Mirja -

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mirja Kuehlewind <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 9:35 AM
> To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>
> Cc: The IESG <[email protected]>; draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-
> [email protected]; Christian Hopps <[email protected]>; Uma Chunduri
> <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-isis-segment-
> routing-extensions-24: (with COMMENT)
> 
> Hi Les,
> 
> Please see inline.
> 
> > On 14. May 2019, at 18:12, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Mirja -
> >
> > Thanx for the review.
> > Responses inline.
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mirja Kühlewind via Datatracker <[email protected]>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 4:58 AM
> >> To: The IESG <[email protected]>
> >> Cc: [email protected]; Christian Hopps
> >> <[email protected]>; Uma Chunduri <[email protected]>;
> >> [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
> >> [email protected]
> >> Subject: Mirja Kühlewind's No Objection on draft-ietf-isis-segment-
> routing-
> >> extensions-24: (with COMMENT)
> >>
> >> Mirja Kühlewind has entered the following ballot position for
> >> draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-extensions-24: No Objection
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> >> The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here:
> >> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-
> extensions/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> COMMENT:
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> A few comments/questions:
> >>
> >> 1) For both the Prefix Segment Identifier and the Adjacency Segment
> >> Identifier
> >> sub-TLV it is not fully clear to me what the value field is used for when 
> >> the
> >> V-Flag is set. Can you further elaborate this in the draft or provide a
> >> respective pointer?
> >>
> > [Les:] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-isis-segment-routing-
> extensions-24#section-2.1.1.1 defines this.
> 
> I was assuming that it is defined somewhere. Maybe putting a ref in the doc
> that points at this draft could be good.

[Les:] There are multiple references to this section in the document. Please 
search for them.

> >
> >> 2) The F-Flag in Adjacency Segment Identifier sub-TLV and SID/Label
> Binding
> >> TLV
> >> is only one bit. I'm not expecting a new version of IP any time soon,
> >> however,
> >> maybe completely different address families could be useful as well. Not
> >> sure
> >> if only 1 bit is future-proof...?
> >>
> > [Les:] This is a very forward looking comment. :-)
> >
> > Seriously, if a new version of IP is invented there will be a LOT of 
> > protocol
> work required to support it. It is also not a given that MPLS would be
> supported for such a new IP version - so it isn't at all a given that these
> extensions (however modified) would apply.
> 
> I’m actually not sure because many protocols that need to cover IPv4 and
> IPv6 have already a longer field (or alternative would need a new extension
> for any new protocol anyway)…
> 
> > Also, changing the encoding now would be problematic for existing
> deployments (of which there are many) and I think we would have a hard
> time defining what an extensible encoding would be.
> 
> I was assuming this answer already, so…
> >
> > I like to think we can deal with this when the time comes.
> > Sound OK?
> 
> … I guess it’s fine.
> 
> >
> >> 3) Would it make sense to also discuss any risk of leaking information 
> >> (e.g.
> >> about the network topology) in the security consideration section?
> >>
> >
> > [Les:] Prefix leaking is an established practice in IS-IS dating back to RFC
> 1195,  extended by RFC 5302, and not modified by this document.
> > Note that the Security section already discusses the advertisement of
> information used to program the MPLS forwarding plane - which covers the
> additional sub-TLV information which would accompany leaked prefixes.
> 
> Adding a few sentences and pointers to the RFC you just listed could still be
> good!

[Les:] I'll give it some thought. Security review has yet to happen - so I am 
sure there will some additional comments. :-)

   Les

> 
> Mirja
> 
> 
> >
> >    Les
> >

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