Re: [Pce] Adopting of draft-sivabalan-pce-segment-routing-03.txt as PCE WG Document

2014-09-15 Thread stephane.litkowski
Support -Original Message- From: Pce [mailto:pce-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of VICTOR LOPEZ ALVAREZ Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 11:39 To: pce@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Pce] Adopting of draft-sivabalan-pce-segment-routing-03.txt as PCE WG Document Hi, Support as co-author. Thanks! Vi

Re: [Pce] Adoption of draft-sivabalan-pce-lsp-setup-type-02.txt as a PCE WG Document

2014-09-15 Thread stephane.litkowski
Support -Original Message- From: Pce [mailto:pce-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Rakesh Gandhi (rgandhi) Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 15:56 To: JP Vasseur (jvasseur); pce@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Pce] Adoption of draft-sivabalan-pce-lsp-setup-type-02.txt as a PCE WG Document Support.

Re: [Pce] Whither Stateless PCE?

2016-04-08 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, I fully agree that stateful PCE draft needs to be more clear about how a PCC retrieves a path when the delegation starts and the LSP has just been configured (does it need to compute locally first and then delegate, or do PCReq as Olivier proposed …). I want to add my voice to what Olivier

Re: [Pce] Whither Stateless PCE?

2016-04-15 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, It’s multivendor in a single domain between two stateful active implementations. In a delegation scenario, we have some issue with triggers of Path computation and update sent on PCE side. The draft is not really clear on when this path computation and update must be triggered, especially wh

Re: [Pce] Whither Stateless PCE?

2016-05-09 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Xian, Regarding the METRIC object, the issue is not having the Object in the PCRpt (which already works). The issue is that the metric object will reflect the operational state of the LSP rather than it’s configuration. The best example may be : PCC is configured to use IGP metric with a cost

Re: [Pce] Whither Stateless PCE?

2016-05-09 Thread stephane.litkowski
Yes, exactly. Depending on the exact level of detail we want from the PCC, we may need possibly three different states : - intended (configuration => may be partially/totally received from PCE) - effective (configuration => what has been really taken into account by PCC in term of config) => this

[Pce] draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : clarifying the End Of Synchronization marker

2016-06-21 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, Doing some interop testing between two vendors we falled into misinterpretation of the current text of the End Of Sync marker content. Here is the current text : "The end of synchronization marker is a PCRpt message with the SYNC Flag set to 0 for an LSP Object with PLSP-ID equal to the

Re: [Pce] draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : clarifying the End Of Synchronization marker

2016-06-23 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi again, We also found an issue when a PCC removes a LSP. It would be good to precise the objects that are mandatory, optional in this case also. Some PCE implementations are waiting for an ERO in the PCRpt that removes an LSP, while some PCC does not send an ERO. Would be good to clarify the

Re: [Pce] draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : clarifying the End Of Synchronization marker

2016-06-27 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, Do you take this assumption from : " Where: ::= [] Where: is represented by the ERO object defined in section 7.9 of [RFC5440]." ? What should be the content of the ERO ? empty ? current ERO ? Section 6.2. is more clear on the presence of ERO in PCUpd : " There are

Re: [Pce] draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : clarifying the End Of Synchronization marker

2016-06-27 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, Thanks for the feedback. > The intent here is to use a minimal PCRpt message, hence we explicitly > exclude SYMBOLIC-PATH-NAME TLV and RRO. ERO is kept empty for the same case. > I think we have not precluded other TLVs from appearing in EOS to allow > future extensions. > I do not think LS

Re: [Pce] draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : clarifying the End Of Synchronization marker

2016-08-08 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Ina, Thanks for the feedback and proposal I would like to propose those modifications : “The end of synchronization marker is a PCRpt message with PLSP-ID equal to the reserved value 0 (see Section 7.3). In this case, the LSP Object SHOULD NOT include the SYMBOLIC-PATH-NAME TLV, SHOULD includ

Re: [Pce] draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : clarifying the End Of Synchronization marker

2016-08-08 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Ina, Thanks for the text proposal. I have an issue with : “ERO object SHOULD contain at least one subobject”. What happens if there is no path ? This comes to another issue we have with implementations. Stateless PCEP uses NO-PATH object for PCE to inform PCC that there is no path available.

Re: [Pce] Whither Stateless PCE?

2016-08-09 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Ina, Thanks for the feedback Please find some inline comments. Brgds, Stephane From: Ina Minei [mailto:inami...@google.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2016 00:20 To: LITKOWSKI Stephane OBS/OINIS Cc: Fatai Zhang; DUGEON Olivier IMT/OLN; Aissaoui, Mustapha (Nokia - CA); adr...@olddog.co.uk; Dh

Re: [Pce] Whither Stateless PCE?

2016-08-12 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Ina, %%% The PCC must at the minimum know what the destination is, and a loose hop is a way to encode this. I cannot think of any situation in which the PCC does not know the destination. I don't think the PCE should worry about whether the PCC will request a path or not, since we are mandat

Re: [Pce] Whither Stateless PCE?

2016-09-02 Thread stephane.litkowski
Thanks Ina, If everyone agrees, is it possible to have a statement about PCE telling PCC that no path has been found using empty ERO ? This should cause PCC to remove the path from the network until PCE advertise a new PCUpdate with a non empty ERO. Best Regards, Stephane From: Ina Minei [

Re: [Pce] draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : clarifying the End Of Synchronization marker

2016-09-02 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Olivier, If we state that ERO is mandatory, it must always be present, so we need to have it in the marker also. Not having it in the marker is possible but this may require to introduce a different sanity check logic for this particular PCRpt (so adding code complexity and bugs ..). Again w

Re: [Pce] draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : clarifying the End Of Synchronization marker

2016-09-02 Thread stephane.litkowski
Agree but if you have an already coded PCRpt message sanity check function (that includes the mandatory ERO check), it costs nothing more to apply it to the EOS while if you try to modify the EOS as a “special” PCRpt, this will complexify the sanity check (if PLSP-ID == 0 then you have to skip s

Re: [Pce] Whither Stateless PCE?

2016-09-08 Thread stephane.litkowski
> whatever the solution we choose, we need new release, so new version of > firmware in the routers and new software for the PCE Yes but some changes can be introduced as easy fix while introducing NO-PATH may not be so trivial from a coding point of view (leading to not being able to be introd

[Pce] Urgent issue with draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : PCE advising PCC about no path

2016-09-30 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi WG, and draft authors, We still have an urgent interoperability issue to solve with draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce. We currently have no clear semantic for the PCE to advise the PCC that there is no more path available. This point was already raised through the list but as we need an URGENT res

Re: [Pce] Urgent issue with draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : PCE advising PCC about no path

2016-09-30 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Mustapha, Your proposal works from my point of view, but it looks that it causes some trouble to another vendor so I would like these people (and others as well) to express their concerns regarding usage of empty ERO. Thanks for pointing again your last proposal. Best Regards, Stephane F

Re: [Pce] Urgent issue with draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : PCE advising PCC about no path

2016-10-03 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Harish, Thanks for your feedback. I do not really understand why you map the empty ERO to a decision to possibly fallback computation to local. As you mentioned, it could be a local PCC policy decision and this local policy could be to tear down the LSP instead of deferring ERO selection to t

Re: [Pce] Urgent issue with draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : PCE advising PCC about no path

2016-10-05 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Dhruv, Sudhir I agree that what is achieved here is a partial delegation which is not inline with delegation in stateful pce draft which gives full control to PCE. The use case described is interesting but I’m afraid that empty ERO was used for this purpose while there was no discussion at W

Re: [Pce] Urgent issue with draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : PCE advising PCC about no path

2016-10-06 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Olivier, I think we almost have a consensus on using the current ERO object with the semantic “I have no intended path”, so adding a new sibling object is not necessary. It would then be up to the PCC to have a local policy to control the associated behavior => tear down, revoking delegation

[Pce] draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce : Switching from Passive Stateful to Active Stateful

2016-10-14 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, One question about the new procedure with introduced couple of weeks ago about delegation. We are stating that the PCReq/PCRep is required before delegation which is fine, but what happens if PCE is answering NO-PATH in the PCReq, does it prevent delegation ? There is an ambiguous sentence

[Pce] FW: New Version Notification for draft-litkowski-pce-association-diversity-00.txt

2016-10-25 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Folks, We just posted a new draft that adds new association-types to signal LSP diversity constraint in PCEP. Feel free to provide your comments. Best Regards, Stephane -Original Message- From: internet-dra...@ietf.org [mailto:internet-dra...@ietf.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2

Re: [Pce] Comments on draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-08

2016-11-14 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Cyril, Please find some inline comments. Brgds, From: Pce [mailto:pce-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Cyril Margaria Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 23:40 To: pce@ietf.org Subject: [Pce] Comments on draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-08 Dear PCE'ers I reviewed the document and I have the follow

Re: [Pce] I-D Action: draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce-17.txt

2016-11-16 Thread stephane.litkowski
Thanks a lot Ina for the draft update. From: Pce [mailto:pce-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Ina Minei Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2016 10:36 To: pce Subject: Re: [Pce] I-D Action: draft-ietf-pce-stateful-pce-17.txt This version addresses: 1) Clarification regarding the possibility of an empty E

Re: [Pce] Comments on draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-08

2016-11-16 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi More inline [SLI2] From: Cyril Margaria [mailto:cyril.marga...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 23:37 To: LITKOWSKI Stephane OBS/OINIS Cc: pce@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Pce] Comments on draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-08 Hi Stephane, please see inline On 14 November 2016 at 13:05,

Re: [Pce] Poll for Adoption of draft-dhody-pce-association-policy

2016-11-29 Thread stephane.litkowski
Support as co-author -Original Message- From: Pce [mailto:pce-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Julien Meuric Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2016 17:04 To: pce@ietf.org Subject: [Pce] Poll for Adoption of draft-dhody-pce-association-policy Hi all, Though it is a -00, draft-dhody-pce-associati

Re: [Pce] Poll for adoption: draft-litkowski-pce-association-diversity

2017-01-11 Thread stephane.litkowski
Support as author From: Jonathan Hardwick [mailto:jonathan.hardw...@metaswitch.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 14:45 To: pce@ietf.org Cc: pce-cha...@ietf.org; draft-litkowski-pce-association-divers...@ietf.org Subject: Poll for adoption: draft-litkowski-pce-association-diversity This is s

Re: [Pce] Poll for adoption: draft-litkowski-pce-association-diversity

2017-01-12 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Dhruv, Thanks for your support and comments. We will take care of them. The first point that I want to highlight is about the choice of having 4 different association types. This helps to ensure consistency in the requests and prevents two head ends to request a different disjoint type for th

Re: [Pce] Poll for adoption: draft-litkowski-pce-association-diversity

2017-03-13 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Adrian, We just posted a v01 that tried to address your comments. Some encoding/procedures proposed still requires discussion for sure. Please let us know your feedback. We have an on going discussion with the authors of the base association group draft. Your last point on security may be ad

Re: [Pce] Stateful PCE: inconsistency in "resource limit" text

2017-05-09 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, I think the main point is what does the session reset bring here ? IMO nothing in that case, your session will constantly bounce until the someone reduce the number of states sent by a particular PCC which will create even more load on the PCE. This is an event that cannot be corrected by t

Re: [Pce] Is there any activity related to PCE graceful restart?

2017-06-22 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Sasha, As Dhruv mentioned, restarting a PCE is not a big deal, we have already the mechanism defined to handle this without traffic disruption. Your email mentions also, PCC control plane restart which is a bit more tricky IMO. >From a PCC point of view, I think you request the PCC to keep t

Re: [Pce] Is there any activity related to PCE graceful restart?

2017-06-23 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Dhruv, If the PCE keeps a "stale state" from the PCC, in the framework of state-sync, we need a way to indicate to other PCEs that the state is stale, so if the master PCE is another PCE, it will not try to update the state for this LSP until the PCC is back online. Brgds, From: Dhruv Dh

Re: [Pce] PCEP as an SDN controller protocol?

2017-07-24 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, As soon as we started with the active stateful PCE, the PCE became an SDN controller who takes decision and programs the network. So as many already mentioned, PCEP as an SBI is already done. IMO, PCECC does not change significantly PCEP, it's just bring a new kind of LSP style for this hop

Re: [Pce] PCEP as an SDN controller protocol?

2017-07-25 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, You can use RESTCONF, NETCONF or anything similar (CLI ?) to provision paths as you can do with PCEP. Nothing prevents to do that. Brgds, From: Igor Bryskin [mailto:igor.brys...@huawei.com] Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 14:53 To: LITKOWSKI Stephane OBS/OINIS; Jonathan Hardwick; pce@ietf.org C

[Pce] FW: I-D Action: draft-litkowski-pce-state-sync-02.txt

2017-08-28 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi WG, We published a new version of the state sync draft which modifies the procedure to "forward" a PCReport onto the state-sync sessions. To ensure that all PCEs always have the latest state and does not override a state by an oldest one that was late on the wire, we propose to rely on the L

[Pce] draft-ietf-pce-association-diversity: relaxing constraint

2017-11-13 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi WG, In the latest version of draft-ietf-pce-association-diversity we added a new TLV called RELAXED-CONSTRAINT-TLV to be used in LSP Object of a PCUpdate message when the PCE relaxes the requested disjointness constraint. For instance, if a PCC requests an SRLG disjoint path but the PCE cann

Re: [Pce] draft-ietf-pce-association-diversity: relaxing constraint

2017-11-13 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Daniele, Thanks for your feedback. If we go to a generic mechanism, IMO, this should be addressed in a separate document. In addition, we need a generic way for a PCC to tell the PCE that a constraint is relaxable or strict. For diversity, we have a dedicated flag within the DISJOINTNESS TLV

[Pce] Clarifications on PST handling in draft-ietf-pce-lsp-setup-type & draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing

2017-11-13 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi WG, I'm facing an interop issue between two PCEP implementations. PCE from vendor1 sends the PCInitiate for an SRTE LSP using the PST=1 in the SRP Object. PCC from vendor2 handles it correctly and delegates the LSP to the PCE using PST=1. When the PCE sends a PCUpdate message, it does not set

Re: [Pce] draft-ietf-pce-association-diversity: relaxing constraint

2017-11-13 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Olivier, I do not agree with what you mentioned. The metric object is defined (but not limited to) to set a constraint on the metric: what I should optimize for (IGP metric, TE metric, both…) and is there a boundary that I should not exceed. Nothing says that the constraint can be relaxed by

Re: [Pce] Clarifications on PST handling in draft-ietf-pce-lsp-setup-type & draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing

2017-11-14 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Jon, Thanks for your feedback. I see two possibilities here. 1) When the PATH-SETUP-TYPE is not present in a PCUpd, it should be inferred from the latest one received (in a PCInitiate or in a PCUpd). When initiating an LSP, the PCInitiate contains the PST to let the PCC know about the

Re: [Pce] Clarifications on PST handling in draft-ietf-pce-lsp-setup-type & draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing

2017-11-15 Thread stephane.litkowski
Thanks Jon. From: Jonathan Hardwick [mailto:jonathan.hardw...@metaswitch.com] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 11:51 To: LITKOWSKI Stephane OBS/OINIS; pce@ietf.org Subject: RE: Clarifications on PST handling in draft-ietf-pce-lsp-setup-type & draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing Hi Stephane OK, let'

Re: [Pce] Clarifications on PST handling in draft-ietf-pce-lsp-setup-type & draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing

2017-11-16 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Julien, > Over a PCEP session supporting multiple types, we do not have a mean to send > a PCReq leaving the type selection to the PCE (no TLV implying type 0). I do not see the use case here. In addition, I'm not sure that the PCE always know what are the setup types actively supported by

Re: [Pce] I-D Action: draft-ietf-pce-lsp-setup-type-06.txt

2017-11-20 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi Jon, Thanks for the update. One comment regarding this paragraph: "If the peer has sent no PATH-SETUP-TYPE-CAPABILITY TLV, then the PCEP speaker MUST infer that the peer supports path setup using at least RSVP-TE. The PCEP speaker MAY also infer that the peer supports other path setup

Re: [Pce] I-D Action: draft-ietf-pce-lsp-setup-type-06.txt

2017-11-21 Thread stephane.litkowski
Sounds reasonable. Thanks -Original Message- From: Jonathan Hardwick [mailto:jonathan.hardw...@metaswitch.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 09:28 To: LITKOWSKI Stephane OBS/OINIS; pce@ietf.org Cc: MEURIC Julien IMT/OLN Subject: RE: [Pce] I-D Action: draft-ietf-pce-lsp-setup-type-06.

Re: [Pce] WG LC of draft-ietf-pce-association-group

2018-02-01 Thread stephane.litkowski
Support -Original Message- From: Pce [mailto:pce-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Julien Meuric Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 15:10 To: pce@ietf.org Subject: [Pce] WG LC of draft-ietf-pce-association-group Hi all, This message initiates a 2-week WG last call for draft-ietf-pce-associa

Re: [Pce] WG adoption poll for draft-ananthakrishnan-pce-stateful-path-protection-05

2018-03-28 Thread stephane.litkowski
Support From: Pce [mailto:pce-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Hardwick Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 13:10 To: pce@ietf.org; draft-ananthakrishnan-pce-stateful-path-protect...@ietf.org Cc: pce-cha...@ietf.org Subject: [Pce] WG adoption poll for draft-ananthakrishnan-pce-stateful-path-pro

Re: [Pce] [mpls] Comments on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label

2018-07-05 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, Thanks for your comment. Pls find some inline replies Brgds, Stephane From: mpls [mailto:mpls-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of ???(??) Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 05:34 To: m...@ietf.org Cc: l...@ietf.org; pce@ietf.org Subject: [mpls] Comments on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label Hi all

Re: [Pce] [mpls] Comments on draft-ietf-mpls-spring-entropy-label

2018-07-06 Thread stephane.litkowski
[Xiaohu] Yes there is no need for them to advertise the ELC. However, there is a need for them to advertise the capability of reading the maximum label stack depth and performing EL-based load-balancing, if I understood it correctly. IMHO, it seems better that the ELC and the ERLD are defined as

Re: [Pce] IPR poll on draft-ietf-pce-association-diversity

2019-04-15 Thread stephane.litkowski
Hi, I’m not aware of any non already disclosed IPR. From: Pce [mailto:pce-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Hariharan Ananthakrishnan Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 04:57 To: draft-ietf-pce-association-divers...@ietf.org Cc: pce@ietf.org Subject: [Pce] IPR poll on draft-ietf-pce-association-divers