The simple explanation to allow co-existence of both protection schemes in
is to be able to allow network to carry other services. It is shared resources.

I believe we have text that explains that S-BFD will resume as soon as TI-LFA 
based protection kicks in. This is precisely why we need ‘eligibility’ 
construct. The primary CP is rendered “not-eligible” to carry service traffic 
even when it has become active and need intent re-verification before CP is 
used for service traffic.


Thanks,
Himanshu


From: Joel Halpern <j...@joelhalpern.com>
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 10:52 AM
To: Shah, Himanshu <hs...@ciena.com>
Cc: BESS <bess@ietf.org>, 
draft-karboubi-spring-sidlist-optimized-cs...@ietf.org 
<draft-karboubi-spring-sidlist-optimized-cs...@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: [bess] Re: Inverse multi-layer OAM

At the very least, I would expect to see some explanation of why one would also 
be running TI-LFA.  And probably a discussion of how this interacts with the 
information propagation when the local detection kicks in.   I can believe both 
points can be addressed, but it is hard to understand without them.

Yours,

Joel
On 3/19/2025 11:46 PM, Shah, Himanshu wrote:
Disagree.
We have discussed the motivation (for prioritizing e2e protection over local 
protection) in the draft.
It serves the purpose without having to disable TI-LFA on each node – not a 
desirable option.

Thanks,
Himanshu


From: Joel Halpern <j...@joelhalpern.com><mailto:j...@joelhalpern.com>
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
To: Greg Mirsky <gregimir...@gmail.com><mailto:gregimir...@gmail.com>, Robert 
Raszuk <rob...@raszuk.net><mailto:rob...@raszuk.net>
Cc: Shah, Himanshu <hs...@ciena.com><mailto:hs...@ciena.com>, BESS 
<bess@ietf.org><mailto:bess@ietf.org>, 
draft-karboubi-spring-sidlist-optimized-cs...@ietf.org<mailto:draft-karboubi-spring-sidlist-optimized-cs...@ietf.org>
 
<draft-karboubi-spring-sidlist-optimized-cs...@ietf.org><mailto:draft-karboubi-spring-sidlist-optimized-cs...@ietf.org>
Subject: [**EXTERNAL**] Re: [bess] Re: Inverse multi-layer OAM

It seems rather counter-intuitive to want to try to repair things end-to-end 
faster than one expects local devices to detect local failures.  The implied 
information race conditions seem an invitation to trouble.

Yours,

Joel
On 3/19/2025 11:14 PM, Greg Mirsky wrote:
Hi Robert,
I wholeheartedly agree that local and e2e OAM are complementary tools in an 
operator's toolbox. Usually, a multi-layer OAM is constructed so that e2e 
provides the network with a safety net. In that manner, local repair of a link 
failure is expected to restore services before the failure is detected on the 
e2e level. As I understand it, the proposal uses a different scheme. According 
to it, e2e network detection is expected to be more aggressive than the 
link-level OAM. To me, that's an unusual arrangement.
As for performance monitoring, although some performance metrics can be 
measured spatially to compose e2e metrics, e2e performance monitoring is easier 
to deploy in many environments.

Regards,
Greg

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM Robert Raszuk 
<rob...@raszuk.net<mailto:rob...@raszuk.net>> wrote:
Hi Greg,

I am very much in support of end to end path assurance. And by assurance I mean 
not only e2e liveness but also e2e loss, delays, jitter etc ...

The main reason is that link layer failures (even if done on every link in the 
path) does not provide any information about transit via network devices. And 
those can be subject to packet drops, selective packet drops (brownouts), 
delays and jitter via box fabrics in distributed systems etc ... So to me even 
if e2e is slower then local link detection it still very much a preferred way 
to assure end to end path quality.

Sure some of them is done at the application layer, but then it is done mainly 
for statistics and reporting. Doing it at network layer opens up possibilities 
to choose different path (quite likely via different provider) when original 
path experiences some issues or service degradation which with link by link 
failure detection is invisible to the endpoints.

I think at the end of the day those two are not really competing solutions but 
complimentary. And of course end to end makes sense especially in deployments 
when you can have diverse paths end to end.

Cheers
Robert

On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM Greg Mirsky 
<gregimir...@gmail.com<mailto:gregimir...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi Himanshu,

Thank you for the presentation of draft-karboubi-spring-sidlist-optimized-cs-sr 
[datatracker.ietf.org]<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-karboubi-spring-sidlist-optimized-cs-sr/__;!!OSsGDw!J0VAlRE3z-g7qGfCezoeovWitrC4DFYS65Ly4YZq5r_I8SGk56sle4dQAFwya2R17BHyxx6ecg$>.
 If I understood your response to Ali correctly, the proposed mechanism is 
expected to use more aggressive network failure detection than the link layer. 
If that is correct, I have several questions about the multi-layer OAM:

  *   AFAIK link-layer failures are detected within 10 ms using a connectivity 
check mechanism (CCM of Y.1731 or a single-hop BFD) with a 3.3 ms interval.
  *   If the link failure is detectable within 10 ms, what detection time for 
the path, i.e., E2E connection failure detection, is suggested? What interval 
between test probes will be used in that case?
  *   Furthermore, even if the path converges around the link failure before 
the local protection is deployed, the link failure will be detected, and the 
protection mechanism will be deployed despite the Orchestrator setting up its 
recovery path in the network. If that is correct, local defect detection and 
protection are unnecessary overheads. Would you agree?



Regards,

Greg
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