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

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Hi,

 

Thanks to the authors for the work on this draft. I've done a review

which is the first time I have looked at the draft for several

revisions.  My thoughts are included below.

 

I think that considerable editorial work is needed before we can claim

that this document is ready for publication.

 

Thanks,

Adrian

 

===

 

It would be really good if authors ran idnits before presenting drafts

as ready for WG last call. It is pretty easy to do, and fixing the

issues is not at all hard.

 

https://www6.ietf.org/tools/idnits?url=https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft
-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming-05.txt

 

I think the most obvious thing that the tool points out is the absence

of a Security Considerations section. While section 7 is obviously

relevant, there would seem to be a significant piece of work that is

needed before the draft can progress.

 

---

 

Another 'normal' thing to do is check that the draft follows the

editorial guidelines from the RFC Editor. Most notable is that the

Requirements Language text should be moved into section 2.1.

 

---

 

It would be good if you could put all section headers into title case.

 

---

 

There are a lot of abbreviations in the document that are not deemed

well-known by the RFC Editor and should be expanded on first use.

 

'SRv6' is not (yet) a well-known abbreviation according to the RFC

Editor, so should be spelled out in the title, abstract, and on first

use in the main body of text.

 

---

 

The Abstract is a little terse. In particular, it should give an

overview of what 'network programming' is.

 

The Introduction says:

   This document defines the SRv6 Network Programming concept and aims

   at standardizing the main segment routing behaviors to enable the

   creation of interoperable overlays with underlay optimization and

   service programming.

Some of that text would be good in the Abstract.

 

--

 

Section 1

 

The first mention of 'Segment Routing' needs a reference.

 

---

 

Section 1

 

   moving forward in the segment list to any complex user-defined

   behavior.

 

Is there a comma missing?

 

---

 

Section 1

 

s/The network programming consists/Network programming consists/

 

---

 

Section 1

 

   This document defines the SRv6 Network Programming concept and aims

   at standardizing the main segment routing behaviors to enable the

   creation of interoperable overlays with underlay optimization and

   service programming.

 

The document 'aims', but does it succeed? :-)

 

I think you should use...

s/aims at standardizing/specifies/

 

---

 

Section 2

 

   We assume that the SRH may

   be present multiple times inside each packet.

 

It is good that you state this assumption for this draft.

But clearly this is not normative for defining whether the SRH is 

allowed to be present more than once.

I went to draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-header to try to find a 

definitive statement and could not find one (perhaps I missed it?).

Failing that, 8200 is normative and it says:

   Each extension header should occur at most once, except for the

   Destination Options header, which should occur at most twice (once

   before a Routing header and once before the upper-layer header).

 

That means that your assumption:

- is necessary for this document to work

- is not a valid assumption.

 

Clearly that is not good and not what you want to end up with.

 

I think the solution is a fix to draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-header

either by pulling it back from the RFC Editor Queue to make and agree

the change, or by writing a small bis to that draft to define and allow

multiple presence. (That bis would be a normative reference from this

draft.)

 

I suppose it could be possible to have this draft update draft-ietf-

6man-segment-routing-header, but that is probably not ideal and would

cause some inter-WG tensions.

 

One way of the other, it's an easy fix, but the bottom line of this

issue as things stand is that the assumption is false and blocks this

draft.

 

---

 

Section 2

 

   When a packet is intercepted on a wire, it is possible that SRH[SL]

   is different from the DA.

 

It is fairly obvious what this means, but you have introduced notation

without definition.

 

Perhaps insert some to text so that you end up with:

 

   SRH[n] indicates the nth one-based entry in the SID list as 

   represented in the SRH.  Thus, SRH[1] is SR3 in the example above.

   When a packet is intercepted on a wire, it is possible that SRH[SL]

   is different from the DA.

 

---

 

Section 3

 

   As introduced in RFC8402 an SRv6 Segment Identifier is a 128-bit

   value.

 

Of course, it is true that an SRv6 SID is 128-bits, and this follows 

from what is said in 8402, but it is not what 8402 says.  I suggest you

replace this text with:

 

   RFC8402 defines an SRv6 Segment Identifier as an IPv6 address 

   explicitly associated with the segment.  Thus, an SRv6 Segment

   Identifier is a 128-bit value.

 

---

 

3.1

 

   The FUNCT value zero is invalid.

 

That's reasonable, but I couldn't find out what happens if I set a 

zero FUNCT. Where is that described?

 

(Pedantically, but I don't expect a fix, if L is 128, I think FUNCT

zero may be OK.)

 

---

 

3.1

 

   A behavior may require additional arguments that would be placed

   immediately after the FUNCT.  In such case, the SRv6 SID will have

   the form LOC:FUNCT:ARGS::. For this reason, the SRv6 SIDs are matched

   on a per longest-prefix-match basis.

 

This is clear, but it conflicts with the definition of FUNCT given

earlier:

 

   FUNCT (function) is the 128-L least significant bits of the SID.

 

I would suggest that you reverse some of the text so that you start

with LOC:FUNCT:ARGS:: then describe how the split between LOC and FUNCT

is found (i.e., L), and then explain that ARGS might not always be

needed in which case FUNCT uses all of the 128-L bits.

 

---

 

I think you could usefully spend some time describing the classes of

behaviors. Notably "End behaviors" and "Transit behaviors". This would

go as a new section before section 4.

 

You can describe how/where in the network the behaviors are executed,

and you can describe whether the behaviors are bound to specific SIDs

(SID types) or not.

 

The, probably, rename section 4 to "End behaviors" which keeps it 

aligned with the name of section 5.

 

---

 

4.

 

This is the only place you use "Adj SID" in the document. Either spell

it out, or mention it in Section 2.

 

Please spell out "decaps" on each use.

 

---

 

4.1

 

   As a consequence, an End SID cannot be the last

   SID of a SID list and cannot be the DA of a packet without an SRH

   (unless combined with the PSP, USP or USD flavors Section 4.16).

 

I think you mean s/cannot/MUST NOT/

 

The point is that I *can* place anything in a SID list, I just can't

expect it to work.

 

In fact, you should catch this in the pseudo code by testing Segments

Left > 1.

 

---

 

4.1

 

"TBD-SRH" is mentioned many times in this document with the first time

being in this section.

 

I don't find this described in Section 9.

 

---

 

4.1

 

  S03.      Send an ICMP Parameter Problem message to the Source Address

               Code TBD-SRH (SR Upper-layer Header Error),

               Pointer set to the offset of the upper-layer header,

               interrupt packet processing and discard the packet

 

Ambiguous punctuation. Probably...

 

  S03.      Send an ICMP Parameter Problem message to the Source Address

               Code TBD-SRH (SR Upper-layer Header Error),

               Pointer set to the offset of the upper-layer header.

            Interrupt packet processing and discard the packet

 

Similarly:

 

  S06.      Send an ICMP Time Exceeded message to the Source Address,

               Code 0 (Hop limit exceeded in transit).

            Interrupt packet processing and discard the packet

 

And:

 

  S10.      Send an ICMP Parameter Problem to the Source Address,

               Code 0 (Erroneous header field encountered),

               Pointer set to the Segments Left field.

            Interrupt packet processing and discard the packet

 

There are examples of this all through Section 4.

 

---

 

4.1

 

I was surprised by...

 

  S01. When an SRH is processed {

  S02.   If (Segments Left == 0) {

  S03.      Send an ICMP Parameter Problem message to the Source Address

               Code TBD-SRH (SR Upper-layer Header Error),

               Pointer set to the offset of the upper-layer header,

               interrupt packet processing and discard the packet

  S04.   }

  S05.   If (IPv6 Hop Limit <= 1) {

  S06.      Send an ICMP Time Exceeded message to the Source Address,

               Code 0 (Hop limit exceeded in transit),

               interrupt packet processing and discard the packet

  S07.   }

 

Are you sure that Hop Limit processing is left so late? Isn't it one of

the first things done with a packet before even the SRH is discovered to

be present?

 

---

 

4.1 (and other sections)

 

I spent rather too much time trying to work out

 

  S08.   max_LE = (Hdr Ext Len / 2) - 1

  S09.   If ((Last Entry > max_LE) or (Segments Left > Last Entry+1)) {

 

As far as I can see, for an SRH,

 

   Hdr Ext Len = 7 + (16 * (Last Entry + 1) ) + sum(all TLV lengths)

 

So, while I see that you want to check that Last Entry doesn't point out

beyond the end of the SRH, I don't see how your computation of max_LE 

helps.

 

What have I missed?

 

---

 

4.2

 

s/with a set of J of/with a set, J, of/

 

Maybe

   S15.   Set the packet's egress adjacency to J

would read better as

   S15.   Set the packet's egress adjacency to a member of J

 

---

 

4.2

 

   Note that the End.X SID cannot be the last SID of a SID list and

   cannot be the DA of a packet without an SRH (unless combined with the

   PSP, USP or USD flavors Section 4.16).  Hence the Upper-layer header

   should never be processed.

 

Similar cannot/MUST NOT issue as in 4.1.

The pseudocode fix in 4.1 would cover this point.

 

---

 

4.3

 

   The End.T behavior is used for multi-table operation in the core.

   For this reason, an instance of the End.T behavior must be associated

   with an IPv6 FIB table T.

 

Is this "MUST BE" or "is"?

 

   Error code "SR Upper-layer Header Error", Pointer set to the

   offset of the upper-layer header.

 

You should call out "TBD-SRH" as the error code value. (Happens in 

several sections.)

 

And (again)...

 

   Note that the End.T SID cannot be the last SID of a SID list and

   cannot be the DA of a packet without an SRH (unless combined with the

   PSP, USP or USD flavors Section 4.16).  Hence the Upper-layer header

   should never be processed.

 

Similar cannot/MUST NOT issue as in 4.1.

The pseudocode fix in 4.1 would cover this point.

 

---

 

4.4

 

   The End.DX6 SID must be the last segment in a SR Policy, and it must

   be associated with one or more L3 IPv6 adjacencies J.

 

Again: is that "MUST" or "is"?

 

Fix to 

 

   S03.      Send an ICMP Parameter Problem to the Source Address,

                Code 0 (Erroneous header field encountered),

                Pointer set to the Segments Left field.

             Interrupt packet processing and discard the packet

 

and

 

   S02.    Send an ICMP Parameter Problem message to the Source Address

              Code TBD-SRH (SR Upper-layer Header Error),

              Pointer set to the offset of the upper-layer header.

           Interrupt packet processing and discard the packet

 

I wondered why you had two code fragments rather than a longer one with

an "If" statement and two branches. Doesn't really matter, however, as a

result of the current structure, the Notes that follow are a little 

ambiguous because you have two instances of S01 and S05 in the section.

 

---

 

4.5

 

Identical comments to 4.4

 

---

 

4.6

 

   This would be equivalent to the per-VRF VPN label in

   MPLS [RFC4364].

 

s/would be/is/

 

   The End.DT6 SID must be the last segment in a SR Policy, and a SID

   instance must be associated with an IPv6 FIB table T.

 

Again: is that "MUST" or "is"?

 

---

 

4.7 and 4.8

 

Identical comments to 4.6

 

---

 

4.9

 

   The End.DX2 SID must be the last segment in a SR Policy, and it must

   be associated with one outgoing interface I.

 

Again: is that "MUST" or "is"?

 

This section brings back the ambiguity in the Notes.

 

---

 

4.10

 

   Any SID

   instance of the End.DX2V behavior must be associated with an L2

   Table T.

 

Again: is that "MUST" or "is"?

 

---

 

4.11

 

s/unicast . Any/unicast.  Any/

 

   Any SID instance of the End.DT2U behavior must be

   associated with an L2 Table T.

 

Again: is that "MUST" or "is"?

 

Usual issue with

   S02.    Send an ICMP Parameter Problem message to the Source Address

              Code TBD-SRH (SR Upper-layer Header Error),

              Pointer set to the offset of the upper-layer header,

              interrupt packet processing and discard the packet

 

L2OIF is a new (unknown) term (in 4.12 you use "L2 OIF")

 

s/control plane/the control plane/

 

---

 

4.12

 

   Any SID instance of this behavior must be associated with a L2 table

   T.  Additionally the behavior may take an argument: "Arg.FE2".  It is

   an argument specific to EVPN ESI filtering and EVPN-ETREE used to

   exclude specific OIF (or set of OIFs) from L2 table T flooding.

 

Again: is that "MUST" or "is"?

 

Possibly s/may/MAY/

 

Where arguments are optional, I don't think you have made it clear what 

you do if no argument is supplied. I would presume you set the ARG bits

to zero, but I am not clear whether zero could be interpreted as a 

valid argument.

 

   S06. Forward via all L2 OIFs excluding the one specified in Arg.F2

 

Earlier you called it Arg.FE2

 

---

 

4.13

 

   An End.B6.Encaps SID is never the last segment in a SID list.  Any

   SID instantiation must be associated with an SR Policy

   B[I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing-policy] and a source address A.

 

Again: is that "MUST" or "is"?

 

s/B[I-D/B [I-D/

 

This makes [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing-policy] a normative

reference.

 

---

 

4.13

 

Step 13 is

  S13.   Decrement Segments Left by 1

and the associated note is

   S13.  The SRH MAY be omitted when the SRv6 Policy B only contains one

 

Should the note be for S14?

 

Similarly, should the S16 note be for S17?

 

---

 

4.14

 

   In this way, the

   first segment is only introduced in the DA and the packet is

   forwarded according to it.

 

I believe this sentence could be written more clearly. I tried to offer

a suggestion, but discovered that I couldn't reliably guess what the 

intention is.

 

---

 

4.15

 

   An End.BM SID is never the last SID, and any SID instantiation must

   be associated with an SR-MPLS Policy

   B[I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing-policy].

 

Again: is that "MUST" or "is"?

 

s/B[I-D/B [I-D/

 

---

 

4.15

  S14.   Push a the MPLS label stack for B

 

s/a the/the/

 

---

 

4.16.1 and 4.16.2

 

The term "pop the SRH" is, I think, a new concept introduced at this

point. We can deduce what it means, but not be certain that we will

do the right thing.

 

You need to add text to clearly define the meaning.

 

Furthermore (and I'm willing to bet someone ese has mentioned this!)

the PSP concept appears to move the ability to remove an SRH from

the domain border to inside the domain. I wonder whether that is 

actually allowed. I also wonder how the rest of the network knows

whether the PSP function is available at a specific node.

 

You might want to recast PSP if its purpose is to handle "end" nodes

that are not SRH capable. To do this you would recast the node that you

have called the PSPS node as the edge of the domain (the end node) and

set the action as "Pop and go".

 

---

 

5.1

 

   As per [RFC8200], if a node N receives a packet (A, S2)(S3, S2, S1;

   SL=1) and S2 is neither a local address nor a local SID of N then N

   forwards the packet without inspecting the SRH.

 

8200 can't possibly say this because 8200 doesn't know about SIDs.

 

Possibly you just want to change the reference to 8402.

 

---

 

5.1

 

   This means that N treats the following two packets P1 and P2 with the

   same performance:

 

      P1 = (A, S2)

 

      P2 = (A, S2)(S3, S2, S1; SL=1)

 

I don't think this is necessarily true since packet length and other 

things (e.g., hashing) may vary. So you either need to sharpen your

meaning of "performance" or just content yourself with "MUST NOT

examine the SRH".

 

---

 

5.1

 

   A transit node MUST include the outer flow label in its ECMP load-

   balancing hash [RFC6437].

 

I find this odd in this document. You are describing the behavior at a

node that is potentially a legacy node that is not SRH aware, yet you

are using normative language to define its behavior. You could change 

this to:

 

   A transit node will use the outer flow label in its ECMP load-

   balancing hash as described in [RFC6437].

 

Or, unless you can give a good reason to include it, you can simply

strike this paragraph.

 

Or, possibly, the problem comes with the text in Section 5 that says:

   We define hereafter the set of basic transit behaviors.  These

   behaviors are not bound to a SID and they correspond to source SR

   nodes or transit nodes [I-D.ietf-6man-segment-routing-header].

Perhaps it is not right that you could define a transit behavior for

a "transit node" that is not capable of processing an SRH. If you were

to fix the definition of a transit behavior to apply to "source SR 

nodes, or nodes that are capable of processing SRHs and that forward an

IPv6 packet where the destination address of that packet is not locally

configured as a segment nor a local interface." then that would fix my

concern.

 

There is a similar issue in 6.2

 

---

 

5.2

 

By definition this behavior only applies at source nodes per 8402. In

other words, you are describing domain recursion according to 8402.

 

---

 

5.2

 

   The SRH MAY be omitted when the SRv6 Policy only contains one segment

   and there is no need to use any flag, tag or TLV.

 

For complete clarity...

 

   The push of the SRH MAY be omitted when the SRv6 Policy only contains

   one segment and there is no need to use any flag, tag or TLV.

 

---

 

5.3

 

Ditto both comments for 5.2

 

---

 

I don't think 5.4 or 5.5 can happen at transit nodes. The thing to be

encapsulated is an L2 frame and so is only seen at a source node.

 

At this point, I think only 5.1 describes a transit behavior. 5.2 to 5.5

describe source behaviors.

 

---

 

6.1

 

I agree with this section, but I am concerned that you are updating 

draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-headerby adding normative language to

describe nodes that process the SRH. Does that mean you should use an

"Updates" clause in the document header?

 

After describing CNT-1 and CNt-2 you say...

 

   Furthermore, an SRv6 capable node maintains an aggregate counter

   CNT-3 tracking the IPv6 traffic that was received with a destination

   address matching a local interface address that is not a locally

   instantiated SID and the next-header is SRH with SL>0.

 

That looks like s/maintains/MUST maintain/ unless you have a reference

for the assertion that it does maintain CNT-3.

 

---

 

6.3

 

I think you have made [I-D.ietf-6man-spring-srv6-oam] a normative

reference.

 

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7.

 

   The SRH Section 5.1 defines how a domain of trust can operate

   SRv6-based services for internal traffic while preventing any

   external traffic from accessing the internal SRv6-based services.

 

Probably "The SRH Section 5.1" is meant to be a reference to another 

document.

 

---

 

Section 8 has...

 

   The concept of "SRv6 network programming" refers to the capability

   for an application to encode any complex program as a set of

   individual functions distributed through the network.  Some functions

   relate to underlay SLA, others to overlay/tenant, others to complex

   applications residing in VM and containers.

 

This looks like a useful paragraph to have at the top of the document.

 

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8.1

 

   The End, End.T and End.X SIDs express topological behaviors and hence

   are expected to be signaled in the IGP together with the flavors PSP,

   USP and USD[I-D.ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions].

 

I think you are conflating SIDs with behaviors. Probably...

 

   The End, End.T, and End.X behaviors express topological behaviors and

   hence the SIDs that have these behaviors bound to them are expected

   to be signaled in the IGP together with the supported flavors (PSP,

   USP, or USD) [I-D.ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions].

 

Likewise...

OLD

   These three SIDs provide important topological behaviors for the IGP

   to build FRR/TI-LFA solution and for TE processes relying on IGP LSDB

   to build SR policies.

NEW

   These SIDs provide important topological behaviors for the IGP

   to build FRR/TI-LFA solution and for TE processes relying on IGP LSDB

   to build SR policies.

 

---

 

8.2

 

   BGP-LS is expected to be the key service discovery protocol.  Every

   node is expected to advertise via BGP-LS its SRv6 capabilities (e.g.

   how many SIDs it can insert as part of a T.Encaps behavior) and any

   locally instantiated SID [I-D.ietf-idr-bgpls-srv6-ext].

 

We shouldn't write text that expresses expectations about the future. It

doesn't age well in an RFC, and it is just unsubstantiated speculation.

 

What about...

 

   [I-D.ietf-idr-bgpls-srv6-ext] describes a mechanism to enable each

   node to use BGP-LS to advertise its SRv6 capabilities (e.g., how many

   SIDs it can insert as part of a T.Encaps behavior) and any locally

   instantiated SIDs.  This enables BGP-LS to be the key service

   discovery protocol.

 

---

 

8.3

 

OLD

   The End.DX4, End.DX6, End.DT4, End.DT6, End.DT46, End.DX2, End.DX2V,

   End.DT2U and End.DT2M SIDs are expected to be signaled in BGP

   [I-D.ietf-bess-srv6-services].

NEW

   The End.DX4, End.DX6, End.DT4, End.DT6, End.DT46, End.DX2, End.DX2V,

   End.DT2U and End.DT2M SIDs can be signaled in BGP

   [I-D.ietf-bess-srv6-services].

 

---

 

8.4

 

OLD

   The following table summarizes which SIDs are signaled in which

   signaling protocol.

END

   The following table summarizes which behaviors can signaled for SIDs

   in which signaling protocols.

 

---

 

8.4

 

   The reader should also remember that any specific instantiated SR

   policy is always assigned a Binding SID.  They should remember that

   BSIDs are advertised in BGP-LS as shown in Table 1. 

 

This needs a citation.

 

---

 

9.

 

   | 0           |     0x0000    |          Reserved         | Invalid |

   | 1-32767     | 0x0001-0x7FFF |   Specification Required  |         |

   | 32768-49151 | 0x8000-0xBFFF | Reserved for experimental |         |

   |             |               |            use            |         |

   | 49152-65534 | 0xC000-0xFFFE |  Reserved for private use |         |

   | 65535       |     0xFFFF    |          Reserved         |  Opaque |

 

Should use the 5226 names for the assignment policies. Hence:

 

   | 0           |     0x0000    |          Reserved         | Invalid |

   | 1-32767     | 0x0001-0x7FFF |   Specification Required  |         |

   | 32768-49151 | 0x8000-0xBFFF |      Experimental Use     |         |

   | 49152-65534 | 0xC000-0xFFFE |        Private use        |         |

   | 65535       |     0xFFFF    |          Reserved         |  Opaque |

 

---

 

9.

 

I am strongly opposed to such a large range being assigned for

experimental use.  RFC 3692 gives some guidance.  The normal idea is 

that there should be enough codepoints to allow two experiments to be

run on the same nodes without conflict, but few enough that they cannot

be used as a proxy for allocating and registering values in the 

registry.

 

I should think that 32 code points is enough.

 

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9. 

 

According to 5226 "Specification Required" implies the use of a 

Designated Expert. That means that your document needs to give advice to

the DE on how to make decisions about which code points are acceptable.

 

---

 

9.

 

Would be nice to reformat Table 4 to avoid the line wrapping.

 

---

 

9.

 

In table 4 you have...

   | 13   | 0x00 | End.B6.Insert  | [I-D.filsfils-spring-srv6-net-pgm- |

   |      |  0D  |                |             insertion]             |

 

I think you should leave 13 as unassigned, and leave it to the other

document to request assignment.

 

Alternatively, you make draft-filsfils-spring-srv6-net-pgm-insertion a

normative reference and block the progress of this draft until it is

complete (which I don't think it is a very good idea).

 

---

 

12.2

 

As shown by idnits, you have a couple of unused references you should

delete.

 

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12.2

 

2473, 8200, and 8402 are all clearly used as normative references.

Please move them to 12.1

 

From: ipv6 <ipv6-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of bruno.decraene@orange.com
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