Hi Uma, > [Uma]: SRH in the proposal not only put a sort of mobility solution (encoded > in the SID) but also use to guide the packet through non shortest path from > the source as needed and as listed in the SRH. > It would be nice to have a concrete example of how this would be used and how SR uniquely solves the problem.
> One of the assumption, I saw the discussion here, ILA and > 5GIP seems to assume delivering the packet to the shortest path but this may > not be necessary the case for lot of 5G slices and also tunneling in couple > of cases is unavoidable (if you ought to overlay IPSec in few cases). > I believe you could get the same effect for either ILA or encapsulation by doing hop-by-hop routing over a network overlay. As I mentioned, the operation in slide "Basic Mode User-Plane Flows (Uplink)" where A3::1 is written into the destination seems to be doing just that. Tom _______________________________________________ dmm mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dmm
