[Teas] Re: NRP RE: Re: Late WGLC review of draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mpls

Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk> Fri, 31 May 2024 14:31 UTC

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Thanks, Med.

 

(1) 

 

>From where I sit, I note your positive feedback that the proposed changes
make things better. I will implement these for now.

 

Also added this NEW to make the correlation between the various pieces
explicit:

 

“These protocols can be controlled, e.g., by tuning the protocol list under
the "underlay-transport" data node defined in the L3VPN Network Model (L3NM)
{{?RFC9182}} and the L2VPN Network Model (L3NM) {{?RFC9291}}.”

 

Will be monitoring if any further change is needed. Thanks.

 

AF> That’s all good. Thanks.

 

(2)

 

I also think that you are completely right that there is a disconnect in
interpreting the various words.

 

AF> Right. We agree that I don’t understand ;-)

 

AF> Top-posting this piece. 

AF> John would need to defend what he was saying, but I think the text you
are quoting from the mail threads is exactly the problem we are in.

AF> Basically, we are ping-ponging between “It’s an NRP” and “It’s a slice.”

AF> We already have this hierarchy:

AF> - Multiple customer services can be mapped to a slice (e.g., multiple 5G
end-to-end slices mapped to a single transport network slice)

AF> - Multiple slices can be mapped to another slice (a carrier realizing
scaling or operational efficiency)

AF> - Multiple slices mapped to an NRP

AF> - Multiple NRPs mapped to a filtered topology

AF> - Multiple filtered topologies mapped to a network

AF> And I still don’t see why we need another intermediate architectural
concept.

AF> I’m completely lost on this and don’t know how to take it forward. I am
just not understanding the requirement that you and Krzysztof are putting
forward.

AF> Since the document has been through WG last call and so been reviewed by
other people, I would appreciate it if someone else could have a go at
explaining to me what they learned from their reading. Perhaps other words
would help.

 

Cheers,

Adrian

 

The WG had a lengthy discussion on this same topic: whether tunnels with or
without TE is an NRP or not. See for example
<https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/teas/RiBg6GgO1DaxI-UnZsZL0AiOGwI/>
Re: [Teas] Default NRP definition [Was: Repeated call for last call on
draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices] and other messages in that thread.

 

==

1. Taking into consideration typical SP network today, where we have:

 

a) differentiated services realized via mapping of DCSP and/or MPLS TC
values to buffers, and deploying some differentiated scheduling

b) running services (L3VPN, L2VPN, ...) over such network

c) possibly (but not necessarily) deploying some TE

 

Do we refere to typical current SP deployment as using 'single NRP' or not
using NRP at all?

 

[JD]  A single NRP

 

..

 

2. If I have in my network two set of tunnels between PE nodes, using
different link metric types (e.g. one set of tunnels uses IGP link metric to
determine the path through the network, another set of tunnels using TE link
metric to determine the path through the network), and these two sets of
tunnels use exactly the same resources: entire topology, i.e. all links and
nodes in the network, and the PHB is exactly the same (i.e., packet with QoS
marking 'X' get exactly the same treatment in terms of buffering/scheduling,
regardless if forwarded over tunnel from 1st tunnel set, or tunnel from 2nd
tunnel set) are we talking about one NRP or two NRPs?

 

[JD]  A single NRP.  You are using different path computations on the same
NRP

==

 

Please note that we have this text which I think is key for the discussion.
This text is now moved early in Section 6: 

 

   It is worth noting that TN QoS Classes and Transport Planes are

   orthogonal.  The TN domain can be operated with e.g., 8 TN QoS

   Classes (representing 8 hardware queues in the routers), and 2

   Transport Planes (e.g., latency optimized transport plane using link

   latency metrics for path calculation, and transport plane following

   Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) metrics).  TN QoS Class determines

   the per-hop behavior when the packets are transiting through the

   provider network, while transport plane determines the paths for

   packets through provider network based on operator's business model

   (operator's requirement).  This path can be optimized or constrained.

 

Cheers,

Med

 

De : Adrian Farrel <adrian@olddog.co.uk <mailto:adrian@olddog.co.uk> > 
Envoyé : jeudi 30 mai 2024 22:58
À : 'Krzysztof Szarkowicz' <kszarkowicz@juniper.net
<mailto:kszarkowicz@juniper.net> >
Cc : 'TEAS WG' <teas@ietf.org <mailto:teas@ietf.org> >;
draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mpls@ietf.org
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Objet : [Teas] Re: NRP RE: Re: Late WGLC review of
draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mpls

 

OK, sorry, let me try this again without being snippy. I’m really sorry
about that.

 

9345 has a stack of concepts:

Slice

NRP

Filtered network

Physical network

 

There is a 1:n relationship between each pair as you move up the stack.
(There has been some discussion about an m:n relationship, but that is left
for future study.)

 

If I understand your draft correctly, you have the following hierarchy.

Slice

Transport plane

NRP (just one of these)

Filtered network

Physical network

 

With a 1:n relationship of NRP to Transport plane, and Transport plane to
Slice. (You also suggest that there might be a more complex m:n relationship
between NRP and Transport plane, but that is left for future study.)

 

Med’s suggested text changes make these relationships clear, and it is worth
making them.

Med’s other suggestion to use “transfer plane” instead of “transport plane”
might help reduce re-use of terminology. I’d be OK with that change for this
reason. But in the rest of this email, I’ll stick with “transport plane” for
clarity.

 

Now, to my debate as whether a Transport plane is the equivalent of a Slice
or an NRP. I’d still like to dig at this because I have a disconnect that I
don’t understand.

You have the definition…

   A transport plane refers to a specific forwarding behavior between

   PEs in order to provide packet delivery that is consistent with the

   corresponding SLOs.

And you go on to list a few possible realisations:

   * A mesh of RSVP-TE [RFC3209] or SR-TE [RFC9256] tunnels created

      with specific optimization criteria and constraints.

   * A Flex-Algorithm [RFC9350] with a particular metric-type, or one

      that only uses links with particular properties, or excludes links

      that are within a particular geography.

 

I think that this definition, and particularly the example realisations are
what cause the confusion for me.

 

You correctly quoted the 9543 definition of an NRP:

   An NRP is a subset of the buffer/queuing/scheduling resources and

   associated policies on each of a connected set of links in the

   underlay network

But, while you say this precludes a Transport plane being considered an NRP,
I find it a good match. How are we seeing this so differently? 

In my view, the definition says “Take the pool of all the buffer resources,
queuing resources, scheduling resources, and all the policies associated
with each resource. Then take some subset of this pool.”

That subset could be, “All the resources, and some of the policies.” Or it
could be, “Some of the resources, and all of the policies on those
resources.” Or anything else.

 

Now, you said…

Different sets of tunnels (established using some of available technologies,
like RSVP, Flex-Algo, SR-TE), using different metric for path optimization
(e.g. one set optimized based on link delay metric, another set optimized
based on IGP metric derived from link bandwidth) do not create different
NRPs.

I struggle with this, because in my head as I wrote the words was a set of
RSVP-TE tunnels with resource reservation and associated forwarding
policies. We quickly got into a discussion of a whole set of tunnel-based
approaches, with policy-based SRv6 getting a lot of attention. So rather
than list an incomplete set of possible approaches, 9543 abdicated
responsibility with:

   Realizations of an NRP may

   be built on a range of existing or new technologies, and this

   document does not constrain solution technologies.

I guess abdication is something we’re all good at because you have:

   Detailed realization of transport planes is out of the scope of this

   document.

 

So, really, I am trying to understand why the 9543 definition of NRP doesn’t
square with your definition of transport plane.

 

Med also referred me to RFC 9182, saying…

o. I heard other comments that this is similar to NRP. We prefer to use a
term that is close to what is currently used in deployments. For example,
this is consistent with RFC9182 and several RFCs out there which include the
following:

 

  'underlay-transport':  Describes the preference for the transport

     technology to carry the traffic of the VPN service.  This

     preference is especially useful in networks with multiple domains

     and Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) types.  The underlay

     transport can be expressed as an abstract transport instance

     (e.g., an identifier of a VPN+ instance, a virtual network

     identifier, or a network slice name) or as an ordered list of the

     actual protocols to be enabled in the network.

 

     A rich set of protocol identifiers that can be used to refer to an

     underlay transport are defined in [RFC9181].

 

Curiously, this definition suggests that the “underlay transport” might be
expressed as a network slice name. Which did make me think that the concept
was consistent with a network slice. Of course, a network slice is a
hierarchical concept, so it would be possible to slip this definition in
within that concept. 

 

On this topic, you said:

 

I am not describing network slices.  RFC 9543 definition of network slice:

IETF Network Slice:

The realization of the service in the provider's network achieved by
partitioning network resources and by applying certain tools and techniques
within the network.

Using different metric types for path calculation doesn’t partition network
resources.

 

(An aside would be to ask why it is necessary to use a new term (transport
plane or transfer plane) rather than using the 9182 term. But let’s not go
there!)

 

Finally, Med also said:

 

I heard other comments that this is similar to NRP. We prefer to use a term
that is close to what is currently used in deployments. 

 

…and maybe, at the end of this lengthy ramble, this sums it all up. It’s
just another name for an NRP. If the document were to say that, I guess I’d
be happy, although I would wonder why it needs two terms.

And this just runs us up against the problem that the draft is adamant that
there is only one NRP, so it is necessary to use a different term and
construct to achieve the same partition of the network.

 

Well, I’m no closer to an answer. Sorry. It just isn’t clear to me what’s
going on here.

 

Cheers,

Adrian

 

 

From: Krzysztof Szarkowicz < <mailto:kszarkowicz@juniper.net>
kszarkowicz@juniper.net> 
Sent: 29 May 2024 14:45
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Subject: Re: [Teas] NRP RE: Re: Late WGLC review of
draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mpls

 

Adrian, 

 

I am not describing network slices.  RFC 9543 definition of network slice:

 

 

IETF Network Slice:

The realization of the service in the provider's network achieved by
partitioning network resources and by applying certain tools and techniques
within the network (see Sections
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9543#defns> 4.1 and
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9543#realize> 7).

 

 

Using different metric types for path calculation doesn’t partition network
resources.

 

Cheers,

Krzysztof

 

On May 29, 2024, at 15:28, Adrian Farrel < <mailto:adrian@olddog.co.uk>
adrian@olddog.co.uk> wrote:

 

I agree, Krzysztof,

You are describing network slices.

Adrian

 

From: Krzysztof Szarkowicz < <mailto:kszarkowicz@juniper.net>
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Sent: 29 May 2024 10:54
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Subject: Re: NRP RE: [Teas] Re: Late WGLC review of
draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mpls

 

Hi Adrian, 

 

Taking the definition of NRP from RFC 9543, different sets of tunnels
(established using some of available technologies, like RSVP, Flex-Algo,
SR-TE), using different metric for path optimization (e.g. one set optimized
based on link delay metric, another set optimized based on IGP metric
derived from link bandwidth) do not create different NRPs. Therefore, they
are different transport planes within the default NRP.

 

Cheers,

Krzysztof

 

On May 29, 2024, at 09:34,  <mailto:mohamed.boucadair@orange.com>
mohamed.boucadair@orange.com wrote:

 

 

[External Email. Be cautious of content]

 

 

Hi Adrian,

 

Thank your for the follow-up and for your effort on track pending issues.
Much appreciated.

 

I see two main open discussion points to which I will reply in separate
threads to ease your review.

 

Let’s start with the last point in your list below: link transport planes to
9543 terms.

 

==Adrian===

But the document is pretty adamant that “The realization model described in
this document uses a single Network Resource Partition (NRP) (Section 7.1 of
[RFC9543]).  The applicability to multiple NRPs is out of scope.” So why
talk about multiple transport planes?

============

 

RFC9543 says the following:

 

   An NRP is a subset of the buffer/queuing/scheduling resources and

   associated policies on each of a connected set of links in the

   underlay network (for example, as achieved in

   [RESOURCE-AWARE-SEGMENTS]).  The connected set of links could be the

   entire set of links with all of their buffer/queuing/scheduling

   resources and behaviors in the underlay network, and in this case,

  there would be just one NRP supported in the underlay network.

 

We are not aware of any existing implementation that allow to provide a
“subset of the buffer/queuing/etc.”. Support of multiple NRPs is thus not
considered in the document: because that’s not something we can fairly claim
that we support with existing technologies. Hence, the single NRP mention.

 

Assuming a single NRP (called, based NRP in the doc), and putting QoS
matters aside, different forwarding behaviors are still needed within that
single NRP. Multiple transport planes is used to refer to that.

 

Now back to the text, I suggest to make the following changes:

 

(1)

 

OLD: A network operator can define multiple transport planes.

NEW: A network operator can define multiple transport planes within a single
NRP.

 

(2)

 

NEW:

Also, transport planes may be realized using separate NRPs. However, such an
approach is left out of the scope given the current state of the technology
(2024).

 

These changes can also be tracked here:
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/author-tools.ietf.org/api/iddiff?url_1=h
ttps:**Aboucadair.github.io*5g-slice-realization*draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mp
ls.txt&url_2=https:**Aboucadair.github.io*5g-slice-realization*NRP-or-not-NR
P*draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mpls.txt__;Ly8vLy8vLy8v!!NEt6yMaO-gk!AvFSa2NUSvWb
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eIQLbuIb$> Diff: draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mpls.txt -
draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mpls.txt.

 

Does this make sense? Thank you.

 

Cheers,

Med

 

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Objet : RE: [Teas] Re: Late WGLC review of draft-ietf-teas-5g-ns-ip-mpls

 

 

Hi Med,

 

Sorry for the delay. Thanks for posting the updates.

 

I looked at the diff between -05 (which I reviewed) and -07 (that you just
posted).

 

A lot of really good changes. Many thanks.

 

I hope the colour coding works. Please shout if it doesn’t and I’ll do
something else.

 

Cheers,

Adrian

 

[Deborah] I agree with Adrian – it is not helpful for good SDO relationships
to include in an IETF document (even as an appendix) a description of
another SDO’s technology without requesting a review. While it may appear to
be “process”, in the past, when another, unnamed, SDO made assumptions on an
IETF technology, IETF was not happy. It became a very contentious technical
argument. Recommend, either send a liaison (can be done in parallel with
IESG review/request for publication) or remove (can enhance the current
figures/terms if needed). While some have commented they found this Appendix
helpful, I find it too detailed. With all the on-going architectural
discussion in ORAN and 3GPP on these interfaces and components (and
resulting presumptions on implementation), if want to keep, it should be
scoped only to what is relevant to IETF.

 

I don’t know how we’re going to resolve this. Obviously, Deborah and I are
unconvinced about including the Appendix, certainly in its current form. The
chairs have called “consensus” to include the appendix. I’m a little
disappointed with that call as I didn’t see the arguments in favour except
“We find it helpful.”

 

[Deborah] Looking at the updated document on Adrian’s comments, I also find
what Adrian commented as still not being clear in 3.3.3. To say in this
document, that another TEAS working group document has shortcomings, is not
a fair statement.

[Med] That’s not the intent of the text. We only explain why we don’t
mention PBR or relying on source port numbers for slice identification
purposes. There is nothing against the app I-D.

[Deborah] If don’t want to include the proposals of the other document,
suggest simply delete this paragraph. The paragraph above already says this
document lists a few (lists few/s/lists a few).

[Med] Let’s try that and avoid spending more cycles on this.

 

I’m happy with that solution.

 

The document could really benefit from the addition of a section

called "Scalability Considerations."

 

draft-ietf-teas-nrp-scalability says...

 

[snip]

[Med] I hear the comment even if the NRP advice does not directly apply
here. We added a new section about scalability implications and added new
text to remind that we inherit scalability properties of current
technologies. We added pointers for readers interested in such scalability
assessment.

[AF] Even your choice to have just one NRP is still an NRP, and thinking
about scalability is important especially as the chosen approach does have
some scaling limits. So thanks for the section.

[Med] ACK.

 

Your new section is nice. Thanks.

 

3.1

 

  The term "Transport Network" is used for disambiguation with

  5G network (e.g., IP, packet-based forwarding vs RAN and CN).

  Consequently, the disambiguation applies to Transport Network

  Slicing vs. 5G End-to-End Network Slicing (Section 3.2) as well the

  management domains: RAN, CN, and TN domains.

 

I thought I understood what was meant by TN in this document

until I reached this paragraph. The previous text in 3.1 (and in

the references) seems clear as to what a TN is. This text,

however, confuses me and I can't extract anything useful from it.

After all, haven't you just explained that:

 

  Appendix B provides an overview of 5G network building blocks:

  the Radio Access Network (RAN), Core Network (CN), and

  Transport Network (TN).  The Transport Network is defined by

 the 3GPP as the "part supporting connectivity within and between

 CN and RAN parts" (Section 1 of [TS-28.530]).

 

[Med] This is still under discussion among authors.

[Med] With the updated Intro, we do think that this text is not needed
anymore. So, deleted it.

 

Yup. OK.

 

Figure 5 finally makes it clear that you are trying to

distinguish a "network slice" from a "TN slice".

 

[Med] Bingo, but it is unfortunate to see that readers may find that mention
too late. Updated the intro to call that out early in the doc.

[AF] Excellent, but still dangling is…

 

In practice, I think you are trying to say that the slices of the different

domains may be combined to form an end-to-end slice in the

IP/MPLS technology. This is certainly supported by 3.4.2 and is

consistent with draft-li-teas-composite- network-slices, but you

need to work out which way you are slicing (sic)

this:

 

[snip]

 

[Med] I hope this is now better articulated with the changes.

 

Yes, the new mini-paragraph just before Figure 6 is good.

 

In 3.4.2 and with reference to Figure 5, it appears that your

realisation is based on RFC 9543 Figure 1 Type 3. That's great,

could you say so somewhere early in the document? It would help.

[Med] Added a statement that the realization is based on types 3/4.

 

Good.

 

By the time we get to Figure 6, you are talking about "slice

segments" and that is really helping because now we can

consider stitching those segments together.

 

[Med] Moved that figure to the introduction.

 

Yeah, that is a good call. Makes the reader pay attention to the
architecture.

 

3.4.2

 

  In other words, the main

  focus for the enforcement of end-to-end SLOs is managed at the

  Network Slice between PE interfaces connected to the AC.

 

Would that be more clearly stated with reference to the SDP?

[Med] I think this is covered by the note about types 3/4.

 

OK

 

3.5

 

There seems to be a difference between the title of the

section...

     Mapping Schemes Between 5G Network Slices and Transport

    Network Slices

...and the first line of text

  There are multiple options for mapping 5G Network Slices to TN

  slices:

That is, the text talks about a unidirectional mapping (5G to TN)

while the title says "between".

[Med] Updated to “Mapping 5G Network Slices to Transport Network Slices” for
consistency.

 

So far, so good…

 

But I think I object to the word "mapping".

While, in one

direction, the word is fine and clearly describes how one type of

slice is projected onto another type of slice, the problem is

more complicated because in the other direction (at the receiving

end of the data flow) we need to "un-map".

[Med] Why should we be concerned with that? Isn’t that part of the non-TN
job?

 

This depends on whether you are simply tunnelling (“map” means which 5G
slices will be carried by which TN slice) or if you are aggregating (“map”
means that a set of 5G slices “become” a TN slice). As you exit the TN
slice, you need to go back to processing the individual 5G slices, and that
is easy in the tunnelling case. But it is more complicated to demux when the
mapping does not preserve the identity of the 5G slice.

 

[snip]

 

Section 4 is pretty clear and helpful. Thanks. I think it is

where the real work of the draft begins (23 pages in). I wonder

whether we can do something to get here more quickly.

[AF] Seems like you’re not rising to this :-)

I wonder whether the introduction can steal a few lines from this section to
set the document up a bit better.

[Med] Good suggestion. Moved some text around.

 

Thanks. Good.

 

In Section 6, have you invented the Filter Topology when you use

the term "transport plane"? I think you have, and it would be

helpful

either:

- to say "when we say transport plane, this is equivalent to the

   term Filter Topology defined in RFC 9542"

- to replace all mentions of "transport plane"

 

I prefer the second of these.

[Med] I'm not sure filtered topology is exactly identical to. I heard other
comments that this is similar to NRP. We prefer to use a term that is close
to what is currently used in deployments. For example, this is consistent
with RFC9182 and several RFCs out there which include the following:

 

  'underlay-transport':  Describes the preference for the transport

     technology to carry the traffic of the VPN service.  This

     preference is especially useful in networks with multiple domains

     and Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) types.  The underlay

     transport can be expressed as an abstract transport instance

     (e.g., an identifier of a VPN+ instance, a virtual network

     identifier, or a network slice name) or as an ordered list of the

     actual protocols to be enabled in the network.

 

     A rich set of protocol identifiers that can be used to refer to an

     underlay transport are defined in [RFC9181].

[AF] Two points here:

1.       If this sounds like NRPs, then you are acknowledging multiple NRPs,
which is OK but is counter to your assertion that there is a single NRP in
all aspects of this document.

[Med] I wasn’t saying that I agree with that NRP comment.

2.       The quoted text from 9182 sounds exactly like filtered topology to
me

[Med] Still this can be done using the same topology. We updated the text
with a new text to explain the notion of “transport plane”:

 

NEW:

A transport plane refers to a specific forwarding behavior between PEs in
order to provide packet delivery that is consistent with the corresponding
SLOs.

 

Well, I don’t think we are converging :-(

This is a document about IETF network slices, so it should link back to the
terminology in RFC 9543. It doesn’t have to use that terminology, but it
should link to it.

So, keep all your text about “transport plane” if you like (noting that
ITU-T people may find this a little confusing), but let’s still try to
understand where this fits in the architecture and in this document.

You have: “A network operator can define multiple transport planes.”

So, does a transport plane map to:

*     A TN slice

*     An NRP

*     A filtered topology

Re-reading, I see that the transport plane could be a collection of tunnels.
That certainly sounds like an NRP. It is partitioning the links that might
be selected by a filtered topology, so it isn’t a filtered topology. But it
is providing connectivity mechanisms that could be used by multiple TN
slices, so it isn’t a TN slice. Hence, NRP.

But the document is pretty adamant that “The realization model described in
this document uses a single Network Resource Partition (NRP) (Section 7.1 of
[RFC9543]).  The applicability to multiple NRPs is out of scope.” So why
talk about multiple transport planes?

 

[snip]

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