Dear Susan and WG,


I support the adoption of these three drafts.

 

These drafts together address a complete and practical optimization need for 
SRv6 Policy deployment. 

The administrative flags framework defined in 
draft-lin-idr-sr-policy-admin-flags provides a foundational extension for 
managing the operational state of candidate paths and segment lists. 

Building on that, draft-liu-idr-sr-segment-list-optimize introduces the 
IFN-flag to enable SID list optimization by excluding the endpoint node SID 
when appropriate, which improves forwarding efficiency and reduces packet 
header overhead. 

Finally, draft-ali-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-sl-opt-distribution extends this 
capability to BGP-LS, allowing network controllers and external components to 
obtain this optimization information for better visibility and orchestration.

 

I think these drafts are technically sound, follow a clean layered design. 
Relevant responses are as follows:

 

Questions for SPRING WG:

1) Do these drafts correct implement 
[draft-ietf-spring-srv6-policy-sid-list-opt] concepts?

--Yes

2) Do you see any problem with the adoption of any of these three drafts:

(draft-lin-idr-sr-policy-admin-flag-05.txt, 
draft-liu-idr-sr-segment-list-optimize-06.txt, 
draft-ali-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-sl-opt-distribution-00.txt)

--No

 

Question for IDR:

1) Are there any problems in the technology descriptions? 

--No


2) Does the status and setting of this flag work? 

--Yes

Are the “delays” inherent in BGP distribution a concern? 

--No


3) Does this draft help operators deploy SRv6?

 --Yes 

 

Question for Spring and IDR:

1)  Does this draft open any error issues?

 --No



Best Regards,

Liyan


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From: "Susan Hares" <[email protected]>Date: 2026-06-24 00:46:20To:  "idr@ietf. 
org" <[email protected]>,spring <[email protected]>Cc:  "Jeffrey Haas" 
<[email protected]>,pce-chairs <[email protected]>,srv6ops-chairs 
<[email protected]>Subject: [spring] [SR-TE]Adoption call for 3 drafts: 
1) draft-lin-idr-sr-policy-admin-flags, 2) 
draft-liu-idr-sr-segment-list-optimize, 3) 
draft-ali-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-sl-opt-distribution-00.txt  (6/22/2026 to 
7/14/2026


Greetings: 


 


This is an adoption 3 week WG adoption call sent to IDR and Spring for the 
following 3 drafts:


1. draft-lin-idr-sr-policy-admin-flag-05.txt – 


2. draft-liu-idr-sr-segment-list-optimize-06.txt 


3. draft-ali-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-sl-opt-distribution-00.txt 


 


Both WGs must agree that these drafts are useful and appropriate. 


 


The authors of these three drafts should respond to this email with an IPR 
Statement specifying the following: 


1) draft you are a co-author on, 


2) Whether you know of any IPR on that draft. 


 


Background for the WG and Spring. 


 


 [I-D. draft-ietf-spring-srv6-policy-sid- list-opt] specifies procedures to 
indicate whether the endpoint39s node SID needs to be included or excluded when 
installing the SRv6  Policy.


 


1) draft-lin-idr-sr-policy-admin-flags specifies as Segment List Administrative 
Flags as segment list SubTLV. Flags include: 


S- admin shutdown, B- backup ineligible, I-Ignore service route39s Prefix SID, 
D- drop upon invalid (section 8.2, RFC9256), and E – eligible. 


2) draft-liu-idr-sr-segment-list-optimize  =  adds a flag of flag INF-Flag to 
Segment list administrative flags specified by 
draft-lin-idr-sr-policy-admin-flags.  The value (1) for INF-Flags indicates 
endpoint node SID is included in installing SID list(s) of the Candidate  Path 
(CP) when set.


3) draft-ali-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-sl-opt-distribution-00.txt -  send INF-Flag 
in BGP-LS 


 


Why 3 drafts in 1 call?  


As you can see from the description, if draft-lin-idr-sr-policy-admin-flags is 
not adopted – then the other two drafts cannot be adopted. 


Similarly, if draft-liu-idr-sr-segment-list-optimized is not adopted, then 
draft-ali-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-sl-opt-distribution cannot be adopted. 


 


Questions for Spring WG:  


1) Do these drafts correct implement 
[draft-ietf-spring-srv6-policy-sid-list-opt] concepts?> 


2) Do you see any problem with the adoption of any of these three drafts: 


(draft-lin-idr-sr-policy-admin-flag-05.txt, 
draft-liu-idr-sr-segment-list-optimize-06.txt, 
draft-ali-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-sl-opt-distribution-00.txt) 


 


Question for IDR:


1) Are there any problems in the technology descriptions? 


2) Does the status and setting of this flag work?  Are the “delays” inherent in 
BGP distribution a concern? 


3) Does this draft help operators deploy SRv6? 


 


Question for Spring and IDR:  


1)  Does this draft open any error issues? 


 


Please include in your comments – Support or No support for adoption. 


 


Cheerily, Susan Hares 






 

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