Re: [Roll] WGLC for draft-thubert-6man-flow-label-for-rpl-03

"Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <pthubert@cisco.com> Fri, 01 August 2014 12:56 UTC

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From: "Pascal Thubert (pthubert)" <pthubert@cisco.com>
To: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, Xavier Vilajosana <xvilajosana@eecs.berkeley.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Roll] WGLC for draft-thubert-6man-flow-label-for-rpl-03
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> > Let's look at what IPHC does at the LBR when a flow label is elided and has
> to be inflated to be forwarded to the IPv6 network, this standardized
> behaviour is somehow interfering the end to end notion of the flow label as
> the content is being populated at the border of the LLN.
> 
> No.  With IPHC, the flow label has always been there, it just was transmitted
> in a very compressed form.

My take is that you are both providing angles on a same thing. It does not make sense for a LLN node to waste compute power and bandwidth to get a random through that is of use only in the core of the internet, should the packet ever get there. So the flow label is effectively zero - or something locally significant in specific standards, which is not design to serve the purpose of load balancing in the core. So in either case, we need the root to 'inflate' the zero flow label, or replace it by something that fits the core of the Internet. That behavior was not specified so far and it should be. This document is covering this particular gap.

Cheers,

Pascal


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipv6 [mailto:ipv6-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Carsten Bormann
> Sent: vendredi 1 août 2014 13:24
> To: Xavier Vilajosana
> Cc: roll; ipv6@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: WGLC for draft-thubert-6man-flow-label-for-rpl-03
> 
> On 01 Aug 2014, at 10:50, Xavier Vilajosana <xvilajosana@eecs.berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Let's look at what IPHC does at the LBR when a flow label is elided and has
> to be inflated to be forwarded to the IPv6 network, this standardized
> behaviour is somehow interfering the end to end notion of the flow label as
> the content is being populated at the border of the LLN.
> 
> No.  With IPHC, the flow label has always been there, it just was transmitted
> in a very compressed form.
> 
> I think the visceral reaction that most of us have in using the flow label as a
> mesh routing header is that this blurs the layer boundaries.  So much for O,
> R, F, and rank.  Putting the VLAN ("instance ID") into the packet is a
> significantly larger change, because it essentially extends the IP service
> interface by a VLAN ID.  We normally try to hide IDs of this kind below IP.
> 
> Now, I'm not saying any of this new architecture is wrong.  I just think what
> we need to do is discuss this as the architectural change that it is, not as a
> simple optimization.  (The need for some kind of optimization of IP-in-IP
> mesh routing for small-packet IoT applications is pretty obvious to me.)
> 
> The other story is that we are retracting RFC 6437 and turning the flow label
> into the "field you may trample on in your lower layers if you have a good
> reason".  Cynically, one could say this is proper payback for designing this
> field without a compelling purpose and no protocol evolution story attached
> to it.  So the evolution just eats it.  Teachable moment.
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
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