Hi Peng,

Thanks for the draft acknowledgement. Regarding your question about REPLACE/ 
REPLACEB6

Why we need DT4/DT6/DT46/ DX6/DX4 sids, they are also " local behavior of the 
BGP egress speaker".
End.DX6 - Decapsulation and IPv6 Cross-Connect.
End.DX4: Decapsulation and IPv4 Cross-Connect
End.DT6: Decapsulation and Specific IPv6 Table Lookup
End.DT4: Decapsulation and Specific IPv4 Table Lookup
End.DT46: Decapsulation and Specific IP Table Lookup

By having separate SID at egress for each Endpoint Behavior, it will be well 
defined.

On similar lines we have well defined Endpoint Behavior REPLACE and REPLACEB6 
sids. Hope this clarifies.

Thanks
Rajesh



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Hi authors,

Thanks for bringing SRv6 SID swaping idea in the distributed scenario.

I think there is valid case when the target prefix originated from remote 
domain is invisible or unreachable to the intermediate nodes of the local 
domain, and the intermediate nodes of the local domain have routes to the 
REPLACE SID allocated by the border node of the local domain.

However, the question as I raised at the meeting, REPLACEB6 may be not 
necessary, because it is the local behavior of the BGP speaker to swap a single 
SID or a segment list.

It may be not appropriate to advertise prefix with REPLACE behavior to the 
upstream neighbor at time-1, and re-advertise the same prefix with REPLACEB6 
behavior at time-2 just because its forwarding information is changed from a 
single outgoing SID to a SID list. Otherwise, it will cause excessive 
advertisement overhead in the network. Just like MPLS BGP-LU, the difference of 
a single outgoing label or an outgoing label stack at the local node is not 
aware by upstream node.

There may be some reasons for re-advertisement, such as the need to announce a 
new metric, but these reasons do not support the need for REPLACEB6.

Regards,
PSF
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