Hi Everyone,




We received a lot of valuable feedback during yesterday's presentation. A lot 
of Thanks to Keten for helping to answer the questions during the discussion in 
yesterday's meeting. Here, we have compiled the questions and comments we 
received from the queue and chat and tried to provide responses. We hope to 
receive more feedback from the WG members. If there are any missing commnets, 
please help to supplement them. 




1. Himanshu Shah: SR Policy is based on intent. All the CPs are there and being 
monitored. Do we need your mechanism to select the canadidate path?

[Reply] This mechanism is used for situations where the quality of CP 
forwarding changes, such as a decrease in latency. The head end node can 
monitor the results in real-time for CP switching, improving the response speed 
to changes in network forwarding quality.

2.   Susan Hares:  Can you tell me what how the adding this will change the 
amount of data flow that occurs? Will it change the rate of sending  candidate 
routes? Will it increase it? Will it decrease it? I realize why you might want 
it, but can you have you looked at what it does to the flow pattern of the BGP 
updates?

[Reply]  This mechanism will not affect the forwarding of data flow, nor will 
affect the distribution of BGP SR Policy routing. As the threshold for network 
quality parameters, the configuration will only be issued once through BGP SR 
Policy, and the head end node will monitor the network quality and complete CP 
switching based on the threshold.

3.  Shraddha Hegde: The active CP can be updated by controller to satisfy all 
the resource requirement. why isn't that an option and a new candidate path 
selection needed?

[Reply] Providing this mechanism is to not rely on the controller and for the 
head end node  to do the monitoring. e.g., delay measurement.

4.  Martin Horneffer : the current path selection procedure is complex enough. 
IMHO a single preference is enough.

[Reply] This mechanism is perhaps better done by marking a CP which is say 
seeing delay over a threshold as invalid.  So it  doesn't  change the 
tiebreaker.

5. Antoine Fressancourt : Is it the case that the SR policy is announced once, 
and the thresholds are updated several times after the initial SR policy 
announcement ?

[Reply]The threshold does not change as they are configured but then monitored 
for CPs. The thresholds are only configured once. 

6. Himanshu Shah :  It is an additional CP selection criteria based on SLA 
threshold. My point is that this is implicit in SR-Policy creation that TE is 
monitored

[Reply] It becomes super complication if we try to change the selection process 
by all these parameters. But this mechanism can simplify the process by marking 
a CP crossing a threshold as "invalid" and then fallback to existing CP 
selection in RFC9256.

7. Antoine Fressancourt : This is what I supposed a PCE / controller would do, 
maybe announcing threshold is required for explaining the path selection for 
requesting routers

[Reply] The thresholds only need to announce once from the controller to the 
head end node and the head end node can monitor the forwarding quality of CPs 
according to the thresholds. 

8. Himanshu Shah:  The built-in assumption on SR-Policy that all the CPs are 
calculated based on the intent that is monitored periodically so when not met.. 
you select the next priority CP

[Reply] It depends on the policy to do the implementation keep monitoring all 
CPs all the time or only to do so for specific CPs when needed.

9. Srihari Sangli : Another point is that, each ingress is better suited to 
check the CP from its point of view as opposed to do all verification from a 
centralized entity.

[Reply] Yes, this is also the starting point for us to propose this mechanism.




Please help to further review the draft 
(https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-liu-spring-sr-policy-flexible-path-selection/)

If you have more questions and comments , welcome to let us know. 










Best Regards

Yisong on behalf of co-authors



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