Thanks Mirja.

Ciao

L.


> On 6 Feb 2019, at 18:57, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Luigi,
> 
> yes that sounds great!
> 
> Thanks!
> Mirja
> 
> 
>> Am 06.02.2019 um 17:10 schrieb Luigi Iannone <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> Hi Mirja,
>> 
>> 
>>> On 5 Feb 2019, at 16:39, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Luigi,
>>> 
>>> I just realized that I never replied to this mail. The change below is 
>>> okay, however, it did not make it into the current version of the draft and 
>>> therefore I cannot clear my discuss.
>> 
>> Fair enough.
>> 
>> Let me sum up the changes we agree on:
>> 
>> 
>> Section 5.3 in the part marked as "When doing ITR/PITR encapsulation:”
>> 
>> OLD:
>>      The 'Explicit Congestion Notification' (ECN) field (bits 6 and 7
>>      of the IPv6 'Traffic Class' field) requires special treatment in
>>      order to avoid discarding indications of congestion [
>> RFC6040
>> ].
>>      ITR encapsulation MUST copy the 2-bit 'ECN' field from the inner
>>      header to the outer header.  Re-encapsulation MUST copy the 2-bit
>> 
>>      'ECN' field from the stripped outer header to the new outer
>> 
>>      header.
>> 
>> NEW and simplified:
>> 
>>      The 'Explicit Congestion Notification' (ECN) field (bits 6 and 7
>>      of the IPv6 'Traffic Class' field) requires special treatment in
>>      order to avoid discarding indications of congestion as specified in 
>> 
>>      [RFC6040]. 
>> 
>> 
>> Note the re-encapsultion test has been remove (see later on)
>> 
>> 
>> Section 5.3 in the part marked as "When doing ETR/PETR decapsulation:"
>> 
>> OLD: 
>>      The 'Explicit Congestion Notification' (ECN) field (bits 6 and 7
>>      of the IPv6 'Traffic Class' field) requires special treatment in
>>      order to avoid discarding indications of congestion [
>> RFC6040
>> ].  If
>>      the 'ECN' field contains a congestion indication codepoint (the
>>      value is '11', the Congestion Experienced (CE) codepoint), then
>>      ETR decapsulation MUST copy the 2-bit 'ECN' field from the
>>      stripped outer header to the surviving inner header that is used
>>      to forward the packet beyond the ETR.  These requirements preserve
>>      CE indications when a packet that uses ECN traverses a LISP tunnel
>>      and becomes marked with a CE indication due to congestion between
>>      the tunnel endpoints.  Implementations exist that copy the 'ECN'
>>      field from the outer header to the inner header even though
>>      [
>> RFC6040
>> ] does not recommend this behavior.  It is RECOMMENDED
>>      that implementations change to support the behavior in [
>> RFC6040].
>> 
>> 
>> NEW and simplified:
>> 
>>      The 'Explicit Congestion Notification' (ECN) field (bits 6 and 7
>>      of the IPv6 'Traffic Class' field) requires special treatment in
>>      order to avoid discarding indications of congestion as specified in 
>> 
>>      [RFC6040
>> ]. Note that implementations exist that copy the 'ECN'
>>      field from the outer header to the inner header even though
>>      [
>> RFC6040
>> ] does not recommend this behavior.  It is RECOMMENDED
>>      that implementations change to support the behavior in [
>> RFC6040].
>> 
>> 
>> In the same section drop completely the last paragraph because is a 
>> duplicate of the above.
>> Replaced by a note on the re-encapsulation:
>> 
>> NEW (Replacing last paragraph)
>> 
>>     Some xTRs and PxTRs performs re-encapsulation operations and need 
>>     to treat the 'Explicit Congestion Notification' (ECN) in a special way.
>>        Because the re-encapsulation operation is a  sequence of two 
>> operations, namely 
>>          a decapsulation followed by an encapsulation, the ECN bits MUST be 
>> treated as described 
>>          above for these two operations.
>> 
>> 
>> Does it sound OK to you?
>> 
>> Ciao
>> 
>> L.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> Please also note that the text on decapsulation is basically in the same 
>>> section twice. I recommend to remove it once and adapt the other one 
>>> accordingly.
>>> 
>>> Further, inline with RFC6040, you would also need to align the 
>>> re-encapsulation part. Currently the text says:
>>> "Re-encapsulation MUST copy the 2-bit 'ECN' field from the stripped outer 
>>> header to the new outer header.“
>>> Usually re-encapsulation is performed by doing de-encapsulation and then 
>>> encapsulation again. The difference here would be, that if e.g. the inner 
>>> header is not-ETC but the tunnel changes the bits to ETC0 or ETC1 this 
>>> error is not further propagated, indicating ECN support where there is not 
>>> ECN support.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Mirja
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> Am 26.09.2018 um 17:27 schrieb Luigi Iannone <[email protected]>:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Mirja,
>>>> 
>>>> trying to follow up on this issue.
>>>> 
>>>> The ECN text for encapsulation is currently:
>>>> 
>>>>     The 'Explicit Congestion Notification' (ECN) field (bits 6 and 7
>>>>     of the IPv6 'Traffic Class' field) requires special treatment in
>>>>     order to avoid discarding indications of congestion [
>>>> RFC3168
>>>> ].
>>>>     ITR encapsulation MUST copy the 2-bit 'ECN' field from the inner
>>>>     header to the outer header.  Re-encapsulation MUST copy the 2-bit
>>>> 
>>>>     'ECN' field from the stripped outer header to the new outer
>>>> 
>>>>     header.
>>>> 
>>>> Can we keep it as it is (updating the reference to 6040)?
>>>> 
>>>> The text for decapsulation is:
>>>> 
>>>> CURRENT:
>>>>     The 'Explicit Congestion Notification' (ECN) field (bits 6 and 7
>>>>     of the IPv6 'Traffic Class' field) requires special treatment in
>>>>     order to avoid discarding indications of congestion [
>>>> RFC6040
>>>> ].  If
>>>>     the 'ECN' field contains a congestion indication codepoint (the
>>>>     value is '11', the Congestion Experienced (CE) codepoint), then
>>>>     ETR decapsulation MUST copy the 2-bit 'ECN' field from the
>>>>     stripped outer header to the surviving inner header that is used
>>>>     to forward the packet beyond the ETR.  These requirements preserve
>>>>     CE indications when a packet that uses ECN traverses a LISP tunnel
>>>>     and becomes marked with a CE indication due to congestion between
>>>>     the tunnel endpoints.  Implementations exist that copy the 'ECN'
>>>>     field from the outer header to the inner header even though
>>>>     [
>>>> RFC6040
>>>> ] does not recommend this behavior.  It is RECOMMENDED
>>>>     that implementations change to support the behavior in [
>>>> RFC6040
>>>> ].
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Which I suggest we shrink to:
>>>> 
>>>> NEW:
>>>> 
>>>>     The 'Explicit Congestion Notification' (ECN) field (bits 6 and 7
>>>>     of the IPv6 'Traffic Class' field) requires special treatment in
>>>>     order to avoid discarding indications of congestion [
>>>> RFC6040]. 
>>>>     Note that implementations exist that copy the 'ECN'
>>>>     field from the outer header to the inner header even though
>>>>     [
>>>> RFC6040
>>>> ] does not recommend such behavior.  It is RECOMMENDED
>>>>     that implementations change, so to support the specifications in [
>>>> RFC6040
>>>> ].
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The text above clearly states that implementations should be conform to 
>>>> 6040. 
>>>> 
>>>> Is it what you were looking for?
>>>> 
>>>> Or am I missing something?
>>>> 
>>>> Ciao
>>>> 
>>>> L.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 24 Sep 2018, at 19:34, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Well, the implementations are out and working. And we said in the latest 
>>>>> updates to consider using RFC6040. So not sure we can do much more than 
>>>>> that.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dino
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Sep 24, 2018, at 5:52 AM, Mirja Kuehlewind (IETF) 
>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Because they don’t follow RFC6040 and therefore we do something 
>>>>>> different in some corner cases.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Am 22.09.2018 um 06:52 schrieb Dino Farinacci <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> However, I totally disagree with your comment on providing details 
>>>>>>>> that are not implemented. If they are not implemented correctly, it 
>>>>>>>> might even be more important to spell them out in this document, so 
>>>>>>>> implementors have chance to update their (future) implementation to do 
>>>>>>>> the correct thing. Having deployed implementations that are non 
>>>>>>>> standard-conform always happens and in this case it is probably not 
>>>>>>>> specifically problematic as it doesn’t impact interoperability. 
>>>>>>>> However, it is important though that the spec is correct.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And why do you think they are implemented incorrectly? 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Dino
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 

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