Re: [Teas] FW: New Version Notification for draft-bestbar-teas-ns-packet-01.txt

[Vishnu Pavan Beeram <[e-mail]>]

Gyan, Hi!

Thanks for taking the time to review the document. Please see inline for
responses (prefixed VPB).

Regards,
-Pavan (as a co-author)

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 8:14 PM Gyan Mishra <[e-mail]> wrote:

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>
> Dear authors
>
> I reviewed the draft and have some comments.
>
> I noticed the draft  name and throughout the document it mentions Network
> Slice in IP/MPLS networks and wonder if it would be more appropriate to say
> network slice in SR/MPLS networks.  As NS involves traffic steering either
> RSVP-TE or SR steering my thoughts are it would be appropriate
>

[VPB] I’m not sure if I understood the comment. As you are aware, Segment
Routing can be instantiated on MPLS or IPv6 dataplanes. The solution
proposed in draft-bestbar-teas-ns-packet is intended for realizing network
slicing in IP(v4/v6) / MPLS networks. The proposed solution works with any
type of path control technology (e.g.RSVP-TE paths, SR paths, FlexAlgo
paths). If you are interested in how the proposed solution works in SR
deployments, please refer to draft-bestbar-spring-scalable-ns.


>
> This drafts main focus it seems is an example of NS using QOS CS selector
> marking Differential service to be used for network slicing.
>


[VPB] Not really. The focus in this document is on the Slice Policy
construct which includes rules that control the following slice aggregate
attributes:
- Data plane policies (Slice Selectors, QOS profiles)
- Control plane policies (Guaranteed BW, Reservation priorities)
- Topology membership policies (Customized/Pre-defined)

There are 3 types of Slice Policy Modes depending on how/where the shared
network resources are partitioned –
(1) Data Plane Slice Policy Mode
(2) Control Plane Slice Policy Mode
(3) Data and Control Plane Slice Policy Mode

In modes (1) and (3), a Slice Selector (SS) is carried in the packet to
identify the slice aggregate and apply specific forwarding treatment
(scheduling treatment and drop probability). But this is not needed in mode
(2).

In my mind QOS is completely orthogonal to the concept of network slicing.
> QOS involves shared resources and traffic classification and scheduling
> based on shared pipe resources which is completely orthogonal to network
> slicing which is a cross section of underlying resources involving a degree
> of isolation during provisioning to meet a customer  SLA.  QOS has been
> around for a long time and the big downside to QOS is that it is
> independent of underlying network resources.
>
> When QOS PHB scheduling occurs based on CS AF or EF selector, packet are
> marked at the edge of trust boundary and PHB hop by hop scheduled matching
> dscp value providing bandwidth guarantees for profile traffic at or below
> the scheduling bandwidth which is based on the shared physical link.
>
>
>
[VPB] As noted above, it is certainly possible for a network slicing
solution to be put together without requiring a specific per-hop-behavior
to be applied on packets belonging to a slice aggregate (we refer to this
as “Control Plane Slice Policy Mode” - Section 4.2 of
draft-bestbar-teas-ns-packet-01). However, there are cases where the Slice
service requires strict QOS guarantees and differentiation from other
traffic – this is where the Data Plane Slice Policy Mode comes into play.


> Kind Regards
>
> Gyan
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 1:59 PM Tarek Saad <tsaad=
> [e-mail]> wrote:
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>> Hi WG,
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>> We have published a new revision of this draft (just in time for your
>> holidays reading).
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>> The changes include:
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>>    - additional co-authors have joined
>>    - introduction of new terms “slice policy” and “slice aggregate”
>>    - editorial nits to align with new terms introduced
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>> As usual, reviews and comments are welcome.
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Tarek (on behalf of co-authors)
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>> On 12/22/20, 1:42 PM, "[e-mail]" <
>> [e-mail]> wrote:
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>>     A new version of I-D, draft-bestbar-teas-ns-packet-01.txt
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>>     has been successfully submitted by Tarek Saad and posted to the
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>>     IETF repository.
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>>     Name:           draft-bestbar-teas-ns-packet
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>>     Revision:       01
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>>     Title:          Realizing Network Slices in IP/MPLS Networks
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>>     Document date:  2020-12-22
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>>     Group:          Individual Submission
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>>     Pages:          27
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>>     URL:
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>>     Status:
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>>     Abstract:
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>>        Network slicing provides the ability to partition a physical
>> network
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>>        into multiple logical networks of varying sizes, structures, and
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>>        functions so that each slice can be dedicated to specific services
>> or
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>>        customers.  Network slices need to operate in parallel while
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>>        providing slice elasticity in terms of network resource allocation.
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>>        The Differentiated Service (Diffserv) model allows for carrying
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>>        multiple services on top of a single physical network by relying on
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>>        compliant nodes to apply specific forwarding treatment (scheduling
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>>        and drop policy) on to packets that carry the respective Diffserv
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>>        code point.  This document proposes a solution based on the
>> Diffserv
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>>        model to realize network slicing in IP/MPLS networks.
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