[Teas] A slice is not an enhanced VPN [Was: draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices: Network Slice vs. VPN(+)]

[Adrian Farrel <[e-mail]>]

Hi Med,

 

As I work through the latest revision, I came back to this email to try to clarify this. 

 

I re-read 6.3 to see whether this document was responsible for supporting the misunderstanding you say is recurrent. I don’t think it is: 6.3 is the only place in the document that mentions enhanced VPNs, and it does so in a way that is suggesting that this is just an architectural approach. That means it feels out of place to put a sentence in 6.3.

 

But we can include something like this in the general definition and specification of what a slice is.

 

I’m a bit wary of saying “By the way, a slice is not a pipe” [1] because sometimes this can be a distraction, and it is very hard to make a complete set of things that are not a network slice.

 

But if you’d like to suggest a sentence and a home for it, we can fold it in.

 

Best,

Adrian

 

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images

 

 

 

 

 

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Subject: RE: [Teas] draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices: Network Slice vs. VPN(+)

 

Re-,

 

I agree with the scope but my comment is actually not to dig into more technical realization details or call for favorite options to implement a slice (all that is deployment-specific in my mind). The comment is to clarify the recurrent “misunderstanding” that a slice is a VPN (or a VPN+).

 

I’m confident this message can be conveyed in one short sentence.   

 

Cheers,

Med

 

De : Teas [mailto:[e-mail]] De la part de Adrian Farrel
Envoyé : mercredi 5 mai 2021 15:00
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Objet : Re: [Teas] draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices: Network Slice vs. VPN(+)

 

Hi Med,

 

I’m currently working up some text to provide a definition of a network slice service and to clarify the endpoint definitions.

 

This text will be based on material that was on the list some while back.

 

I don’t think this document should dig too deep into VPN+ or ACTN. An enhanced VPN is not identical to a slice, and an CAN VN is not identical to a slice. However, ACTN and VPN+ both provide ways to realise/deliver network slices. I think that applicability statements should explain what can and can’t be done using those technologies, while this document should just note that they are possible architectural approaches.

 

There are, of course, very many ways to achieve network slicing dependent on the underlying technology. We need to be careful about this document:

*	Blessing any one approach
*	Trying to catalogue all possible approaches.

Other documents can try to establish consensus for particular approaches.

 

Best,

Adrian

 

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Sent: 05 May 2021 13:39
To: [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> ; [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> 
Subject: draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices: Network Slice vs. VPN(+) 

 

Adrian, 

 

I wonder whether you are planning to add some text to include the clarification discussed below. 

 

Thank you. 

 

Cheers,

Med

 

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Envoyé : mercredi 3 mars 2021 14:28
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Objet : [Teas] Network Slice vs. VPN(+) RE: network Slice Endpoint in draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slice-definition-00

 

Hi Adrian, all, 

 

Picking this item from the message below as I think this is a point that is worth to be clarified and discussed in the framework/definition document. We need to explain the differences between the two concepts. There are some “hints” in the framework I-D, but we need to be explicit. 

 

VPN(+) is no more than an IETF technology to implement a network slice. As such, a network slice can be implemented without relying upon a VPN/VPN+. That’s deployment-specific. An example of possible implementations (with IETF technologies) would be to define PDBs + SFCs or running a dedicated MT-IGP instance (with optimized tweaking such as exclude links exposing long delays) + resource-based access, and so on. 

 

Ah, let’s not forget that a network slice as defined in the definition I-D is not only about connectivity.

 

BTW, we do still have some inconsistencies between the documents: 

*	The definition I-D acks that an IETF network slice is not only about connectivity. 
*	The framework I-D seems to be more connectivity-centric. 

 

We need to fix this as well. 

 

Cheers,

Med

 

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Objet : Re: [Teas] network Slice Endpoint in draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slice-definition-00

 

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But my opinion of all of this is coloured by thinking about enhanced VPNs (VPN+) [3] and IETF network slices as the same thing.

 

[...]

 

[1] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/teas/ibycGzi5cxJUJSvRxm9OsQdDqn8/

[2] RFC 4026

[3] draft-ietf-teas-enhanced-vpn

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