[Teas] New Slicing revision: I-D Action: draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices-01.txt

[Adrian Farrel <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

In this revision, I have tidied the text. That involved:
- Fixing inconsistent editorial standards between the source documents
- Some more minor editorials
- Moving a couple of sections around
- Collapsing a little duplication arising from pulling text from two places
- Removing cross-references between the source documents
- Removing the tagging of the source material

In doing so, there were two small paragraphs that didn't seem to belong.
These can be seen in the Appendix.

ACTION: All: Please shout if you believe this text should not be deleted.

While this document is now in a condition that can be reviewed and commented
on, I propose to make some suggestions to reduce and consolidate the text. I
will bring these to the list as separate threads (some have already been
seen on the list, but we should make the proposed changes clear). They will
cover:

- Discussion of realisation.
  This should be a discussion of architectural realisation, not of
underlying technologies.
  Currently we have:
   - a large section on ACTN
   - a couple of references to VPN+
   - no mention of the architecture underlying
draft-bestbar-teas-yang-slice-policy
  I already suggested (on list) a way to reduce the ACTN text, but it has
since been
  proposed to me that all discussion of realisation of the architecture can
be best
  achieved with brief paragraphs and references. I will propose text.

- Isolation and "unmeasurable SLOs"
  This has long been a contentious topic. I think we had reached a bit of a
compromise
  in the definitions draft, but doing the merge has caused me to re-read it
and I am
  uneasy. I will be making a text suggestion to clarify the purpose and
meaning of the
  section on isolation, and that will depend on us also clarifying the
description of
  "directly measurable SLOs" and "indirectly measurable SLOs. 

- Revisiting the definition of a network slice
  This is obviously pretty core to our work! John Drake previously sent a
suggestion to
  the list (2021-04-03). This caused a bit of discussion and raises a number
of points.
  I plan to try to tease out the various points to see whether we can agree
them 
  Separately and then come up with new definitions text. This may be a good
topic 
  For our first telechat on the document.
  
ACTION: Chairs: Decide what the rules are for having telechat meetings for
this document.

Thanks,
Adrian

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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
This draft is a work item of the Traffic Engineering Architecture and
Signaling WG of the IETF.

        Title           : Framework for IETF Network Slices
        Authors         : Adrian Farrel
                          Eric Gray
                          John Drake
                          Reza Rokui
                          Shunsuke Homma
                          Kiran Makhijani
                          Luis M. Contreras
                          Jeff Tantsura
	Filename        : draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices-01.txt
	Pages           : 33
	Date            : 2021-04-16

Abstract:
   This document describes network slicing in the context of networks
   built from IETF technologies.  It defines the term "IETF Network
   Slice" and establishes the general principles of network slicing in
   the IETF context.

   The document discusses the general framework for requesting and
   operating IETF Network Slices, the characteristics of an IETF Network
   Slice, the necessary system components and interfaces, and how
   abstract requests can be mapped to more specific technologies.  The
   document also discusses related considerations with monitoring and
   security.

   This document also provides definitions of related terms to enable
   consistent usage in other IETF documents that describe or use aspects
   of IETF Network Slices.


The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices/

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https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices-01

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