IPv6 Application of the Alternate Marking Method
draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-alt-mark-02
6MAN Working Group G. Fioccola
Internet-Draft T. Zhou
Intended status: Standards Track Huawei
Expires: April 16, 2021 M. Cociglio
Telecom Italia
F. Qin
China Mobile
R. Pang
China Unicom
October 13, 2020
IPv6 Application of the Alternate Marking Method
draft-ietf-6man-ipv6-alt-mark-02
Abstract
This document describes how the Alternate Marking Method can be used
as the passive performance measurement tool in an IPv6 domain and
reports implementation considerations. It proposes how to define a
new Extension Header Option to encode alternate marking technique and
both Hop-by-Hop Options Header and Destination Options Header are
considered.
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"SHOULD", "SHOULD 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.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Alternate Marking application to IPv6 . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Definition of the AltMark Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Data Fields Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Use of the AltMark Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Alternate Marking Method Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.1. Packet Loss Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5.2. Packet Delay Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
5.3. Flow Monitoring Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.3.1. Uniqueness of FlowMonID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.4. Multipoint and Clustered Alternate Marking . . . . . . . 11
5.5. Data Collection and Calculation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
8. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1. Introduction
[RFC8321] and [RFC8889] describe a passive performance measurement
method, which can be used to measure packet loss, latency and jitter
on live traffic. Since this method is based on marking consecutive
batches of packets, the method is often referred as Alternate Marking
Method.
The Alternate Marking Method has become mature to be implemented and
encoded in the IPv6 protocol and this document defines how it can be
used to measure packet loss and delay metrics in IPv6.
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