Ali: 

 

[IDR WG chair hat on] 

If you or anyone you know has specific information on implementations provide 
it to the wiki at

 

https://trac.ietf.org/trac/idr/wiki/draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps%20implementations

 

The IDR group welcomes specific implementation reports.  Please note the 
implementation form requires the submitter to provide their name and links to 
appropriate documentation.    

 

The WG process has run for a long time on this draft (over a year) and you have 
not commented on the draft.   Unless we have specific implementation 
information on EVPN in implementations and RFC 8365, it is difficult to ask the 
authors to re-open the process.  

[IDR Chair hat off]

 

[Shepherd hat on] 

 

I’ll await the authors to respond to your comment about:

 

1) the sub-bullet text adding to  -17.txt, 

2) your comment on RFC 8365

3) the removed paragraph.

 

It is inappropriate as a shepherd to speak for the authors until they do the 
first review. 

[shepherd hat off] 

 

Thank you for bringing up potential issues with the 
draft-ietf-tunnel-encapsulation-17.txt.   

 

Cheerily, Susan Hares 

 

 

 

From: Ali Sajassi (sajassi) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 9:18 PM
To: Susan Hares; [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: 'Hu, Jun (Nokia - US/Mountain View)'
Subject: Re: IPSec Tunnels and draft-sajassi-bess-secure-evpn 

 

Sue,

 

I am afraid if we don’t clean up the draft, it can cause confusion as it has 
already and result in immediate errata filing for it after publication. A 
sub-bullet got added to the latest rev (rev17) that is not correct. It says 
that the VxLAN sub-tlv is sent with EVPN route when V bit not set. However, 
EVPN never uses this sub-tlv as its routes has all the needed info. 
Furthermore, RFC 8365 is very clear that EVPN uses Tunnel Encapsulation 
Extended Community (per section 4.1). As I said, I am not aware of any of the 
vendors using these sub-TVLs and it is easy to have a quick poll.

 

Regarding the paragraph that got omitted, it is making it much more ambiguous 
than it used to. I would opt for clarifying the paragraph rather than removing 
it. If needed I can provide an updated paragraph. Section 9 of RFC 8365 
specifies how a VPN multicast route can be advertised with PMSI tunnel 
attribute and Encapsulation extended community and has been implemented by many 
vendors.

 

Cheers,

Ali

 

 

From: Susan Hares <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, July 31, 2020 at 5:02 AM
To: Cisco Employee <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, 
"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "'Hu, Jun (Nokia - US/Mountain View)'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: IPSec Tunnels and draft-sajassi-bess-secure-evpn 

 

Ali:

 

It is wise to start with the RFC6514 and the 
draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encapsulation draft.   

 

[WG chair hat on] 

The tunnel-encapsulation draft has passed general WG LC – so it is 
inappropriate to call for the request to remove these sections.  The WG LC that 
is currently running is whether to remove the “AS” field from the tunnel 
endpoint field, and replace it with a reserved field. 

 

The implementation page is on: 

https://trac.ietf.org/trac/idr/wiki/draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps%20implementations

 

If you wish to provide information on the cisco implementation, you are welcome 
to add information on the page. 

I can call for an update to the page from vendors.

 

[WG chair hat off[

[Document shepherd hat on] 

 

The issue is during the edits the text from RFC6514 from Eric Rosen was 
unclear.  The text was: 





   It has been suggested that it may sometimes be useful to attach a

   Tunnel Encapsulation attribute to a BGP UPDATE message that is also

   carrying a PMSI (Provider Multicast Service Interface) Tunnel

   attribute [ <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6514> RFC6514].  If 
the PMSI Tunnel attribute specifies an IP

   tunnel, the Tunnel Encapsulation attribute could be used to provide

   additional information about the IP tunnel.  The usage of the Tunnel

   Encapsulation attribute in combination with the PMSI Tunnel attribute

   is outside the scope of this document.

 

Since the text itself was unclear what additional information could be 
provided, the authors removed it from the draft. 

 

As we had not received any feedback about active RFC6514 interactions on the 
list. 

 

[document shepherd off]

 

If you have an implementation of the interaction between the RF6514 and tunnel 
encapsulation, it would be valuable to provide:

 

a)  either a draft specifying the interaction you wish to IDR WG, or  

b)  comments that could replace the original the original text. 

 

Since the IDR draft has gone through multiple WG LC and a very complete review 
from Alvaro – so a quick response would be appreciated.   IMHO a draft on the 
interaction between RFC6514 and the tunnel-encapsulation draft – would be the 
best thing at this point.  Let me know if you are interested in working on such 
a draft. 

 

Sue 

 

 

From: Ali Sajassi (sajassi) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 1:54 AM
To: Susan Hares; [email protected]; [email protected]
Cc: 'Hu, Jun (Nokia - US/Mountain View)'
Subject: Re: IPSec Tunnels and draft-sajassi-bess-secure-evpn 

 

<added [email protected]>

 

Sue,

 

Before getting to the discussions of the three IPsec proposals, there are some 
elements of draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps-17.txt that I can see might have 
caused some confusions and I’d like to get those sorted out first. 

 

The tunnel-encap draft specifies sub-tlv for VxLAN, VxLAN GDP, and NVGRE in 
sections 3.2.1, 3.2.2, and 3.2.3. I am not aware of any vendor that has 
implemented these sub-tlvs because the info in these sub-tlv already exist in 
EVPN routes (e.g., MAC addresses, Ethernet Tags, etc.) which they have 
implemented it. Therefore, all the vendors that I am aware of use Extended 
Community  defined in section 4.1  along with EVPN routes to signal VxLAN and 
GENEVE tunnel types. Furthermore, I am not aware of anyone using NVGRE encap! 
So, as the first step, we should remove these three sections from the draft if 
there is no objection. 

 

Cheers,

Ali

 

From: Susan Hares <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 8:30 AM
To: Cisco Employee <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "'Hu, Jun (Nokia - US/Mountain View)'" <[email protected]>
Subject: IPSec Tunnels and draft-sajassi-bess-secure-evpn 

 

Ali and bess WG: 

 

IDR has 3 proposals for IPsec tunnels that impact 
draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps-17.txt.  As an IDR co-chair/shepherd,  I have been 
discussing these three drafts (Ali and two other authors sets) to try to find 
out if we can have one general solutions.   

 

The discussion has been very fruitful to point up BGP issues of 
interoperability, security, privacy, manageability, and scaling.  For example, 
there is a lack of a clear specification between RFC6514 (PMSI tunnel 
attribute) and the tunnel-encaps draft that specifies how these drafts 
interoperate.  I suspect the bess and idr chairs will need to discuss if 
tunnel-encaps has to address this point. 

 

I wrote up my ideas in draft-hares-idr-bgp-ipsec-analysis-00.txt so the authors 
could tell me what I misunderstood.   You’ll find this draft stops half way.  I 
have the rest of the draft written, but I wanted feedback from all the author 
teams before sending it out. 

 

After hearing some of the details from the authors, I would like to sponsor an 
IDR interim so we could discuss these issues at length.   If you think this is 
a good idea, please let me know. 

 

One other thing… unfortunately, I scheduled a set of meetings for EDT time 
after IETF meetings this week.   Your next response will occur from 11-16 UTC 
on Wednesday. 

 

Cheerily, Sue 

 

 

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