Re: [spring] I-D Action: draft-ietf-spring-segment-routing-11.txt

Hi,

this version integrates various comments received during the WG last call and by the shepherd review.

Thanks.
s.

> On Feb 16, 2017, at 11:30 PM, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> 
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Source Packet Routing in Networking of the IETF.
> 
>        Title           : Segment Routing Architecture
>        Authors         : Clarence Filsfils
>                          Stefano Previdi
>                          Bruno Decraene
>                          Stephane Litkowski
>                          Rob Shakir
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-spring-segment-routing-11.txt
> 	Pages           : 28
> 	Date            : 2017-02-16
> 
> Abstract:
>   Segment Routing (SR) leverages the source routing paradigm.  A node
>   steers a packet through an ordered list of instructions, called
>   segments.  A segment can represent any instruction, topological or
>   service-based.  A segment can have a semantic local to an SR node or
>   global within an SR domain.  SR allows to enforce a flow through any
>   topological path and service chain while maintaining per-flow state
>   only at the ingress nodes to the SR domain.
> 
>   Segment Routing can be directly applied to the MPLS architecture with
>   no change on the forwarding plane.  A segment is encoded as an MPLS
>   label.  An ordered list of segments is encoded as a stack of labels.
>   The segment to process is on the top of the stack.  Upon completion
>   of a segment, the related label is popped from the stack.
> 
>   Segment Routing can be applied to the IPv6 architecture, with a new
>   type of routing header.  A segment is encoded as an IPv6 address.  An
>   ordered list of segments is encoded as an ordered list of IPv6
>   addresses in the routing header.  The active segment is indicated by
>   the Destination Address of the packet.  The next active segment is
>   indicated by a pointer in the new routing header.
> 
> 
> 
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