Subject: [mpls] 转发: New Version Notification for draft-xu-mpls-service-chaining-01.txt

From: Xuxiaohu <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 May 2017 07:02:47 +0000

Hi all,

As illustrated in (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-xu-mpls-unified-source-routing-instruction), the MPLS source routing mechanism developed by the SPRING WG can be leveraged to realize a unified source routing instruction which works across both IPv4 underlay and IPv6 underlay, in addition to the MPLS underlay. In other words, although the MPLS was originally developed as a transport technology, it doesn't prevent us from using it as an overlay instruction. In fact, the VPN label and PW label are concrete examples of overlay instructions.

The unified source routing instruction concept could be leveraged further to realize a transport-independent service function chaining by encoding the service function path information or service function chain information as a unified source routing instruction (a.k.a., an MPLS label stack). Since the unified source routing instruction could work across different underlay networks including IPv4, IPv6 and MPLS underlay, the service function encapsulation header implemented in the form of a unified source routing instruction (a.k.a., an MPLS label stack) is transport-independent accordingly.

Any comments and suggestions are more than welcome.

Best regards,
Xiaohu

> -----邮件原件-----
> 发件人: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
> 发送时间: 2017年5月10日 15:47
> 收件人: Hamid Assarpour; Luis M. Contreras; Xuxiaohu; Stewart Bryant;
> [email-masked]; Luis Contreras; Daniel Bernier; Himanshu Shah
> 主题: New Version Notification for draft-xu-mpls-service-chaining-01.txt
> 
> 
> A new version of I-D, draft-xu-mpls-service-chaining-01.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Xiaohu Xu and posted to the IETF repository.
> 
> Name:		draft-xu-mpls-service-chaining
> Revision:	01
> Title:		Service Chaining using an Unified Source Routing Instruction
> Document date:	2017-05-10
> Group:		Individual Submission
> Pages:		11
> URL:
> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-xu-mpls-service-chaining-01.txt
> Status:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-xu-mpls-service-chaining/
> Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-xu-mpls-service-chaining-01
> Htmlized:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-xu-mpls-service-chaining-01
> Diff:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-xu-mpls-service-chaining-01
> 
> Abstract:
>    Source Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING) WG is developing an MPLS
>    source routing mechanism.  The MPLS source routing mechanism can be
>    leveraged to realize a unified source routing instruction which works
>    across both IPv4 and IPv6 underlays in addition to the MPLS underlay.
>    This document describes how to leverage the unified source routing
>    instruction to realize a transport-independent service function
>    chaining by encoding the service function path information or service
>    function chain information as an MPLS label stack.
> 
> 
> 
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