Les

Thanks for your reply.

I think that the meaning of "protocol independent" maybe different between 
us.
As the example in my last mail, my meaning of "protocol independent" is 
that in the originating router ISIS-SR instance and OSPF-SR instance 
SHOULD assign same prefix-sid for the same local prefix(such as loopback 
route, direct connected prefix, etc). If it is not so, caused by 
misconfiguration for example, other routers will receive conflict 
advertisements and "prefix conflict" will be applied to them according to 
this draft. 
In other words, my meaning of "protocol independent" is a implementation 
suggestion. I think that SR deploying differently in different IGP/BGP 
protocols is no valuable.

If I have got your point, perhaps your meaning of "protocol independent" 
aims at the criteria of processing conflicting entries primarily, 
especially for "prefix conflict"(because "sid conflict" has a large 
independent declaration which has already included "protocol 
independent").  And you think that deployment scenarios where different 
SIDs assigned to the same prefix in different protocols in the same 
topology is possible and regular in fact, not only by misconfiguration. 
However, if it is a regular scenario, we must avoid processing "prefix 
conflict" for it, because both SIDs are valid and need to install 
forwarding entries in data plane. So, we have to use some mechanism to 
distinguish whether it is regular or misconfiguration, I think it is not 
so simple. Anyway, if this deployment scenario is actually in demand, it 
would be addressed. :)

Deccan






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2016-06-05 00:46

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RE: issues of draft-ietf-spring-conflict-resolution






Peng �C
 
The draft explicitly states that the problem to be addressed is protocol 
independent. Some excerpts:
 
1.Introduction
…
The problem to be addressed is protocol independent i.e., segment
   related advertisements may be originated by multiple nodes using
   different protocols and yet the conflict resolution MUST be the same
   on all nodes regardless of the protocol used to transport the
   advertisements.
 
3.2.7.  Guaranteeing Database Consistency
…
   o  In cases where multiple routing protocols are in use mapping
      entries advertised by all routing protocols MUST be included.
 
So we are in agreement.
 
That said, there are some deployment scenarios where we may want to have 
different SIDs for the same prefix in different protocols �C this is what I 
refer to as “different SR forwarding contexts”. This will be addressed 
in the next version of the draft (to be published soon). 
 
   Les
 
 
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To: Les Ginsberg (ginsberg)
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Subject: issues of draft-ietf-spring-conflict-resolution
 
Hi les and other authors 

One conflict case which has not been discussed fully is prefix-sid 
conflict in different IGP protocols, such as ISIS and OSPF. 
Let's focus on the default TOPOLOGY based on SPF, both specified ISIS and 
OSPF instance deployed, both enabled SR. The RIB entrys of the default 
TOPOLOGY are selected between ISIS and OSPF by preference. 
For a specified SID, we all aggree that it can only be assigned to a 
single prefix, in all TOPOLOGYs, including the above ISIS and OSPF 
instance's prefix database, because an ILM entry in data plane can not 
represent two different FECs(suppose the label context is platform). 
Otherwise "SID Conflict" is applied to determine which prefix can possess 
the SID. 

But for one prefix, can it be assigned different SID respectively in the 
above ISIS and OSPF instance(of the default TOPOLOGY)? 
Someone would say that SR information is independent of IGP/BGP protocols, 
the later just distribute the SR information to neighbors. So, in our 
default TOPOLOGY example, the same prefix in ISIS and OSPF istance are the 
same SID (also same SRGB). But others would say that SR can be deployed 
differently in different IGP/BGP protocols, they can be different SIDs 
(also different SRGBs). 

I think there must be one is better or reasonable. 
As SR architecture said, prefix segment forward packet according to the 
shortest path. It is clearly in SR-IPv6 to see what happend, but it is 
complex in SR-MPLS because of index SID. 

Let's look at SR-IPv6, suppose the SR-TE path is calculated by the 
specified TE database which is produced by ISIS instance and we get an 
IPv6 address segment list, we can see the forwarding behavior of the SR-TE 
path is not certainly relevant with ISIS, because the shortest path to an 
IPv6 prefix segment in data plane maybe a preferred OSPF route. A simple 
IPv6 address has not restrict which IGP/BGP instance's route can direct 
forwarding. In SR-IPv6, we reach the simple purpsose, forwarding packet 
according to the shortest path, and we don't care the protocol type of the 
preferred route. We can get a conclusion, for the same prefix, the SID in 
ISIS and OSPF instance are same, which is an IPv6 address. 

So, in SR-MPLS it is also better for us to assign prefix SID which is 
independent of route protocol, in other words, both ISIS and OSPF 
instance(of the default TOPOLOGY) assign same SID for the same prefix, the 
prefix SID has no protocol implication. 
Let's look at SR-MPLS more closely, the SR-TE path which is calculated by 
ISIS-TE database will be translated to the corresponding label-stack, if 
the translation is done totally based on the ISIS-TE database, we can see: 

1) The label-stack will forward the packet according to the expected 
shortest path, segment by segment, but it is just the ISIS's shortest 
path, NOT the default TOPOLOGY's shortest path. 
2) The label is ISIS instance specified, if OSPF instance don't know it, 
packet arriving on the node which the corresponding prefix segment FEC is 
preferred OSPF route will be dropped. 

In brief, it seems that SR deployed differently in different IGP/BGP 
protocols brings more complexity. This complexity is no valuable to our 
simple purpose. If some implementation is like this, do you think it can 
be applied to "Prefix Conflict"? what's the conflict result? 


Thanks 

Deccan 


 
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