Hi, Ketan:

There are situation that such information is necessary: 
When several ASes are connected via the LAN interface, it is impossible to 
describe the inter-AS relationship with the current descriptors that provided 
by RFC5316 and RFC5392.

And another scenario is that when these stub links are used to correct servers, 
there is no remote-AS, remote ASBR ID information. But we can distinguish 
different stub link via their associated prefixes.

Aijun Wang
China Telecom

> On Jul 28, 2022, at 15:03, Ketan Talaulikar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Aijun,
> 
> Similar to Les, I disagree with you on the use of Prefix TLV as an attribute 
> of the "Stub Link". The reason is that this attribute is not required for the 
> identification of a link in BGP-LS (or in IGPs for that matter) that was the 
> main use case. I also don't see the use of that in Inter-AS links. Please 
> justify this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ketan
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 12:19 PM Aijun Wang <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> Hi, Les:
>> 
>> Please note the references to RFC5316/RFC5392 in 
>> draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-inter-as-topology-ext-11 is for TE scenarios, and what 
>> we are discussing are non-TE scenarios.
>> For prefixes sub-TLV, would you like to revisit my responses to Ketan, 
>> before make any comments? For your convenience, I can elaborate again to 
>> you——-“The prefix sub-TLV is not the link identifier, it is just one kind of 
>> link attributes”. Is it clear enough?
>> 
>> Based on these facts, I think it is unnecessary to response your other 
>> baseless comments.
>> 
>> Aijun Wang
>> China Telecom
>> 
>>>> On Jul 28, 2022, at 12:51, Les Ginsberg (ginsberg) 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Acee –
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> I have a somewhat different take on this draft.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> I agree with you that draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-inter-as-topology-ext-11 is 
>>> relevant – but I disagree that the lsr-stub-link draft is needed at all.
>>> 
>>> In fact one of the main points in the extensive discussion of this draft 
>>> that occurred several months ago  ( see 
>>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/lsr/8pY4d21J1XOb_GfwgrROJUijLQ8/  as 
>>> a pointer to one email in the thread) was that RFC 5316/RFC 5392 are 
>>> sufficient to support the use case. This is reinforced by the references to 
>>> those two RFCs in the bgpls-inter-as-topology draft.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> The other main point (discussed in #3 below) is that the use of a prefix as 
>>> a Link Identifier is a flawed concept and has been objected to by many WG 
>>> members.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> For these reasons I believe this draft is unnecessary and undesirable.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Given the extensive review of the draft by many members of the WG and the 
>>> failed WG adoption, I believe the WG should move on to other priorities. I 
>>> understand that the authors of lsr-stub-link have not been convinced and 
>>> want to continue to advocate for the draft, but at some point the WG needs 
>>> to say we have done due diligence and the WG consensus is NOT to adopt the 
>>> draft. The continued discussion of this draft consumes WG resources 
>>> (including presentation slots) and diverts WG attention from other work.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>    Les
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> From: Lsr <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Acee Lindem (acee)
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 11:37 AM
>>> To: Ketan Talaulikar <[email protected]>; 
>>> [email protected]
>>> Cc: lsr <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: [Lsr] Comments on draft-wang-lsr-stub-link-attributes
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Hi Ketan,
>>> 
>>> I’m glad you brought this up. The primary (and AFAIK only) reason for this 
>>> draft is to get the stub-link information to a router in the IGP domain 
>>> running BGP-LS so that it can be advertised to the controller. For 
>>> reference, see 
>>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-inter-as-topology-ext-11.txt
>>>  figure 1. So, the IGP encoding is only to get the stub-link information 
>>> from B1 and B3 to S2 and from B2 and B4 to T1. Since the IGPs and TE are 
>>> not consuming the information, the problem could be avoid by simply running 
>>> BGP-LS on B1-B4. See inline.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> From: Lsr <[email protected]> on behalf of Ketan Talaulikar 
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Date: Wednesday, July 27, 2022 at 5:33 AM
>>> To: "[email protected]" 
>>> <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: lsr <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [Lsr] Comments on draft-wang-lsr-stub-link-attributes
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Hello Authors,
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Please find below my comments/suggestions on this draft. I am sharing them 
>>> upfront given the packed LSR agenda.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Sec 3 the rationale provided for not using the Inter-AS TE LSAs/TLVs is not 
>>> sound in my opinion. I would say that the TE encoding may not be suitable 
>>> for use in all deployments as their advertisement results in the addition 
>>> of those Inter-AS links in a TE topology database and that may not be 
>>> desired. So, I would suggest that the draft keeps the option of use of 
>>> Inter-AS TE TLVs valid and goes ahead with the Stub Link proposal as an 
>>> alternative with broader applicability (also see the next comment).
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Agree.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> For the proclaimed wider applicability (e.g., links to servers/hosts) in 
>>> the slides, there is no such text in the draft. The draft seems focused on 
>>> Inter-AS links. I hope the authors update either the draft or the slides - 
>>> to be in sync with their objectives.
>>>  
>>> 
>>> It is solely for purposes of advertisement in BGP-LS and consumption by the 
>>> SDN controller as described in 
>>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-inter-as-topology-ext-11.txt.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> The use of the prefix TLVs in this context is something that is (in my 
>>> opinion) broken from day 1 of this draft. Prefixes are for reachability. 
>>> For identification of links, we have the local/remote link identifiers 
>>> along with the local/remote IP addresses (NOT prefixes!). This to me is a 
>>> NO-GO for the progression of this document.
>>>  
>>> 
>>> I agree, if this draft is to persist, these should be referred to as ASBR 
>>> addresses as in the IDR draft (the sole raison d’etre for this IGP draft).
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> The placement of the Stub Link TLV should be top-level (similar to 
>>> other/existing links). I can share further suggestions offline, provided we 
>>> reach an agreement on the above points and we converge on the main 
>>> purpose/motivation for this work.
>>>  
>>> 
>>> I feel that strongly here as this is analogous to the new BGP-LS NLRI type 
>>> in  
>>> https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-idr-bgpls-inter-as-topology-ext-11.txt.
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Acee
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Ketan
>>> 
>>>  
>>> 
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