Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01
"W. Mark Townsley" <townsley@cisco.com> Fri, 19 April 2002 06:31 UTC
From: "W. Mark Townsley" <townsley@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:31:08 +0200
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Just two comments. Thanks Claude. - Mark > Claude Kawa wrote: > > I would like to propose changes to draft kamapabhava-01 taking into account > the comments received the last few days in order to progress this work. I will > be able to produce a new draft in 2-3 weeks (next week I am out of the > office). > > Proposed changes to draft-kamapabhava-01: > > -Fragmentation is an important issue, if we cannot resolve it now I propose > the following changes to the FRoPW header: We encode bits I and L used to > identified the fragments as 0 0 (0 0 means a complete frame) and work on the > solution without preventing the draft to progress. > > -The P bit used to identified the payload as user data or network management > data, I propose that we keep this bit with the following description: > > P - Payload Type (bit 3): > If set to zero then the payload field contains user's data else its > contents is not specified in this document. Why did you relegate I and L to 0 0, but still keep the P bit (half)defined? There seems to be an inconsistency here. > With this proposal, network and vendor may use P=1 in a proprietary way to > carry whatever they want to carry with the caveat that standardization of the > use of P=1 in the future may obsolete its proprietary use. > > > With these two changes the header will look like: > > 0 1 2 3 > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > | Res |P|B|F|D|C|0|0| Length | Sequence Number | > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > > We have now the header in draft-martini (when P = 0). > > Now I will address emails proposing other changes/explanations. If I missed > anything let met know. > > -Sasha email: > Item 1 was addressed above: " I have noticed that the FRoPW Control Word still > > contains bit "P" that distinguishes user and maintenance > traffic - in spite of the maintenance protocol issue being > removed from the draft." > > Item 2: This one is about dropping frame out-of order vs. re-ordering them We > can re-introduce and improve the text of version 00: "Packets, which are > received out of order, MAY be dropped or reordered at > > the discretion of the receiver". > > Item 3: "The draft defines two modes of operation, but if only one of > them - port to port - is referred to as a "mode". What is more, > one mode (the same) is defined as OPTIONAL but neither is > defined as REQUIRED. Setting aside - for the moment - which mode > should be which, explicit names for all the modes and > explicit specification of the REQUIRED mode would be very > much in place. In particular, this would help with creating > a 'per mode' applicability statement (preferably inline - > the draft is not too long)". > > About what is optional and what is mandatory. I prefer to address this item > later since we have IP and L2TPv3 too in addition to MPLS tunnels. I propose > that we do not specify what is mandatory and what is optional now but wait to > see the complete spec covering other tunnels. I propose that the IP section does not fit within the architecture and should be removed. Realistically, we have FR over MPLS and FR over L2TPv3. > > > Item 4: "The draft specifies a set of requirements for FRoPW. > Have you considered providing a check-list > matching these requirements with the design spec? > IMHO this would be very useful and (hopefully) not too > difficult (in the worst case you can always drop an > especially inconvenient requirement :-). > Personally I would like to understand how the requirement > for mapping the traffic management parameters is met > with this spec." > > We will check the requirements list against the design spec and drop/change > what needs to be dropped/changed. However for traffic management, it will take > a little bit more time to address. We will not do it in the next version if we > produce it in 2-3 weeks as we propose. Traffic management is definitely a high > priority item. > > > > -Comment from George Wilkie about the control word: We will follow the > suggestion in George's email: > > "The doc appears to require the use of the FRoPW control word for all types > of > PSN.I understand the need for MPLS, not clear to me for other PSNs, e.g. > L2TPv3. > L2TPv3 can do without the control word since it has its own sequencing > capability and IP has no need for length field. > The DLCI can remain on the frame to carry the FBDC bits and avoid inefficient > copy out/in." > > -Next comments are from LLoyd Wood email that came today (Thursday) > > 1-We will address the use of IP tunnel. We have a placeholder for that but > MPLS seemed to have a higher priority. > > 2-About the security section we will use what is draft-bryant-pwe3-fr-encap. > It looks good. > > 3-We will try to adopt other useful material from draft bryant complementing > draft kamapabhava-01. > > Anything else I missed? > > Now I would like to propose to write a new version of kamapabhava with the > above changes/additions as a working group draft. > > Claude Kawa
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Claude Kawa
- Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Claude Kawa
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 W. Mark Townsley
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Claude Kawa
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Stewart Bryant
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Andrew G. Malis
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Claude Kawa
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Danny McPherson
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Shahram Davari
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Khalid Ahmad
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Danny McPherson
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Danny McPherson
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Khalid Ahmad
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 neil.2.harrison
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 neil.2.harrison
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Andrew G. Malis
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 W. Mark Townsley
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Giles Heron
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Stewart Bryant
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Eric Rosen
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Giles Heron
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Andrew G. Malis
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Kavi, Prabhu
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 W. Mark Townsley
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Luca Martini
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Luca Martini
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Luca Martini
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Shahram Davari
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 W. Mark Townsley
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Shahram Davari
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Giles Heron
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 W. Mark Townsley
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Stewart Bryant
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Giles Heron
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Luca Martini
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 neil.2.harrison
- Re: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 Luca Martini
- RE: Proposed changes to draft kamapabhava-01 neil.2.harrison