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SR Policies Extensions for NRP in BGP-LS
draft-chen-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-nrp-06

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draft-chen-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-nrp-06
IDR                                                              R. Chen
Internet-Draft                                           ZTE Corporation
Intended status: Standards Track                                 J. Dong
Expires: 19 September 2024                                        Huawei
                                                                 D. Zhao
                                                         ZTE Corporation
                                                                 L. Gong
                                                            China mobile
                                                                  Y. Zhu
                                                           China Telecom
                                                                 R. Pang
                                                            China Unicom
                                                           18 March 2024

                SR Policies Extensions for NRP in BGP-LS
                 draft-chen-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-nrp-06

Abstract

   This document defines a new TLV which enable the headend to report
   the configuration and the states of SR policies carrying NRP
   information by using BGP-LS.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Carrying NRP TLV in BGP-LS  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Scalability Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   8.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6

1.  Introduction

   Segment Routing Policy [RFC9256] is an ordered list of segments (i.e.
   instructions) that represent a source-routed policy.  Packet flows
   are steered into a SR Policy on a node where it is instantiated
   called a headend node.  The packets steered into an SR Policy carry
   an ordered list of segments associated with that SR Policy.

   [I-D.ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices] provides the definition of IETF
   network slice for use within the IETF and discusses the general
   framework for requesting and operating IETF Network Slices, their
   characteristics, and the necessary system components and
   interfaces.It also introduces the concept Network Resource Partition
   (NRP), which is a subset of the resources and associated policies in
   the underlay network.

   [I-D.ietf-teas-ns-ip-mpls] introduces the notion of a Slice-Flow
   Aggregate which comprises of one or more IETF network slice traffic
   streams.  It also describes the Network Resource Partition (NRP) and
   the NRP Policy that can be used to instantiate control and data plane
   behaviors on select topological elements associated with the NRP that
   supports a Slice-Flow Aggregate.

   [I-D.ietf-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy] describes a mechanism to distribute
   SR policy information to external components using BGP-LS.

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   [I-D.ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp] defines the extensions to BGP SR policy
   to specify the NRP which the SR Policy candidate path is associated
   with.

   This document defines a new TLV which enable the headend to report
   the configuration and the states of an SR policy carrying the NRP
   information by using BPG-LS.

2.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  Carrying NRP TLV in BGP-LS

   In order to collect configuration and states of the NRP SR policy,
   this document defines a new SR Policy state TLV which enable the
   headend to report the state at the SR Policy CP level.

   This TLV is carried in the optional non-transitive BGP Attribute
   "LINK_STATE Attribute" defined in [RFC9552]associated with the SR
   Policy CP NLRI type.

   This TLV is optional and only one this TLV is advertised for a given
   CP.  If multiple TLVs are present, then the first one is considered
   valid and the rest are ignored as describe in
   [I-D.ietf-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy].

   The TLV has the following format:

   0                   1                   2                   3
   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |              Type           |             Length              |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |              Flag           |             Reserved            |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                         NRP ID (4 octets)                     |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   where:

   Type: TBD.

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   Length: The total length of the value field not including Type and
   Length fields.

   Flag: 2-octet flag field.  None is defined at this stage.  The flags
   SHOULD be set to zero on transmission and MUST be ignored on receipt.

   RESERVED: 2-octet reserved bits.  It SHOULD be set to zero on
   transmission and MUST be ignored on receipt.

   NRP ID: 4-octet domain significant identifier of Network Resource
   Partition.  Value 0 and 0xFFFFFFFF are reserved.

4.  Scalability Considerations

   The mechanism specified in this document defines the headend to
   report configuration and states of an SR policy carrying the NRP
   information by using BPG-LS.  BGP-LS SR Policy is used to report the
   SR Policy attributes and status.  As the number of NRP increases, the
   number of SR Policies would also increase accordingly, and the status
   reported by the headend increases accordingly.  However, this will
   only cause an increase in the status reporting information of the
   head node, the impacts to the BGP control plane are considered
   acceptable.

5.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Changwang Lin for their review and
   discussion of this document.

6.  IANA Considerations

   IANA maintains a registry group called "Border Gateway Protocol -
   Link State (BGP-LS) Parameters" with a registry called "BGP-LS NLRI
   and Attribute TLVs".  The following TLV codepoints are suggested (for
   early allocation by IANA):

      Codepoint   Description                  Reference
    ----------------------------------------------------------
       TBD           NRP                       This document

7.  Security Considerations

   Procedures and protocol extensions defined in this document do not
   affect the BGP security model.  See the "Security
   Considerations"section of [RFC4271] for a discussion of BGP
   security.Security considerations for acquiring and distributing BGP-
   LS information are discussed in [RFC9552].

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8.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy]
              Previdi, S., Talaulikar, K., Dong, J., Gredler, H., and J.
              Tantsura, "Advertisement of Segment Routing Policies using
              BGP Link-State", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-
              ietf-idr-bgp-ls-sr-policy-03, 5 November 2023,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-idr-bgp-
              ls-sr-policy-03>.

   [I-D.ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp]
              Dong, J., Hu, Z., and R. Pang, "BGP SR Policy Extensions
              for Network Resource Partition", Work in Progress,
              Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp-00, 17
              December 2023, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/
              draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-nrp-00>.

   [I-D.ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices]
              Farrel, A., Drake, J., Rokui, R., Homma, S., Makhijani,
              K., Contreras, L. M., and J. Tantsura, "A Framework for
              Network Slices in Networks Built from IETF Technologies",
              Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-teas-ietf-
              network-slices-25, 14 September 2023,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-teas-
              ietf-network-slices-25>.

   [I-D.ietf-teas-ns-ip-mpls]
              Saad, T., Beeram, V. P., Dong, J., Wen, B., Ceccarelli,
              D., Halpern, J. M., Peng, S., Chen, R., Liu, X.,
              Contreras, L. M., Rokui, R., and L. Jalil, "Realizing
              Network Slices in IP/MPLS Networks", Work in Progress,
              Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-teas-ns-ip-mpls-03, 26 November
              2023, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-
              teas-ns-ip-mpls-03>.

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

   [RFC4271]  Rekhter, Y., Ed., Li, T., Ed., and S. Hares, Ed., "A
              Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4271, January 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4271>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

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   [RFC9256]  Filsfils, C., Talaulikar, K., Ed., Voyer, D., Bogdanov,
              A., and P. Mattes, "Segment Routing Policy Architecture",
              RFC 9256, DOI 10.17487/RFC9256, July 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9256>.

   [RFC9552]  Talaulikar, K., Ed., "Distribution of Link-State and
              Traffic Engineering Information Using BGP", RFC 9552,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9552, December 2023,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9552>.

Authors' Addresses

   Ran Chen
   ZTE Corporation
   Nanjing
   China
   Email: chen.ran@zte.com.cn

   Jie Dong
   Huawei
   Beijing
   China
   Email: jie.dong@huawei.com

   Detao Zhao
   ZTE Corporation
   Nanjing
   China
   Email: zhao.detao@zte.com.cn

   Liyan Gong
   China mobile
   Beijing
   China
   Email: gongliyan@chinamobile.com

   Yongqing Zhu
   China Telecom
   Guangzhou
   China
   Email: zhuyq8@chinatelecom.cn

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   Ran Pang
   China Unicom
   Beijing
   China
   Email: pangran@chinaunicom.cn

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