Comments on draft-stone-spring-mpte-sr

Reshad Rahman <reshad@yahoo.com> Thu, 23 July 2026 21:32 UTC

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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:32:07 +0000
From: Reshad Rahman <reshad@yahoo.com>
To: "Andrew Stone (Nokia)" <andrew.stone@nokia.com>, SPRING WG <spring@ietf.org>
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Subject: Comments on draft-stone-spring-mpte-sr
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<Cross-posting to BFD>
Hi Andrew, authors,
I had concern that this document may violate S-BFD spec but upon checking RFC7880 section 7.2.1, it seems that there is no issue. BTW I think RFC7881 should also be in the reference list.
I had my colleague Claude do a quick check and Claude believes there's an issue. I am too tired to verify this right now, but I am sending it just in case I forget.
Regards,Reshad.

Section 7.3.2 recommends that each egress SID list of each Junction Segment run "its own S-BFD session to the next downstream node." In the Appendix A example, Junction Segment C has SID List 2 [Adj-SID-CF, BSID-F]. The implied S-BFD session would be initiated from C and is supposed to verify reachability to F.

But that's not what happens. When an S-BFD packet (per RFC 7881 / RFC 9612) is forwarded along [Adj-SID-CF, BSID-F]:
   
   - C pushes the full label stack and forwards to F via the adjacency SID.
   - F receives the packet with BSID-F on top. F processes BSID-F as a Binding SID — it swaps BSID-F for its own Junction Segment SID list [Adj-SID-FH] and forwards to H.
   - The S-BFD packet terminates at H (the DAG egress), not at F.