Xiaohu,

Thanks for your comments, I’ll add text clarifying link SID disposition 
semantics.

Regards,
Jeff

> On Dec 24, 2017, at 23:33, Xuxiaohu <xuxia...@huawei.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeff,
>  
> It seems that you have not yet understood my points or I have not yet 
> understood your pointsJ
>  
> Anyway, if many of my questions have been addressed in the previous 
> discussions, it seems that it’s not just me who have those doubts. Hence, 
> wouldn’t it be better to add some related clarifications in the draft as well 
> after the previous discussions?  Otherwise, when anybody else has the same or 
> similar doubts someday, it seems inefficient to request him or her to dig in 
> the mailing-list. No?
>  
> Xiaohu
>  
> 发件人: Jeff Tantsura [mailto:jefftant.i...@gmail.com] 
> 发送时间: 2017年12月25日 14:43
> 收件人: Xuxiaohu
> 抄送: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg); Ketan Talaulikar (ketant); Christian Hopps; 
> isis-wg@ietf.org; isis-...@ietf.org; 
> draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org
> 主题: Re: 答复: 答复: [Isis-wg] WG Last Call for 
> draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd-07
>  
> Hi Xiaohu,
> 
> No, you are missing the point. 
> It is not important whether SID imposition is done on ingress, egress, or 
> anywhere else, what is important is what shows up on the wire when a packet 
> leaves the node.
> 
> Please read the answers before asking other questions, many of your questions 
> have been addressed in the previous discussions, search for them, before 
> sending yet another email.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
> On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 19:08 Xuxiaohu <xuxia...@huawei.com> wrote:
> Hi Jef,
>  
> If I understand your abstraction approach correctly, the MSD advertisement at 
> per-link granularity makes sense in the case where the label stack is imposed 
> on egress line-cards.  However, it makes little sense in the case where the 
> label stack is imposed on ingress line-cards. In the multi-chassis system 
> example as described in my previous email, what is the MSD value of the 
> interface B advertised via IGP since that MSD value heavily depends on the 
> incoming interface where the packet arrives. If that value is set to the 
> minimum of all possible interfaces’ capability of maximum label stack 
> imposition,  it’s almost no difference from the MSD of that node.
>  
> My question is: if the MSD advertisement at per-link granularity is so 
> important, why not improve it so as to make it valuable in both cases? 
> Otherwise, why not just advertise the MSD at per-node granularity which seems 
> simpler?
>  
> Best regards,
> Xiaohu
>  
> 发件人: Jeff Tantsura [mailto:jefftant.i...@gmail.com]
> 发送时间: 2017年12月25日 10:10
> 收件人: Xuxiaohu
> 抄送: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg); Ketan Talaulikar (ketant); Christian Hopps; 
> isis-wg@ietf.org; isis-...@ietf.org; 
> draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org
> 主题: Re: 答复: 答复: [Isis-wg] WG Last Call for 
> draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd-07
>  
> Hi Xixiaohu,
> 
> In every case, it is what shows up when a packet leaves outgoing interface, 
> by doing so we abstract the completely of SID imposition, that could be 
> different on a single NPU vs a chassis vs a multi-chassis system.
> 
> Hope this clarifies.
> 
> Cheers,
> Jeff
> On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 20:33 Xuxiaohu <xuxia...@huawei.com> wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> As for per-link MSD information, I have the following comments:
> 
> 1) I wonder whether you have considered the implementation differences on the 
> label stack imposition process among different vendors. More specially, some 
> chooses to impose the label stack on ingress line-cards while others choose 
> to impose the label stack on egress line-cards due to different tradeoffs. 
> For example, when a packet arrives at interface A of linecard X while 
> departuring from interface B of linecard Y, assume the MSD type 1 values of 
> linecard A and B are different, which interface's MSD value should be taken 
> into account when calculating a SR path. Does it require IGP or BGP-LS to be 
> extended to advertise the manner of label stack imposition of a given node as 
> well (i.e., imposition on ingress or egress linecard)?
> 
> 2) In the SID-binding case, if the incoming interface or outgoing interface 
> for a given packet received by the Binding-SID anchor node is changed on the 
> fly due to whatever reasons (e.g., FRR or ECMP ), how to deal with such case?
> 
> Best regards,
> Xiaohu
> 
> > -----邮件原件-----
> > 发件人: Jeff Tantsura [mailto:jefftant.i...@gmail.com]
> > 发送时间: 2017年12月23日 2:50
> > 收件人: Xuxiaohu; Les Ginsberg (ginsberg); Ketan Talaulikar (ketant); Christian
> > Hopps; isis-wg@ietf.org
> > 抄送: isis-...@ietf.org; draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org
> > 主题: Re: 答复: 答复: [Isis-wg] WG Last Call for
> > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd-07
> >
> > Xiaohu,
> >
> > PCEP and ISIS(OSPF) are quite different in their functionality and not 
> > meant to
> > do the same thing. Wrt SR ecosystem, PCEP is optional, while IGP’s are
> > mandatory.
> > When it comes to a node capability, PCEP and IGP’s provide same information
> > and fully aligned, however more granular, per link information is only 
> > available
> > in IGPs, and this is as per design (not a bug).
> > PCEP SR draft (which I’m co-author of) will be last called soon, please make
> > sure you provide your comments to the PCE WG.
> >
> > The intention of this thread is to last call 
> > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd,
> > that has Type 1 defined and creates IANA registry for the future Types.
> > I’d appreciate your comments specifically to the draft, and if you have got 
> > any
> > technical objection, would be happy to address them.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jeff
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xuxiaohu <xuxia...@huawei.com>
> > Date: Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 16:42
> > To: Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.i...@gmail.com>, "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)"
> > <ginsb...@cisco.com>, "Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)" <ket...@cisco.com>,
> > Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org>, "isis-wg@ietf.org" <isis-wg@ietf.org>
> > Cc: "isis-...@ietf.org" <isis-...@ietf.org>,
> > "draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org"
> > <draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org>
> > Subject: 答复: 答复: [Isis-wg] WG Last Call for
> > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd-07
> >
> >     Jeff,
> >
> >     IMHO, the MSD or the MSD(type 1) just indicates a certain label 
> > imposition
> > capability which should be signaling-agnostic. More specially, the MSD or
> > MSD(type1) capability could be signaled via IGP, BGP or PCEP.
> >
> >     If the semantic of MSD (type 1) as defined in your IGP-MSD draft equals 
> > the
> > semantics of MSD as defined in PCEP-SR draft, I believe it'd better to iron 
> > out
> > such terminology inconsistency ASAP.
> >
> >     Best regards,
> >     Xiaohu
> >
> >     > -----邮件原件-----
> >     > 发件人: Jeff Tantsura [mailto:jefftant.i...@gmail.com]
> >     > 发送时间: 2017年12月22日 5:22
> >     > 收件人: Xuxiaohu; Les Ginsberg (ginsberg); Ketan Talaulikar (ketant);
> > Christian
> >     > Hopps; isis-wg@ietf.org
> >     > 抄送: isis-...@ietf.org; draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org
> >     > 主题: Re: 答复: [Isis-wg] WG Last Call for
> > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd-07
> >     >
> >     > Xuxiaohu,
> >     >
> >     > To clarify:
> >     > The concept had been developed in both, in parallel, however PCEP
> >     > implementation is limited (node only, PCC in question has to have PCEP
> > sessions
> >     > with the PCE), and this is clearly stated in the draft – if MSD is 
> > known
> > from both
> >     > sources (PCEP and IGP/BGP-LS) the later takes precedence. IGP drafts 
> > are
> > the
> >     > source of truth when it comes to semantics definitions.
> >
> >
> >
> >     > Personally, I don’t see any confusion wrt name, all drafts have been
> > around for
> >     > quite some time, reviewed by many people, presented in academia and
> >     > networking events, noone was ever confused…
> >     >
> >     > I’m not sure about value of your proposal either, and I’d leave the
> > decision
> >     > what to use to people who are the consumers of the technology, those
> > who are
> >     > going to implement it (at least 3 MSD implementations are on their
> > ways).
> >     >
> >     > As the last point – we are not “considering” expanding, the draft is 
> > clear
> > about
> >     > the future extensions to come and encoding is done in a way to 
> > facilitate
> > such
> >     > extensions.
> >     > This is the working group last call for the draft, not a discussion 
> > whether
> > we
> >     > should proceed with the technology:
> >     > If you see any technical problems with the solution proposed – I’d be
> > the first
> >     > to listen to you and address them!
> >     >
> >     > Happy holidays!
> >     >
> >     > Cheers,
> >     > Jeff
> >     >
> >     > -----Original Message-----
> >     > From: Xuxiaohu <xuxia...@huawei.com>
> >     > Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 at 18:40
> >     > To: "Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)" <ginsb...@cisco.com>, "Ketan Talaulikar
> > (ketant)"
> >     > <ket...@cisco.com>, Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org>,
> > "isis-wg@ietf.org"
> >     > <isis-wg@ietf.org>
> >     > Cc: "isis-...@ietf.org" <isis-...@ietf.org>,
> >     > "draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org"
> >     > <draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org>
> >     > Subject: 答复: [Isis-wg] WG Last Call for
> > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd-07
> >     > Resent-From: <alias-boun...@ietf.org>
> >     > Resent-To: <jefftant.i...@gmail.com>, <uma.chund...@huawei.com>,
> >     > <aldrin.i...@gmail.com>, <ginsb...@cisco.com>
> >     > Resent-Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:40:16 -0800 (PST)
> >     >
> >     >     Hi Les,
> >     >
> >     >     If I understand it correctly, the MSD concept was originated from
> >     > 
> > (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-pce-segment-routing-11#page-7) as
> >     > described below:
> >     >
> >     >     "The "Maximum SID Depth" (1
> >     >        octet) field (MSD) specifies the maximum number of SIDs (MPLS
> > label
> >     >        stack depth in the context of this document) that a PCC is
> > capable of
> >     >        imposing on a packet."
> >     >
> >     >     Before considering expanding the semantics of the MSD concept as
> > defined
> >     > in the above PCE-SR draft, how about first considering renaming the
> > capability
> >     > of imposing the maximum number of labels so as to eliminate possible
> >     > confusions, e.g., Writable Label-stack Depth (WLD) as opposed to the
> > Readable
> >     > Label-stack Depth (RLD) as defined in
> >     > (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ospf-mpls-elc) and
> >     > (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-isis-mpls-elc) ?
> >     >
> >     >     Best regards,
> >     >     Xiaohu
> >     >
> >     >     > -----邮件原件-----
> >     >     > 发件人: Isis-wg [mailto:isis-wg-boun...@ietf.org] 代表 Les
> > Ginsberg
> >     > (ginsberg)
> >     >     > 发送时间: 2017年12月21日 4:02
> >     >     > 收件人: Ketan Talaulikar (ketant); Christian Hopps;
> > isis-wg@ietf.org
> >     >     > 抄送: isis-...@ietf.org;
> > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org
> >     >     > 主题: Re: [Isis-wg] WG Last Call for
> > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd-07
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Ketan -
> >     >     >
> >     >     > Thanx for the comments.
> >     >     > I think we do want to allow MSD support for values other than
> > imposition
> >     >     > values. We will revise the text so we are not restricted to only
> > imposition
> >     > cases.
> >     >     >
> >     >     >   Les
> >     >     >
> >     >     >
> >     >     > > -----Original Message-----
> >     >     > > From: Ketan Talaulikar (ketant)
> >     >     > > Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 1:51 AM
> >     >     > > To: Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org>; isis-wg@ietf.org
> >     >     > > Cc: isis-...@ietf.org;
> > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org
> >     >     > > Subject: RE: [Isis-wg] WG Last Call for
> >     >     > > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd-07
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > > Hello,
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > > I support this document and would like to ask the authors and
> > WG to
> >     >     > > consider if we can expand the scope of this draft to not just
> >     >     > > "imposition" of the SID stack but also other similar limits 
> > related
> > to
> >     > other
> >     >     > actions (e.g.
> >     >     > > reading, processing, etc.). With Segment Routing, we are 
> > coming
> > across
> >     >     > > various actions that nodes need to do with the SID stack for
> > different
> >     >     > > purposes and IMHO it would be useful to extend the MSD ability
> > to
> >     >     > > cover those as they arise.
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > > Thanks,
> >     >     > > Ketan
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > > -----Original Message-----
> >     >     > > From: Isis-wg [mailto:isis-wg-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of
> > Christian
> >     >     > > Hopps
> >     >     > > Sent: 20 December 2017 14:03
> >     >     > > To: isis-wg@ietf.org
> >     >     > > Cc: isis-...@ietf.org;
> > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-...@ietf.org
> >     >     > > Subject: [Isis-wg] WG Last Call for
> >     >     > > draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd-07
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > > The authors have asked for and we are starting a WG Last Call 
> > on
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > >
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-msd/
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > > which will last an extended 4 weeks to allow for year-end PTO
> > patterns.
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > > An IPR statement exists:
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > >
> > https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/search/?submit=draft&id=draft-ietf-is
> >     >     > > is-
> >     >     > > segment-routing-msd
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > > Authors please reply to the list indicating whether you are 
> > aware
> > of
> >     >     > > any
> >     >     > > *new* IPR.
> >     >     > >
> >     >     > > Thanks,
> >     >     > > Chris.
> >     >     > >
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