Network Working Group H. Bidgoli, Ed.
Internet-Draft Nokia
Intended status: Standards Track V. Voyer
Expires: December 6, 2021 Bell Canada
A. Stone
Nokia
R. Parekh
Cisco System
S. Krier
A. Venkateswaran
Cisco System, Inc.
June 04, 2021
Advertising p2mp policies in BGP
draft-hb-idr-sr-p2mp-policy-02
Abstract
SR P2MP policies are set of policies that enable architecture for
P2MP service delivery.
A P2MP policy consists of candidate paths that connects the Root of
the Tree to a set of Leaves. The P2MP policy is composed of
replication segments. A replication segment is a forwarding
instruction for a candidate path which is downloaded to the Root,
transit nodes and the leaves.
This document specifies a new BGP SAFI with a new NLRI in order to
advertise P2MP policy from a controller to a set of nodes.
This document introduces two new route types within this NLRI, one
for P2MP policy and its candidate paths that need to be programmed on
the Root node and another for the replication segment and forwarding
instructions that needs to be programmed on the Root, and optionally
on Transit and Leaf nodes.
It should be noted that this document does not specify how the Root
and the Leaves are discovered on the controller, it only describes
how the P2MP Policy and Replication Segments are programmed from the
controller to the nodes.
Status of This Memo
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. P2MP Policy and Replication Segment Encoding . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. P2MP Policy SAFI and NLRI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1.1. P2MP Policy Route - Route Type TBD1 . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1.2. Replication segment Route - Route type TBD 2 . . . . 6
3.2. Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2.1. SR P2MP policy encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.2.2. Replication segment encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3.3. P2MP Policy Sub-TLVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3.1. preference Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3.2. leaf-list Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.3.3. path-instance Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3.3.1. active instance-id Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3.3.2. instance-id Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.4. Replication segment Sub-TLVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.4.1. Replication SID (Binding SID) . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.4.2. Down stream nodes Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.4.3. Segment list Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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3.4.4. Weight sub-tlv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.4.5. Protection sub-tlv . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.4.6. Segment Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4. P2MP Policy Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.1. Configuration and advertisement of P2MP Policies . . . . 15
4.2. Reception of an P2MP Policy NLRI . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.3. Global Optimization for P2MP LSPs . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
5. IANA Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
7. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
1. Introduction
The draft [draft-ietf-pim-sr-p2mp-policy] defines a variant of the SR
Policy [draft-ietf-spring-segment-routing-policy] for constructing a
P2MP segment to support multicast service delivery.
A Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Policy contains a set of candidate paths
and identifies a Root node and a set of Leaf nodes in a Segment
Routing Domain. The draft also defines a Replication segment, which
corresponds to the state of a P2MP segment on a particular node. The
Replication segment is the forwarding instruction for a P2MP LSP at
the Root, Transit and Leaf nodes.
For a P2MP segment, a controller may be used to compute a tree from a
Root node to a set of Leaf nodes, optionally via a set of replication
nodes. A packet is replicated at the root node and optionally on
Replication nodes towards each Leaf node.
We define two types of a P2MP segment: Ingress Replication (aka
Spray) and Downstream Replication (aka TreeSID).
A Point-to-Multipoint service delivery could be via Ingress
Replication (aka Spray in some SR context), i.e., the root unicasts
individual copies of traffic to each leaf. The corresponding P2MP
segment consists of replication segments only for the root and the
leaves.
A Point-to-Multipoint service delivery could also be via Downstream
Replication (aka TreeSID in some SR context), i.e., the root and some
downstream replication nodes replicate the traffic along the way as
it traverses closer to the leaves.
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It should be noted that two replication nodes can be connected
directly, or they can be connected via unicast SR segment or a
segment list.
The leaves and the root of a p2mp policy can be discovered via the
multicast protocols or procedures like NG-MVPN [RFC6513] or manually
configured on the PCC (CLI) or the PCE.
Based on the discovered root and leaves, the controller builds a P2MP
policy and advertise it to the head-end router (i.e. the root of the
P2MP Tree). The advertisement uses BGP extensions defined in this
document. The controller also calculates the tree path and builds
the replication segments on each segment of the tree, Root, Transit
and Leaf nodes and downloads the forwarding instructions to the nodes
via BGP extensions defined in this document.
SR p2mp policy is a variant of the SR policy and as such it reuses
the concept of a candidate path. This draft reuses some of the
concepts and TLVs mentioned in
[draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy]
A candidate path with in the P2MP policy can contain multiple path-
instances. A path-instance can be viewed as a P2MP LSP. For
candidate path global optimization purposes, two or more path-
instances can be used to execute make before break procedures.
Each path-instance is a P2MP LSP as such each path-instance needs a
set of replication segments to construct its forwarding instructions.
2. Conventions used in this document
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].
3. P2MP Policy and Replication Segment Encoding
3.1. P2MP Policy SAFI and NLRI
This document defines a new BGP NLRI, called the P2MP-POLICY NLRI.
A new SAFI is defined: the SR P2MP Policy SAFI, (Codepoint tbd
assigned by IANA). The following is the format of the P2MP-POLICY
NLRI:
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+-----------------------------------+
| route type | 1 octet
+-----------------------------------+
| length | 1 octet
+-----------------------------------+
| route type specific (variable) |
+-----------------------------------+
o The Route type field defines the encoding of the rest of the P2MP-
POLICY NLRI.
o The length field indicates the length in octets of the route type
specific data, excluding route type and length
o This document defines the following route types:
* P2MP Policy route: TBD1
* Replication Segment: TBD2
The NLRI containing the SR P2MP Policy is carried in a BGP UPDATE
message [RFC4271] using BGP multiprotocol extensions [RFC4760] with
an AFI of 1 or 2 (IPv4 or IPv6) and with a SAFI of "TBD" (assigned by
IANA from the "Subsequent Address Family Identifiers (SAFI)
Parameters" registry).
All other recommendations of
[draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy] section SR Policy SAFI and
NLRI, should be taken into account for P2MP policy.
3.1.1. P2MP Policy Route - Route Type TBD1
+-----------------------------------+
~ Root-ID ~ 4 or 16 octets (ipv4/ipv6)
+-----------------------------------+
| Tree-ID | 4 octets
+-----------------------------------+
| Distinguisher | 4 octets
+-----------------------------------+
o Root-ID: IPv4/IPv6 address of the head-end (Root) of the p2mp
tree, based on AFI.
o Tree-ID: a unique 4 octets identifier of the p2mp tree on the
head- end (root)router.
o Distinguisher: 4-octets value uniquely identifying the policy in
the context of <Tree-ID, Originating Router's IP> tuple. The
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distinguisher has no semantic value and is solely used by the SR
P2MP Policy originator to make unique (from an NLRI perspective)
multiple occurrences of the same SR P2MP Policy.
3.1.2. Replication segment Route - Route type TBD 2
There can be two type of replication segment, shared and non-shared.
A shared replication segment can carry multiple MVPN services or it
can be used for Facility Fast reroute protecting multiple P2MP trees.
A non-shared tree is used when the label field of the PMSI Tunnel
Attribute (PTA) is set to 0 as per
[draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-evpn-sr-p2mp]. The following route type can be
encoded as per [draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy] for shared
and non-shared replication segment.
+-----------------------------------+
~ Root-ID ~ 4 or 16 octets (ipv4/ipv6)
+-----------------------------------+
| Tree-ID | 4 octets
+-----------------------------------+
| instance-ID | 2 octets
+-----------------------------------+
| Distinguisher | 4 octets
+-----------------------------------+
| Node-ID | 2 octets
+-----------------------------------+
o Root-ID: IPv4/IPv6 address of the head-end (Root) of the p2mp tree
based on AFI.
o Tree-ID: a unique 4 octets identifier of the p2mp tree on the
head- end router (Root)
o instance-id, identifies the path-instance with in the p2mp-
policy. Each candidate path can have one, two or more path-
instance. Path-instance is used for global optimization of the
candidate path via make before break procedures. Instance-ID can
be used
o Distinguisher: 4-octets value uniquely identifying the policy in
the context of <Root-ID, Tree-ID> tuple. The distinguisher has no
semantic value and is solely used by the SR P2MP Policy originator
to make unique (from an NLRI perspective) multiple occurrences of
the same SR P2MP Policy.
o Node-ID: Node's IPv4/IPv6 address
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3.2. Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
The content of this new NLRI is encoded in the tunnel Encapsulation
Attribute originally defined in [ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps] using two
new Tunnel-Type TLV (codepoint is TBD, assigned by IANA from the "BGP
Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute Tunnel Types" registry) one for P2MP
Policy and another for Replication segment.
3.2.1. SR P2MP policy encoding
SR P2MP Policy SAFI NLRI: <route-type p2mp-policy>
Attributes:
Tunnel Encaps Attribute (23)
Tunnel Type: (TBD, P2MP-Policy)
Preference
Policy Name
Policy Candidate Path Name
leaf-list (optional)
remote-end point
remote-end point
...
path-instance
active-instance-id
instance-id
instance-id
...
o Relevant only at the Root.
o SR P2MP-POLICY NLRI and P2MP Policy route type.
o Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute is defined in
[ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps]
o Tunnel-Type is set to P2MP-Policy Tunnel-Type TBD (assigned by
IANA from the "BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute Tunnel Types"
registry).
o Policy Name, Policy Candidate Path Name are defined in
[draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy]
o Preference, leaf-list, remote-end point and path- instance,
instance-ids are defined in this document.
o Additional sub-TLVs may be defined in the future.
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3.2.2. Replication segment encoding
replication segment SAFI NLRI: <route-type non-sahred/shared
tree replication-segment>
Attributes:
Tunnel Encaps Attribute (23)
Tunnel Type: (TBD Replication-Segment)
replication-sid (equivalent to Binding Sid)
SRv6 replication-sid (equivalent to SRv6 Binding SID)
downstream-nodes (can be protection enabled via a flag)
segment-list
weight (optional)
protection (optional, must be present when protection flag is enabled for downstream-nodes)
segment
segment
...
segment-list
weight (optional)
protection (optional, must be present when protection flag is enabled for downstream-nodes)
segment
segment
...
segment-list (protection segment list)
protection (protecting the first segment list, can't have weight sub-tlv)
segment
segment
...
...
...
o SR P2MP-POLICY NLRI and non-shared tree Replication segment route
type or shared tree Replication segment route type.
o Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute is defined in
[ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps].
o Tunnel-Type is set to Replication Segment Tunnel Type, TBD
(assigned by IANA from the "BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
Tunnel Types" registry).
o tree-identifier, replication-sid (binding sid), SRv6 replication-
sid, downstream-nodes and segment-list are defined in this
document.
o Additional sub-TLVs may be defined in the future.
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3.3. P2MP Policy Sub-TLVs
EACH P2MP policy NLRI represents a candidate path for a P2MP policy.
A P2MP policy can have multiple candidate paths and would need
multiple P2MP policy NRLI to download all the candidate paths.
3.3.1. preference Sub-TLV
As defined in preference Sub-TLV section in
[draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy] the candidate path with
highest preference is the active candidate path.
3.3.2. leaf-list Sub-TLV
The leaf list sub-tlv identifies a set of leaves for the tree. Each
leaf is a remote endpoint as defined in [ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps] The
leaf-list sub-tlv is optional. The PCE can choose to download the
leaf list every time it is configured or learns a new leaf. If the
PCE chooses to download this optional sub-tlv it should download the
entire set of the end-points every time the endpoint list has been
modified. The leaf list has informational value only hence why it is
optonal and it is not required for the root PE to operate. However,
it must be noted that in some cases the end-points list can become
very large with 100s of leaves.
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | RESERVED |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
// sub-TLVs //
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o Type: TBD, 1 octet
o Length: 2 octets, the total length (not including the Type and
Length fields) of the sub-TLVs encoded within the leaf-list sub-
TLV.
o RESERVED: 1 octet of reserved bits. SHOULD be unset on
transmission and MUST be ignored on receipt.
o sub-TLVs: One or more remote endpoint sub-TLVs. Note the remote
endpoint object is defined in [ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps]
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3.3.3. path-instance Sub-TLV
The path instance sub-tlv contains a set of instance-ids (P2MP LSPs).
These LSPs can be used for MBB procedure under a candidate path.
Each LSP Instance-id has a unique id (4 octets) with in the <root
node, P2MP policy>, in other word it is unique per <root node,tree-
id>. The PCE SHOULD always download all instance-ids to the node.
The active instance is identified via the active instance-id sub-tlv.
The P2MP LSP and its replication segments should be configured from
root to the leaves first before the PCE switches that active
instance-id to this new instance.
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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | RESERVED |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
// Sub-TLVs //
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o Type: TBD, 1 octet
o Length: 2 octets, the total length (not including the Type and
Length fields) of the sub-TLVs encoded within the Segment List
sub-TLV.
o RESERVED: 1 octet of reserved bits. SHOULD be unset on
transmission and MUST be ignored on receipt
o sub-TLVs: * active instance-id * one or more instance-id
3.3.3.1. active instance-id Sub-TLV
The Active instance-id is used to identify the P2MP LSP which should
be active amongst the collection of instances.
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | RESERVED |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| active instance-id |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o Type: TBD.
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o Length: the total length (not including the Type and Length
fields) of the sub-TLVs encoded within the Segment List sub-TLV.
o RESERVED: 1 octet of reserved bits. SHOULD be unset on
transmission and MUST be ignored on receipt.
o active instant-id: The identifier of the active instance-id
3.3.3.2. instance-id Sub-TLV
Multiple Instance-ids can be programmed for a candidate path.
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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | RESERVED |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| instance-id |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o Type: TBD
o Length: the total length (not including the Type and Length
fields) of the sub-TLVs encoded within the Segment List sub-TLV.
o RESERVED: 1 octet of reserved bits. SHOULD be unset on
transmission and MUST be ignored on receipt.
o instan-id: a 32 bit unique identifier. The instance-id is unique
with in the context of the <root node, p2mp policy>
3.4. Replication segment Sub-TLVs
3.4.1. Replication SID (Binding SID)
The Replication SID is form of a Binding SID as it is defined in
[draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy]. The definition of
replication sid with in P2MP Policy is defined in
[draft-ietf-spring-sr-replication-segment]. On the transit and leaf
node the replication SID can be used to identify the replication
segment and the forwarding information at the node. However on the
head-end node (Root), the replication segment acts as a Binding SID
to direct the traffic into the P2MP Tree. It should be noted that
two replication SIDs can be directly connected or connected via a
unicast SR segment list, in this case the replication sid needs to be
at the bottom of sid.
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The sr-te-policy binding sid and SRv6 binding sid sub-tlvs are used
for replication sid. This draft defines a new flag for replication
sid at transit and leaf node
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|S|I|R| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
R-FLAG: is Replication SID. Replication SID can be used to define
the forwarding information of the transit or leaf nodes.
3.4.2. Down stream nodes Sub-TLV
The down-stream nodes sub-tlv is the list of down stream nodes that
the arriving packet needs to be replicated to. As an example an
arriving packet that needs to be replicated to downstream node A and
node B will have two down stream node TLVs. Each down stream node
sub-tlv could have a single segment list or multiple segment list.
Multiple segment list can be used for ECMP or fast reroute. In the
case of the fast reroute the downstream node flag needs to set the P
bit to explicitly indicate the this downstream node is protected and
the protection sub-tlv needs to be included with every segment list.
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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | Flags |P| RESERVED |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
~ downstream node id ~
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
// sub-TLVs //
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o Type: TBD.
o Length: the total length (not including the Type and Length
fields) of the sub-TLVs encoded within the down-stream nodes sub-
TLV.
o RESERVED: 1 octet of reserved bits. SHOULD be unset on
transmission and MUST be ignored on receipt.
o flags p: this down stream node has protected segment list.
o downstream node id: an id to uniquely identify the downstream node
for this sub-tlv, as an example the loopback IPv4/IPv6 of the
node.
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o sub-TLVs: One or more segment list sub-TLVs. As an example there
can be Two segment list for ECMP or FRR.
3.4.3. Segment list Sub-TLV
The segment list Sub-TLV is defined in
[ietf-spring-segment-routing-policy]. The segment-list Sub-TLV
contains one or more segment Sub-TLVs. Two replication segments can
be directly connected via a replication sid or can be connected via a
unicast segment list and a replication sid. In the later case the
replication sid needs to be at the bottom of the unicast segment
list.
3.4.4. Weight sub-tlv
The Weight sub-TLV is optional and is as defined in
[draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy]. With in the downstream
node sub-tlv, there can be one or more segment list used for ECMP.
In this case the weight sub-tlv can provide weighted ECMP.
3.4.5. Protection sub-tlv
Protection sub-tlv is optional, if FRR is desired for the downstream
node this sub-tlv can be used to identify the protection segment
list. To identify protection segment list this sub-tlv provides a
segment list identifier. If protection is desired under the endpoint
all the segment lists should have this sub-tlv. A protection segment
list can not have a weight sub-tlv and it can not participate in
ECMP. That said a segment list that is being protected can have a
weight sub-tlv and participate in ECMP.
In general protection segment list is used only if replication
segments are directly connected and there is no unicast segment list
connecting two replication segment. If there is a unicast
replication segment connecting the two replication sid, then the
unicast protection mechanism can be exercise and there is no need for
this protection sub-tlv, hence why this sub-tlv is optional.
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+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| Type | Length | Flags |P| RESERVED |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| segment list id | protection segment list id |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
o Type : tbd, 1 octet.
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o Length: 8
o Flag: 1 octet, the P bit is set when this segment list is
protected by another segment list for the downstream node
o segment list id: the segment list id
o protection segment list id: the segment list id that is being used
as protection.
3.4.6. Segment Sub-TLV
The segment sub-Tlv is identified in
[draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy]. As it was mentioned
before two replication segments can be connected directly to each
other or via a segment list. If they are connected directly to each
other then the segment list can be constructed via:
o If the replication segment is steered via IPv4 or IPv6 nexthops or
interface then the segment type E or G can be used with the new R
flag set.
o If the replication segment is steered via a SR Unicast node or
adjacency SID then segment type A can be used with the new R flag
set. Unicast SR segment types can also be configured for
steering.
If they are connected via SR domain then the segment list can contain
multiple different types of SIDs, such as Node, Adjacency or Binding
SIDe. In this case the replication sid is at the bottom of the stack
and of type A with the R flag set. The SR node/adjacency or binding
sids steer the packet through a SR domain until it reaches another
replication segment. where the bottom of the stack replication sid
identifies the forwarding information on that replication segment.
A replication segment can use the same type of segment types defined
in [draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy]. To identify a
replication segment explicitly a new flag is defined.
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|V|A|R| |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Where R-Flag is set for a segment Sub-TLV that identifies a
Replication Segment. It should be noted that in a segment list only
the last segment can have the R flag set. Multiple replication
segments can not be stacked on top of each other. That said there
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can be special cases for Link Protection where a bypass tunnel is
build via a shared replication segment. As an example when the PCE
downloads a bypass tunnel for link protection that is only
constructed via shared replication segments to protect a group of
non-shared replication segments.
4. P2MP Policy Operation
Inline with [draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy] the consumer
of an P2MP Policy is not the BGP process. The BGP process is used
for distributing the P2MP policy NLRI and its route-types but its
installation and use is outside the scope of BGP. The detail for
P2MP Policy can be found in [draft-ietf-pim-sr-p2mp-policy]
4.1. Configuration and advertisement of P2MP Policies
The controller usually is connected to the receivers via a route
reflector. As such one or more route-target SHOULD be attached to
the advertisement of P2MP Policy NLRI and its route-type. Each route
target identifies one head-end (root nodes) for P2MP Policy route or
one or more head-end, transit and leaf nodes for the Non- Shared/
Shared Tree Replication Segment route, for the advertised P2MP
Policy.
4.2. Reception of an P2MP Policy NLRI
When a BGP speaker receives an P2MP Policy NLRI the following rules
apply:
o The P2MP Policy update MUST have either the NO_ADVERTISE community
or at least one route-target extended community in IPv4-address
format. If a router supporting this document receives an P2MP
Policy update with no route-target extended communities and no
NO_ADVERTISE community, the update MUST NOT be processed.
Furthermore, it SHOULD be considered to be malformed, and the
"treat-as-withdraw" strategy of [RFC7606] is applied.
o If one or more route-targets are present, then at least one route-
target MUST match one of the BGP Identifiers of the receiver in
order for the update to be considered usable. The BGP Identifier
is defined in [RFC4271] as a 4 octet IPv4 address. Therefore the
route- target extended community MUST be of the same format.
o If one or more route-targets are present and no one matches any of
the local BGP Identifiers, then, while the P2MP Policy NLRI is
acceptable, it is not usable on the receiver node.
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4.3. Global Optimization for P2MP LSPs
When a P2MP LSP needs to be optimized for any reason (i.e. it is
taking on an FRR Path or new routers are added to the network) a
global optimization is possible. Note that optimization works per
candidate path. Each candidate path is capable of global
optimization. To do so each candidate path contains two or more
path- instances. Each path instance is a P2MP LSP, each P2MP LSP is
identified via a path-instance-id (equivalent to an lsp-id
[RFC3209]). After calculating an optimized P2MP LSP path the PCE
will program the candidate path with a 2nd path instance and its set
of replication segments for this path-instance on the root, transit
and leaf nodes. After the optimized LSP replication segments are
downloaded a MBB procedure is performed and the previous instance of
the path instance is deleted and removed from head-end node and its
corresponding replication segments from head-end, transit and leaves.
5. IANA Consideration
o A new SAFI is defined: the SR P2MP Policy SAFI, (Codepoint tbd
assigned by IANA)
o 2 new Route type field defines the encoding of the rest of the
P2MP- POLICY SAFI
* P2MP Policy Route
* Replication Segment
o Two new Tunnel type to be assigned by IANA
6. Security Considerations
TBD
7. Acknowledgments
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>.
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8.2. Informative References
[draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-evpn-sr-p2mp]
.
[draft-ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy]
.
[draft-ietf-pim-sr-p2mp-policy]
"D. Yoyer, C. Filsfils, R.Prekh, H.bidgoli, Z. Zhang,
"draft-ietf-pim-sr-p2mp-policy"", October 2019.
[draft-ietf-spring-segment-routing-policy]
.
[draft-ietf-spring-sr-replication-segment]
"D. Yoyer, C. Filsfils, R.Prekh, H.bidgoli, Z. Zhang,
"draft-ietf-pim-sr-p2mp-policy "", July 2020.
[ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps]
.
[ietf-spring-segment-routing-policy]
.
[RFC4271] .
[RFC4760] .
[RFC6513] .
[RFC7606] .
Authors' Addresses
Hooman Bidgoli (editor)
Nokia
Ottawa
Canada
Email: hooman.bidgoli@nokia.com
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Daniel Voyer
Bell Canada
Montreal
Canada
Email: daniel.yover@bell.ca
Andrew Stone
Nokia
Ottawa
Canada
Email: andrew.stone@nokia.com
Rishabh Parekh
Cisco System
San Jose
USA
Email: riparekh@cisco.com
Serge Krier
Cisco System, Inc.
Rixensart
Belgium
Email: sekrier@cisco.com
Arvind Venkateswaran
Cisco System, Inc.
Ottawa
Canada
Email: arvvenka@cisco.com
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