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ICMP Error Handling for VPNs in SRv6 Networks
draft-varhal-6man-icmp-srv6-vpn-02

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draft-varhal-6man-icmp-srv6-vpn-02
6man                                                            B. Varga
Internet-Draft                                                  Ericsson
Intended status: Standards Track                              J. Halpern
Expires: 26 December 2026                                            HPE
                                                            24 June 2026

             ICMP Error Handling for VPNs in SRv6 Networks
                   draft-varhal-6man-icmp-srv6-vpn-02

Abstract

   This document specifies ICMP error handling in SRv6-based Virtual
   Private Networks, that support direct localization of failures.  It
   provides a solution for connectivity check and fault localization
   without adding complexity to P nodes and keeps P nodes service
   agnostic.  ICMP processing is changed only on ingress PE nodes and
   gains from adding VPN-specific information to the SRv6 encapsulated
   packet.  Egress PE nodes are not involved in the forwarding of the
   ICMP error messages therefore, the solution provides visibility upto
   the failure even if ingress PE to egress PE connectivity is broken
   within the SR domain.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Terms Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  ICMP Error Handling for SRv6-VPNs . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.2.  Details of ICMP Error Handling for VPNs in SRv6
            Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.3.  Optional capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.4.  Dealing with IPv6-VPNs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.5.  VPNv6 illustration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.6.  Dealing with IPv4-VPNs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.7.  VPNv4 illustration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.8.  Multi-level encapsulations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.9.  Operational Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.10. Characteristics of the solution . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   6.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   7.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

1.  Introduction

   Troubleshooting is an essential part of all IP networks.  IP VPN
   service of transport networks always represented a special challenge
   to provide ICMP error handling, as the hosts in a VPN are not part of
   the transport network.

   For VPNs the main challenge to use ICMP for connectivity check and
   fault localization is that network internal nodes (a.k.a. P routers)
   are not service (i.e., VPN) aware.  Therefore, P routers cannot route
   VPN-specific ICMP error messages back to the original source of the
   packet, that triggered the generation of the ICMP error message.
   Furthermore, in SRv6 networks the P routers may be IPv6-only (i.e.,
   may not support the protocol (e.g. IPv4) or address space used by the
   VPN clients).

   The Uniform Model defined in [RFC3443] allows visibility of traversed
   nodes outside the provider network.

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   This document proposes a solution that is capable to allow (1) ping
   or trace for VPN endpoints with transport network visibility; and (2)
   find broken link or node within the transport network (e.g., SRv6
   domain).

   Solving complex multi-tunneling and multi-technology interworking
   scenarios are out-of-scope in this document.

2.  Terminology

2.1.  Terms Used in This Document

   This document uses the Segment Routing terminology established in
   [RFC8402] and in [RFC9252].  The reader is assumed to be familiar
   with those documents and their terminology.

   The following terms used within this document are defined in
   [RFC8402]: Segment Routing, SR domain, Segment ID (SID), SRv6, SRv6
   SID, Active Segment, and SR Policy.

   The following terms used within this document are defined in
   [RFC8754]: Segment Routing Header (SRH).

   The following terms used within this document are defined in
   [RFC8986]: NH (next header), SL (the Segments Left field of the SRH),
   FIB (Forwarding Information Base), SA (Source Address), DA
   (Destination Address), and SRv6 Endpoint Behavior.

2.2.  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.  ICMP Error Handling for SRv6-VPNs

3.1.  Overview

   While a solution for diagnostics in MPLS VPNs has been created, the
   solution designed for MPLS based VPN ping or traceroute has many
   inherited drawbacks.  MPLS technology has its special encapsulation,
   i.e., the MPLS header is a label stack.  In case of MPLS, P routers
   have no options to identify the ingress of the MPLS tunnel, as labels
   in the header point towards the network egress point.  This
   characteristic restricts the possible solutions to provide VPN-
   specific ICMP handling in MPLS networks and resulted in involving of

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   egress-PE nodes in the forwarding of the ICMP error messages.

   IPv6 encapsulation used by SRv6 has an IP SA field referring to the
   originator of the IP packet, i.e., the ingress endpoint of the SRv6
   tunnel.  Therefore the MPLS restriction does not have to apply for
   SRv6 networks.  The solution described here takes advantages from
   this presence of the ingress endpoint information to provide an
   optimal method and not to change [RFC4443] procedures for P nodes.

   Node functions in the described method are as follows:

   1.  Ingress PE (ingress node of the SRv6 tunnel): VPN packet
       encapsulation follows [RFC3443] Uniform model.  The node adds
       VPN-specific information to the encapsulated packet (i.e., IP
       SA=VPN-specific-SID of the Ingress PE) and forwards it over the
       SRv6 network.

   2.  P node = Originator of the ICMP error (within the SRv6 domain):
       it does standard [RFC4443] operation, so an ICMP error message is
       sent to the originator (i.e., the ingress PE) of the SRv6
       encapsulated packet, that caused the ICMP message generation
       (e.g., when the Hop Limit of the packet expired).

   3.  Ingress PE: it processes the ICMP error message and forwards it
       to the original source of the (payload) packet, what is located
       within the VPN context.  This processing is done by a VPN-
       associated-ICMP-process-function and is described in detail in
       Section 3.2.

3.2.  Details of ICMP Error Handling for VPNs in SRv6 Networks

   Figure 1 shows the reference topology used to describe the ICMP error
   handling.

                  |<--------- SRv6 Domain -------->|
                  |                                |
             +-----+      +----+      +----+      +-----+
    HostA----+ PE1 +------+ P1 |------| P2 +------+ PE2 +------HostB
             +-----+      +----+      +----+      +-----+
                |                                    |
                |<--------------- VPN -------------->|

          Figure 1: ICMP Error Handling for VPNs in SRv6 Networks:
                             Reference Topology

   Packet processing works as follows:

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   1.  HostA sends a packet to HostB.

   2.  PE1 encapsulates the packet in an SRv6 tunnel (using the Uniform
       model).  The IP SA of the encapsulation is a VPN-specific SID of
       PE1.

   3.  Encapsulated packet reaches P2 where Hop Limit expires.

   4.  P2 generates an ICMP Error Message and sends it to PE1, using the
       VPN-specific SID as an IP DA.

   5.  PE1 processes the ICMP Error Message according to its VPN-
       associated-ICMP-process-function and identifies the related VPN
       instance.

   6.  PE1 sends the processed ICMP Error Message to HostA.

   7.  HostA is informed about the Hop Limit expire event and its
       network location (i.e., P2).

   The VPN-specific SID of PE1 refers to the VPN instance where the
   prefixes of the VPN can be looked up.  The VPN-specific SID is
   allocated by the PE.  SIDs processing already defines the upper-layer
   header steps (as per [RFC8986], section 4.1.1).  The upper-layer =
   ICMPv6, therefore there is no need for extra parsing rules.  There
   might be no need for extra SID allocation for a VPN.  The solution
   uses a SID per VPN, what is allocated for the VPN service.  More
   specifically for a VPN service the PE node can allocate SID(s) per-
   prefix (e.g., End.DX6) or per-vrf (e.g., End.DT6).  The solution uses
   a per-vrf SID (e.g., End.DT6) in the IP SA of the SRv6 encapsulated
   packets.

   For more sophisticated VPN configurations (e.g., Hub-and-Spoke VPN)
   where multiple VRFs (and SIDs) are configured for a given VPN, the
   VPN specific SID of PE1 always refers to the VRF instance (and its
   per-vrf SID) where the prefixes of the connected customer site(s) can
   be looked up.

   As the locator part of the VPN-specific SID is routable within the
   SRv6 domain other PE and P nodes of the SRv6 domain can send/route
   packets to it.

   The SRv6 encapsulation process on the ingress PE node needs several
   input information to construct the outer SRv6 header.  One group of
   information is related to the IP DA and the SRH part of the SRv6
   encapsulation.  They are derived from the remote service information
   (e.g., VPN SID on the egress PE) and the SR policy (if exists).  The
   SR policy defines the path to which an ingress PE node steers a

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   packet flow.  Applying a SR policy means to select the path (e.g.,
   defined by a SID list) and placing the path descriptors into the IP
   DA and the SRH fields of the outer SRv6 encapsulation.

   Another group of information is needed as well for the SRv6
   encapsulation, like IP SA, Traffic Class, FlowLabel, HopLimit,
   NextHeader.  They are derived by various local functionalities.  The
   here described solution impacts only the selection of the IP SA.  As
   per [RFC9256] the source IP MUST resolve to a unique node in the SRv6
   domain, what is fulfilled by the above described VPN-specific SID.
   All other fields are defined by related RFCs.  For example, Traffic
   Class might be copied from the inner packet, FlowLabel might be
   locally generated, etc.

3.3.  Optional capabilities

   The VPN-associated-ICMP-process-function may translate the IP address
   of the Originator-of-the-ICMPv6-error-message (e.g., a P node) to
   limit the VPN-specific visibility characteristics.  For example, if
   the SRv6 domain operator does not want to export the real NodeIP or
   SID values used by the SRv6 domain nodes.

3.4.  Dealing with IPv6-VPNs

   In case of IPv6-VPN service the The VPN-associated-ICMP-process-
   function operation contains the following steps:

   1.  It processes the received ICMPv6 error message (originated e.g.,
       from a P node within the SRv6 domain).

   2.  It identifies the related VPN, based on the VPN-specific IP SA
       value in the SRv6 encapsulation of the received ICMPv6 error
       message.

   3.  It modifies the ICMP error message:

       *  It removes the SRv6 domain specific encapsulation/header(s) of
          the received ICMPv6 error message.

       *  It identifies the VPN-specific source of the original packet
          that caused the ICMPv6 error message, based on the invoking
          packet header part of the ICMPv6 error message payload.

       *  It removes the SRv6 domain specific header(s) from the
          invoking packet header part of the ICMPv6 error message
          payload.

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       *  It creates a new header for the ICMP error message, where the
          IP SA refers to the Originator-of-the-ICMPv6-error-message and
          the IP DA=SourceIP-of-the-invoking-packet.

   4.  Forwards the modified ICMP error message according to the local
       VPN routing table (VRF).

   From encapsulation perspective the SRv6 VPN service is an IPv6
   Tunnel.  The described operation of the VPN-associated-ICMP-process-
   function is inline with the sense of Section 8. of [RFC2473] and can
   be treated as extending it to use the VPN-specific information in the
   IP SA for finding the the source of the original IPv6 packet.  The
   ingress PE node is the tunnel entry-point node that receives the ICMP
   error message generated by a node inside the tunnel, i.e., the P
   node.

   The VPN-associated-ICMP-process-function differs from Section 8. of
   [RFC2473] by keeping the SA of the original ICMP error message and
   using it in the relayed ICMP error message for the here described VPN
   described.

3.5.  VPNv6 illustration

   This section illustares a VPNv6 Traceroute from a customer host.

   HostA sends the following traceroute packet to HostB.
   HostA_out : (A::1, B::1, HL=3, NH=UDP)
               (Traceroute probe)

   PE1 encapsulates in SRv6. In PE1 HL propagation is enabled.
   PE1_out   : (PE1:VPN1::, PE2:DT6::, HL=2, NH=IPv6)
               ((A::1, B::1, HL=2, NH=UDP)
                (Traceroute probe))

   P1 forwards the SRv6 packet.
   P1_out    : (PE1:VPN1::, PE2:DT6::, HL=1, NH=IPv6)
               ((A::1, B::1, HL=2, NH=UDP)
                (Traceroute probe))

   Hop limit expires at P2. P2 implements the standard procedure
   from [RFC4443] and generates an ICMPv6 error message.
   P2_out    : (P2::1:, PE1:VPN1::, HL=64; NH=ICMPv6)
               (ICMPv6, Time Exceeded,
                [copy of the invoking packet =
                 (PE1:VPN1::, PE2:DT6::, HL=1, NH=IPv6)
                 ((A::1, B::1, HL=2, NH=UDP)(Traceroute probe))
                ])

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   P1 forwards the ICMPv6 packet.
   P1_out    : (P2::1:, PE1:VPN1::, HL=63; NH=ICMPv6)
               (ICMPv6, Time Exceeded,
                [copy of the invoking packet =
                 (PE1:VPN1::, PE2:DT6::, HL=1, NH=IPv6)
                 ((A::1, B::1, HL=2, NH=UDP)(Traceroute probe))
                ])

   PE1 modifies the received ICMPv6 packet, by removing the
   SRv6 encapsulation related information. Invoking packet
   specific VPN service is explicitly identified based on the
   IP SA of the received ICMPv6 error message.
   PE1_out   : (P2::1, A::1, HL=62, NH=ICMPv6)
               (ICMPv6, Time Exceeded,
                [copy of the invoking packet =
                 (A::1, B::1, HL=2, NH=UDP)(Traceroute probe)
                ])

3.6.  Dealing with IPv4-VPNs

   In case of IPv4-VPN service the VPN-associated-ICMP-process-function
   operates as follows (v4/v6 are noted for clarity):

   1.  It processes the received ICMPv6 error message (originated e.g.,
       from a P node within the SRv6 domain).

   2.  It identifies the related VPN, based on the VPN-specific IP SA
       value in the SRv6 encapsulation of the received ICMPv6 error
       message.

   3.  It synthesizes an ICMPv4 error message based on the received
       ICMPv6 error message:

       *  It identifies the VPNv4 specific source of the original IPv4
          packet that caused the ICMPv6 error message, based on the
          invoking packet header parts of the ICMPv6 error message
          payload.

       *  It creates the header for the ICMPv4 error message, in
          accordance with [RFC7600] (Section 4.8) and
          [I-D.ietf-intarea-extended-icmp-nodeid] (Section 3), i.e.,
          IPv4 SA=192.0.0.8, Node Identification Object containing the
          IPv6 SA of the ICMPv6 error message and IPv4 DA=IPv4-SA-of-
          the-original-packet.

   4.  Forwards the modified ICMPv4 error message according to the local
       VPNv4 routing table (VRF).

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   When PE node is aware of the IPv4 address of the SRv6 node that
   generated the ICMPv6 error message, then the PE node may use it as
   the IPv4 SA of the synthesized ICMPv4 message.  How the PE node is
   aware of that information is out-of-scope in this document.

3.7.  VPNv4 illustration

   This section illustares a VPNv4 Traceroute from a customer host.

   HostA sends the following traceroute packet to HostB.
   HostA_out : (A.1.1.1, B.2.2.2, TTL=3, Prot=UDP)
               (Traceroute probe)

   PE1 encapsulates in SRv6. In PE1 HL propagation is enabled.
   PE1_out   : (PE1:VPN1::, PE2:DT6::, HL=2, NH=IPv4)
               ((A.1.1.1, B.2.2.2, TTL=2, Prot=UDP)
                (Traceroute probe))

   P1 forwards the SRv6 packet.
   P1_out    : (PE1:VPN1::, PE2:DT6::, HL=1, NH=IPv4)
               ((A.1.1.1, B.2.2.2, TTL=2, Prot=UDP)
                (Traceroute probe))

   Hop limit expires at P2. P2 implements the standard procedure
   from [RFC4443] and generates an ICMPv6 error message.
   P2_out    : (P2::1:, PE1:VPN1::, HL=64; NH=ICMPv6)
               (ICMPv6, Time Exceeded,
                [copy of the invoking packet =
                 (PE1:VPN1::, PE2:DT6::, HL=1, NH=IPv4)
                 ((A.1.1.1, B.2.2.2, TTL=2, Prot=UDP)(Traceroute probe))
                ])

   P1 forwards the ICMPv6 packet.
   P1_out    : (P2::1:, PE1:VPN1::, HL=63; NH=ICMPv6)
               (ICMPv6, Time Exceeded,
                [copy of the invoking packet =
                 (PE1:VPN1::, PE2:DT6::, HL=1, NH=IPv4)
                 ((A.1.1.1, B.2.2.2, TTL=2, Prot=UDP)(Traceroute probe))
                ])

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   PE1 processes the received ICMPv6 packet and removes the
   SRv6 encapsulation related information. Invoking packet
   specific service is explicitly identified based on the
   IP SA of the received ICMPv6 error message. An ICMPv4 packet
   is synthetized.
   PE1_out   : (192.0.0.8, A.1.1.1, TTL=62, Prot=ICMPv4)
               (ICMPv4, Time Exceeded, NIO=P2::1,
                [copy of the invoking packet =
                 (A.1.1.1, B.2.2.2, TTL=2, Prot=UDP)(Traceroute probe)
                ])
   or when IPv4 address of P2 is known by PE1
   PE1_out   : (P2.2.2.2, A.1.1.1, TTL=62, NH=ICMPv4)
               (ICMPv4, Time Exceeded,
                [copy of the invoking packet =
                 (A.1.1.1, B.2.2.2, TTL=2, Prot=UDP)(Traceroute probe)
                ])

3.8.  Multi-level encapsulations

   Some network scenarios result in a packet having multiple transport
   outer IPv6 headers preceding the customer's inner IP header.  Solving
   complex multi-tunneling and multi-technology interworking scenarios
   are out-of-scope in this document.

3.9.  Operational Considerations

   The ICMP error handling addition for SRv6-based Virtual Private
   Networks defined in ,this document impacts only the ingress PE node.
   There are no changes in operation of the P nodes and egress-PE nodes.
   Ping and traceroute can be started from customer operated nodes
   (e.g., CE nodes) or service provider operated nodes (e.g., ingress-PE
   nodes) for connectivity check and fault localization.

   The behavior on P nodes utilized in this solution are the same as
   those already required, deployment of this capability on PE nodes has
   no impact and can co-exist with the operator's existing management
   and monitoring techniques.

   The solution allow to build SRv6 networks where P routers are
   IPv6-only (i.e., may not support the protocol (e.g. IPv4) or address
   space used by the VPN clients).

3.10.  Characteristics of the solution

   ICMP Error Handling for VPNs in SRv6 Networks has the following
   characteristics:

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   *  It eliminates the shortcomings of the MPLS based solutions, as (1)
      it works in case of failures between ingress-PE and egress-PE and
      (2) it supports direct localization of failures.

   *  It defines new functions only for Ingress PE nodes.

   *  It uses a VPN specifc SID as a source address on ingress PE nodes.

   *  It does not result in additional complexity on P nodes.

   *  It is compliant to existing standards on P nodes, like [RFC4443].

   *  It makes P nodes service agnostic and allows building IPv6-only
      core networks.

   *  It does not involve Egress PE nodes in the forwarding of the ICMP
      error messages.

   *  It can hide the SIDs used inside the SRv6 domain and can provide
      different visibility for served VPNs if needed.

4.  Security Considerations

   This document does not impose any additional security challenges to
   be considered beyond the security threats described in [RFC9252].

5.  IANA Considerations

   This document makes no IANA requests.

6.  Acknowledgements

   Authors extend their appreciation to Janos Farkas, Ferenc Fejes, Xiao
   Min, Liu Yao, Greg Mirsky, Krzysztof Szarkowicz, and Mustapha
   Aissaoui for their insightful comments and productive discussion that
   helped to improve the document.

7.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-intarea-extended-icmp-nodeid]
              Fenner, B. and R. Thomas, "Adding Extensions to ICMP
              Errors for Originating Node Identification", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-intarea-extended-
              icmp-nodeid-04, 19 August 2025,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-intarea-
              extended-icmp-nodeid-04>.

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   [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>.

   [RFC2473]  Conta, A. and S. Deering, "Generic Packet Tunneling in
              IPv6 Specification", RFC 2473, DOI 10.17487/RFC2473,
              December 1998, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2473>.

   [RFC3443]  Agarwal, P. and B. Akyol, "Time To Live (TTL) Processing
              in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks",
              RFC 3443, DOI 10.17487/RFC3443, January 2003,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3443>.

   [RFC4443]  Conta, A., Deering, S., and M. Gupta, Ed., "Internet
              Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet
              Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification", STD 89,
              RFC 4443, DOI 10.17487/RFC4443, March 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4443>.

   [RFC7600]  Despres, R., Jiang, S., Ed., Penno, R., Lee, Y., Chen, G.,
              and M. Chen, "IPv4 Residual Deployment via IPv6 - A
              Stateless Solution (4rd)", RFC 7600, DOI 10.17487/RFC7600,
              July 2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7600>.

   [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>.

   [RFC8402]  Filsfils, C., Ed., Previdi, S., Ed., Ginsberg, L.,
              Decraene, B., Litkowski, S., and R. Shakir, "Segment
              Routing Architecture", RFC 8402, DOI 10.17487/RFC8402,
              July 2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8402>.

   [RFC8754]  Filsfils, C., Ed., Dukes, D., Ed., Previdi, S., Leddy, J.,
              Matsushima, S., and D. Voyer, "IPv6 Segment Routing Header
              (SRH)", RFC 8754, DOI 10.17487/RFC8754, March 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8754>.

   [RFC8986]  Filsfils, C., Ed., Camarillo, P., Ed., Leddy, J., Voyer,
              D., Matsushima, S., and Z. Li, "Segment Routing over IPv6
              (SRv6) Network Programming", RFC 8986,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8986, February 2021,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8986>.

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   [RFC9252]  Dawra, G., Ed., Talaulikar, K., Ed., Raszuk, R., Decraene,
              B., Zhuang, S., and J. Rabadan, "BGP Overlay Services
              Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)", RFC 9252,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9252, July 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9252>.

   [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>.

Authors' Addresses

   Balazs Varga
   Ericsson
   Email: balazs.a.varga@ericsson.com

   Joel Halpern
   HPE
   Email: joel.halpern@hpe.com

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