Re: [spring] WGLC - draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

[Fernando Gont <[e-mail]>]

Bruno,

On 10/12/19 13:18, [e-mail] wrote:
> Fernando,
> 
> Thank you for spelling out your comment, plus on the WGLC thread.
> More in-line
> 
>> Bruno,
>>
>> On 5/12/19 12:15, [e-mail] wrote:
>> [....]>
>>> This email starts a two weeks Working Group Last Call on
>>> draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming [1].
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>>> Please read this document if you haven't read the most recent version,
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>>>
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>>>
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>>
>> Penultimate Segment Popping describes/specifies the removal of a SRH at
>> a place other than the final destination of the packet.
>>
>> Such behavior violates RFC8200, which specifies:
>>
>    > Extension headers (except for the Hop-by-Hop Options header) are not
>    > processed, inserted, or deleted by any node along a packet's delivery
>    > path, until the packet reaches the node (or each of the set of nodes,
>    > in the case of multicast) identified in the Destination Address field
>    > of the IPv6 header.
>>
>> Note, of course, that the reference of "Destination Address" in RFC8200
>> is clearly the final destination of the packet -- for instance, RFC8200
> 
> I hear and can understand your reading of RFC8200.

Could you please check RFC8200, and tell me what other possible
interpretation of "Destination Address" you might have, in the context
of RFC8200.

RFC8200 does not even specify any routing header types. SO...where's the
ambiguity?



> At minimum, I think that we can agree that there is another reading, as expressed by other WG participants, and hence I disagree with "of course".

No, I argue that there is not. IN fact, I argue that folks have been
following that strategy for way too long, and that's quite frustrating.



> Personally, I understand "Destination Address" as "Destination Address field of the IPv6 header." as indicated explicitly in the text quoted.

The quoted text is from RFC8200. In the context of RFC8200 the
Destination Address can only contain the ultimate destination of the
packet. Where's the ambiguity?

And let me ask you, as chair, another question, that will lead you to
the same place: is IPv6 and end to end protocol?


The fact that I may claim that RFC8200 contains a receipe for BBQ does
not actually mean that that's the case.



> I'm fine with having this clarified with 6MAND chairs and AD. That been said, the Internet AD would have an opportunity to DISCUSS this.

For the record, I think this is a major issue that should be cleared
before it can be claimed that there is consensus to request publication
of this document.



> 
>> does not specify any routing header type, and hence the meaning is
>> unambiguous (there's no destination other than the final destination of
>> the packet).
>>
>> This is of course in line with IPv6 being and end-to-end protocol, and
>> crucial for other related mechanisms to work as expected (such as IPsec
>> AH). Please also check: draft-smith-6man-in-flight-eh-insertion-harmful.
>>
>> So, in order to proceed with the document, there are multiple options
>> forward:
>>
>> 1) Just remove the corresponding text/behavior
> 
> That is indeed one option. But as of today, this is not my assumption.
>  
>> 2) Implement a similar mechanism in an RFC8200-compliant manner (e.g.,
>> re-encap)
> 
> SRH insert is out of scope of this specification. So yes, IPv6 encaps is used.
> We are talking SRH removal. I'm assuming that you are referring to PSP. My understanding is that this function (PSP) is to distribute the (forwarding plane) load between the PSP and the USP. In a way similar to MPLS PHP. But in all cases, this is not about SRH insertion.

It's about SRH removal, which is also forbiden by RFC8200.




>> 3) Do the necessary standards work to update RFC8200, such that it
>> allows this sort of behavior, and only ship the network-programming
>> draft for publication when at least 6man has consensus to proceed on
>> that path.
> 
> Not the preferred path as of today.

Yes, it should be evident that it seems the preferred path has been
(starting with EH insertion at the time) to circumvent existing
specifications.



>  
>> P.S.: I will go through the document once again... but the same
>> reasoning should be applied to any EH-insertion/removal at a place other
>> than the source of the packet or its final destination.
> 
> It looks to me that SRH insertion and SRH removal are to be treated differently. 

I don't see how or why. Both violate the same requirement in RFC8200.


Thanks,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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