Basil,

Thank you very much for the comments.
Here are the proposed resolution to your suggestion:

Linda Dunbar

From: Najem, Basil <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 5:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; 
[email protected]
Subject: RE BGP Usage for SDWAN Overlay Networks Adoption

Good Day;

As one of the authors of the this document "BGP Usage for SDWAN Overlay 
Networks draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage-06 " (see the link 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage/<https://nam11.safelinks..protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fdraft-dunbar-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage%2F&data=02%7C01%7Clinda.dunbar%40futurewei.com%7C1db8524de50e49b6c7fd08d81ed552a5%7C0fee8ff2a3b240189c753a1d5591fedc%7C1%7C1%7C637293248859576217&sdata=ps3r8tjKf%2Bd0Vv5GxCSpRdqvfU5qzPpq0C8vIDyDyCY%3D&reserved=0>),
 I support the adoption of the document ONLY if the following comments are 
taken into the consideration:



  1.  Section 1, Page 3: There more characteristics of the SDWAN Service that 
needs to be captured. For example, the Application Routing based on specific 
performance criteria (e.g. packets delay, packet loos, jitter) is used to  
provide better application performance by choosing the right underlay that 
meets or exceeds the specified criteria; SD-WAN is doing this efficiently. This 
must be added for clarity and to avoid any misleading to the reader
[Linda]  The following bullet is added to the characteristics of the SDWAN:

  *   The Application Routing can also be based on specific performance 
criteria (e.g. packets delay, packet loos, jitter) to provide better 
application performance by choosing the right underlay that meets or exceeds 
the specified criteria.



  1.  Section 2, Page 5:  What's the definition of the "SDWAN edge node"? Also, 
the SDWAN End-point has different definition at MEF 70.x; is the SDWAN 
End-point (in this document) the same as  the one in MEF 70.x? We need to be 
clear about using the right terminology and its usage.

[Linda] Remoted the terminology of "SDWAN End-point". SDWAN Edge has the 
following definition:
SDWAN Edge Node:  an edge node, which can be physical or virtual, maps the 
attached clients' traffic to the wide area network (WAN) overlay tunnels.



  1.  Section 3.1.1, Page 6: it would be good to include the reference to and 
the picture of the format of the proposed BGP Extended Community value (i.e. 
SD-WAN Target ID) and its value
[Linda] The BGP encoding is specified in IDR WG. We can add a reference here.


  1.  Section 3.3, Page 11: For clarity add (after the end of the paragraph) 
the following sentence "If all the traffic is encrypted on all WAN ports (i.e. 
the C-PE WAN ports that are connected to the Internet and Private VPN network), 
then this will be similar to Scenario#1"

[Linda] all the traffic encrypted on all WAN ports is already covered by the 
Scenario #1. This scenario is to emphasize that client data/flows can go 
through VPN without encryption and Internet with encryption.


  1.  Section 4.1, Page 17 (Fig. 6): There is NO colors in the figure; there 
should be RED and BLUE colors in the figure to match the paragraph
[Linda] Thank you for catching this.


  1.  Section 4.2, Page 18 (Fig. 7): There is NO Purple nor RED colors in the 
figure. There should be colors in the figure
[Linda] fixed.


  1.  Section 5.2, Page 22: This paragraph is not clear! the SD-WAN doesn't 
interact with the underlay PE nor it does exchange keys/policies with the PE.

[Linda] which paragraph you are referring to?   The Section 5.2 is assuming all 
SDWAN edge nodes are PEs.  I added a phrase to the following statement:
[SECURE-L3VPN] describes how to extend the RFC4364 VPN to allow some PEs being 
connected to other PEs via public networks. In this scenario, the PEs is the 
SDWAN Edge nodes.

This is not the intent of the SD-WAN (as an overlay service). What's the 
purpose of this section?
[Linda] this scenario is to refer to addition IPsec tunnels added to  MPLS PEs


  1.  Section 6, Page 26: The SDWAN Edge node that is directly connected to the 
Client Network (CN) learns the routes from the client (at this specific 
location) and then re-distribute this to the RR. This is needs to be clarified 
here

[Linda] Made the following change
SDWAN overlay networks utilize the SDWAN controller to facilitate route 
distribution, central configurations, and others. SDWAN Edge nodes need to 
advertise the attached routes to their controller (i.e. RR in BGP case).


Best Regards;

Basil Najem





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