On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Satoru Matsushima
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Thank you Tom,
>
> Unfortunately I couldn’t find clear advantage of GUE against GTP-U. (No 
> offensive, please don’t get me wrong.)
>
> I couldn’t see GUE in NVO WG doc list. But I can see much more foo-over-UDP 
> type encapsulation in IETF.

It's not in nvo3, it's now WGLC in intarea. See draft-ietf-intarea-gue
and draft-ietf-intarea-gue-extensions.

> IMO Unified concept in that encapsulation doesn’t seem to work i.n that 
> circumstance. When it comes to WiFi case, IETF has CAPWAP as the user plane 
> protocol which is also a foo-over-UDP variation.
>
Rigtht so if a WiFi network needs to talk to 3GPP network for a
roaming device, what protocol are they going to use?

> Nevertheless I think that that aspect would be a criteria for user plane 
> protocols comparison provided to 3GPP. But I don’t think it is good idea that 
> we provides 3GPP all kind of foo-over-UDP encapsulation protocols in IETF. It 
> would be better to pick SRv6 and some generic foo-over-UDP protocol to be 
> compared with GTP-U supported functionalities.
>
GUE is the generic foo-over-UDP protocol for that purpose.

> Basic functionalities of GTP-U is that sequence number option, 
> extension-headers, and multicast and those should be the part of criteria. 
> IMO as you suggested, overhead size, performance, TE, extensibility and 
> encryption would be good idea for the criteria in addition to the above 
> fundamental ones.
>
> Best regards,
> --satoru
>
>
>
>> 2018/03/27 11:51、Tom Herbert <[email protected]>のメール:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 6:30 PM, Satoru Matsushima
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Thank you Tom for your suggestion.
>>>
>>> Do you think that GUE has some advantages against GTP-U?
>>
>> I believe so. GUE is designed to be a general purposed multi use case
>> encapsulation. The defined GUE extensions deal with problems and
>> provide features of encapsulation (header security, fragmentation,
>> payload security, checksum handling etc.). This is done without
>> resorting to expensive TLV processing. GUE also allows "private data"
>> that could be used for use case specific info-- so TLVs or GTP
>> extensions could be encoded so in that sense it's a superset of GTP
>> functionality. As I mentioned, GUE has a mode for encapsulating IP in
>> UDP with minimal overhead (direct IP over UDP).
>>
>>> When it comes to foo over UDP capsulation, does GUE benefit user plane 
>>> beyond GTP-U?
>>>
>> I think so. Perhaps the biggest advantage is the GUE can be used
>> accross different use cases and technologies. It's generic protocol so
>> it could be used for multiple use cases in a mobile network. For
>> instance, a UE might talk to a a low latency service application via
>> GUE. To the server this looks much more like simple virtualization or
>> encapsulation and GUE includes potential optimizations. Similarly, GUE
>> also could be use to connect across different access technologies that
>> might not be 3GPP (like roaming between WIFI and a mobile network).
>> Conceptually, other IETF defined encapsulations could also be used for
>> this (e.g. IPIP, LISP, GRE, VXLAN), but GUE is specifically designed
>> to be multi use case, low overhead, but still extensible.
>>
>> We intend to use ILA in a similar multi-use case fashion, however when
>> encapsulation is required (like SR TE is needed, or we need an
>> encrypted tunnel) then I believe GUE is a good alternative for that
>> case to provide necessary functionality and extensibility.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>>> 2018/03/27 9:16、Tom Herbert <[email protected]>のメール:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 9:27 AM, Sri Gundavelli (sgundave)
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> FYI. This is the notes that Carlos captured. Thank you Carlos!!
>>>>>
>>>>> We are also waiting for Lyle to share his notes. Please review and
>>>>> comment, if you see any mistakes.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With regards to SR encapsulation: "this is using IP-in-IP as default.
>>>> Why not using UDP encapsulation?"
>>>>
>>>> There is some rationale for UDP encapsulation here to maximize
>>>> compatibility with the network and potentially intermediate nodes like
>>>> firewalls. For example, in the performance numbers that Kalyani
>>>> posted, the TPS for SR over IPIP routing was lower than other
>>>> encapsulations. The reason for this is that the particular NIC (ixgbe)
>>>> is not parsing over IPIP or using flow label to get a good hash for
>>>> RSS. This is symptomatic of network devices that don't provide as good
>>>> support for protocols outside of TCP and UDP. There are likely routers
>>>> that would not be able to provide flow specific ECMP for similar
>>>> reasons. There was a comment in dmm meeting that ECMP for IPIP was
>>>> expected to by solved by using flow label in the hash. This is a great
>>>> idea, but unfortunately there is significant resistance to using flow
>>>> label for this purpose since it is not guaranteed to be persistent for
>>>> a flow and that can cause problems for stateful devices like
>>>> firewalls.
>>>>
>>>> UDP encapsulation is the typical answer to network protocol
>>>> compatibility. Several UDP encapsulation techniques have been defined
>>>> as well as some foo over UDP to run existing encapsulations over UDP
>>>> (e.g. MPLS/UDP, GRE/UDP). draft-ietf-rtgwg-dt-encap gives a nice
>>>> overview of considerations for UDP encap protocols.
>>>>
>>>> If a UDP encapsulation is considered for use with SR, I would suggest
>>>> GUE is an option. GUE has some unique features:
>>>>
>>>> - It's extensible (both common extensions are defined and allows
>>>> custom extensions per use case)
>>>> - It's generic (can encapsulate any IP protocol)
>>>> - It allows directly encapsulating IPv4 and IPv6 in UDP (to minimize
>>>> encapsulation overhead)
>>>> - It allows encapsulation of extension headers
>>>>
>>>> The last point may be of particular interest to SR. SR over IPIP might
>>>> be more precarious compared to other encapsulations since it
>>>> introduces two "atypical" (i.e. not TCP or UDP) protocols. GUE could
>>>> be used to normalize SR packets to look like UDP to the network. This
>>>> might look something like:
>>>>
>>>> IP|UDP|GUE|Routing_hdr|IP|payload
>>>>
>>>> The UDP and GUE header are effectively treated as routing shim at each
>>>> segment hop so SR is processed as without regard to the encapsulation.
>>>> To intermediate nodes these packets looks like any other UDP packet so
>>>> there's no compatibility issue.
>>>>
>>>> Tom
>>>>
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