Subject: [Bier] draft-ietf-bier-mvpn

From: "Bidgoli, Hooman (Nokia - CA/Ottawa)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 18:02:37 +0000

Hi Authors, Chairs, et al

Section 2.1.

      "If the two routes do not have the same Address Family Identifier

      (AFI) value, then their respective PTAs "MUST" contain different

      MPLS label values.  This ensures that when an egress PE receives a

      data packet with the given label, the egress PE can infer from the

      label whether the payload is an IPv4 packet or an IPv6 packet.

Should we change the "MUST" to "SHOULD" , if the reason for assigning 2 labels is only for detecting IPv4 vs. IPv6 then I would imagine after the label pointing to the VRF, the IP header of the payload can achieve the same result.

Regards

Hooman

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From: "Dolganow, Andrew (Nokia - SG/Singapore)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 02:29:45 +0000

Agree this should not be MUST.

Andrew

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Section 2.1.

      “If the two routes do not have the same Address Family Identifier

      (AFI) value, then their respective PTAs “MUST” contain different

Should we change the “MUST” to “SHOULD” , if the reason for assigning 2 labels is only for detecting IPv4 vs. IPv6 then I would imagine after the label pointing to the VRF, the IP header of the payload can achieve the same result.

Regards

Hooman

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From: IJsbrand Wijnands <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 08:56:54 +0200

Hi Hooman, Andrew,

Not all HW is capable (or desirable) to look at the IP header to determine the IP version and this might also have a performance impact. If we make it SHOULD, we might also introduce interoperability problems where vendor A uses two labels and vendor B uses the IP header.

I think we should keep this as MUST.

Thx,

Ice.

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From: "Bidgoli, Hooman (Nokia - CA/Ottawa)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 14:17:54 +0000

Thanks Ice!

I believe these type of limitations are not BIER specific, as an example unicast VPN label per route, subnet or vrf.

I am sure different HW will have different limitations (i.e. what if some of them need label per IPMC state?). Being new to this process I am not sure how ietf handles this or even if a HW limitation should affect a draft.

That said I think from BIER and multicast technology perspective purely, assigning 2 label for ipv4 and ipv6 address family is not necessary. Maybe HW limitations should be handled base on the implementation?  

Regards

Hooman

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Hi Hooman, Andrew,

Thx,

Ice.

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From: IJsbrand Wijnands <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 16:41:42 +0200

Hooman,

> That said I think from BIER and multicast technology perspective purely, assigning 2 label for ipv4 and ipv6 address family is not necessary. Maybe HW limitations should be handled base on the impl…

For interoperability reasons, we should have only one way to support this. You don’t want to end up in a situation where the sending router sends the packet with the assumption that the egress router will look at the IP header, while the egress router was expecting the label to identify the IP version.

I don’t see any benefit in trying to support this with a single label value.

Thx,

Ice.

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From: "Bidgoli, Hooman (Nokia - CA/Ottawa)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 17:17:47 +0000

Hi Ice

> I don’t see any benefit in trying to support this with a single label value.

The benefit is the saving in the label space.

Regards

Hooman

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Subject: Re: [Bier] draft-ietf-bier-mvpn

Hooman,

Thx,

Ice.

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From: "Dolganow, Andrew (Nokia - SG/Singapore)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 00:10:09 +0000

Ice,

As Hooman said, the MUST will force duplicate labels and unnecessary ipv4 and ipv6 separation. It is 2018 and time for us as industry to stop treating ipv4 and ipv6 separate. We need to change the MUST. Even SHOULD is too strong to be honest. We should really say SHOULD for one label and MAY for two and explain why 2 labels can  be used.

2 labels add cost not only because of label space but also because of duplication of operational and management cost. We shouod  be clear on this.

Regards,
Andrew
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Hi Ice

Regards

Hooman

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Hooman,

Thx,

Ice.

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From: Xiejingrong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 04:25:38 +0000

Hi folks,

I have similar question regarding the MUST word in this draft 2.1 about the Segmented mvpn scenario. One can see at https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/bier/current/msg02242.html.

A word of 'MUST' may be necessary for a method to gain interoperation, but not necessary or even a block for another method.

Maybe a 'MUST do something when using xxxx method'  can meet the concerns of interoperation and flexibility both.

To quote RFC2119
6. Guidance in the use of these Imperatives
   Imperatives of the type defined in this memo must be used with care
   and sparingly.  In particular, they MUST only be used where it is
   actually required for interoperation or to limit behavior which has
   potential for causing harm (e.g., limiting retransmisssions)  For
   example, they must not be used to try to impose a particular method
   on implementors where the method is not required for
   interoperability.

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Subject: Re: [Bier] draft-ietf-bier-mvpn

Ice,

Regards,
Andrew
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Hi Ice

> I don't see any benefit in trying to support this with a single label value.

Regards

Hooman

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Subject: Re: [Bier] draft-ietf-bier-mvpn

Hooman,

> That said I think from BIER and multicast technology perspective purely, assigning 2 label for ipv4 and ipv6 address family is not necessary. Maybe HW limitations should be handled base on the impl…

For interoperability reasons, we should have only one way to support this. You don't want to end up in a situation where the sending router sends the packet with the assumption that the egress router will look at the IP header, while the egress router was expecting the label to identify the IP version.

I don't see any benefit in trying to support this with a single label value.

Thx,

Ice.

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From: IJsbrand Wijnands <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 08:31:22 +0200

Andrew,

> As Hooman said, the MUST will force duplicate labels and unnecessary ipv4 and ipv6 separation.

MUST will make sure we’ll end up with interoperable implementations, and there is a need to treat IPv4 and IPv6 differently.

> It is 2018 and time for us as industry to stop treating ipv4 and ipv6 separate.

That is a non-argument.

> We need to change the MUST. Even SHOULD is too strong to be honest. We should really say SHOULD for one label and MAY for two and explain why 2 labels can  be used. 
> 

Each PE has 1M labels to its disposal, there is no shortage of labels in this case.

If you want to scale down the number of labels in the MPLS FIB on the egress, checkout https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zzhang-bess-mvpn-evpn-aggregation-label-01 This drafts proposes to use a global labels for the disposition, such that there is no per PE MPLS state. You’ll end up with the number of labels equal to the number of VPN’s, times 2 if both IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled. Not an issue.

Thx,

Ice.

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From: "Dolganow, Andrew (Nokia - SG/Singapore)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 06:51:39 +0000

Ice,

We do not want nor need to have separate label for IPv4 and IPv6. The current draft forces that and we think this is not desired and for sure not necessary. I am happy to spell out options in a draft to either use one or two labels and say what each will allow/cost but we cannot accept a solution that forces separate labels as this is not a common case we are being asked by customers to address.

Andrew

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    Andrew,

    
    
    That is a non-argument.

    
    
    Thx,
    
    Ice.

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From: IJsbrand Wijnands <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 09:25:56 +0200

Andrew,

Can you explain a little more about the problem customers are asking you to solve?

Thx,

Ice.

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From: "Jeffrey (Zhaohui) Zhang" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 13:29:05 +0000

Hi Jingrong,

I also have the following in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zzhang-bess-mvpn-evpn-aggregation-label-01:
2.2.2.3<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zzhang-bess-mvpn-evpn-aggregation-label-01#section-2.2.2.3>.  Alternative to the per-PMSI Label Allocation
   The per-PMSI label allocation in case of segmentation, whether for
   S-PMSI or for per-PE/Region I-PMSI, is for the segmentation points to
   be able to label switch traffic w/o having to do IP or MAC lookup in
   VRFs (the segmentation points typically do not have those VRFs at
   all).  If the label scaling becomes a concern, altertatively the
   segmenation points could use (C-S,C-G) lookup in VRFs for flows
   identifyed by the S-PMSIs.  This allows the S-PMSIs for the same VPN/
   BD to share the a VPN/BD-identifying label that leads to lookup in
   the VRFs.  That label should be different from the label used in the
   per-PE/region I-PMSIs though, so that the segmentation points can
   label switch other traffic (not identified by those S-PMSIs).
   However, this moves the scaling problem from the number of labels to
   the number of (C-S/*,C-G) routes in VRFs on the segmentation points.

I did not realized that you had the following in your email:

Ø  Also I have submitted a new draft to describe why it is important and valuable to use an alternative forwarding procedure in segmented MVPN, by using IP lookup instead of requiring Per-Flow Labels.

I will add an informative reference to your draft next time when I update my draft.

I agree with you that for the particular issue of the "MUST" wording in draft-ietf-bier-mvpn, it can stay MUST because the assumption is that segmentation points do label switching. I have not read about the use case that Hooman/Adnrew have.

Jeffrey

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Hi folks,

I have similar question regarding the MUST word in this draft 2.1 about the Segmented mvpn scenario. One can see at https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/bier/current/msg02242.html<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ietf.org_mail-2Darchive_web_bier_current_msg02242.html&d=DwMFAg&c=HAkYuh63rsuhr6Scbfh0UjBXeMK-ndb3voDTXcWzoCI&r=f7wsLGcfzAWDNS6XNTBZwj_OLAOsZZqdrR2IDAzeZqE&m=a0znJeqOkQQdWQqZMrr5bQlzYx2TIi5KOabpu1tjYJE&s=hpCRldG4Idie2ZO0XR587BWJrCYbZ_BTZnjHhUF7s84&e=>.

To quote RFC2119

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Ice,

Regards,
Andrew
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Hi Ice

Regards

Hooman

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Subject: Re: [Bier] draft-ietf-bier-mvpn

Hooman,

Thx,

Ice.

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From: "Bidgoli, Hooman (Nokia - CA/Ottawa)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 14:49:59 +0000

Hi Ice

> Each PE has 1M labels to its disposal, there is no shortage of labels in this case.

There are HW limitations here as well, not all HW support 1M label space, I don't agree with this statement. In core PE you could have 10Ks of VPNs multiply that by 2, it is a large label space.
Throw a mpls unicast protocol on top of that and...

I think both issues need to be considered, here is the paragraph I suggest

      If the two routes do not have the same Address Family Identifier
      (AFI) value, then their respective PTAs MAY contain a single label, 
      In this case the egress PE will identify the AFI base on the IP payload header.
      Alternatively their respective PTAs MAY contain different MPLS label values.
      In this case when an egress PE receives a
      data packet with the given label, the egress PE can infer from the
      label whether the payload is an IPv4 packet or an IPv6 packet.

Regards

Hooman

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Andrew,

That is a non-argument.

Thx,

Ice.

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From: IJsbrand Wijnands <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 17:05:22 +0200

Hi Hooman,

> Throw a mpls unicast protocol on top of that and…

I don’t find that convincing at all. If you really want to make the upstream label space smaller, the solution for that is documented in https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zzhang-bess-mvpn-evpn-aggregation-label-01.

Are there examples in IETF where for MPLS forwarding we use the IP proto to dispatch between IPv4/IPv6?

>      label whether the payload is an IPv4 packet or an IPv6 packet.

This will lead to all sort of interoperability issues. If you want to use IP proto, it needs to be signalled so the ingress at least knows what is expected.

Thx,

Ice.

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From: Eric C Rosen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2018 11:36:19 -0400

> I think we should keep this as MUST.

I agree with Ice here, and it seems to me that this reasoning completely 
settles the issue.

> If you want to use IP proto, it needs to be signalled so the ingress at least knows what is expected.

I suppose one could have an option to use the same label for both v4 and 
v6 on a given P-tunnel if one knows via signaling that all the egress 
nodes of that P-tunnel support the necessary functionality. If someone 
wants to write a draft specifying that signaling, please don't forget to 
take P-tunnel segmentation into account.

As an aside, I note that the generalization "don't have too many options 
in a protocol" always seems to be forgotten when discussing individual 
cases ;-)

I'd also note that simply repeating the same opinions multiple times 
with increasing degrees of forcefulness doesn't make them any more valid.

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From: "Dolganow, Andrew (Nokia - SG/Singapore)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 01:07:28 +0000

Ice,

Without a single label you have to do tons of extra processing for cases when both v4 and v6 exists but you need to treat traffic as multicast - irrespective of IP version. This is doable at the edge but pretty much impossible in downstream routers. As people move to v6 such basic functionality requirement is common. 

I could see a solution via signaling doable but we would at least need to point to that here.

Andrew

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    Hi Hooman,

    

    
    Thx,
    
    Ice.

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From: Xiejingrong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2018 04:58:40 +0000

Thanks jeffery for the answering about another 'MUST' word for segmented mvpn.

For the question about whether an upstream-assigned VpnLabel should be used for IPv4 and IPv6, I just mentioned my opinion.

(1)     RFC8296 use a Proto=2 for upstream-assigned packet, but do not differentiate further upstream-assigned IPv4 packet, upstream-assigned IPv6 packet, upstream-assigned ETH packet, and so on.

(2)     The opportunity to differentiate the further payload format is by the VpnLabel.

(3)     If we do not use different VpnLabels for IPv4 and IPv6, then how about the possible ETH payload ?

(4)     Then we have to deep-detect the format of a payload in data-plane. It is inefficient and not good I think.

(5)     The upstream-assigned VpnLabel is the first usage in industry until BIER ? At least I am not aware any inter-operation problems because of existing implementation. Is anyone  aware of ?

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Hi Jingrong,

?  Also I have submitted a new draft to describe why it is important and valuable to use an alternative forwarding procedure in segmented MVPN, by using IP lookup instead of requiring Per-Flow Labels.

Jeffrey

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Hi folks,

To quote RFC2119

Ice,

Regards,
Andrew

Hi Ice

Regards

Hooman

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Hooman,

Thx,

Ice.