Hi, Robert:

Aijun Wang
China Telecom

> On Nov 24, 2021, at 18:12, Robert Raszuk <rob...@raszuk.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Aijun,
> 
> Nothing Shraddha is describing is about protecting intermediate hops. 
> 
> She illustrated different solutions for egress protection of PEs. 
> 
> It has some cost and some deployment limitations but it is an option to 
> consider. 

[WAJ] Yes. What I want to express is that there are situations that Egress 
Protection only is not enough, which is asking by Shraddha.

> 
> Thx,
> R.
> 
>> On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 6:44 AM Aijun Wang <wangai...@tsinghua.org.cn> wrote:
>> Hi, Shraddha:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> If the traffic is steered via the SRv6 policy, the intermediate points 
>> should also be protected. There are already one draft to propose the 
>> solution( please refer to 
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chen-rtgwg-srv6-midpoint-protection-05.)
>>   In such situation, if the intermediate points located in different areas, 
>> how then know the liveness of each other if ABR has the summary address 
>> advertised? We will not consider to configure BFD on every intermediate 
>> points.
>> 
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>> Best Regards
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Aijun Wang
>> 
>> China Telecom
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> From: lsr-boun...@ietf.org <lsr-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Shraddha Hegde
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 1:20 PM
>> To: Tony Li <tony...@tony.li>; Aijun Wang <wangai...@tsinghua.org.cn>
>> Cc: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsb...@cisco.com>; Gyan Mishra 
>> <hayabusa...@gmail.com>; Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org>; lsr 
>> <lsr@ietf.org>; Acee Lindem (acee) <a...@cisco.com>; Tony Przygienda 
>> <tonysi...@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Lsr] 【Responses for Comments on PUAM Draft】RE: IETF 112 LSR 
>> Meeting Minutes
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> WG,
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>>  
>> 
>> MPLS egress protection framework RFC 8679 provides a mechanism to locally 
>> protect the traffic during
>> 
>> PE failures. The concepts can be applied to SRv6 as well. This mechanism is 
>> much more efficient and quick because it locally provides fast protection
>> 
>> And switchover to the other PE.
>> 
>> If you compare this  to  the mechanisms being discussed in this thread where 
>> the failure information is being
>> 
>> propagated by the egress PE to ABR and then  ABR to the ingress, the 
>> failover is going to be much slower.
>> 
>> The egress protection technology does not flood any information outside of 
>> the domain and hence does not
>> 
>> affect the IGP scale.
>> 
>>  
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>> This is a valid alternate solution to solve the problem at hand IMO.
>> 
>> I would be interested to see if people have use cases where egress 
>> protection can’t be applied.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Rgds
>> 
>> Shraddha
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>> Juniper Business Use Only
>> From: Lsr <lsr-boun...@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Tony Li
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2021 10:22 PM
>> To: Aijun Wang <wangai...@tsinghua.org.cn>
>> Cc: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) <ginsb...@cisco.com>; Gyan Mishra 
>> <hayabusa...@gmail.com>; Christian Hopps <cho...@chopps.org>; lsr 
>> <lsr@ietf.org>; Acee Lindem (acee) <a...@cisco.com>; Tony Przygienda 
>> <tonysi...@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Lsr] 【Responses for Comments on PUAM Draft】RE: IETF 112 LSR 
>> Meeting Minutes
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> [External Email. Be cautious of content]
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>> Hi Aijun,
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> I object to adding negative liveness to the LSDB because of the scale and 
>> because it adds scale during failures.
>> 
>> [WAJ] If we have no such mechanism, operator should either advertise the 
>> host routes across areas(which has scale problem), or lose the fast 
>> convergences for some overlay services(which defeat the user experiences).
>> 
>> Within the real network, there is very rare chance for the massive failure. 
>> And even such thing happen accidently, the information about node liveness 
>> is countable, is there any router can’t process such information?
>> 
>> The received unreachable information does not trigger the SPF calculation. 
>> Will they influence intensively the performance of the router?
>> 
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>> If the scale is equal, then I would prefer to see flooding positive 
>> information rather than negative information.  Operationally this is key: if 
>> there is a failure and positive information doesn’t propagate, then it’s a 
>> bug that will be found in due course and the operator can react outside of a 
>> failure scenario.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Having a scale failure on top of a topology failure is a far more painful 
>> scenario.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> The odds of a mass failure may be low. The fact of the matter is that they 
>> still happen. It is our job to ensure that the IGP performs well when it 
>> does.  
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Increasing the size of the LSDB always affects performance. It slows 
>> flooding. Some nodes may not realize that SPF is not needed.  When LSP 
>> fragments are rearranged, inferring that SPF is not necessary is 
>> non-trivial. Impacting router and network performance is a given.
>> 
>>  
>> 
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>> My understanding is that N node failures would result in O(N) bytes added to 
>> the LSDB.  If someone has a way to compress that information to O(1), I (and 
>> Claude Shannon) would be interested.
>> 
>> [WAJ] Do you have other determined solutions except the PUB/SUB mechanism 
>> that does not exist in current IGP?
>> 
>>  
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>> None of the mechanisms being discussed currently exist.
>> 
>>  
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>> I have no objections to Robert’s BGP propagation ideas if that’s workable.
>> 
>>  
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>> This is simply not the IGP’s job and the IGP is not a dump truck.
>> 
>>  
>> 
>> Tony
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