Re: [spring] Understanding the replication draft

[Rishabh Parekh <[e-mail]>]

Sasha,
As I explained in my reply to Joel's e-mail, use cases in draft only
cover scenarios where R-SID-1 is the last segment in stack for either
NEXT or CONTINUE operation, but stack Joel described is not excluded
as long as G-SID-2 resolves to a unique node. How the node that
imposes this stack determines the value of G-SID-2, or other segments
in the stack after R-SID-1 is outside scope of the draft.

-Rishabh


On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 9:42 AM Alexander Vainshtein
<[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Joel, Rishabh and all,
> I think that in the case of SR-MPLS the problems with Joel's example begin much earlier.
>
> The node that sends the packet using the list of SIDs must encode each SID as a label in the label stack.
>
> It knows how to do so for G-SID-1 which is represented as an index -- nothing new with that
> It probably knows how to do so for R-SID-1.
>
> But encoding G-SID-2 (also known as an index) becomes outright impossible if the Downstream nodes of the Replication segment have different SRGB base.
>
> What, if anything, did I miss?
> Is usage of Replication segment limited to the case when all the nodes in the SR-MPLS domain have the same SRGB base?
>
> And, BTW, how is R-SID-1 encoded in the SRH in the case of SRv6?
>
> My 2c,
> Sasha
>
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> From: spring <[e-mail]> on behalf of Joel Halpern Direct <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020, 19:24
> To: Rishabh Parekh
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> Subject: Re: [spring] Understanding the replication draft
>
> I am not sure I understand the answer.  I do see that the local
> processing is described in the draft.  But that is not what I am asking.
>
> I am going to try to simplify the conventions to ask the question.  I
> will list SIDs in the order they will be visited.  And mark G-SID-X for
> a global SID, and R-SID-X for a replication SID.
>
> Suppose the stack looks like
>
> G-SID-1
> R-SID-1
> G-SID-2
> G-SID-3
> R-SID-2
> G-SID-4
>
> So the packet gets delivered to the node identified by G-SID-1.  Great.
> That node sees an R-SID which it understands.  So presumably it
> replicates the packet, and sends the packet (possibly with some
> prepended labels, presumably different prepended labels for different
> destination, controlled by policy.  No problem with that part.)
>
> Now each of the packets geet to the end of the prepended labels, and
> each copy sees G-SID-2.  At which point all of these various nodes that
> have received copies of the packet all send it to the node identified by
> G-SID-2.  Huh?  We just bombarded a node with useless and potentially
> harmful copies of the packet.  then all those copies go to G-SID-3,
> which then processes R-SID-2, and replicates each and every copy to some
> set of destinations.  Which then eventually bombard the node identified
> by G-SID-4.
>
> If the document said that the replication SID when it appears in the
> stack must be the last SID in the stack, and was either terminal for SID
> processing or was a binding SID, the above problem would be avoided.
> But the draft does not say that.  Nor does your reply.
>
> Is there some other way this explosion is avoided?  This seems to need
> to be described in the SPRING draft in order for any of us to understand
> if the approach is what we want as a starting point.  just the idea of
> replication segments is not, in my personal view, enough clarity or
> value to be adopted as a working group document.
>
> Yours,
> Joel
>
> On 7/1/2020 12:06 PM, Rishabh Parekh wrote:
> > Joel,
> > Your request was not "lost", but it fell between the cracks :)
> >
> > Anyway, responses inline.
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 3:17 PM Joel M. Halpern <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>
> >> I asked the authors a version of this question, but apparently my
> >> request got lost.
> >>
> >> For now, this is speaking as an individual.  And I sincerely hope that I
> >> am merely missing something obvious.
> >>
> >> I can not figure out from the current draft how the replication segment
> >> works in a SID (or label) stack.
> >> Is there an unstated requirement that the segment must be the last one
> >> in the stack?
> >> If not, how is a global SID after teh replication SID understood?
> >
> > [RP] Replication SID does not need to be the last segment in the
> > stack. Although Section 2 of draft does not state this explicitly, If
> > there are other non-replication SIDs following the Replication SID,
> > the NEXT operation at a downstream node of the segment should process
> > those SIDs as normal.
> >
> >> Or is a replication SID implicitly also a binding SID, replacing the
> >> rest of the stack no matter where it is in the stack?
> >>      In which case it is implicitly effectively last?
> >
> > [RP] At a root or a Replication SID, when the active segment is a
> > Replication SID, it does act like a Binding SID in that it steers the
> > packet into the Replication segment towards downstream nodes. Note
> > that additional SIDs might be added on top of the Replication SID to
> > steer the packet from Root to a given downstream node. The Replication
> > SID will be at bottom of any such SIDs added to steer the packet, but
> > again it does not have to be the bottom most SID in the stack.
> >
> >> Given taht a replication segment is qualified to a node, what happens if
> >> there is more than one in a stack?  Is it ignored when it hits a node it
> >> does not apply to?
> >
> > [RP] On a given node, if an active SID in the stack is a Replication
> > SID that the node does not understand, it cannot process the packet.
> > This would be similar to any other kind of SID for which a node does
> > not have any state.
> >>
> >> Do I believe this can be made to work?  Yes.
> >> But I can not understand how the WG could adopt the work with its
> >> current lack of clarity.
> >> And this appears to me to be fundamental enough stuff that it can't be
> >> left to documents in other WGs.  It seems central to the definition and
> >> processing of replication SIDs.
> >>
> >
> > [RP] Section 2 does specify behavior associated with Replication SID
> > at different nodes in terms of PUSH, CONTINUE or NEXT operations. If
> > it is not clear, we can enhance the text.
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >> Joel - speaking as a participant
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