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draft-ashwood-nvo3-oam-requirements-03
NVO3 Working Group                                          H. Chen, Ed.
INTERNET-DRAFT                                          P. Ashwood-Smith
Intended Status: Informational                                    L. Xia
                                                     Huawei Technologies
                                                              R. Iyengar
                                                                 T. Tsou
                                                 Huawei Technologies USA
                                                              A. Sajassi
                                                      Cisco Technologies
                                                            M. Boucadair
                                                            C. Jacquenet
                                                          France Telecom
                                                              M. Daikoku
                                                        KDDI corporation
                                                             A. Ghanwani
                                                                    Dell
                                                             R. Krishnan
                                                                 Brocade
Expires: January 6, 2016                                    July 5, 2015

     NVO3 Operations, Administration, and Maintenance Requirements
                 draft-ashwood-nvo3-oam-requirements-03

Abstract

   This document provides framework and requirements for Network
   Virtualization Overlay (NVO3) Operations, Administration,
   andMaintenance (OAM).

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     1.1.  OSI Definitions of OAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     1.2.  Requirements Language  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     1.3.  Relationship with Other OAM Work . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   2.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   3. NVO3 Reference Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   4.  OAM Framework for NVO3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     4.1.  OAM Layering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     4.2.  OAM Domains  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   5.  NVO3 OAM Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     5.1.  Discovery  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     5.2.  Connectivity Fault Management  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       5.2.1.  Connectivity Fault Detection . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       5.2.2.  Connectivity Fault Verification  . . . . . . . . . . . 10
       5.2.3.  Connectivity Fault localization  . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       5.2.4.  Connectivity Fault Notification and Alarm 
               Suppression  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
     5.3.  Connectivity Performance Management  . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       5.3.1.  Frame Loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       5.3.2.  Frame Delay  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       5.3.3.  Frame Delay Variation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       5.3.4.  Frame Throughput . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
       5.3.5.  Frame Discard  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     5.4.  Continuity Check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     5.5.  Availability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
 

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     5.6.  Data Path Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     5.7.  Scalability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     5.8.  Extensibility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     5.9.  Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     5.10.  Transport Independence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     5.11.  Application Independence  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     5.12.  Prioritization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
     5.13.  Logging and Traceability Requirements . . . . . . . . . . 14
     5.14.  Live Traffic Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   6.  Items for Further Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
   7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
   9.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
   10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     10.1  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
     10.2  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

 

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1.  Introduction

   This document provides framework and requirements for Network
   Virtualization Overlay (NVO3) Operations, Administration, and
   Maintenance (OAM). Given that this OAM subject is far from new and
   has been under extensive investigation by various IETF working groups
   (and several other standards bodies) for many years, this document
   draws from existing work, starting with [RFC6136].  As a result,
   sections of [RFC6136] have been reused with minor changes with the
   permission of the authors.

   NVO3 OAM requirements are expected to be a subset of IETF/IEEE etc.
   work done so far; however, we begin with a full set of requirements
   and expect to prune them through several iterations of this document.

1.1.  OSI Definitions of OAM

   The scope of OAM for any service and/or transport/network
   infrastructure technologies can be very broad in nature.  OSI has
   defined the following five generic functional areas commonly
   abbreviated as "FCAPS" [NM-Standards]:

   o  Fault Management,

   o  Configuration Management,

   o  Accounting Management,

   o  Performance Management, and

   o  Security Management.

   This document focuses on the Fault, Performance and to a limited
   extent the Configuration Management aspects.  Other functional
   aspects of FCAPS and their relevance (or not) to NVO3 are for further
   study.

   Fault Management can typically be viewed in terms of the following
   categories:

   o  Fault Detection;

   o  Fault Verification;

   o  Fault Isolation;

   o  Fault Notification and Alarm Suppression;

 

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   o  Fault Recovery.

   Fault detection deals with mechanism(s) that can detect both hard
   failures such as link and device failures, and soft failures, such as
   software failure, memory corruption, misconfiguration, etc. Fault
   detection relies upon a set of mechanisms that first allow the
   observation of an event, then the use of a protocol to dynamically
   notify a network/system operator (or management system) about the
   event occurrence, then the use of diagnostic tools to assess the
   nature and severity of the fault.

   After verifying that a fault has occurred along the data path, it is
   important to be able to isolate the fault to the level of a given
   device or link. Therefore, a fault isolation mechanism is needed in
   Fault Management. A fault notification mechanism should be used in
   conjunction with a fault detection mechanism to notify the devices
   upstream and downstream to the fault detection point. The fault
   notification mechanism should also notify NMS systems.

   The terms "upstream" and "backward" are used here to denote the
   direction(s) from which data traffic is flowing. The terms
   "downstream" and "forward" denote the direction(s) to which data
   traffic is forwarded.

   For example, when there is a client/server relationship between two
   layered networks (e.g., the NVO3 layer is a client of the outer IP
   server layer, while the inner IP layer is a client of the NVO3 server
   layer 2), fault detection at the server layer may result in the
   following fault notifications:

   o  Sending a forward fault notification from the server layer to the
   client layer network(s) using the fault notification format
   appropriate to the client layer.

   o  Sending a backward fault notification to the server layer, if
   applicable, in the reverse direction.

   o  Sending a backward fault notification to the client layer, if
   applicable, in the reverse direction.

   Finally, fault recovery deals with recovering from the detected
   failure by switching to an alternate available data path (depending
   on the nature of the fault) using alternate devices or links. In
   fact, the controller can provision another virtual network, thus
   automatically resolving the reported problem.

   The controller may also directly monitor the status of virtual
   network components such as Network Virtualization Edge elements
 

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   (NVEs) [RFC7365] in order to respond to their failures. In addition
   to forward and backward fault notifications, the controller may
   deliver notifications to a higher level orchestration component,
   e.g., one responsible for Virtual Machine (VM) provisioning and
   management.

   Note, given that the IP network on which NVO3 resides is usually self
   healing, it is expected that recovery by the NVO3 layer would not
   normally be required, although there may be a requirement for that
   layer to log that the problem has been detected and resolved. The
   special cases of a static IP overlay network, or possibly of a
   centrally controlled IP overlay network, may, however, require NVO3
   involvement in fault recovery.

   Performance Management deals with mechanism(s) that allow determining
   and measuring the performance of the network/services under
   consideration. Performance Management can be used to verify the
   compliance to both the service-level and network-level metric
   objectives/specifications.  Performance Management typically consists
   of measuring performance metrics, e.g., Frame Loss, Frame Delay,
   Frame Delay Variation (aka Jitter), Frame Throughput, Frame Discard,
   etc., across managed entities when the managed entities are in
   available state.  Performance Management is suspended across
   unavailable managed entities.

1.2.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].

1.3.  Relationship with Other OAM Work

   This document leverages requirements that originate with other OAM
   work, specifically the following:

   o  [RFC6136] provides a template and some of the high level
   requirements and introductory wording.

   o  [IEEE802.1Q-2011] is expected to provide a subset of the
   requirements for NVO3 both at the Tenant level and also within the L3
   Overlay network.

   o  [Y.1731] is expected to provide a subset of the requirements for
   NVO3 at the Tenant level.

   o  Section 3.3.2.1 of [NVO3-DP-Reqs] lists several requirements
   specifically concerning ECMP/LAG.
 

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2.  Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

   The terminology defined in [RFC7365] and [NVO3-DP-Reqs] is used
   throughout this document. We introduce no new terminology.

3. NVO3 Reference Model  

   Figure 1 below reproduces the generic NVO3 reference model as per
   [RFC7365].

      +--------+                                  +--------+
      | Tenant |                                  | Tenant |
      |  End   +--+                           +---|  End   |
      | System |  |                           |   | System |
      +--------+  |    ...................    |   +--------+
                  |  +-+--+           +--+-+  |
                  |  | NV |           | NV |  |
                  +--|Edge|           |Edge|--+
                     +-+--+           +--+-+
                    /  .    L3 Overlay   .  
      +--------+   /   .     Network     .        +--------+
      | Tenant +--+    .                 .    +----| Tenant |
      |  End   |       .                 .         |  End   |
      | System |       .    +----+       .         | System |
      +--------+       .....| NV |........         +--------+
                            |Edge|
                            +----+
                              |
                              |
                           +--------+
                           | Tenant |
                           |  End   |
                           | System |
                           +--------+

              Figure 1: Generic NVO3 Reference Model

   Figure 2 below, reproduces the Generic reference model for the NV
   Edge (NVE) as per [NVO3-DP-Reqs].

 

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                        +------- L3 Network ------+
                        |                         |
                        |       Tunnel Overlay    |
           +------------+---------^-+       +--------+-------------^-+
           | +----------+------+  | |       | +------+----------+  | |
           | | Overlay Module  |  | |       | | Overlay Module  |  | |
           | +--------+--------+  | |       | +--------+--------+  | |
           |          | VNID      | |       |          | VNID      | |
           |          |         OAM |       |          |         OAM |
           |  +-------+-------+   | |       |  +-------+-------+   | |
           |  |      VNI      |   | |       |  |      VNI      |   | |
      NVE1 |  +-+-----------+-+   | |  NVE2 |  +-+-----------+-+   | |
           |    |   VAPs    |     | |       |    |   VAPs    |     | |
           +----+-----------+-----V-+       +----+-----------+-----V-+
                |           |                 |           |
         -------+-----------+--------------------+-----------+--------
                |           |        Tenant      |           |
                |           |      Service IF    |           |
              Tenant End Systems               Tenant End Systems

             Figure 2: Generic reference model for the NV Edge (NVE) 

4.  OAM Framework for NVO3

   Figure 1 showed the generic reference model for a DC network
   virtualization over an L3 (or L3VPN) infrastructure while Figure 2
   showed the generic reference model for the Network Virtualization
   (NV) Edge.

   L3 network(s) or L3 VPN networks (either IPv6 or IPv4, or a
   combination thereof), provide transport for an emulated layer 2
   created by NV Edge devices.  Unicast and multicast tunneling methods
   (de-multiplexed by Virtual Network Identifier (VNID)) are used to
   provide connectivity between the NV Edge devices.  The NV Edge
   devices then present an emulated layer 2 network to the Tenant End
   Systems at a Virtual Network Interface (VNI) through Virtual Access
   Points (VAPs).  The NV Edge devices map layer 2 unicast to layer 3
   unicast point-to-point tunnels and may either map layer 2 multicast
   to layer 3 multicast tunnels or may replicate packets onto multiple
   layer 3 unicast tunnels.

4.1.  OAM Layering

   The emulated layer 2 network is provided by the NV Edge devices to
   which the Tenant End Systems are connected.  This network of NV Edges
 

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   can be operated by a single service provider or can span across
   multiple administrative domains.  Likewise, the L3 Overlay Network
   can be operated by a single service provider or span across multiple
   administrative domains.

   While each of the layers is responsible for its own OAM, each layer
   may consist of several different administrative domains.  Figure 3
   shows an example.

         TENANT    |----------------------------| TENANT

         NV Edge   |----------------------|  NV Edge

         IP(VPN)   |---| IP (VPN) |---| IP(VPN)
        
              Figure 3: Example NVO3 OAM Layering

   For example, at the bottom, at the L3 IP overlay network layer
   IP(VPN) and/or Ethernet OAM mechanisms are used to probe link by
   link, node to node etc.  OAM addressing here means physical node
   loopback or interface addresses.

   Further up, at the NV Edge layer, NVO3 OAM messages are used to probe
   the NV Edge to NV Edge tunnels and NV Edge entity status. OAM
   addressing here likely means the physical node loopback together with
   the VNI (to de-multiplex the tunnels).

   Finally, at the Tenant layer, the IP and/or Ethernet OAM mechanisms
   are again used but here they are operating over the logical L2/L3
   provided by the NV-Edge through the VAP. OAM addressing at this layer
   deals with the logical interfaces on Vswitches and Virtual Machines.

4.2.  OAM Domains

   Complex OAM relationships exist as a result of the hierarchical
   layering of responsibility and of breaking up of end-to-end
   responsibility.

   The OAM domain above NVO3, is expected to be supported by existing IP
   and L2 OAM methods and tools.

   The OAM domain below NVO3, is expected to be supported by existing
   IP/L2 and MPLS OAM methods and tools. Where this layer is actually
   multiple domains spliced together, the existing methods to deal with
   these boundaries are unchanged.  Note however that exposing LAG/ECMP
   detailed behavior may result in additional requirements to this
   domain, the details of which will be specified in the future versions
   of this draft.
 

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   When we refer to an OAM domain in this document, or just 'domain', we
   therefore refer to a closed set of NV Edges or MEPs and the tunnels
   which interconnect them.

   Note, whether for the scenario of inter-domain or multi-layer, each
   domain (or layer) is responsible for its own OAM, no correlation of
   OAM function exists between each domain (or layer). When an E2E
   connection in Tenant layer spans across multiple domains and has
   multiple underlay layers of NV Edge layer and L3 IP (VPN) layer,
   current OAM implementation for the E2E connection of Tenant layer
   such as Fault or Performance Management can only be performed per
   domain and layer manually and more manual labor is needed.  An
   automatic coordination process among OAM functions of each domain or
   layer may be useful here for improving efficiency and intelligence.

   In the case where a gateway device is use to connect two different
   domains (whether for changing the encapsulation or other reasons), it
   is necessary to provide mechanisms to monitor the path through the
   gateway which involves the removal of one overlay header and the
   creation of a new one.

5.  NVO3 OAM Requirements

5.1.  Discovery

   R1) NVO3 OAM MUST allow an NV Edge device to dynamically discover
   other NV Edge devices that share the same VNI within a given NVO3
   domain. This may be based on a discovery mechanism used to set up
   data path forwarding between NVEs.

5.2.  Connectivity Fault Management

5.2.1.  Connectivity Fault Detection

   R2) NVO3 OAM MUST allow proactive connectivity monitoring between two
   or more NV Edge devices that support the same VNIs within a given
   NVO3 domain.  NVO3 OAM MAY act as a protection trigger.  That is,
   automatic recovery from transmission facility failure by switchover
   to a redundant replacement facility may be triggered by notifications
   from NVO3 OAM.

   R3) NVO3 OAM MAY allow monitoring/tracing of all possible paths in
   the underlay network between a specified set of two or more NV Edge
   devices.  Using this feature, equal cost paths that traverse LAG
   and/or ECMP may be differentiated.

5.2.2.  Connectivity Fault Verification

 

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   R4) NVO3 OAM MUST allow connectivity fault verification between two
   or more NV Edge devices that support the same VNI within a given NVO3
   domain.

5.2.3.  Connectivity Fault localization

   R5) NVO3 OAM MUST allow connectivity fault localization between two
   or more NV Edge devices that support the same VNI within a given NVO3
   domain.

5.2.4.  Connectivity Fault Notification and Alarm Suppression

   R6) NVO3 OAM MUST support fault notification to be triggered as a
   result of the faults occurring in the underneath network
   infrastructure.  This fault notification SHOULD be used for the
   suppression of redundant service-level alarms.

5.3.  Connectivity Performance Management

5.3.1.  Frame Loss

   R7) NVO3 OAM MUST support measurement of per VNI frame loss between
   two NV Edge devices that support the same VNI within a given NVO3
   domain.

5.3.2.  Frame Delay

   R8) NVO3 OAM MUST support measurement of per VNI two-way frame delay
   between two NV edge devices that support the same VNI within a given
   NVO3 domain.

   R9) NVO3 OAM MUST support measurement of per VNI one-way frame delay
   between two NV Edge devices that support the same VNI within a given
   NVO3 domain.

5.3.3.  Frame Delay Variation

   R10) NVO3 OAM MUST support measurement of per VNI frame delay
   variation between two NV Edge devices that support the same VNI
   within a given NVO3 domain.

5.3.4.  Frame Throughput

   R11) NVO3 OAM MAY support measurement of per VNI frame throughput (in
   frames and bytes) between two NV Edge devices that support the same
   VNI within a given NVO3 domain.  This feature could be an effective
 

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   way to confirm whether or not assigned path bandwidth conforms to
   service level agreement before providing the path between two NV Edge
   devices.

5.3.5.  Frame Discard

   R12) NVO3 OAM MAY support measurement of per VNI frame discard
   between two NV Edge devices that support the same VNI within a given
   NVO3 domain. This feature MAY be effective to monitor bursty traffic
   between two NV Edge devices.

5.4.  Continuity Check

   NVO3 OAM MUST provide functions that allow any arbitrary NV edge
   device to perform a Continuity Check to any other NV edge device.

   NVO3 OAM MUST provide functions that allow any arbitrary NV edge
   device to perform a Continuity Check to any other NV edge device
   using a path associated with a specified flow.

   NVO3 OAM SHOULD provide functions that allow any arbitrary NV edge
   device to perform a Continuity Check to any other NV edge device over
   any section of any selectable least-cost path.

   NVO3 OAM SHOULD provide the ability to perform a Continuity Check on
   sections of any selectable path within the network.

5.5.  Availability

   A service may be considered unavailable if the service frames/packets
   do not reach their intended destination (e.g., connectivity is down)
   or the service is degraded (e.g., frame loss and/or frame delay
   and/or delay variation threshold is exceeded). Entry and exit
   conditions may be defined for the unavailable state. Availability
   itself may be defined in the context of a service type. Since
   availability measurement may be associated with connectivity, frame
   loss, frame delay, and frame delay variation measurements, no
   additional requirements are specified currently.

5.6.  Data Path Forwarding

   R13) NVO3 OAM frames MUST be forwarded along the same path (i.e.,
   links (including LAG members) and nodes) as the NVO3 data frames.

   R14) NVO3 OAM frames MAY provide a mechanism to exercise/trace all
   data paths that result due to ECMP/LAG hops in the underlay network,
   if these paths have been known.

 

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   NVO3 OAM frame MUST be possible arranged to follow the path taken by
   a specific flow.

   NVE MUST have the ability to identify frames that require OAM
   processing.

5.7.  Scalability

   R15) NVO3 OAM MUST be scalable such that an NV edge device can
   support proactive OAM for each VNI that is supported by the device.

5.8.  Extensibility

   R16) NVO3 OAM should be extensible such that new functionality and
   information elements related to this functionality can be introduced
   in the future.

   R17) NVO3 OAM MUST be defined such that devices not supporting the
   OAM are able to forward the OAM frames in a similar fashion as the
   regular NVO3 data frames/packets.

5.9.  Security

   R18) NVO3 OAM frames MUST be prevented from leaking outside their
   NVO3 domain.

   R19) NVO3 OAM frames from outside an NVO3 domain MUST be prevented
   from entering the said NVO3 domain when such OAM frames belong to the
   same level or to a lower-level OAM. (Trivially met because
   hierarchical domains are independent technologies.)

   R20) NVO3 OAM frames from outside an NVO3 domain MUST be transported
   transparently inside the NVO3 domain when such OAM frames belong to a
   higher-level NVO3 domain. (Trivially met because hierarchical domains
   are independent technologies).

5.10.  Transport Independence

   Similar to transport requirement from [RFC6136], we expect NVO3 OAM
   will leverage the OAM capabilities of the transport layer (e.g., IP
   underlay).

   R21) NVO3 OAM MAY allow adaptation/interworking with its IP underlay
   OAM functions.  For example, this would be useful to allow fault
   notifications from the IP layer to be sent to the NVO3 layer and
   likewise exposure of LAG/ECMP will require such non-independence.

5.11.  Application Independence
 

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   R22) NVO3 OAM MAY be independent of the application technologies and
   specific application OAM capabilities.

5.12.  Prioritization

   R23) NVO3 OAM messages MUST be preferentially treated in NVE and
   between NVEs, since NVO3 OAM MAY be used to trigger protection
   switching.  As noted above (R2), protection switching is the
   automatic replacement of a failed transmission facility with a
   working one providing equal or greater capacity, typically within a
   few tens of milliseconds from fault detection.

5.13.  Logging and Traceability Requirements

   Logging is required at the Network Virtualization Authority (NVA) and
   the Network Virtualization Edge (NVE) [and the NVO3 Gateway, but the
   framework does not mention such a beast] in support of fault
   management and configuration management.

   R24) All logs MUST contain a timestamp of sufficient accuracy and
   precision to allow accurate determination of the sequence of events
   at the reporting functional instance (i.e., NVA, NVE). Clocks on
   different functional instances SHOULD be synchronized to allow
   similar accuracy when comparing logs from different devices.

   R25) All logs MUST identify the reporting functional instance.

   R26) Implementations MUST be capable of reporting the following
   fault- related events:

   1.  Loss and resumption of connectivity

   These reports SHOULD identify the affected VNI(s), but when the loss
   affects a large number of VNIs simultaneously the report SHOULD
   identify the underlying entity (e.g., route) if available.

   2.  Loss and resumption of NVE responsiveness

   These reports will be generated by adjacent NVAs or NVEs. They MUST
   identify the NVE concerned.

   3.  NVA or NVE change of operational state

   These reports will be generated by the NVA or NVE concerned.  They
   MUST indicate the old and new operational states and the cause.

   4.  Loss and resumption of a VAP

 

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   These reports will be generated by adjacent NVAs or NVEs.  They MUST
   identify the VAP concerned.

   R27) Implementations MUST be capable of reporting the following
   events in support of configuration management and auditing.  It MUST
   be possible to generate the reports at both the originating and
   executing entities.  The report generated at the originating entity
   MUST identify the executing entity and the report at the executing
   entity MUST identify the originating entity.  Both reports MUST
   indicate the result of the transaction.

   1.  Virtual Access Point (VAP) creation or deletion

   These reports MUST identify the VAP, the Tenant System, and the port
   supporting the VAP.

   2.  VNI creation or deletion

   These reports MUST identify the VNI and the VAP.

   3.  VNI renumbering

   These reports MUST identify the VAP and the old and new VNI numbers.

   4.  Reachability and forwarding information update

   These reports MUST identify the previous and new file identifiers.
   (Assumption: reachability and forwarding information is passed as
   files, which are retained at the originating and executing entities
   for a fixed period for auditing purposes.)

   R28) As a general requirement, implementations MUST provide a means
   whereby the operator can impose rate limits on the generation of
   specific reports.  Implementations MUST further permit the operator
   to totally suppress reporting of specific events.  However, if any
   report types have been suppressed, non-suppressible reports MUST be
   generated at regular intervals (e.g., once an hour) indicating what
   report types have been suppressed.

5.14.  Live Traffic Monitoring

   NVO3 OAM implementations MAY provide methods to utilize live traffic
   for troubleshooting and performance monitoring.

6.  Items for Further Discussion

   This section identifies a set of operational items which may be
   elaborated further if these items fall within the scope of the NVO3.
 

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   o  VNID renumbering support

      *  Means to change the VNID assigned to a given instance MUST be
   supported.

      *  System convergence subsequent to VNID renumbering MUST NOT take
   longer than a few seconds, to minimize impact on the tenant systems.

      *  A NVE MUST be able to map a VNID with a virtual network
   context.

   o  VNI migration and management operations

      *  Means to delete an existing VNI MUST be supported.

      *  Means to add a new VNI MUST be supported.

      *  Means to merge several VNIs MAY be supported.

      *  Means to retrieve reporting data per VNI MUST be supported.

      *  Means to monitor the network resources per VNI MUST be
   supported.

   o  Support of planned maintenance operations on the NVO3
   infrastructure

      *  Graceful procedure to allow for planned maintenance operation
   on NVE MUST be supported.  This includes undoing any configuration
   changes made for maintenance purposes after completion of the
   maintenance.

   o  Support for communication among virtual networks   *  For global
   reachability purposes, communication among virtual networks MUST be
   supported.  This can be enforced using a NAT function.

   o  Activation of new network-related services to the NVO3

      *  Means to assist in activating new network services (e.g.,
   multicast) without impacting running service SHOULD be supported.

   o  Inter-operator NVO3 considerations

      *  As NVO3 may be deployed over inter-operator infrastructure,
   coordinating OAM actions in each individual domain are required to
   ensure an end-to-end OAM. In particular, this assumes existence of
   agreements on the measurement and monitoring methods, fault detection
   and repair actions, extending QoS classes (e.g., DSCP mapping
 

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   policies), etc.

   o  An automatic coordination process among OAM functions of different
   domains or layers which an E2E connection in Tenant layer is tunneled
   on

      *  NVO3 OAM MAY support the automatic coordination of OAM
   functions among different domains or layers which belong to one
   Tenant layer E2E connection. The automatic coordination means OAM
   function in client layer or one domain triggers associated OAM
   functions in server layer or neighbouring domain.  This triggered
   action performs at the domain boundaries, which is also the MEPs of
   the domain.  Which OAM function in client layer or one domain can
   trigger Which OAM functions in server layer or neighbouring domain
   depends on specific condition, and can be very flexible.  But the
   basic rule is that the OAM functions performed simultaneously in
   different domains or layers can be synthesized together to get the
   final result.

      *  The OAM MEPs of domains MUST have the capability to know if it
   needs to perform the above automatic coordination process. This can
   be achieved by many ways, i.e., by configuration, by checking the
   flag field in OAM frames.

      *  When the OAM MEPs perform the automatic coordination, a
   specific global characteristic information MUST be carried and mapped
   between OAM frames used in different domains or layers, and be kept
   the same alone the whole tenant layer E2E connection.  The global
   characteristic information can be the tenant network identifier
   (e.g., VNID), ICMP sequence number, etc. It is used for identifying a
   set of correlated OAM results obtained from these domains or layers. 
   This set of OAM results is then synthesized together to get the final
   diagnose result.

      *  NVO3 OAM MUST support a Collection Point for collecting all the
   OAM results and synthesizing them.  It can be the SDN controller,
   NVA, or NMS. An E2E OAM function in tenant network can trigger
   several OAM functions in different underlay networks, a Collection
   Point is needed to collect all the OAM results from different OAM
   MEPs of different domains or layers and synthesizes them.

7. IANA Considerations
   This memo includes no request to IANA.

8. Security Considerations
   Security requirements are specified in Section 5.9. For general NVO3
   security considerations, please refer to [NVO3-Security].

 

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9.  Acknowledgements

   The authors are grateful for the contributions of David Black, Dennis
   Qin, Erik Smith and Ziye Yang to this latest version.

10. References

10.1  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI
              10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, <http://www.rfc-
              editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

10.2  Informative References

   [IEEE802.1Q-2011] "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area
              networks - Media Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual
              Bridged Local Area Networks", 2011.

   [NM-Standards] "ITU-T Recommendation M.3400 (02/2000) - TMN
              Management Functions", February 2000.

   [NVO3-DP-Reqs] Bitar, N., Lasserre, M., Balus, F., Morin, T., Jin, L.
              and Khasnabish, B., "NVO3 Data Plane Requirements", draft-
              ietf-nvo3-dataplane-requirements-03(work in progress),
              April 2014.

   [NVO3-Security] Hartman, S., Zhang, D., Wasserman, M., Qiang, Z. and
              Zhang, M., "Security Requirements of NVO3", draft-ietf-
              nvo3-security-requirements-05(work in progress), June
              2015.

   [RFC6136] Sajassi, A. and D. Mohan, "Layer 2 Virtual Private
              Network(L2VPN) Operations, Administration, and
              Maintenance(OAM) Requirements and Framework", March 2011.

   [RFC7365] Lasserre, M., Balus, F., Morin, T., Bitar, N., and Y.
              Rekhter, "Framework for DC Network Virtualization",
              October 2014.

   [Y.1731] "ITU-T Recommendation Y.1731 (02/08) - OAM functions and
              mechanisms for Ethernet based networks", February 2008.

 

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Authors' Addresses

   Hao Chen
   Huawei Technologies
   101 Software Avenue,
   Nanjing 210012
   China

   Phone: +86-25-56624440
   EMail: philips.chenhao@huawei.com

   Peter Ashwood-Smith
   Huawei Technologies
   303 Terry Fox Drive, Suite 400
   Kanata, Ontario K2K 3J1
   Canada

   Phone: +1 613 595-1900
   Email: Peter.AshwoodSmith@huawei.com

   Liang Xia (Frank)
   Huawei Technologies

   Email: Frank.xialiang@huawei.com

   Ranga Iyengar
   Huawei Technologies USA
   2330 Central Expy
   Santa Clara, CA 95050
   USA

   Email: ranga.Iyengar@huawei.com

   Tina Tsou
   Huawei Technologies USA
   2330 Central Expy
   Santa Clara, CA 95050
   USA

   Email: Tina.Tsou.Zouting@huawei.com

   Ali Sajassi
   Cisco Technologies
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95134
   USA
 

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   Email: sajassi@cisco.com

   Mohamed Boucadair
   France Telecom
   Rennes, 35000
   France

   Email: mohamed.boucadair@orange.com

   Christian Jacquenet
   France Telecom
   Rennes, 35000
   France

   Email: christian.jacquenet@orange.com

   Masahiro Daikoku
   KDDI corporation
   3-10-10, Iidabashi, Chiyoda-ku
   Tokyo 1028460
   Japan

   Email: ms-daikoku@kddi.com

   Anoop Ghanwani
   Dell
   5450 Great America Pkwy
   Santa Clara, CA
   USA

   Email: anoop@alumni.duke.edu

   Ram Krishnan
   Brocade
   130 Holger Way
   San Jose, CA 95134
   USA  

   Email: ramk@brocade.com

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