Thanks Magnus, please see inline.

From: Magnus Westerlund <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, January 27, 2023 at 2:26 PM
To: Alberto Rodriguez-Natal (natal) <[email protected]>, [email protected] 
<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>, 
[email protected] <[email protected]>, [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Tsvart last call review of draft-ietf-lisp-pubsub-10
Hi Alberto,

See below.

The complete exchange for a subscription operation would be:

1) xTR->MS (Map-Request)
2) MS->xTR (Map-Notify)
3) xTR->MS (Map-Notify-Ack)

It is true that 3) is not explicitly stated on the PubSub document today, but 
it is required to align with RFC9301. We should update the PubSub doc to 
explicitly mention 3). I believe that having 1)+2)+3) explicitly stated should 
address your concerns regarding return routability check, what do you think?

MW: So if the Map-Notify-Ack would be part of the subscription process, such 
that 3) has to happen successfully for the Map-server to actually install the 
subscription in its state then it would work. But, I get the impression that 
the map-server will install the subscription already as 1) has been completely 
processed.

[AR] I believe we could do the following. We can update the text to specify 
that (1) the xTR must send this Map-Notify-Ack as part of the subscription 
procedure, and that (2) the MapServer should treat the subscription as 
incomplete until the Map-Notify-Ack is received (and therefore no publication 
will be sent to the xTR on the meantime).

I base that on that there are no process or error notification that would tell 
the xTR that its subscription request has failed as the MAP-Notify-Ack never 
reach it.

[AR] Note that if the MapServer does not receive the Map-Notify-Ack it will 
retransmit the Map-Notify (following the guidance being discussed in the 
parallel thread). Also note that section 5 of PubSub already specifies that:

If the subscription request fails, the Map-Server MUST send a Map-Reply to the 
originator of the Map-Request

What I think should happen here is. If the xTR never talked to this MS. Then 
the signalling looks like this.

1) xTR->MS (Map-Request)
1.1 MS->xTR (Return routability challenge with token)
1.2 xTR (Return routability ACK (with token))
2) MS->xTR (Map-Notify)
3) xTR->MS (Map-Notify-Ack)

Then the MS can install the subscription when it sends 2), and 3) is only a 
transport level ack, that is really not needed, as the xTR I would expect to 
retransmit 1) after a timeout not getting the answer.

Note 1.1 and 1.2 only happens occasionally if it hasn’t been run for the given 
xTR ID + RLOC the last 15 min or so.
So if one does multiple Map-Requests with subscription it only happens once.

[AR] I think this is a solid suggestion. But I would love to first explore if 
we could achieve the same thing using current machinery. Kindly let me know 
what you think of my suggestions above and if you think we could converge 
following that path.

Cheers

Magnus

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