Hi Tarek,

Thanks for your comment, please see some replies inline:

From: spring [mailto:spring-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Tarek Saad
Sent: Sunday, July 26, 2020 2:57 AM
To: James Guichard <james.n.guich...@futurewei.com>; spring@ietf.org
Cc: spring-cha...@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [spring] WG Adoption Call for draft-dong-spring-sr-for-enhanced-vpn

Hi WG,

This document is touching important topics regarding forwarding on specific set 
of resources in the network (such as those that define a network slice).
For this, it's important to be able to identify transiting traffic as belonging 
to a specific slice so as to impose the specific behavior upon forwarding the 
traffic on the associated resources.

This draft is proposing to allocate/assign different labels/SIDs (per 
topological element - either node or link) to identify the specific resource 
per slice and the respective forwarding behavior.
This may work for smaller networks (and for limited number of slices), but 
there are concerns that it would run into scale problems (related to # of 
required labels to allocate and amount of IGP state required for the different 
SIDs) - as number of topological elements in the network grows and number of 
vertical/ horizontal slices grows.

[Jie] Glad to know that you also think this is an important topic and can be 
useful for cases such as network slicing (while its applicability is general). 
This document describes the SR based mechanism for this. As mentioned in 
section 2 of this document, it requires additional SIDs and SRv6 Locators to be 
allocated, thus its applicability is for scenarios with limited number of 
virtual networks. The amount of IGP state is discussed in the relevant control 
plane drafts in LSR WG.

It might be useful to define a mechanism by which specific allocated resources 
for a given link or node are to be identified and not describe how virtual 
network topologies are to be constructed. This is because the topologies are 
not necessarily virtual and because there are a multiplicity of uses for this 
mechanism beyond constructing subsets of the underlay network topology.

We believe encoding the slice identifier separate from the forwarding 
instruction can yield better scale and still allow for steering on the specific 
resource. We intend to publish something along those lines in the coming next 
couple of weeks to gather more feedback.

[Jie] The scalability topic is further described in 
draft-dong-teas-enhanced-vpn-vtn-scalability in TEAS WG, which also provides 
some guidance for optimization, your review and comment to it are welcome. 
Thanks.

Best regards,
Jie

Regards,
Tarek


From: spring <spring-boun...@ietf.org<mailto:spring-boun...@ietf.org>> on 
behalf of James Guichard 
<james.n.guich...@futurewei.com<mailto:james.n.guich...@futurewei.com>>
Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 7:17 AM
To: "spring@ietf.org<mailto:spring@ietf.org>" 
<spring@ietf.org<mailto:spring@ietf.org>>
Cc: "spring-cha...@ietf.org<mailto:spring-cha...@ietf.org>" 
<spring-cha...@ietf.org<mailto:spring-cha...@ietf.org>>
Subject: [spring] WG Adoption Call for draft-dong-spring-sr-for-enhanced-vpn

Dear WG:

This email begins a 2 week WG adoption call for 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dong-spring-sr-for-enhanced-vpn/ ending 
Wednesday 29th July 2020.

Please speak up if you support or oppose adopting this document into the WG.. 
Please also provide comments/reasons for that support (or lack thereof). 
Silence will not be considered consent.

Thanks!

Jim, Joel & Bruno



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