[Teas] TE tunnel name collision between configured and ephemeral list entries

[Italo Busi <[e-mail]>]

This issue has been discussed during IETF 105 (slides 5 and 6):

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/105/materials/slides-105-teas-sessb-te-and-rsvp-yang-model-update-01

However, I am not sure the proposed solution could cover all the cases of potential conflicts

For example, a possible rule could be to add the prefix “auto-” for auto-created tunnels on a device

If the same rule is applied for auto-created tunnels on a controller, we would get into a potential name collision between auto-created tunnels on a device and on the controller on the device-controller interface

Another rule is to add the prefix “remote-R1-” to the tunnel names learnt by a controller from a device.

If the name/address of R1 is not globally unique but only unique in the context of the controller, a hierarchical controller can learn tunnels with the same name starting with the prefix “remote-R1-” from different controllers. If we apply this rule recursively, we could get prefixes like “remove-NC1-remote-R1-” and run into the risk to have tunnel names with long prefixes, making the tunnel name less readable

Another potential risk is that embedding the R1 name/address within tunnel names’ prefixes, it could be difficult form a controller in an higher level of control hierarchy to hide the R1 name/address for privacy/security reasons

I think it would be worthwhile reconsidering the proposal made by Dhruv at the microphone to use both a namespace + name as keys of the tunnel list

Alternatively, in order to avoid adding a new key to the tunnel list, the key of the tunnel list could be redefined to be something like an URI with the namespace and tunnel name built into it (e.g., /R1/foo) and, to improve the readability, the tunnel name can be re-defined to be another leaf, not being used as a key for the tunnel list

What do you think?

Thanks, Italo

Italo Busi
Principal Optical Transport Network Research Engineer

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