Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Greg, Those are exactly my questions too. Regards Brian On 25-Oct-21 11:25, Greg Mirsky wrote: Hi Brian, so far I haven't noticed a proposal to support C-SID in IGP. I think that it brings up a legitimate question: How is it going to work? Would it C-SID be  used in combination with 

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-25 Thread Andrew Alston
] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression) Hi Andrew, I don't disagree with your point that operational complexity hinders adoption. However... On 25.10.21 14:14, Andrew

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-25 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Andrew, I don't disagree with your point that operational complexity hinders adoption.  However... On 25.10.21 14:14, Andrew Alston wrote: It's here where I think we often end up in a divergence between practical operation and fancy ideas The problem is that one often can't tell the

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-25 Thread Andrew Alston
something widely into the field. Andrew From: Ted Hardie Sent: Monday, October 25, 2021 1:37 PM To: Andrew Alston Cc: Eliot Lear ; Nick Hilliard ; SPRING WG List ; 6man WG Subject: Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-25 Thread Ted Hardie
On Mon, Oct 25, 2021 at 9:47 AM Andrew Alston wrote: > > Of course there is. You cannot distinguish routing from host without > looking at external control channels, such as a routing or configuration > protocol; and you certainly cannot determine the subnet mask of a network > without that

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-25 Thread Andrew Alston
> Of course there is.  You cannot distinguish routing from host without looking > at external control channels, such as a routing or configuration protocol; > and you certainly cannot determine the subnet mask of a network without that > external information, since it's not in the ?> packet. 

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Greg Mirsky
Hi Brian, so far I haven't noticed a proposal to support C-SID in IGP. I think that it brings up a legitimate question: How is it going to work? Would it C-SID be used in combination with dynamic routing protocols or only from a centralized controller? Regards, Greg On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 2:20

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Robert Raszuk
On Sun, Oct 24, 2021 at 11:48 PM Mark Smith wrote: > Subnet masks weren't a good idea either. They, like classes and CIDR, are > hacks to squeeze more addresses out of the 32 bit IPv4 address space. > > Have a look at the IPv4 address structure in RFC760. Couldn't be simpler. > Simplicity

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 25 Oct 2021, 04:18 Eliot Lear, wrote: > > On 24.10.21 17:36, Nick Hilliard wrote: > > The issue is a good deal deeper than just debugging. As long as > > there's an option to specify a variable length parameter without being > > able to specify the length in the protocol, then the

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 25-Oct-21 09:23, Eliot Lear wrote: On 24.10.21 21:59, Nick Hilliard wrote: Eliot Lear wrote on 24/10/2021 18:17: On 24.10.21 17:36, Nick Hilliard wrote: The issue is a good deal deeper than just debugging.  As long as there's an option to specify a variable length parameter without being

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Eliot Lear
On 24.10.21 21:59, Nick Hilliard wrote: Eliot Lear wrote on 24/10/2021 18:17: On 24.10.21 17:36, Nick Hilliard wrote: The issue is a good deal deeper than just debugging.  As long as there's an option to specify a variable length parameter without being able to specify the length in the

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
Eliot Lear wrote on 24/10/2021 18:17: On 24.10.21 17:36, Nick Hilliard wrote: The issue is a good deal deeper than just debugging.  As long as there's an option to specify a variable length parameter without being able to specify the length in the protocol, then the protocol is fundamentally

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Sander Steffann
 >> On 24.10.21 17:36, Nick Hilliard wrote: >> The issue is a good deal deeper than just debugging. As long as there's an >> option to specify a variable length parameter without being able to specify >> the length in the protocol, then the protocol is fundamentally ambiguous and >> its

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Eliot Lear
On 24.10.21 17:36, Nick Hilliard wrote: The issue is a good deal deeper than just debugging.  As long as there's an option to specify a variable length parameter without being able to specify the length in the protocol, then the protocol is fundamentally ambiguous and its interpretation is

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Nick Hilliard
Sander Steffann wrote on 24/10/2021 16:15: The tool used doesn’t matter. What matters that an engineer can understand and decode what’s going on on the wire when stuff breaks. And that the headers contain enough information to use for interop between multiple admin domains for example. The issue

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > Just for my own understanding here. > > A) Are you asking to add new TLV to IPv6 SRH say called "C-SID Length" (and > make SRH mandatory if used with C-SIDs) which would define the C-SID length ? Yes, that would be a step in the right direction. > B) Are you asking to define a

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Robert Raszuk
Nick & Sander, Just for my own understanding here. A) Are you asking to add new TLV to IPv6 SRH say called "C-SID Length" (and make SRH mandatory if used with C-SIDs) which would define the C-SID length ? or B) Are you asking to define a completely new data plane for IP networks ? By new data

Re: [spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-24 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi, > On this basis, I'm objecting to the adoption of > draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression as a WG draft, and > respectfully suggest that the spring wg does not adopt any draft in future > which allows for different C-SID lengths but doesn't encode C-SIDs as > {length,value}

[spring] Objection to wg adoption call for draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression (was: Re: Question from SPRING regarding draft-filsfilscheng-spring-srv6-srh-compression)

2021-10-23 Thread Nick Hilliard
Hi Stefano, Stefano Salsano wrote on 23/10/2021 01:29: if an operator wants to combine CSIDs of different length, building the debug tools becomes more complex, but this actually depends on the specific choices and configurations Exactly. For example, problems will occur when the operator