Hi Shuping,

> On Mar 12, 2021, at 7:34 AM, Pengshuping (Peng Shuping) 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> Please find below the FAQs I listed in the slides but did not get time to 
> present. Your comments and feedback are very much welcomed. Thank you!
> 
> You can also find the slides here. There are also some information for your 
> references at the end of the slides.
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/110/materials/slides-110-intarea-application-aware-networking-apn-02
> 
> 1. Are there any applications that can benefit from APN?
> I would like to ask how many of us have experienced the Meetecho issues in 
> this IETF and the virtual ones before. This is one of the applications that 
> can benefit from APN. :)

In your int area presentation, I think you said that APN was for limited 
domains.  There was a bullet that said:

     APN works within a limited trusted domain.

How would that then apply to Meetecho?  Meetecho needs to work across the whole 
Internet.

Bob


> 
> In this IETF, we had a hackathon "Application-aware G-SRv6 networking", which 
> shows the improvements that can be achieved with APN, using which the traffic 
> is steered into the appropriate SRv6 path [1]. The results are going to be 
> presented and demonstrated in the INFOCOM2021. There was also the first 
> demonstration of APN in the INFOCOM2020 [2].
> 
> [1]https://github.com/APN-Community/IETF-110-Hackathon-Demo/blob/master/Application-aware_G-SRv6_networking__Demo_and_Test.pdf
> [2]https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9162934
> 
> 2. How APN can help resolve the QoE issues?
> As shown in the APN demonstrations, we can see the differences/improvements 
> which APN can make in the network. QoE is complex and has many impacting 
> factors including the terminal, access, and network. APN aims to provide ways 
> to improve the QoE within the network.
> 
> 3. Who is to set the APN attribute?
> It is the network edge device such as CPE (Customer Premises Equipment) not 
> the application.
> 
> 4. How to set the APN attribute?
> There are many possible ways that can be used to classify the traffic flow at 
> the network edge, e.g., the N-tuples as defined in the MEF70 and the AI 
> technologies. An APN attribute can be derived by using the match items 
> published in MEF70 as well as the access port in the edge device.
> 
> 5. How the APN attribute is used in the network?
> The APN attribute is carried in the data packet's header, and it can be used 
> in the various nodes/service functions along the network path to enforce the 
> policies on the differentiated traffic flow, e.g.,
> 1) at the headend to steer into corresponding path satisfying SLAs
> 2) at the midpoint to collect corresponding performance measurement data
> 3) at the service function to execute particular policies
> 
> Best regards,
> Shuping
> 
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