CCAMP                                                   C. Margaria, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                    Nokia Siemens Networks
Intended status: Standards Track                           G. Martinelli
Expires: August 28, 2013                                           Cisco
                                                                S. Balls
                                                               B. Wright
                                                              Metaswitch
                                                       February 24, 2013


                          LSP Attribute in ERO
                  draft-ietf-ccamp-lsp-attribute-ro-01

Abstract

   LSP attributes can be specified or recorded for whole path, but they
   cannot be targeted to a specific hop.  This document proposes
   alternative ways to extend the semantic for RSVP ERO object to target
   LSP attributes to a specific hop.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.1.  Contributing Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.2.  Requirements Language  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  ERO LSP Attribute Subobject  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.1.  ERO LSP_ATTRIBUTE subobject  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
     3.2.  Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   4.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
   5.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
   6.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   7.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     7.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
     7.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12






























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1.  Introduction

   Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched
   Paths (LSPs) can be route-constrained by making use of the Explicit
   Route (ERO) object and related sub-objects as defined in [RFC3209],
   [RFC3473], [RFC3477], [RFC4873], [RFC4874], [RFC5520] and [RFC5553].
   Those route constraints are extended by a number of documents,
   including element defined in [RFC6163],
   [I-D.ietf-ccamp-wson-signaling],
   [I-D.dong-ccamp-rsvp-te-mpls-tp-li-lb] or
   [I-D.ali-ccamp-rc-objective-function-metric-bound].

   RSVP already supports generic extension of LSP attributes in
   [RFC5420].  In order to support current and future ERO constraint
   extensions this document defines a mechanism to target LSP attributes
   at a specific hop.

1.1.  Contributing Authors

1.2.  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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2.  Requirements

   The requirement is to provide a generic mechanism to carry
   information related to specific nodes when signaling an LSP.  This
   document does not restrict what that information can be used for.
   LSP attribute defined [RFC5420] should be expressed in ERO and SERO
   objects.












































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3.  ERO LSP Attribute Subobject

   The ERO LSP Attributes subobject may be carried in the ERO or SERO
   object if they are present.  The subobject uses the standard format
   of an ERO subobject.

3.1.  ERO LSP_ATTRIBUTE subobject

   The length is variable and content MUST be the same as for the
   LSP_ATTRIBUTE object with Attributes TLVs.  The size of the ERO sub-
   object limits the size of the LSP Attribute TLV to 250 bytes.  The
   typical size of currently defined and forthcoming LSP_ATTRIBUTE TLVs
   applicable to a specific hop (WSON_SIGNALING, OF and Metric) is not
   foreseen to exceed this limit.

   The ERO LSP attribute subobject is defined as follows:

      0                   1                   2                   3
      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
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |L|    Type     |     Length    |    Reserved                 |R|
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                                                               |
      //                      Attributes TLVs                        //
      |                                                               |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+


   See [RFC3209] for a description of L parameters.  The attributes TLV
   are encoded as defined in [RFC5420] section 3.

   Type  x TBD by IANA.

   Length  The Length contains the total length of the subobject in
      bytes, including the Type and Length fields.  The Length MUST be
      always divisible by 4.

   Reserved  Reserved, must be set to 0 when the subobject is inserted
      in the ERO, MUST NOT be changed when a node process the ERO and
      must be ignored on the node addressed by the preceding ERO
      subobjects.

   R  This bit reflects the LSP_REQUIRED_ATTRIBUTE and LSP_ATTRIBUTE
      semantic.  When set indicates required LSP attributes to be
      processed by the node, when cleared the LSP attributes are not
      required as described in Section 3.2.





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   Attributes TLVs  as defined in [RFC5420] section 3.

3.2.  Procedures

   As described in [RFC3209] and [RFC3473] the ERO is managed as a list
   where each hop information starts with a subobject identifying an
   abstract node or link.  The LSP attribute subobject must be appended
   after the existing subobjects defined in [RFC3209], [RFC3473],
   [RFC3477], [RFC4873], [RFC4874], [RFC5520] and [RFC5553].  Several
   LSP attribute subobject MAY be present, for each hop.

   If a node is processing an LSP attribute subobject and does not
   support handling of the subobject it will behave as described in
   [RFC3209] when an unrecognized ERO subobject is encountered.  This
   node will return a PathErr with error code "Routing Error" and error
   value "Bad EXPLICIT_ROUTE object" with the EXPLICIT_ROUTE object
   included, truncated (on the left) to the offending unrecognized
   subobject.

   When the R bit is set a node MUST examine the attribute TLV present
   in the subobject following the rules described in [RFC5420] section
   5.2.  When the R bit is not set a node MUST examine the attribute TLV
   present in the subobject following the rules described in [RFC5420]
   section 4.2.

   A node processing an LSP attribute subobject with an LSP_ATTRIBUTE
   TLV longer than the ERO subobject SHOULD return a PathErr with error
   code "Routing Error" and error value "Bad EXPLICIT_ROUTE object" with
   the EXPLICIT_ROUTE object included, truncated (on the left) to the
   offending malformed subobject.  The processing of the LSP_ATTRIBUTE
   TLVs should be described in the documents defining them.




















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4.  IANA Considerations

   TBD once a final approach has been chosen.
















































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5.  Security Considerations

   None.
















































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6.  Acknowledgments

   The authors would like to thanks Lou Berger for his directions and
   Attila Takacs for inspiring this
   [I-D.kern-ccamp-rsvpte-hop-attributes].  The authors also thanks Dirk
   Schroetter for his contribution to the initial versions of the
   documents (version -00 up to -02).












































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7.  References

7.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC3209]  Awduche, D., Berger, L., Gan, D., Li, T., Srinivasan, V.,
              and G. Swallow, "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP
              Tunnels", RFC 3209, December 2001.

   [RFC3473]  Berger, L., "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching
              (GMPLS) Signaling Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic
              Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions", RFC 3473, January 2003.

   [RFC3477]  Kompella, K. and Y. Rekhter, "Signalling Unnumbered Links
              in Resource ReSerVation Protocol - Traffic Engineering
              (RSVP-TE)", RFC 3477, January 2003.

   [RFC4873]  Berger, L., Bryskin, I., Papadimitriou, D., and A. Farrel,
              "GMPLS Segment Recovery", RFC 4873, May 2007.

   [RFC4874]  Lee, CY., Farrel, A., and S. De Cnodder, "Exclude Routes -
              Extension to Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic
              Engineering (RSVP-TE)", RFC 4874, April 2007.

   [RFC5420]  Farrel, A., Papadimitriou, D., Vasseur, JP., and A.
              Ayyangarps, "Encoding of Attributes for MPLS LSP
              Establishment Using Resource Reservation Protocol Traffic
              Engineering (RSVP-TE)", RFC 5420, February 2009.

   [RFC5520]  Bradford, R., Vasseur, JP., and A. Farrel, "Preserving
              Topology Confidentiality in Inter-Domain Path Computation
              Using a Path-Key-Based Mechanism", RFC 5520, April 2009.

   [RFC5553]  Farrel, A., Bradford, R., and JP. Vasseur, "Resource
              Reservation Protocol (RSVP) Extensions for Path Key
              Support", RFC 5553, May 2009.

7.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ali-ccamp-rc-objective-function-metric-bound]
              Ali, Z., Swallow, G., Filsfils, C., Fang, L., Kumaki, K.,
              and R. Kunze, "Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic
              Engineering (RSVP-TE) extension for signaling Objective
              Function and Metric Bound",
              draft-ali-ccamp-rc-objective-function-metric-bound-02
              (work in progress), July 2012.



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   [I-D.dong-ccamp-rsvp-te-mpls-tp-li-lb]
              Dong, J., Chen, M., and Z. Li, "GMPLS RSVP-TE Extensions
              for Lock Instruct and Loopback",
              draft-dong-ccamp-rsvp-te-mpls-tp-li-lb-05 (work in
              progress), December 2012.

   [I-D.ietf-ccamp-wson-signaling]
              Bernstein, G., Xu, S., Lee, Y., Martinelli, G., and H.
              Harai, "Signaling Extensions for Wavelength Switched
              Optical Networks", draft-ietf-ccamp-wson-signaling-05
              (work in progress), February 2013.

   [I-D.kern-ccamp-rsvpte-hop-attributes]
              Kern, A. and A. Takacs, "Encoding of Attributes of LSP
              intermediate hops using RSVP-TE",
              draft-kern-ccamp-rsvpte-hop-attributes-00 (work in
              progress), October 2009.

   [RFC6163]  Lee, Y., Bernstein, G., and W. Imajuku, "Framework for
              GMPLS and Path Computation Element (PCE) Control of
              Wavelength Switched Optical Networks (WSONs)", RFC 6163,
              April 2011.





























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Authors' Addresses

   Cyril Margaria (editor)
   Nokia Siemens Networks
   St Martin Strasse 76
   Munich,   81541
   Germany

   Phone: +49 89 5159 16934
   Email: cyril.margaria@nsn.com


   Giovanni Martinelli
   Cisco
   via Philips 12
   Monza  20900
   IT

   Phone: +39 039 209 2044
   Email: giomarti@cisco.com


   Steve Balls
   Metaswitch
   100 Church Street
   Enfield  EN2 6BQ
   UJ

   Phone: +44 208 366 1177
   Email: steve.balls@metaswitch.com


   Ben Wright
   Metaswitch
   100 Church Street
   Enfield  EN2 6BQ
   UJ

   Phone: +44 208 366 1177
   Email: Ben.Wright@metaswitch.com











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