Guys,
What you are really saying here is that the concept of using network
programmability should be killed and we should get stuck for decades to
come with closed domains only innovation.
I find it quite disturbing especially as we are talking about *Internet*
Engineering Task Force produced standards here.
Yes it has been derailed {not to say hijacked} into standardization of
private extensions for various protocols which are limited to closed
domains as the technology of new forwarding paradigm called MPLS simply by
design was not applicable to be deployed in the open Internet. But that
should not mean we should get stuck with this till new generation
understands mistakes made and moves forward,
It is obvious that those who invested heavily in MPLS will fight to protect
it no matter what. But new technologies and services are being deployed
over SRv6 using native IPv6 dataplane. Examples are mobile nodes which move
from network to network.
Is this closed domain - no by any means. Is it working today - yes pretty
well.
So proposing a new ethertype for SRv6 today seems to be comparable to
putting a stick into the wheels of a cool bicycle starting to gain speed.
Respectfully to all td-srv6 authors and cheerleaders,
Robert
On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 1:58 AM Tony Przygienda <tonysi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Though I would like to cheer for Kireeti's 2. as well I think the point of
> SHOULD is more realistic (for now) as Joel points out ...
>
> As to ethertype, I think grown-ups in the room were since long time drily
> observing that a new IP version would have been appropriate after enough
> contortions-of-it's-an-IPv6-address-sometimes-and-sometimes-not-and-sometimes-only-1/4
> were performed with drafts whose authors' list length sometimes rivaled
> pages of content ;-) I think this ship has sailed and that's why after
> some discussions with Andrew we went the ether type route as more
> realistic. Additionally, yes, lots encaps (not encodings) carrying SRv6
> should get new codepoints if we are really serious about trusted domains
> here.
>
> And folks who went the MPLS curve know that none of this is new, same
> curve was walked roughly (though smoother, no'one was tempted to "hide
> label stack in extension headers" ;-) and it would go a long way if
> deploying secure SRv6 becomes as simple as *not* switching on "address
> family srv6" on an interface until needed and then relying on BGP-LU (oops
> ;-) to build according lookup FIBs for SRv6 instead of going in direction
> of routers becoming massive wildcard matching and routing header processing
> firewalls ...
>
> --- tony
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 4:33 PM Kireeti Kompella <kireeti.i...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mar 28, 2023, at 11:24, Adrian Farrel <adr...@olddog.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> [Spring cc’ed because, well, you know, SR. I wonder whether 6man and 6ops
>> should care as well.]
>>
>>
>> SPRING cc’ed because, you know, replying to Adrian’s email. Agree that
>> 6man and 6ops [sh|w]ould be interested.
>>
>> tl;dr
>>
>> I think this is a good initiative and worth discussion. Thanks
>>
>> for the draft.
>>
>>
>> Agree. In particular:
>> 1. There is an acknowledged security problem. Might be worth summarizing,
>> as it is central to this draft, but an example is in rfc 8402/section 8.
>> Section 3 of this draft (“The SRv6 Security Problem”) doesn’t actually
>> describe the security problem; Section 5 does, briefly.
>>
>> 2. The solution (using a new EtherType, SRv6-ET) is a good one. It’s sad
>> that this wasn’t done from the get-go, as the solution is a bit “evil
>> bit”-ish. I’d prefer to see ALL SRv6 packets (i.e., those containing SRH)
>> use SRv6-ET. Boundary routers SHOULD drop packets with SRv6-ET that
>> cross the boundary in either direction; all routers MUST drop packets with
>> SRH that don’t have SRv6-ET. Yeah, difficult, but the added security is
>> worth it.
>>
>> 3. Ease of secure deployment is a major consideration; this draft is a
>> big step in that direction.
>>
>> 4. As Adrian said, several nits. Will send separately to authors.
>>
>> Kireeti
>>
>>
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