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SR Policy Extensions for Path Segment and Bidirectional Path
draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-path-segment-14

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Authors Cheng Li , Zhenbin Li , Yuanyang Yin , Weiqiang Cheng , Ketan Talaulikar
Last updated 2026-03-16 (Latest revision 2025-09-11)
Replaces draft-li-idr-sr-policy-path-segment
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Abstract

A Segment Routing(SR) policy identifies a set of candidate SR paths Each SR path is passed in BGP as the SR Policy SAFI NLRI accompanied with the Tunnel Encapsulation attribute (Tunnel-encaps). Each SR Path (tunnel) uses a set of TLVs in the Tunnel-encaps attribute to describe the characteristics of the SR Policy tunnel. One of the TLVs that describes the tunnel is the Segment list TLV which provides a list of segments contained in the tunnel. This document specifies a new Path Segment Sub-TLV to associate a Path Segment ID to the SR Segment List. The Path Segment ID can be used for performance measurement, path correlation, and end-2-end path protection. This Path Segment identifier can be also be used to correlate two unidirectional SR paths into a bidirectional SR path. Bidirection SR path may be required in some scenarios such as mobile backhaul transport network.

Authors

Cheng Li
Zhenbin Li
Yuanyang Yin
Weiqiang Cheng
Ketan Talaulikar

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