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Network Working Group                                           A. Clemm
Internet-Draft                                                   L. Dong
Intended status: Informational                                 Futurewei
Expires: January 12, 2023                                      G. Mirsky
                                                                Ericsson
                                                            L. Ciavaglia
                                                          Rakuten Mobile
                                                             J. Tantsura
                                                               Microsoft
                                                              M-P. Odini
                                                           July 11, 2022

                        Green Networking Metrics
                       draft-cx-green-metrics-00

Abstract

   This document explains the need for network instrumentation that
   allows to assess the power consumption, energy efficiency, and carbon
   footprint associated with a network, its equipment, and the services
   that are provided over it.  It also suggests a set of related metrics
   that, when provided visibility into, can help to optimize a network's
   energy efficiency and "greenness".

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Definitions and Acronyms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Energy Metrics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1.  Energy Metrics related to Equipment . . . . . . . . . . .   4
       3.1.1.  Base Metrics  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
       3.1.2.  Virtualization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2.  Energy Metrics related to Flows . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.3.  Energy Metrics related to Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.4.  Energy Metrics related to the Network-at-Large  . . . . .   8
   4.  Other considerations and discussion items . . . . . . . . . .   9
     4.1.  User perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     4.2.  Holistic perspective  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     4.3.  Sustainable equipment production  . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   7.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   8.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

1.  Introduction

   Climate change and the need to curb greenhouse emissions have been
   recognized by the United Nations and by most governments as one of
   the big challenges of our time.  As a result, improving energy
   efficiency and reducing power consumption are becoming of increasing
   importance for society and for many industries.  The networking
   industry is no exception.

   Networks themselves consume significant amounts of energy.
   Therefore, the networking industry has an important role to play in
   meeting sustainability goals.  Future networking advances will
   increasingly need to focus on becoming more energy-efficient and
   reducing carbon footprint, both for economic reasons and for reasons
   of corporate responsibility.  This shift has already begun and
   sustainability is already becoming an important concern for network
   providers [telefonica2020].

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   There are many vectors along which networks can be made "greener".
   At its foundation, it involves network equipment itself.  Making such
   equipment more energy-efficient is a big factor in helping networks
   become greener.  However, opportunities also exist at the level of
   protocols themselves (e.g. reduction of transmission waste and
   enabling of rapid control loops), at the level of the overall network
   (e.g. path optimization under consideration of energy efficiency as a
   cost factor), and architecture level (e.g. placement of contents and
   functions) [I.D.draft-cwx-green-ps].

   However, regardless of any particular approach that is chosen, in
   order to assess its impact, there is a need to have visibility into
   the actual energy consumption that is occurring and to ideally be
   able to attribute that consumption to its sources.  As the adage
   goes, you cannot manage what you cannot measure.  By extension, you
   cannot optimize what you have no visibility of.  The ability to
   instrument networks in a way that allows for the assessment of energy
   consumption is hence an important enabler for potential energy
   optimizations, allowing to assess the effectiveness of measures that
   are being taken and enabling (for example) control loops that involve
   energy as an input.  Before instrumenting, it needs to be clear,
   however, what the proper metrics are that network providers will be
   interested in and that applications will seek to optimize.

   This document defines a set of metrics that allow to assess the
   "greenness" of networks and that form the basis for optimizing energy
   efficiency, carbon footprint, and environmental sustainability of
   networks and the services provided.  These metrics are intended to
   serve the foundation for possible later IETF standardization
   activities, such as the definition of related YANG modules [RFC7950]
   or energy-related control protocol extensions.

   Please note that throughout this document, we will be using the terms
   "green" and "energy efficient" interchangeably.  In general, we will
   be use these terms in a broad sense, encompassing also carbon
   footprint and sustainability except when explicitly mentioned
   otherwise.  Likewise, we treat "energy efficiency" as synonymous with
   "energy utilization efficiency", broadly speaking referring to the
   efficiency with which energy is being utilized.

2.  Definitions and Acronyms

      Carbon footprint: as used in this document, the amount of carbon
      emissions associated with the use or deployment of technology,
      usually directly correlated with the associated energy consumption

      CPU: Central Processing Unit

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      IPFIX: IP Flow Information eXport

      TCAM: Ternary Content-Addressable Memory

      pWh: pico Watt hour

      Wh: Watt hour

3.  Energy Metrics

   In the following, we categorize energy metrics as follows:

   o  At the device/equipment level.  This concerns aspects such as
      energy consumption of a device as a whole, of equipment components
      such as line cards or individual ports.  It includes metrics that
      would, for example, be found in equipment data sheets.

   o  At the flow level.  This concerns aspects about energy consumption
      by flows.  Metrics at this level attribute energy consumption to a
      flow.

   o  At the path level.  These metrics attest to the end-to-end energy
      efficiency of paths, attesting to their energy intensity
      (reflecting e.g. the amount of energy drawn when the path is
      selected) and taking into account, for example, whether a given
      path includes segments known to be energy-intensive.

   o  At the network level.  These metrics aggregate energy consumption
      across a network to provide a holistic picture of the "network as
      a system".

3.1.  Energy Metrics related to Equipment

3.1.1.  Base Metrics

   Arguably the most relevant energy metrics relate to equipment as a
   whole.  After all, power is drawn from devices.

   The power consumption of the device can be divided into the
   consumption of the core components (e.g. the backplane and CPU) as
   well as additional consumption incurred per port and line card.  In
   [I.D.draft-manral-bmwg-power-usage], the device factors affecting
   power consumption are summarized: base chassis power, number of line
   cards, number of active ports, port settings, port utilization,
   implementation of packet classification of Ternary Content-
   Addressable Memory (TCAM) and the size of TCAM, firmware version.

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   Furthermore it is important to understand the difference between
   power consumption when a resource is idling versus when it is under
   load.  This helps to understand the incremental cost of additional
   transmission versus the initial cost of transmission.  Generally, the
   cost of the first bit could be considered very high, as it requires
   powering up a device, port, etc.  The cost of transmission of
   additional bits (beyond the first) is many orders of magnitude lower.
   Likewise, the incremental cost of CPU and memory that will be needed
   to process additional packets becomes fairly negligible.

   The first set of metrics corresponds to ratings of the device:

   o  Power consumption when idle (e.g.  Watts)

   o  Power consumption when fully loaded (e.g.  Watts)

   o  Power consumption at various loads: e.g. 50% utilization, 90%
      utilization

   These metrics should be maintained for the device as a whole, and for
   the subcomponents: i.e. for the chassis by itself, for each line
   card, for each port.  It should also take into account aspects such
   as the current memory configuration, as the overall energy
   consumption of a device is a function of the energy consumption of
   the components the system is comprised of.

   The metrics could be provided by the data sheet associated with the
   device or they could be measured as part of a deployment.  For
   maximum accuracy and comparability, they should reflect pre-defined
   environmental setting, e.g., operating temperature, relative
   humidity, barometric pressure.  For example, ATIS (Alliance for
   Telecommunications Industry Solutions) [ATIS0600015.02] defines a
   reference environment under which to measure router power
   consumption: temperature of 25 celsius degree (within 3 celsius
   degree deviation), relative humidity of 30% to 75%, barometric
   pressure between 1020 and 812 mbar.  In the AC power configuration,
   the router should be evaluated at 230 VAC or within 1% deviation, 50
   or 60 Hz or within 1% deviation [Ahn2014].

   The second set of metrics reflects the actual power being drawn
   during operation.  It is the type of data that might be provided as
   management data.  Again, it should be provided for the device as a
   whole, as well as for the subcomponents reflected in the device
   hierarchy: line cards, ports, etc.

   o  Current power consumption (e.g.  Watts)

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   o  Power drawn since system start (or module insertion, if at the
      level of a line card, or port activation, if at the level of a
      port), for the past minute (e.g.  Watt hours)

   The third set of metrics are derived from the earlier metrics.  They
   normalize the power consumption relative to the line speeds
   respectively amount of traffic that is passed.

   o  Current power consumption / kilooctet

   The fourth set of metrics reflects expectation values about
   incremental energy usage.  It could be relevant for use cases that
   assess the cost of additional traffic.  [Bolla2011] and [Ahn2014]
   found that the power consumption of a router is in direct proportion
   of the link utilization as well as the packet sizes.

   o  Incremental power per packet, per kilooctet, per gigaoctet.
      (Possible units might be pWh - pico Watt hours)

   In addition to these metrics, it is conceivable to also have the
   device reflect other context of relevance, such as the sustainability
   rating of the power source.  This could potentially be reflected
   along a scale ranging from diesel-generator powered, via conventional
   power grid, to renewable (powered by windmill, capture of excess
   heat, etc).  Also, the environmental status of the device could be
   taken into consideration, such as whether it is deployed in a data
   center and its share in contributing to the need for cooling.  It is
   conceivable to, for example, introduce corresponding metrics
   indicating a "green rating" of device, and/or of the context in which
   a device has been deployed.

3.1.2.  Virtualization Considerations

   Instrumentation should also take into account the possibility of
   virtualization.  This is important in particular as networking
   functions may increasingly be virtualized and hosted (for example) in
   a data center.  Overlay networks may be formed.  Likewise, many
   applications expected to optimize energy consumption may be hosted on
   controllers and applied to soft switches, VNFs (Virtual Network
   Functions), or networking slices.  The attribution of actual power
   consumed to such virtualized entities is a non-trivial task.  It
   involves navigating layers of indirection to assess actual energy
   usage and contribution by individual entities.  While it would be
   possible in such cases to simply revert to energy metrics of CPUs and
   data centers as a whole, this loses the ability to account for those
   metrics on the basis of networking decisions being made.

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   For example, virtualized networking functions could be hosted on
   containers or virtual machines which are hosted on a CPU in a data
   center instead of a regular network appliance such as a router or a
   switch, leading to very different power consumption characteristics.
   A data center CPU could be more power efficient and consume power
   more proportionally to actual CPU load.  Virtualization could result
   in using fewer servers.  [Energystar] reports that one watt-hour of
   energy savings at the server level results in roughly 1.9 watt-hours
   of facility-level energy savings by reducing energy waste in the
   power infrastructure and reducing energy needed to cool the waste
   heat produced by the server.

   Instrumentation needs to reflect these facts and facilitate
   attributing power consumption in a correct manner.  Alternatively, a
   simpler solution may be to simply forgo energy metrics for
   virtualized functions entirely, instead focus on instrumenting and
   relying on optimizing the energy footprint of the underlying hosting
   infrastructure.  In the meantime, the attribution of energy
   consumption and carbon footprint to individual functions that run on
   top of that infrastructure may be a topic for further research.

3.2.  Energy Metrics related to Flows

   Energy metrics related to flows attempt to capture the contribution
   of a given flow to energy consumption.  In its basic incarnation,
   those metrics reflect the energy consumption at a given device.  They
   could be used in conjunction with IPFIX [RFC7011] and modeled as
   Information Elements to be treated analogous to other flow statistics
   [RFC7012].  The following is a corresponding set of flow energy
   metrics:

   o  Incremental energy consumed over the duration of the flow.
      This is the incremental energy consumption that is directly caused
      by the flow, representing the difference between the amount of
      energy consumed with the flow and the amount of energy that would
      have been consumed without the flow.  (It should be noted that
      this metric may be difficult to assess in practice.)

   o  Amortized energy consumed over the duration of the flow.
      This is the portion of the flow's energy consumption for the
      duration of the flow, effectively computed by computing the
      proportion of flow traffic to overall traffic and multiplying it
      with the total energy consumption incurred for that time.

   A second set of energy metrics related to flow might aggregate the
   flow's energy consumption over the entire flow path.  In that case,
   the flow energy consumption is added up along the systems of the
   traversed path.  In practice, this will be more difficult to assess

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   for many reasons, including impacts of load balancing, PREOF (Packet
   Replication, Elimination, and Ordering Functions [RFC8655]),
   challenges to trace actual routes taken by production traffic, and
   more.

3.3.  Energy Metrics related to Paths

   Enerby metrics related to paths involve assessing the carbon
   footprints of paths and optimizing those paths so that overall
   footprint is minimized, then applying techniques such as path-aware
   networking [I.D.draft-chunduri-rtgwg-preferred-path-routing] or
   segment routing [RFC8402] to steer traffic along those paths that are
   deemed "the greenest" among alternatives.  It also includes aspects
   such as considering the incremental energy usage in routing
   decisions.

   Optimizing cost has a long tradition in networking; many of the
   existing mechanisms can be leveraged for greener networking simply by
   introducing energy footprint as a cost factor.  Low-hanging fruit
   include the inclusion of energy-related parameters as a cost
   parameter in control planes, whether distributed (e.g.  IGP) or
   conceptually centralized via SDN controllers.  In addition to power
   consumption over a path itself, other factors such as paths involving
   intermediate routers that are powered by renewable energy resources
   might be considered, as might be determined by an aggregate
   sustainability score.  After all, paths with devices that are powered
   by solar, wind, or geothermal might be preferable over paths
   involving devices powered by conventional energy that may include
   fossil fuel or nuclear resources.

   The following are a corresponding set of candidate metrics:

   o  Energy rating of a path.  (This could be computed as a function of
      energy ratings of different hops along the path.)

   o  Current power consumption across a path.  (This could be computed
      by aggregating the current power per packet (or per kilo octet
      etc) of each of the hops along the path.)

   o  Incremental power for a packet over a path.  (This could be
      computed by aggregating the incremental power per packet of each
      of the hops along the path.)

3.4.  Energy Metrics related to the Network-at-Large

   Ultimately, the goal of energy optimization and reduction of carbon
   footprint is to minimize the aggregate amount of energy used across
   the entire network, as well as to minimize the overall carbon

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   footprint of the network as a whole.  Accordingly, metrics that
   aggregate the energy usage across the network as a whole are needed.
   In order to account for changing traffic profiles, growth in user
   traffic etc, additional metrics are needed that normalize the total
   over the volume of services supported and volume of traffic passed.
   Corresponding metrics will generally be computed at the level of
   Operational Support Systems (or Business Support Systems) for the
   entire network.

   Some of the metrics used include the following [telefonica2020]:

   o  Total energy consumption (MWh)

   o  Electricity from renewable sources (%)

   o  Network energy efficiency (MWh/PB)

4.  Other considerations and discussion items

   This document is intended to spark discussion about what energy
   metrics will be useful to reduce the carbon footprint of networks -
   that provide visibility into energy consumption, that help
   optimization of networks under green criteria, that enable the next
   generation of energy-aware controllers and services.  Clearly, other
   metrics are conceivable and more considerations apply beyond those
   that are currently reflected in this document.  The following
   subsections highlight items that warrant further discussion and that
   might be addressed in greater detail in future revisions of this
   document.

4.1.  User perspective

   Arguably, attributing energy usage to individual users and making
   users aware of the energy-implications of their communication
   behavior may provide interesting possibilities to reduce energy
   footprint by guiding their behavior accordingly.  For example, the
   network could present clients with energy statistics related to their
   communication usage.  This could be supported by metrics related to
   service instances, such as energy usage statistics beyond statistics
   regarding volume, duration, number of transactions.  Such approaches
   would raise questions about how to actually collect such statistics
   accurately (versus just computing them via a formula) or what to
   actually include as part of those statistics (amortized vs
   incuremental energy contribution, attribution of cost for path
   resilience or retransmissions due to congestion, etc).  They also
   raise questions about how they would in practice be used.  For
   example, energy-based charging might be explored as an alternative
   for volume-based charging; however, in practice the two may be

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   strongly correlated and rejected by customers for similar reasons
   that volume-based charging is frequently rejected.

4.2.  Holistic perspective

   The network itself is only one contributor to a network's carbon
   footprint.  Arguably just as important are aspects outside the
   network itself, such as cooling and ventilation.  These aspects need
   to be considered.  However, reflecting such aspects here would
   arguably result in "boiling the ocean" and are therefore not
   addressed here.

4.3.  Sustainable equipment production

   Internet energy consumption may constitute two major components
   [Raghavan2011]: (1) the energy of the devices that construct the
   Internet, including the infrastructure devices: routers, LAN devices,
   cellular and telecommunication infrastructure, (2) More broadly, with
   the rise of peer-to-peer applications and cloud services, it also
   considers the energy consumption of the end systems, including
   desktops, laptops, smart phones, cloud servers, and application
   servers that are not in the cloud.

   For those two components, the following factors need to take into
   consideration for energy consumption calculation:

   o  Energy consumed in manufacturing of the devices and end-systems,
      as well as the contribution from their components and materials.

   o  The replacement lifespan of the devices and end-systems: desktops
      and laptops are typically replaced in 3-4 years, smartphones in 2
      years, application servers and cloud servers in 3 years, routers
      and WiFi-LAN switches in 3 years, cellular towers and
      telecommunication switches in 10 years, fiber optics in 10 years,
      copper in 30 years, etc.  With the incremental growth rate of the
      technology advancement, the replacement lifespan might be
      decreased over time.

   o  Operational maintenance: the network would not be functional
      without various software and implementation of protocols.  The
      energy consumed in creating software is complicated because it is
      overwhelmingly human involved, which usually include the energy
      used for the facilities of the software companies and human energy
      of the programmers.

   o  Replacement: The energy consumed in replacement of devices and
      end-systems could vary.  Some could be very energy intensive for

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      those large devices, e.g., cellular towers, or environmental
      unfriendly equipment, such as submarine communication cables.

   o  Disposal: There is substantial energy cost in disposing and
      recycling the old devices and equipment.

   By combining the energy consumption for running each device that
   builds the Internet [JuniperRouterPower], and the energy consumption
   of the end systems, in the meantime counting the energy consumption
   of manufacturing, operational maintenance, replacement and lifespan,
   disposal of those devices and equipment, we may have an estimate of
   the energy consumption for the network as a whole.

5.  IANA Considerations

   This document does not have any IANA requests.

6.  Security Considerations

   When instrumenting a network for energy metrics, it is important that
   implementations are secured to ensure that data is accurately
   measured and cannot be tampered with.  For example, an attacker might
   try to tamper energy readings to confuse controller trying to minize
   power consumption, leading to increased power consumption instead.
   In addition, access to the data needs to be secured in similar ways
   as for other sensitive management data, for example using secure
   management protocols and subjecting energy data that is maintained in
   YANG datastores via NACM (NETCONF Access Control Model).

   However, it should be noted that this draft specifies only metrics
   themselves, not how to instrument networks accordingly.  For the
   definition of metrics themselves, security considerations do thus not
   really apply.

7.  Acknowledgments

   Acknowledgments will be added when the time comes.

8.  Informative References

   [Ahn2014]  Ahn, J. and H. S. Park, "Measurement and modeling the
              power consumption of router interface",
              DOI: 10.1109/ICACT.2014.6779082, 16th International
              Conference on Advanced Communication Technology, pp.
              860-863, 2014,
              <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6779082>.

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   [ATIS0600015.02]
              AITS, "Energy Efficiency for Telecommunication Equipment:
              Methodology for Measurement and Reporting - Transport and
              Optical Access Requirements", March 2016.

   [Bolla2011]
              Bolla, R., Bruschi, R., Lombardo, C., and D. Suino,
              "Evaluating the energy-awareness of future Internet
              devices", DOI: 10.1109/HPSR.2011.5986001, 2011 IEEE 12th
              International Conference on High Performance Switching and
              Routing, pp. 36-43, 2011,
              <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5986001>.

   [Energystar]
              EnergyStar, "12 Ways to Save Energy in the Data Center,
              Server Virtualization", 2022,
              <https://www.energystar.gov/products/
              low_carbon_it_campaign/12_ways_save_energy_data_center/
              server_virtualization>.

   [I.D.draft-chunduri-rtgwg-preferred-path-routing]
              Bryant, S. E., Chunduri, U., and A. Clemm, "Preferred Path
              Routing Framework", May 2022,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-chunduri-
              rtgwg-preferred-path-routing-01>.

   [I.D.draft-cwx-green-ps]
              Clemm, A. and C. Westphal, "Challenges and Opportunities
              in Green Networking", June 2022.

   [I.D.draft-manral-bmwg-power-usage]
              Manral, V., "Benchmarking Power usage of networking
              devices", Jan 2011.

   [JuniperRouterPower]
              Juniper, "Power Requirements for an MX960 Router", 2021.

   [Raghavan2011]
              Raghavan, B. and J. Ma, "The energy and emergy of the
              Internet", HotNets-X: Proceedings of the 10th ACM Workshop
              on Hot Topics in Networks, pp. 1-6, 2011,
              <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2070562.2070571>.

   [RFC7011]  (Ed.), B. C., (Ed.), B. T., and P. Aitken, "Specification
              of the IP Flow Information Export (IPFIX) Protocol for the
              Exchange of Flow Information", RFC 7011, September 2013,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7011>.

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   [RFC7012]  (Ed.), B. C. and B. T. (Ed.), "Information Model for IP
              Flow Information Export (IPFIX)", RFC 7012, September
              2013, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7012>.

   [RFC7950]  Bjorklund, M. E., "The YANG 1.1 Data Modeling Language",
              RFC 7950, August 2016,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7950>.

   [RFC8402]  (Ed.), C. F., (Ed.), S. P., Ginsberg, L., Decraene, B.,
              Decraene, B., Litkowski, S., and R. Shakir, "Segment
              Routing Architecture", RFC 8402, July 2018,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8402>.

   [RFC8655]  Finn, N., Thubert, P., Varga, B., and J. Farkas,
              "Deterministic Networking Architecture", RFC 8655, October
              2019, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8655>.

   [telefonica2020]
              Telefonica, "Telefonica Consolidated Annual Report 2020.",
              2020.

Authors' Addresses

   Alexander Clemm
   Futurewei
   2220 Central Expressway
   Santa Clara  CA 95050
   USA

   Email: ludwig@clemm.org

   Lijun Dong
   Futurewei
   2220 Central Expressway
   Santa Clara  CA 95050
   USA

   Email: lijun.dong@futurewei.com

   Greg Mirsky
   Ericsson

   Email: gregimirsky@gmail.com

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   Laurent Ciavaglia
   Rakuten Mobile

   Email: laurent.ciavaglia@rakuten.com

   Jeff Tantsura
   Microsoft

   Email: jefftant.ietf@gmail.com

   Marie-Paule Odini

   Email: mp.odini@orange.fr

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