These segments are advertised by the
>     link-state routing protocols (IS-IS and OSPF).
>
>     This draft describes the OSPF extensions required for Segment
>     Routing.
>
>
>
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