SPRING Working Group                                           W. Cheng
Internet Draft                                                 W. Jiang
Intended status: Informational                             China Mobile
Expires: September 21, 2024                                      C. Lin
                                                                 Y. Qiu
                                                   New H3C Technologies
                                                                  Y.Wei
                                                    Huawei Technologies
                                                               Ran.Chen
                                                                    ZTE
                                                               R. Liang
                                                        Ruijie Networks
                                                         March 21, 2024



                              SR Policy Group
                   draft-cheng-spring-sr-policy-group-04


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Abstract

   Segment Routing is a source routing paradigm that explicitly
   indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress node. An SR
   Policy is associated with one or more candidate paths, and each
   candidate path is either dynamic, explicit, or composite. This
   document describes SR policy Group in MPLS and IPv6 environments and
   illustrates some use cases for parent SR policy and SR Policy Group
   to provide best practice cases for operators.

Table of Contents


   1. Introduction...................................................2
   2. Terminology....................................................3
   3. Parent SR Policy...............................................3
   4. SR Policy Group................................................4
   5. Steering into SR Policy Group..................................5
   6. Relationship Sorting...........................................7
   7. Information Model of SR Policy Group...........................8
   8. Use Cases.....................................................10
      8.1. Parent SR Policy in L3VPN over TE Scenarios..............10
      8.2. SR Policy Group in Multi-VPN Tenants Scenarios...........11
   9. IANA Considerations...........................................14
   10. Security Considerations......................................14
   11. References...................................................15
      11.1. Normative References....................................15
      11.2. Informative References..................................15
   12. Acknowledgments..............................................15
   Authors' Addresses...............................................16

  1. Introduction

   Segment routing (SR) [RFC8402] is a source routing paradigm that
   explicitly indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress
   node. The ingress node steers packets into a specific path according
   to the Segment Routing Policy (SR Policy) as defined in [RFC9256].


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   In order to distribute SR policies to the headend, [I-D.ietf-idr-
   segment-routing-te-policy] specifies a mechanism by using BGP.

   An SR Policy is associated with one or more candidate paths. A
   composite candidate path acts as a container for grouping SR
   Policies. As described in [RFC9256], the composite candidate path
   construct enables combination of SR Policies, each with explicit
   candidate paths and or dynamic candidate paths with potentially
   different optimization objectives and constraints, for load-balanced
   steering of packet flows over its constituent SR Policies. For
   convenience, the composite candidate path formed by the combination
   of SR policies is called Parent SR policy.

   This document describes SR Policy Group in MPLS and IPv6
   environments and illustrates some use cases for parent SR policy and
   SR Policy Group to provide best practice cases for operators.

  2. Terminology

   The definitions of the basic terms are identical to those found in
   Segment Routing Architecture [RFC8402], Segment Routing Policy
   Architecture [RFC9256].

   SR policy  As described in [RFC9256], the general concept of SR
   Policy provides a framework that enables the instantiation of an
   ordered list of segments on a node for implementing a source routing
   policy for the steering of traffic for a specific purpose (e.g., for
   a specific Service Level Agreement (SLA)) from that node. An SR
   Policy is a forwarding path that meets the specified forwarding
   requirements.

   Parent SR Policy A Parent SR Policy is the composite candidate path
   that acts as a container for grouping SR policies which meet
   different service optimization objectives and constraints and have
   the same destination endpoint.

   SR Policy Group: An SR policy Group is an instantiation of a group
   of constituent Parent SR Policies to different destination endpoints
   with the same service forwarding model. It establishes the mapping
   relationship between the flow characteristics and the color value of
   the SR Policy, and guide the flows with different SLA requirements
   to the SR Policy with different colors.

  3. Parent SR Policy

   An SR Policy is associated with one or more candidate paths.
   According to section 2.2 of [RFC9256] a parent SR policy is the
   composite candidate path that acts as a container for grouping SR

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   policies. The parent SR policy is valid when it has at least one
   valid constituent SR policy.

   As defined in [RFC9256], the endpoints of the constituent SR
   Policies and the parent SR policy MUST be identical, and the colors
   of each of the constituent SR Policies and the parent SR policy MUST
   be different. Parent SR policy and its constituent SR Policies
   follow the same criteria:

    * The endpoints of the constituent SR Policies and its parent SR
      policy MUST be identical.

    * The colors of each of the constituent SR Policies and its parent
      SR policy MUST be different.

    * The constituent SR Policies MUST NOT contain parent SR policy.

   As a special SR policy, parent SR policy also has color attribute,
   which is identified by <color, endpoint> on the headend.

   If a parent SR policy has at least one valid constituent SR Policy
   of specified color, flow load-balance steer over its valid
   constituent SR policies with the same color. When all constituent SR
   policies of specified color are invalid, packets can be forwarded
   based on a preconfigured default forwarding path (such as a BE path,
   an SR policy path, or a composite SR policy path of another color).

   The parent SR Policy can be well used for the following scenarios

    * Point-to-point leased line customers have multiple services.

    * These services need to be forwarded through different SR policy
      paths with different SLAs.

  4. SR Policy Group

   An SR policy Group is an instantiation of a group of constituent
   Parent SR Policies to different destination endpoints with the same
   service forwarding model and represents a composite candidate path
   defined in [RFC9256]. It implements a source routing policy to steer
   the service traffic from different source endpoints for a specific
   purpose (e.g., for a specific SLA). Based on the Parent SR policy
   described in Section 3, a SR Policy Group can be built.

   According to the service quality requirements, a unified service
   forwarding model is planned for nodes to determine the forwarding
   path of service flow. The traffic with the same service forwarding


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   model from different source endpoints to different destination
   endpoints uses the same SR Policy Group.

   An SR Policy Group is identified by <color, endpoint> on the
   headend, same with an SR Policy. The color is an unsigned non-zero
   32-bit integer value that associates the SR Policy Group with a
   service forwarding model (e.g., A set of SLA attributes). Different
   service qualities use different Color values.

   The color value identifying the SR Policy Group corresponds to the
   Color attribute of the BGP route published by the endpoint. The
   destination endpoint publishes the BGP route and indicates which SR
   Policy Group path the headend should use to send packets to it
   through the Color attribute in the route.

   In the Policy Group, establish the mapping relationship between the
   flow characteristics and the color value of the SR Policy path, and
   guide the service flows with different SLA requirements to the SR
   Policy path with different colors.

   In a multi-site VPN scenario, there are multiple service types of
   traffic between each two nodes, and these traffics need to be
   forwarded on SR policy paths with different SLA. Through SR Policy
   Group, deployment can be simplified and the problem of complex
   configuration in multi-point scenarios can be effectively solved.

  5. Steering into SR Policy Group

   A headend can steer a packet flow into a SR policy group in various
   ways:

      *  Per-flow Steering: Specify the mapping relationship between
         color and flow characteristics (such as DSCP) for SR policy
         group, and create a parent SR Policy that binds a specified
         destination endpoint address on the ingress node according the
         SR policy group. Upon receiving a packet with the specified
         destination address, the ingress node searches for the SR
         policy containing the color value mapped to the flow
         characteristics of the packet in the parent SR policy. The
         ingress node will use the matching SR policy to forward the
         packet.

         The ingress node obtains a parent SR policy for traffic
         steering as follows:

         - The destination endpoint publishes a BGP route with the
            specified Color extended community attribute.


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         - Get the color extended community attribute in the received
            BGP route.

         - Match the color attribute value of the received BGP route
            with the SR Policy Group.

         - Searches for a SR Policy Group with color matching the color
            extended community attribute.

         - Searches for a Parent SR Policy with endpoint address
            matching the next hop in the BGP route, and recurses the BGP
            route to the parent SR policy.

         The Ingress node can match flow characteristics in its ingress
         interfaces (upon any field such as Ethernet
         destination/source/VLAN/TOS or IP destination/source/DSCP or
         transport ports or application attribute etc.) and color them
         with an internal per-packet forwarding-class variable.
         According to the forwarding-class variable the ingress node
         selects the matching SR policy in the parent SR policy.

      *  Policy-based Steering: incoming packets match a routing policy
         that directs them on a parent SR policy. Parse the flow
         characteristics (such as DSCP/802.1p value) from the packet
         header, find its corresponding color, and then match it to an
         SR policy in the parent SR policy, forward the incoming packets
         through the matched SR policy.

   An SR Policy Group can be instantiated with SR Policies which are
   associated with different set of network resources (i.e., NRPs).
   Based on SR Policy Group, it is also a network slice deployment
   scheme for single user and multiple services. When different
   services are forwarded through different SR policy paths, different
   network resources can be used. After associating the SR policy with
   the network slice, different network slices can be used for
   forwarding different traffic of the same user.

   When all the constituent SR policies in the parent SR policy are not
   valid, or all the selected paths of the SR policy are unavailable,
   the service traffic will not be forwarded according to the specified
   path. At this time, the best-effort forwarding path can be
   configured for the parent SR policy, and the endpoints through which
   traffic forwarding must pass can be designed in the best-effort
   forwarding path.

   During network deployment, the best-effort forwarding path can be a
   SR policy path, an BE forwarding path, or a composite SR policy path
   of another color. Specify a best-effort forwarding path in the

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   parent SR policy. When all specified candidate paths are invalid, or
   the mapping relationship corresponding to their service type is not
   matched in the parent SR policy, select the default best-effort path
   forwarding.

  6. Relationship Sorting

   An SR Policy Group is associated with one or more constituent Parent
   SR Policies. The hierarchical relationship between SR policy group,
   Parent SR policy and SR policy is shown in the figure below.

                                                 Paths for different
                      Service forwarding                SLAs
                      model to specified        +-----------------+
                           endpoint             |  SR Policy POL1 |
                        +------------+    +---->|    (Service-1)  |
                        | Parent SR  |    |     |  (Color=100,E2) |
                    +-->|Policy PP-1 |    |     +-----------------+
                    |   |(Color=1,E1)|    |     +-----------------+
                    |   +------------+    |     |  SR Policy POL2 |
       Service     |   +------------+    |---->|    (Service-2)  |
   forwarding model |   | Parent SR  |    |     |  (Color=200,E2) |
     +---------+    |-->|Policy PP-2 +--->+     +-----------------+
     |SR Policy|    |   |(Color=1,E2)|    |     +-----------------+
     |  Group  +--->|   +------------+    |     |  SR Policy POL3 |
     |  PG-1   |    |   +------------+    |     |    (Service-3)  |
     |(Color=1)|    |   | Parent SR  |    |---->|  (Color=300,E2) |
     +---------+    |-->|Policy PP-3 |    |     +-----------------+
                    |   |(Color=1,E3)|    |              .
                    |   +------------+    |              .
                    |         .           |     +-----------------+
                    |         .           |     |  SR Policy POLm |
                    |   +------------+    +---->|    (Service-m)  |
                    |   | Parent SR  |          |  (Color=XXX,E2) |
                    +-->|Policy PP-n |          +-----------------+
                        |(Color=1,En)|
                        +------------+
                 Figure 1 Hierarchical Relationship of SR Policy

   The parent SR policy can be generated through static configuration,
   or dynamically generated when the destination endpoint accesses
   based on the service forwarding requirements specified by the SR
   policy group.

   The following criteria apply for inclusion of constituent Parent SR
   Policies under a SR Policy Group:

    * A SR Policy Group contains one or more Parent SR policies.

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    * The colors of SR Policy group and its each constituent Parent SR
      Policy MUST be identical.

    * The colors of SR Policy group and its each constituent SR Policy
      of echo constituent Parent SR Policies MUST be different.

    * There can only be one Parent SR Policy with the same source
      endpoint and the same destination endpoint in the SR Policy group.

  7. Information Model of SR Policy Group

   In summary, the information model is the following:

     SR Policy Group PG-1 <Color = 1>

       Parent SR Policy PP-1<Color = 1, Endpoint = E1>

         Service Service-1 mapping-to color 100

         Service Service-2 mapping-to color 200

         Service Service-3 mapping-to color 300

           SR Policy POL1 <Headend = H1, Color = 100, Endpoint = E1>
              Candidate Path CP1 <Protocol-Origin = 20, Originator =
              64511:192.0.2.1, Discriminator = 1>
              Preference 200
              Priority 10
               Segment List 1 <SID11...SID1i>

           SR Policy POL2 <Headend = H1, Color = 200, Endpoint = E1>
              Candidate Path CP1 <Protocol-Origin = 20, Originator =
              64511:192.0.2.1, Discriminator = 2>
              Preference 200
              Priority 10
                Segment List 1 <SID21...SID2i>

           SR Policy POL3 <Headend = H1, Color = 300, Endpoint = E1>
              Candidate Path CP1 <Protocol-Origin = 20, Originator =
              64511:192.0.2.1, Discriminator = 3>
              Preference 200
              Priority 10

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                Segment List 1 <SID31...SID3i>

       Parent SR Policy PP-2<Color = 1, Endpoint = E2>

         Service Service-1 mapping-to color 100

         Service Service-2 mapping-to color 200

         Service Service-3 mapping-to color 300

           SR Policy POL4 <Headend = H1, Color = 100, Endpoint = E2>
              Candidate Path CP1 <Protocol-Origin = 20, Originator =
              64511:192.0.2.1, Discriminator = 4>
              Preference 200
              Priority 10
               Segment List 1 <SID41...SID4i>

          SR Policy POL5 <Headend = H1, Color = 200, Endpoint = E2>
              Candidate Path CP1 <Protocol-Origin = 20, Originator =
              64511:192.0.2.1, Discriminator = 5>
              Preference 200
              Priority 10
                Segment List 1 <SID51...SID5i>

           SR Policy POL6 <Headend = H1, Color = 300, Endpoint = E1>
              Candidate Path CP1 <Protocol-Origin = 20, Originator =
              64511:192.0.2.1, Discriminator = 6>
              Preference 200
              Priority 10
                Segment List 1 <SID61...SID6i>


   The SR Policy Group PG-1 is identified by color. It has two
   constituent Parent SR Policies: PP-1 and PP-2.  Each is identified
   by a tuple <Headend, Color, Endpoint>.

   The SR Parent Policy PP-1 is identified by the tuple <Headend = H1,
   Color = 1, Endpoint = E1>. It has three constituent SR Policies: SR
   Policy POL1 SR Policy POL2 and SR Policy POL3.



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   The SR Policy POL1 is identified by the tuple <Headend = H1, Color =
   100, Endpoint = E1>. It has one candidate paths: CP1.

   The SR Policy POL2 is identified by the tuple <Headend = H1, Color =
   200, Endpoint = E1>. It has one candidate paths: CP1.

   The SR Policy POL3 is identified by the tuple <Headend = H1, Color =
   300, Endpoint = E1>. It has one candidate paths: CP1.



   The SR Parent Policy PP-2 is identified by the tuple <Headend = H1,
   Color = 1, Endpoint = E2>. It has three constituent SR Policies: SR
   Policy POL4 SR Policy POL5 and SR Policy POL6.

   The SR Policy POL4 is identified by the tuple <Headend = H1, Color =
   100, Endpoint = E2>. It has one candidate paths: CP1.

   The SR Policy POL2 is identified by the tuple <Headend = H1, Color =
   200, Endpoint = E2>. It has one candidate paths: CP1.

   The SR Policy POL6 is identified by the tuple <Headend = H1, Color =
   300, Endpoint = E2>. It has one candidate paths: CP1.



   According to the service forwarding quality requirements, three
   forwarding paths (Color 100, 200, and 300) are planned.

   The service forwarding model of PP-1 is adopted for the destination
   endpoint E1. According to service characteristics services to E1 are
   divided into three categories: service-1, service-2, and service-3.
   The service-1 service is forwarded according to the SR Policy POL1
   path of Color 100. The service-2 service is forwarded according to
   the SR Policy POL2 path of Color 200. The services of service-3 are
   forwarded according to the SR Policy POL3 path of Color 300.

   The destination endpoint E2 also uses the same service forwarding
   model. The traffic to E2 is differentiated in the same way, and the
   traffic is sent to E2 according to the SR policy path of Color 100,
   200, and 300.

  8. Use Cases

8.1. Parent SR Policy in L3VPN over TE Scenarios

   In Figure 2, CE1 and CE2 belong to the same L3VPN and access the
   public network through PE1 and PE2 respectively. There are many

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   kinds of traffic between CE1 and CE2. When the ordinary traffic is
   too large, the forwarding of important traffic will be affected.

   In order to ensure the forwarding quality of important services, the
   steering based on Forwarding class can be configured using parent SR
   policy. After the steering based on forwarding class is configured,
   the traffic of different service levels will be carried by the
   specified SR policy tunnel, which can effectively ensure the
   forwarding quality of important services with high service levels.

                               +----+
                            +--| P3 |--+
                            |  +----+  |
                            |          |
      +-----+   +-----+   +----+    +----+    +-----+   +-----+
      | CE1 |---| PE1 |---| P1 |----| P2 |----| PE2 |---| CE2 |
      +-----+   +-----+   +----+    +----+    +-----+   +-----+
                   |                             |
                   |<===========================>|
                           Parent SR Policy
                    Figure 2 L3VPN over TE Scenario

   It is assumed that in this network, the parent SR policy contains
   three constituent policies: Policy-A, Policy-B and Policy-C.
   Services with different forwarding class will carry different DSCP
   values in the packet. Identify the customer's service through DSCP
   on PE1. The voice traffic of VIP customers is forwarded according to
   the path of low-delay Policy-A, other traffic of VIP customers is
   forwarded according to the path of Policy-B, and all businesses of
   non-VIP customers are carried by Policy-C.

8.2. SR Policy Group in Multi-VPN Tenants Scenarios

   In the L3VPN over TE application scenario shown in Figure 3, multi-
   VPN tenants are connected to the SRv6 network. Controller defines SR
   Policy Group for each VPN tenant to achieve different forwarding
   path resource between tenants.

   Different VPNs use different SR Policy Groups with different colors.
   The ingress node generates different parent SRv6 policies as
   required according to the destination endpoint address dynamically.
   Since user's traffic of different services between two endpoints has
   different requirements for forwarding quality, identify the service
   type according to the DSCP of the packet, and steer the flow to the
   corresponding SR Policy path. The path constituting the SR Policy is
   calculated by the controller and distributed to the ingress node.



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                             +------------+
                             | Controller |
                             +------------+
                         /                    \
                        /                      \
          ----.        /                        \         .----.
        ( VPN1 )\     /                          \      /( VPN1 )
         '----'  \ +---+     +---+     +---+     +---+ /  '----'
                   + A +-----+ B +-----+ C +-----+ D +
                   /+-+-+     +-+-+     +-+-+     +-+-+
         .----.  /   |         |         |         |
        ( VPN2 )/    |         |         |         |      .----.
         '----'      |         |         |         |    /( VPN1 )
                   +-+-+     +-+-+     +-+-+     +-+-+ /  '----'
                   + E |-----+ F +-----+ G +-----+ H +
         .----.  / +---+     +---+     +-+-+     +---+ \  .----.
        ( VPN2 )/                                       \( VPN2 )
         '----'                                           '----'
              Figure 3 L3VPN over TE application scenario

   VPN1 uses SR Policy group 1 identified by Color 100. Plan the
   forwarding path for VPN1 traffic, and allocate different sets of
   network resources for forwarding paths as blow:

    * Service-1: Voice service. Low delay forwarding is required, and
      the DSCP range of the packet is 1~10. The controller calculates
      the low delay path for the voice traffic, and maps the DSCP 1~10
      to Color 500. The voice traffic is forwarded through the
      constituent SR policy (Color 500) of the Parent SRv6 Policy (Color
      100) corresponding to VPN1.

    * Service-2: Video service. The DSCP range of the packet is 11~20,
      and low delay is not required. However, compared with the traffic
      of ordinary users, the Video traffic should be forwarded first.
      The controller calculates the SR Policy path and maps the DSCP
      11~20 to Color 501. Video traffic is forwarded along the
      constituent SR policy (Color 501) of the Parent SRv6 policy (color
      100) corresponding to VPN1.

    * Service-3: Non voice and video services. Low latency forwarding
      and priority forwarding are not required. The controller
      calculates the SR Policy path and maps all DSCP values outside the
      range of 1 to 20 to Color 502. Non voice and video traffic is
      forwarded along the constituent SR policy (Color 502) of the
      Parent SRv6 policy (color 100) corresponding to VPN1.




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                          SRv6 Network
                       +-------------------+
         .-------.     |                   |      .-------.
        /         \ <==|=====Service-1=====|==>  /         \
       (   VPN1    )<==|=====Service-2=====|==> (    VPN1   )
        \         / <==|=====Service-3=====|==>  \         /
         '-------'     |                   |      '-------'
                       | SR Policy Group 1 |
                       |   (Color 100)     |
                       +-------------------+
                 Figure 4 SR Policy Group for VPN1

   The traffic of VPN1 from A to D of Service-1 will be forwarded based
   on the SR policy (Headend=A, Color=500, Endpoint=D) of Parent SR
   policy (Color=100, Endpoint=D) of SR Policy Group1.

   Similarly, the traffic of VPN1 from A to H of Service-1 will be
   forwarded based on the SR policy (Headend=A, Color=500, Endpoint=H)
   of Parent SR policy (Color=100, Endpoint=H) of SR Policy Group1.

   VPN2 uses SR Policy Group 2 identified by Color 101. Plan the
   forwarding path for VPN2 traffic. Different sets of network
   resources are further allocated for the forwarding paths as blow:

    * Service-4: Voice service. Low latency forwarding is required. The
      DSCP range of the packet is 1 to 10. The controller calculates the
      low delay path for voice service and maps the DSCP 1~10 to Color
      600. The voice traffic is forwarded through the constituent SR
      policy (Color 600) of the Parent SRv6 Policy (color 101)
      corresponding to VPN2.

    * Service-5: Non voice services. No special forwarding quality
      requirements. The controller calculates the SR Policy path and
      maps all DSCP values outside the range of 1 to 10 to Color 601.
      Non voice service messages are forwarded along the constituent SR
      policy (Color 601) of the Parent SR policy (color 101)
      corresponding to VPN2.











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                          SRv6 Network
                       +-------------------+
         .-------.     |                   |      .-------.
        /         \ <==|=====Service-4=====|==>  /         \
       (   VPN2    )   |                   |    (    VPN2   )
        \         / <==|=====Service-5=====|==>  \         /
         '-------'     |                   |      '-------'
                       | SR Policy Group 2 |
                       |   (Color 101)     |
                       +-------------------+
                Figure 5 SR Policy Group for VPN2

   The traffic of VPN2 from A to H of Service-4 will be forwarded based
   on the SR policy (Headend=A, Color=600, Endpoint=H) of Parent SR
   policy (Color=101, Endpoint=H) of SR Policy Group2.

   Similarly, the traffic of VPN2 from A to E of Service-1 will be
   forwarded based on the SR policy (Headend=A, Color=600, Endpoint=E)
   of Parent SR policy (Color=101, Endpoint=E) of SR Policy Group1.

   Because there are many access endpoints and each endpoint may act as
   an ingress node, compared with the traditional method of
   distributing service forwarding policies on each ingress node, the
   above SR Policy Group can greatly simplify the configuration of VPN
   access endpoints and effectively improve the efficiency of network
   deployment and operation and maintenance.

   For reliability reasons, a default best-effort forwarding path can
   also be configured for each VPN tenant. If all the SR policy
   forwarding paths of the SR policy group are invalid, the default
   path can be used. The endpoints through which traffic forwarding
   must pass can be designed in the default path.

  9. IANA Considerations

   This document has no IANA actions.

  10. Security Considerations

   This document presents use cases to be considered by the deployment
   of SR Policy. It does not introduce any security considerations.







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11. References

11.1. 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>.

   [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>.

   [RFC9256] Filsfils, C., Talaulikar, K., Voyer, D., Bogdanov, A., and
             P. Mattes, "Segment Routing Policy Architecture", RFC9256,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC9256, July 2022, <https://www.rfc-
             editor.org/info/rfc9256>.

   [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>.

   [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy] Previdi, S., Filsfils, C.,
             Talaulikar, K., Mattes, P., Rosen, E., Jain, D., and S.
             Lin, "Advertising Segment Routing Policies in BGP", draft-
             ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy-20 (work in progress),
             July 2022.

11.2. Informative References

   TBD

  12. Acknowledgments

   The authors would like to thank the following for their valuable
   contributions of this document:

   TBD









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Authors' Addresses

   Weiqiang Cheng
   China Mobile
   china

   Email: chengweiqiang@chinamobile.com

   Wenying Jiang
   China Mobile
   China

   Email: jiangwenying@chinamobile.com

   Changwang Lin
   New H3C Technologies
   china

   Email: linchangwang.04414@h3c.com

   Yuanxiang Qiu
   New H3C Technologies
   China

   Email: qiuyuanxiang@h3c.com

   YaWei Zhang
   Huawei Technologies
   China

   Email: zhangyawei@huawei.com

   Ran Chen
   ZTE Corporation
   China

   Email: chen.ran@zte.com.cn

   Yanrong Liang
   Ruijie Networks
   China

   Email: liangyanrong@ruijie.com.cn






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