Alternate Marking Deployment Status and Considerations
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draft-zhou-srv6ops-am-deployment-status-00
srv6ops T. Zhou
Internet-Draft Z. Li
Intended status: Informational Huawei
Expires: 5 September 2024 4 March 2024
Alternate Marking Deployment Status and Considerations
draft-zhou-srv6ops-am-deployment-status-00
Abstract
Operators have started the deployment of Alternate Marking in their
networks for different scenarios. This document introduces several
deployment cases of Alternate Marking in operator networks. Some
considerations about the Alternate Marking deployments are also
collected.
Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Deployment Status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. China Mobile Guangdong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. China Mobile Guizhou . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3. China Unicom Beijing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.4. South Africa MTN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.5. Bahrain STC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.6. Guangdong e-Government Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.7. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Deployment Cases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Mobile Transport Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Private Line Service for Cloud Access . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3. Financial WAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Deployment Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.1. Tunneling Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.2. Deployment Automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4.3. Capability Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1. Introduction
The Alternate Marking [RFC9341] and Multipoint Alternate Marking
[RFC9342]define the Alternate Marking technique that is a hybrid
performance measurement method, per RFC7799 [RFC7799] classification
of measurement methods. This method is based on marking consecutive
batches of packets and it can be used to measure packet loss,
latency, and jitter on live traffic.
The IPv6 AltMark Option [RFC9343] applies the Alternate Marking
Method to IPv6, and defines an Extension Header Option to encode the
Alternate Marking Method for both the Hop-by-Hop Options Header and
the Destination Options Header.
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While the IPv6 AltMark Option implements the basic alternate marking
methodology, the Enhanced Alternate Marking [RFC9343] defines
extended data fields for the AltMark Option and provides enhanced
capabilities to overcome some challenges and enable future proof
applications.
Operators have started the deployment of Alternate Marking in their
networks for different scenarios. This document introduces several
deployment cases of Alternate Marking in operator networks. Some
considerations about the Alternate Marking deployments are also
collected.
2. Deployment Status
2.1. China Mobile Guangdong
Scenario: Root cause analysis for 5G, when the access speed is not
qualifed.
Data Plane: MPLS.
2.2. China Mobile Guizhou
Scenario: Realtime error detection for key areas.
Data Plane: MPLS.
2.3. China Unicom Beijing
Scenario: Service assurance for the private converged transport
network for 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Data Plane: MPLS.
2.4. South Africa MTN
Scenario: Fault location for mobile transport network from base
station to mobile core network.
Data Plane: IPv6.
2.5. Bahrain STC
Scenario: Service assurance for mobile transport network.
Data Plane: IPv6.
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2.6. Guangdong e-Government Network
Scenario: Service assurance for online services and datacenter
interconnection.
Data Plane: IPv6.
2.7. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Scenario: Service assurance for campus private WAN.
Data Plane: IPv6.
3. Deployment Cases
3.1. Mobile Transport Network
The mobile transport network is a large-scale network. It has
various access modes and carries various mobile transport services
(such as high definition video) that pose higher requirements on link
connectivity and performance. Alternate Marking is deployed to
quickly demarcates and locates faults and replays faults on demand,
improving SLA experience and O&M efficiency.
In this scenario, edge-to-edge performance measurement is performed
firstly. The hop-by-hop measurement is triggered when the base
station flow performance degrades to the pre-defined threshold. The
controller summarizes the reported hop-by-hop measurement data for
path restoration and fault locating. This solution offers the
following benefits:
* Detailed performance data of service flows can be monitored from
different dimensions, such as base station flows, data flows, and
signaling flows. In addition, this solution supports clustering
to process base station flow faults and quickly demarcate poor-
quality services, preventing multiple faults of numerous base
station flows from triggering a lot of per hop measurements.
* If a fault occurs outside the transport network, this solution can
quickly and accurately prove that the fault is not due to the
network. If a fault occurs within the transport network, this
solution can quickly locate the faulty network element or link,
improving network operation efficiency.
* Based on the real-time performance data of base stations across
the entire network, a big data-based intelligent O&M system can be
constructed to implement high-precision SLA awareness in real time
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and multi-dimensional visualization for base station services. It
can also analyze and evaluate potential network risks, and
optimize network resources to implement automatic and intelligent
O&M.
3.2. Private Line Service for Cloud Access
Enterprises use private line to access cloud services. The wide
coverage of the mobile transport network can provide the cloud access
service more conveniently. E2E collaborative management can
facilitate the network deployment, operations.
Alternate Marking can apply to VPN service analysis and assurance for
the cloud access, including site-to-site private line, site-to-cloud
private line, and cloud interconnection scenarios. Alternate Marking
ensures E2E high reliability and implements minute-level fault
locating through visualized O&M. This solution offers the following
benefits:
* Analyzes and locates faults of a VPN flow and queries the E2E
performance of the VPN service flow by granularity ranging from
year to minute, including the maximum traffic rate, maximum one-
way delay, and maximum packet loss rate.
* Queries E2E VPN service information based on the VPN name, VPN
type, and service status. If multiple segments of service flows
exist, the status value of the segment with the lowest quality is
used.
* Implements E2E multi-dimensional exception identification, network
health visualization, intelligent fault diagnosis, and fault self-
healing in a closed-loop manner.
3.3. Financial WAN
In the financial industry, tier-2 banks, branches, subsidiaries, and
external organizations first connect to tier-1 banks, which aggregate
service traffic and then connect to the bank core network to
implement mutual access between them and the head office data center.
In this case, the concept of centralized management for finacial WAN
is of particular importance.
By using SRv6 technology, the financial WAN can quickly and easily
establish basic network connections between the cloud and various
access points, ensuring efficient service provisioning. In terms of
O&M capabilities, the financial industry has high requirements on the
SLA assurance. So the financial WAN faces higher requirements due to
the diverse array of branch service types brought about by the
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development of banking services. For example, in addition to
traditional production and office services, other services such as
security protection, IoT, and public cloud services are now
prevalent. In this scenario, Alternate Marking can apply to tunnels.
And this solution offers the following benefits:
* In SRv6 scenarios, tunnel-level Alternate Marking can apply to
measure the quality of each SRv6 segment list and select the
optimal path. The path currently in use is periodically compared
with the optimal path, implementing intelligent traffic steering.
* One core controller is deployed to perform centralized O&M for the
entire financial WAN and implement the E2E management and
scheduling.
4. Deployment Considerations
Based on the Alternate Marking deployment collected in section 2,
this section describes some operational considerations.
4.1. Tunneling Support
In carrier networks, it is common for user traffic to traverse
various tunnels for QoS, traffic engineering, or security. Both the
uniform mode and the pipe mode for tunnel support are required. The
uniform mode treats the nodes in a tunnel uniformly as the nodes
outside of the tunnel on a path. In contrast, the pipe mode
abstracts all the nodes between the tunnel ingress and egress as a
circuit so no nodes in the tunnel is visible to the nodes outside of
the tunnel. With such flexibility, the operator can either gain a
true end-to-end visibility or apply a hierarchical approach which
isolates the monitoring domain between customer and provider.
4.2. Deployment Automation
Standard approaches that automate the function configuration could
either be deployed in a centralized fashion or a distributed fashion.
The draft [I-D.ydt-ippm-alt-mark-yang] provides a YANG model for
Alternate Marking configuration. It is also helpful to provide
standards-based approaches for configuration in various network
environments. For example, in Segment Routing (SR) networks,
extensions to BGP or Path Computation Element Communication Protocol
(PCEP) can be defined to distribute SR policies with Alternate
Marking information, so that telemetry behavior can be enabled
automatically when the SR policy is applied.
[I-D.ietf-pce-pcep-ifit] defines extensions to PCEP to configure SR
policies for Alternate Marking. [I-D.ietf-idr-sr-policy-ifit]
defines extensions to BGP for the same purpose. In the future, other
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approaches for hardware and software-based functions can be
development to enhance the programmability and flexibility.
4.3. Capability Discovery
The Alternate Marking Method MUST be deployed in a controlled domain
for security and compatibility reasons. Before adding the alternate
marking information, the marking node must know if there is an
unmarking node when the flow goes out the controlled domain.
Otherwise, the alternate marking information will leak to other
domain and cause potential damage.
[I-D.ietf-idr-bgp-ifit-capabilities] defines a new BGP Router
Capability Code to advertise the Alternate Marking capabilities.
Within an Alternate Marking deployment domain, capability
advertisement from the tail node to the head node assists the head
node to determine whether the Alternate Marking Option can be
encapsulated in data packets. Such advertisement helps mitigating
the leakage threat and facilitating the deployment of Alternate
Marking on a per-service and on-demand basis.
5. IANA Considerations
This document makes no request of IANA.
Note to RFC Editor: this section may be removed on publication as an
RFC.
6. Security Considerations
TBD
7. Acknowledgements
TBD
8. References
8.1. Normative References
[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>.
[RFC7799] Morton, A., "Active and Passive Metrics and Methods (with
Hybrid Types In-Between)", RFC 7799, DOI 10.17487/RFC7799,
May 2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7799>.
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[RFC9341] Fioccola, G., Ed., Cociglio, M., Mirsky, G., Mizrahi, T.,
and T. Zhou, "Alternate-Marking Method", RFC 9341,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9341, December 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9341>.
[RFC9342] Fioccola, G., Ed., Cociglio, M., Sapio, A., Sisto, R., and
T. Zhou, "Clustered Alternate-Marking Method", RFC 9342,
DOI 10.17487/RFC9342, December 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9342>.
[RFC9343] Fioccola, G., Zhou, T., Cociglio, M., Qin, F., and R.
Pang, "IPv6 Application of the Alternate-Marking Method",
RFC 9343, DOI 10.17487/RFC9343, December 2022,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9343>.
8.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-idr-bgp-ifit-capabilities]
Fioccola, G., Pang, R., Wang, S., Decraene, B., Zhuang,
S., and H. Wang, "Advertising In-situ Flow Information
Telemetry (IFIT) Capabilities in BGP", Work in Progress,
Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ifit-capabilities-04,
11 January 2024, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/
draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ifit-capabilities-04>.
[I-D.ietf-idr-sr-policy-ifit]
Qin, F., Yuan, H., Yang, S., Zhou, T., and G. Fioccola,
"BGP SR Policy Extensions to Enable IFIT", Work in
Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-ifit-
07, 20 October 2023,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-idr-sr-
policy-ifit-07>.
[I-D.ietf-pce-pcep-ifit]
Yuan, H., 王雪荣, Yang, P., Li, W., and G. Fioccola, "Path
Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP)
Extensions to Enable IFIT", Work in Progress, Internet-
Draft, draft-ietf-pce-pcep-ifit-04, 8 January 2024,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-pce-
pcep-ifit-04>.
[I-D.ydt-ippm-alt-mark-yang]
Graf, T., Wang, M., Fioccola, G., Zhou, T., Min, X., Jun,
G., Nilo, M., and L. Han, "A YANG Data Model for the
Alternate Marking Method", Work in Progress, Internet-
Draft, draft-ydt-ippm-alt-mark-yang-00, 29 February 2024,
<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ydt-ippm-alt-
mark-yang-00>.
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Authors' Addresses
Tianran Zhou
Huawei
156 Beiqing Rd.
Beijing
100095
China
Email: zhoutianran@huawei.com
Zhenbin Li
Huawei
156 Beiqing Rd.
Beijing
100095
China
Email: lizhenbin@huawei.com
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