Re: [Teas] CE-based Network Slice RE: network Slice Endpoint in draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slice-definition-00

Hi Med,

I think it's an important discussion. I'd like to clarify the range which
should be managed as an IETF network slice. In my understanding, CE will be
a slice consumer's end-host or an endpoint of an opposite network slice,
and it will be generally out of control of IETF network slice. As you
described, there may be cases where CE makes marking on traffic and PE
allocate it to appropriate slice based on the mark, but I think the
arrangement between CE and PE will be done by controller/orchestrator
higher than IETF Network Slice Controller. In other words, a necessary
policy is set to PE from higher controller/orchestrator, and IETF network
slice can work independently of whether the CE is slice-aware or not.

So my question is which is appropriate as the range of IETF network slice.

1. it is always between CE and CE,
2. it is always between PE and PE,
3. it is basically from PE to PE, and sometimes between CE and CE (e.g., in
case that CE is slice-aware,)

# From a network operator or slice provider aspect, I'd like to know
whether SLA/SLO between CE and PE must  be assured.

Regards,

Shunsuke

2021年3月3日(水) 22:57 <mohamed.boucadair@orange.com>:

> Re-,
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> Thanks Adrian for raising this point.
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> My take is that we can’t discard it by design. Take the example of
> stitched slices where packets are marked by the CE + that marking is
> trusted by the PE to graft them to the appropriate network slice. Likewise,
> a hierarchical design where an aggregate slice trusts the marking of the
> upper slice to identify how to map between the levels. Such trust may be
> justified under specific deployment contexts.
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> Cheers,
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> Med
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> *De :* Teas [mailto:teas-bounces@ietf.org] *De la part de* Adrian Farrel
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> *À :* 'Young Lee' <younglee.tx@gmail.com>; 'Luis M. Contreras' <
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> *Cc :* 'Joel M. Halpern' <jmh@joelhalpern.com>; teas@ietf.org; 'Eric
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> reza.rokui@nokia.com>; BOUCADAIR Mohamed TGI/OLN <
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> *Objet :* Re: [Teas] network Slice Endpoint in
> draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slice-definition-00
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> [...]
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> ... but we have to ask ourselves carefully whether we **really** want the
> CE-based approach in our network slicing:
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> -          What are the considerations for how much knowledge of the
> underlay network has to be shared to the CE?
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> -          What are the considerations for how an underlay distinguishes
> CE-originated slicing traffic?
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> These are pretty much the same questions that CE-based VPNs have to
> answer. Of course, the concept of a “provider-managed CE” muddies these
> waters somewhat.
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> Conversely, the port-based PE-based VPN has none of these problems, but
> does have to agree on the “Access Connection” encoding, and that is either
> payload-sensitive (like in PWE3) or technology-aware (like in L3VPN).
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