Hi Sasha,

Here are some thoughts about why the MTN or optical underlay connection may not 
be seen as L3 links.

MTN or Optical underlay path is usually unidirectional from the ingress IP node 
to the egress IP node, although provisioning and associating them into 
bidirectional paths is possible. This makes it different from a functional 
layer-3 link. Thus we think it needs to be distinguished from a layer-3 
adjacency. In addition, for such an underlay path, the associated attributes 
could be different from those of L3 links, this could be reflected in the 
distribution of the underlay path information in control plane.

With the above difference, do you think a new variant of End.X behavior is 
needed? Thanks.

Best regards,
Jie

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Liuyan,
Lots of thanks for your response.

Two points that I have been trying to make:

  1.  (Minor) The draft does not say how the information required for 
forwarding Layer 3 (IP or MPLS) packets via a Layer 1 path can be obtained and 
used. It does not even mention that such information is required
  2.  (Major) The new End behavior seems superfluous because, as I see it, the 
same functionality can be provided by annuunsing the underlay path to the IP 
layer and using already defined and deployed mechanisms.
Hopefully these notes will be useful.

Regards,
Sasha

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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: RE: My question at the mike 
aboutdraft-dong-spring-srv6-inter-layer-programming

Hi Sasha,

Thank you for your questions and discussion. I'm sorry I hesitated for a while 
online and lost the chance to reply it in time. Jie (also author) answered this 
on the spot.

As Jie stated, I think the possible ways: the underlay path information could 
be announced to the IP layer by the control plane, or all the information 
(non-IP) is collected by the centralized controller.

The intermediate node that is allocated an END.XU SID could perform the 
processing according to the pre configured or pre notified L2/L1 mapping 
relationship (I think it will not rely on the packet L2 encapsulation).

The examples we gave yesterday were mainly L1. We can add some more in the next 
version.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Liuyan


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发件人: Dongjie (Jimmy)
发送时间: 2022-11-08  18:45:40
收件人: Alexander Vainshtein; 
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主题: RE: My question at the mike 
aboutdraft-dong-spring-srv6-inter-layer-programming
Hi Sasha,

This is a good question. I tried to answer your question on the mic. My reply 
was that such information may be obtained as part of the underlay path 
instantiation via either control plane or management plane.

The detail of layer-2 encapsulation is not covered in the current draft. We 
will add something in next version.

Best regards,
Jie

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Subject: [spring] My question at the mike about 
draft-dong-spring-srv6-inter-layer-programming

Hi,
I would like to repeat the question I have asked at the mike during the SPRING 
WG session today about 
draft-dong-spring-srv6-inter-layer-programming<https://clicktime.symantec.com/15t5Zs5jSWemT7Dk8pugX?h=wPozKPXDLeGHRvEtpMbdBrAxN8jofY3wm_tWbfJrQMc=&u=https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-dong-spring-srv6-inter-layer-programming-04>:

How would the node that has allocated an End.XU SID for a specific underlay 
link (i.e., non-IP) identify the Layer 2 encapsulation that has to be pushed on 
the packet with the End.XU SID exposed?

The reference to End.X behavior in Section 4.2 of RFC 
8986<https://clicktime.symantec.com/15t5ehH1u8LMs43fgPJq9?h=RLOWlbz2OCMTaTgR5WVyfcz9lNVAL5FLEbD-XJINGWI=&u=https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8986%23section-4.2>
 looks incorrect to me since End.X explicitly speaks about a L3 X-connect and 
usual Layer 2 helpers ARP and/or ND) would be applicable.
But this is not the case for a path for a non-IP path IMHO.

I may have missed the details of the response by the presenter, but my gut 
feeling is that my question has not been answered.

Regards, and thanks n advance for the feedback,
Sasha


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