Hi Aijun,

I understand very well what you are trying to achieve and don’t argue the need 
for it.  My point however - routing protocols are not the most suitable 
transport for it.

Regards,
Jeff

> On Apr 2, 2020, at 19:39, Aijun Wang <wangai...@tsinghua.org.cn> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Jeff:
> The draft only propose to transfer the iFIT capability of the Node via the 
> IGP protocol, not the telemetry data.
> As described in the draft, flooding such capability can assist the 
> controller(it collects such information via the BGP-LS) to deploy the iFIT 
> function at the path headend.
> 
> Aijun Wang
> China Telecom
> 
>>> On Apr 3, 2020, at 08:20, Jeff Tantsura <jefftant.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>> Robert, 
>> 
>> We are deviating ;-)
>> 
>> There’s no feedback loop from telemetry producers back to the TE headend.
>> The telemetry, either end2end or postcards is sent to a  collector that has 
>> the context of the data and normalizes it so it can be consumed by an 
>> external system, being centralized or distributed PCE or anything else that 
>> could make use of it. Do you see IGP anywhere in between?
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Jeff
>> 
>>>> On Apr 2, 2020, at 16:03, Robert Raszuk <rob...@raszuk.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Joel,
>>> 
>>> > Robert, you seem to be asking that we pass full information about the
>>> > dynamic network state to all routers  
>>> 
>>> No not at all. 
>>> 
>>> Only TE headends need this information. 
>>> 
>>> To restate ... I am not asking to have a synchronized input to all routes 
>>> in the domain such that their computation would be consistent. 
>>> 
>>> I am only asking for TE headends to be able to select end to end paths 
>>> based on the end to end inband telemetry data. I find this a useful 
>>> requirement missing from any of today's operational deployments. 
>>> 
>>> Many thx,
>>> R. 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 12:59 AM Joel M. Halpern <j...@joelhalpern.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> Robert, you seem to be asking that we pass full information about the 
>>>> dynamic network state to all routers so that they can, if needed, serve 
>>>> as fully intelligent path computation engines.  If you want to do that, 
>>>> you will need more than just the telemetry.  You will need the demands 
>>>> that are coming in to all of those routers, so that you can make global 
>>>> decisions sensibly.
>>>> Which is why we use quasi-centralized path computation engines.
>>>> 
>>>> Yours,
>>>> Joel
>>>> 
>>>> On 4/2/2020 6:16 PM, Robert Raszuk wrote:
>>>> > 
>>>> >      > If you consider such constrains to provide reachability for
>>>> >     applications you will likely see value that in-situ telemetry is
>>>> >     your friend here. Really best friend as without him you can not do
>>>> >     the proper end to end path exclusion for SPT computations..
>>>> > 
>>>> >     [as wg member] Are you thinking that shifting traffic to a router is
>>>> >     not going to affect it's jitter/drop rate?
>>>> > 
>>>> > 
>>>> > Well this is actually the other way around.
>>>> > 
>>>> > First you have your default topology. They you are asked to 
>>>> > construct new one based on applied constrains.
>>>> > 
>>>> > So you create complete TE coverage and start running end to end data 
>>>> > plane probing over all TE paths (say SR-TE for specific example). Once 
>>>> > you start collecting the probe results you can start excluding paths 
>>>> > which do not meet your applied constraints. And that process continues...
>>>> > 
>>>> > To your specific question - It is not that unusual where routers degrade 
>>>> > their performance with time and in many cases the traffic is not the 
>>>> > cause for it but internal bugs and malfunctions.
>>>> > 
>>>> > Best,
>>>> > R.
>>>> > 
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