Congestion and Pre Congestion                               T. Moncaster
Internet-Draft                                                        BT
Intended status: Experimental                                 B. Briscoe
Expires: October 10, 2009                                       BT & UCL
                                                                M. Menth
                                                 University of Wuerzburg
                                                           April 8, 2009


        A PCN encoding using 2 DSCPs to provide 3 or more states
                   draft-ietf-pcn-3-state-encoding-00

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Abstract

   Pre-congestion notification (PCN) is a mechanism designed to protect
   the Quality of Service of inelastic flows within a controlled domain.
   It does this by marking packets when traffic load on a link is
   approaching or has exceeded a threshold below the physical link rate.
   This experimental encoding scheme specifies how three encoding states
   can be carried in the IP header using a combination of two DSCPs and
   the ECN bits.  The Basic scheme only allows for three encoding
   states.  The Full scheme additionally provides limited end-to-end
   support for ECN.

Status (to be removed by RFC Editor)

   This memo is posted as an Internet-Draft with an intent to eventually
   be published as an experimental RFC.  The PCN Working Group will be
   asked to adopt this memo as a Working Group document describing one
   of several possible experimental PCN encoding schemes.  The intention
   is that the title of this document will change to avoid confusion
   with the three state marking scheme.

Changes from previous drafts

   From draft-moncaster-pcn-3-state-encoding-01:

   o  Changed to WG draft.  Title changed from "A three state extended
      PCN encoding scheme"

   o  Imposed new structure on document.  This structure is intended to
      be followed by all extensions to the baseline PCN encoding scheme.

   o  Extensive changes throughout to ensure consistency with the
      baseline PCN encoding scheme.

   From 00 to 01:

   o  Checked terminology for consistency with
      [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding]





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   o  Minor editorial changes.


Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2.  Requirements notation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   4.  The Requirement for Three PCN Encoding States  . . . . . . . .  5
   5.  Adding Limited End-to-End ECN Support to PCN . . . . . . . . .  6
   6.  Encoding Three PCN States in IP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     6.1.  Basic Three State Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     6.2.  Full Three State Encoding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     6.3.  Valid and invalid codepoint transitions at
           PCN-ingress-nodes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     6.4.  Valid and invalid codepoint transitions at
           PCN-interior-nodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     6.5.  Forwarding traffic out of the PCN-domain . . . . . . . . .  9
   7.  PCN-domain support for the PCN extension encoding  . . . . . . 10
     7.1.  End-to-End transport behaviour compliant with the PCN
           extension encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   8.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
   9.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   10. Conclusions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   11. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   12. Comments Solicited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   13. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     13.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     13.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13





















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1.  Introduction

   The objective of Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN)
   [I-D.ietf-pcn-architecture] is to protect the quality of service
   (QoS) of inelastic flows within a Diffserv domain, in a simple,
   scalable and robust fashion.  The overall rate of the PCN-traffic is
   metered on every link in the PCN-domain, and PCN-packets are
   appropriately marked when certain configured rates are exceeded.
   These configured rates are below the rate of the link thus providing
   notification before any congestion occurs (hence "pre-congestion
   notification").  The level of marking allows the boundary nodes to
   make decisions about whether to admit or block a new flow request,
   and (in abnormal circumstances) whether to terminate some of the
   existing flows, thereby protecting the QoS of previously admitted
   flows.

   The baseline encoding described in [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding]
   provides for deployment scenarios that only require two PCN encoding
   states.  This document describes an experimental extension to the
   base-encoding in the IP header that adds two capabilities:

   o  the addition of a third PCN encoding state in the IP header

   o  preservation of the end-to-end semantics of the ECN field even
      though PCN uses the field within a PCN-region that interrupts the
      end-to-end path

   The second of these capabilities is optional and the reasons for
   doing it are discussed in Section 5.

   As in the baseline encoding, this extension encoding re-uses the ECN
   bits within the IP header within a controlled PCN-domain.  This
   extension requires the use of two DSCPs as described later in this
   document.  This experimental scheme is one of three that are being
   proposed within the PCN working group.  The aim is to allow
   implementors to decide which scheme is most suitable for possible
   future standardisation.


2.  Requirements notation

   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 [RFC2119].







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3.  Terminology

   Most of the terminology used in this document is defined either in
   [I-D.ietf-pcn-architecture] or in [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding].
   The following additional terms are defined in this document:

   o  PCN-flow - a flow covered by a reservation but which hasn't
      signalled that it requires end-to-end ECN support.

   o  PCN-enabled-ECN-flow - a flow covered by reservation and for which
      the end-to-end transport has explicitly negotiated ECN support
      from the PCN-boundary-nodes.

   o  Not-marked (xxx), where xxx represents a standard ECN codepoint -
      packets that are PCN capable but carry no PCN mark.  Abbreviated
      as NM(xxx).  The (xxx) represents the ECN codepoint that the
      packet arrived with at the PCN-ingress-node e.g.  NM(CE)
      represents a PCN capable packet that has no PCN marking but which
      arrived with the ECN bits set to congestion experienced.


4.  The Requirement for Three PCN Encoding States

   The PCN Marking Behaviours document [I-D.ietf-pcn-marking-behaviour]
   describes proposed PCN schemes that require traffic to be metered and
   marked using both Threshold and Excess Traffic schemes.  In order to
   achieve this it is necessary to allow for three PCN encoding states.
   The constraints imposed by the way tunnels process the ECN field
   severely limit how to encode these states as explained in
   [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding] and [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-ecn-tunnel].
   The obvious way to provide one more encoding state than the base
   encoding is through the use of an additional PCN-compatible DiffServ
   codepoint.

   One aim of this document is to allow for experiments to show whether
   such schemes are better than those that only employ two PCN encoding
   states.  As such, the additional DSCP will be taken from the EXP/LU
   pools defined in [RFC2474].  If the experiments demonstrate that PCN
   schemes employing three encoding states are significantly better than
   those only employing two then at a later date IANA might be asked to
   assign a new PCN enabled DSCP from pool 1.  Note that there are other
   experimental encoding schemes being considered which only use one
   DSCP but require either alternative tunnel semantics
   ([I-D.briscoe-pcn-3-in-1-encoding]) or additional signalling
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5.  Adding Limited End-to-End ECN Support to PCN

   [I-D.sarker-pcn-ecn-pcn-usecases] suggests a number of use-cases
   where explicit preservation of end-to-end ECN semantics might be
   needed across a PCN domain.  One of the use-cases suggests that the
   end-nodes might be running rate-adaptive codecs that would respond to
   ECN marks by reducing their transmission rate.  If the sending
   transport sets the ECT codepoint, the setting of the ECN field as it
   arrives at the PCN ingress node will need to be re-instated as it
   leaves the PCN egress node.

   If a PCN region is starting to suffer pre-congestion then it may make
   sense to expose marks generated within the PCN region by forwarding
   CE marks from the PCN egress to such a rate-adaptive endpoint.  They
   would be in addition to any CE marks generated elsewhere on the end-
   to-end path.  This would allow the endpoints to reduce the traffic
   rate.  This will in turn help to alleviate the pre-congestion,
   potentially averting any need for call blocking or termination.
   However, the 'leaking' of CE marks out of the PCN region is
   potentially dangerous and could violate [RFC4774] if the end hosts
   don't understand ECN (see section 18.1.4 of [RFC3168]).

   Therefore, a PCN region can only support end-to-end ECN if the PCN-
   boundary-nodes are sure that the end-to-end transport is ECN-capable.
   That way the PCN-egress-nodes can ensure that they only expose CE
   marks to those receivers that will correctly interpret them as a
   notification of congestion.  The end-points may indicate they are
   ECN-capable through some higher-layer signalling process that sets up
   their reservation with the PCN boundary nodes.  The exact process of
   negotiation is beyond the scope of this document but is likely to
   involve explicit two way signalling between the end-host and the PCN-
   domain.

   In the absence of such signalling the default behaviour of the PCN
   egress node will be to clear the ECN field to 00 as in the baseline
   PCN encoding [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding].


6.  Encoding Three PCN States in IP

   The three state PCN encoding scheme is based closely on that defined
   in [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding] so that there will be no
   compatibility issues if a PCN-domain changes from using the baseline
   encoding scheme to the experimental scheme described here.  There are
   two versions of the scheme.  The basic three state scheme allows for
   carrying both Threshold-marked (ThM) and Excess-traffic-marked (ETM)
   traffic.  The full scheme additionally allows end-to-end ECN to be
   carried across the PCN-domain.



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6.1.  Basic Three State Encoding

   The following table shows how to encode the three PCN states in IP.
   The authors spent some time trying to establish which way round to
   put the two marked states before settling on this.  Because it is
   envisaged that DSCP 2 will be of lower priority than DSCP 1 the
   change in marking from Threshold to Excess Traffic involves
   downgrading the traffic which seems to be consistent with the
   requirement that such changes should not be reversed.

      +--------+--------------+-------------+-------------+---------+
      |  DSCP  | Not-ECT (00) | ECT(0) (10) | ECT(1) (01) | CE (11) |
      +--------+--------------+-------------+-------------+---------+
      | DSCP 1 |    Not-PCN   |      NM     |      CU     |   ThM   |
      | DSCP 2 |    Not-PCN   |      CU     |      CU     |   ETM   |
      +--------+--------------+-------------+-------------+---------+

         (where DSCP 1 is a PCN-compatible DiffServ codepoint (see
   [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding]) and DSCP 2 is a PCN-compatible DSCP
              from the EXP/LU pools as defined in [RFC2474])

                 Table 1: Encoding three PCN states in IP

6.2.  Full Three State Encoding

   Table 2 shows how to additionally carry the end-to-end ECN state in
   the IP header.

      +--------+--------------+-------------+-------------+---------+
      |  DSCP  | Not-ECT (00) | ECT(0) (10) | ECT(1) (01) | CE (11) |
      +--------+--------------+-------------+-------------+---------+
      | DSCP 1 |    Not-PCN   | NM(Not-ECT) |    NM(CE)   |   ThM   |
      | DSCP 2 |    Not-PCN   |  NM(ECT(0)) |  NM(ECT(1)) |   ETM   |
      +--------+--------------+-------------+-------------+---------+

         (where DSCP 1 is a PCN-compatible DiffServ codepoint (see
   [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding]) and DSCP 2 is a PCN-compatible DSCP
              from the EXP/LU pools as defined in [RFC2474])

                 Table 2: Encoding three PCN states in IP

   The four different Not-marked (NM) states allow for the addition of
   limited end-to-end ECN support as explained in the previous section.

Warning

   In order to comply with this encoding all the nodes within the PCN-
   domain MUST be configured with this encoding scheme.  However there



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   may be operators who choose not to be fully compliant with the
   scheme.  If an operator chooses to leave some PCN-interior-nodes that
   only support two marking states (the base encoding), then they must
   be aware of the following: Ideally such nodes would be configured to
   indicate pre-congestion or congestion using the ETM state since this
   would ensure they could notify worst-case congestion, however this is
   not possible since it requires the packets to be re-marked to DSCP 2
   (hence altering the baseline encoding).  This means that such nodes
   will only be able to indicate ThM traffic.

6.3.  Valid and invalid codepoint transitions at PCN-ingress-nodes

   A PCN-ingress-node operating the Basic version of the 3-State
   Encoding scheme MUST set the Not-marked codepoint on any arriving
   packet that belongs to a PCN-flow.  It MUST set the not-PCN codepoint
   on any other packet.

   A PCN-ingress-node operating the Full version of the 3-State Encoding
   scheme MUST establish whether a packet is a member of a PCN-enabled-
   ECN-flow.  If it is, the PCN-ingress-node MUST set the appropriate
   NM(xxx) codepoint depending on the value carried in the ECN field of
   that packet.  To be clear:

   o  A packet carrying the not-ECT codepoint in the ECN field MUST be
      assigned the NM(not-ECT) codepoint

   o  A packet carrying the ECT(0) codepoint in the ECN field MUST be
      assigned the NM(ECT(0)) codepoint

   o  A packet carrying the ECT(1) codepoint in the ECN field MUST be
      assigned the NM(ECT(1)) codepoint

   o  A packet carrying the CE codepoint in the ECN field MUST be
      assigned the NM(CE) codepoint

   If it is not a member of such a flow then the behaviour MUST be the
   same as for the Basic version of the Encoding scheme.

6.4.  Valid and invalid codepoint transitions at PCN-interior-nodes

   A PCN-interior-node MUST obey the following rules:

   o  It MUST NOT change the not-PCN codepoint to any other codepoint.

   o  It MAY change any Not-marked codepoint to either the Threshold-
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   o  It MUST NOT change a Not-marked codepoint to the not-PCN
      codepoint.

   o  A Not-marked codepoint MUST NOT be changed to any other Not-marked
      codepoint.

   o  It MAY change the ThM codepoint to the ETM codepoint but it MUST
      NOT change the ThM codepoint to any other codepoint.

   o  It MUST NOT change the ETM codepoint to any other codepoint.

   Obviously in every case a codepoint can remain unchanged.  The
   precise rules governing which valid transition to use are set out in
   [I-D.ietf-pcn-marking-behaviour]

6.5.  Forwarding traffic out of the PCN-domain

   As each packet exits the PCN-domain, the PCN-egress-node MUST check
   whether it belongs to a PCN-enabled-ECN-flow.  If it belongs to such
   a flow then the following rules dictate how the ECN field should be
   reset:

   o  A packet carrying the not-PCN codepoint MUST be given the not-ECT
      codepoint.

   o  A packet carrying the NM(not-ECT) codepoint MUST be assigned the
      not-ECT codepoint.

   o  A packet carrying the NM(ECT(0)) codepoint MUST be assigned the
      ECT(0) codepoint.

   o  A packet carrying the NM(ECT(1)) codepoint MUST be assigned the
      ECT(1) codepoint.

   o  A packet carrying the NM(CE) codepoint MUST be assigned the CE
      codepoint.

   o  A packet carrying the ThM codepoint MUST be assigned CE codepoint.

   o  A packet carrying the ETM codepoint MUST be assigned CE codepoint.

   If the packet is part of a PCN-flow then it MUST be assigned the not-
   ECT codepoint regardless of which PCN-codepoint it carried.

   In addition all packets should have their DSCP reset to the
   appropriate DSCP for the next hop.  If the next hop is not another
   PCN region this will not be a PCN-compatible DSCP, and by default
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   mechanisms may allow the DSCP that packets entered the PCN-domain
   with to be reinstated.


7.  PCN-domain support for the PCN extension encoding

   PCN traffic MUST be marked with a DiffServ codepoint that indicates
   PCN is enabled.  To comply with the PCN extension encoding, this
   codepoint is either a PCN-compatible DSCP assigned by IANA for use
   with the baseline PCN encoding [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding] or a
   DSCP from pools 2 or 3 for experimental and local use [RFC2474].  The
   exact choice of DSCP may vary between PCN-domains but MUST be fixed
   within each PCN-domain.

7.1.  End-to-End transport behaviour compliant with the PCN extension
      encoding

   Transports wishing to use both PCN and end-to-end ECN MUST establish
   that their path supports this combination.  Support of end-to-end ECN
   by PCN-boundary-nodes is OPTIONAL.  Therefore transports MUST check
   with both the PCN-ingress-node and PCN-egress-node for each flow.
   The sending of such a request MUST NOT be taken to mean the request
   has been granted.  The PCN-boundary-nodes MAY choose to inform the
   end-node of a successful request.  The exact mechanism for such
   negotiation is beyond the scope of this document.  A transport that
   receives no response or a negative response to a request to support
   end-to-end ECN within a flow reservation MUST set the ECN field of
   all subsequent packets in that flow to Not-ECT if it wishes to
   guarantee that the flow will receive PCN treatment.

   If a domain wishes to use the full scheme described in Table 2 all
   nodes in that domain MUST be configured to understand the full
   scheme.

   If either of a PCN ingress-egress pair does not support end-to-end
   ECN or if the end-to-end transport does not request support for end-
   to-end ECN then the PCN-boundary-nodes MUST assume the packet belongs
   to a PCN-flow.


8.  IANA Considerations

   This document asks IANA to assign one DiffServ codepoint from Pool 2
   or Pool 3 (for experimental/local use)[RFC2474].  Should any of the
   three encoding state experimental PCN schemes prove sufficiently
   successful then IANA will be requested in a later document to assign
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9.  Security Considerations

   The security concerns relating to this extended PCN encoding are
   essentially the same as those in [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding].

   This extension coding gives end-to-end support for the ECN nonce
   [RFC3540], which is intended to protect the sender against the
   receiver or against network elements concealing a congestion
   experienced marking or a lost packet.  PCN-based reservations
   combined with end-to-end ECN are intended for partially inelastic
   traffic using rate-adaptive codecs.  Therefore the end-to-end
   transport is unlikely to be TCP, but at this time the nonce has only
   been defined for TCP transports.


10.  Conclusions

   This document describes an extended encoding scheme for PCN that
   provides for three encoding states as well as optional support for
   end-to-end ECN.  The encoding scheme builds on the baseline encoding
   described in [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding].  Using this encoding
   scheme it is possible for operators to conduct experiments to check
   whether the addition of an extra encoding state will significantly
   improve the performance of PCN.  It will also allow experiments to
   determine whether there is a need for end-to-end ECN support within
   the PCN-domain (as against end-to-end ECN support through the use of
   IP-in-IP tunnelling or by downgrading the traffic to a lower service
   class).


11.  Acknowledgements

   This document builds extensively on work done in the PCN working
   group by Kwok Ho Chan, Georgios Karagiannis, Philip Eardley, Joe
   Babiarz and others.  Full details of alternative schemes that were
   considered for adoption can be found in the document
   [I-D.chan-pcn-encoding-comparison].


12.  Comments Solicited

   (Section to be removed by RFC_Editor) Comments and questions are
   encouraged and very welcome.  They can be addressed to the IETF
   Transport Area working group mailing list <tsvwg@ietf.org>, and/or to
   the authors.


13.  References



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13.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-pcn-marking-behaviour]
              Eardley, P., "Marking behaviour of PCN-nodes",
              draft-ietf-pcn-marking-behaviour-02 (work in progress),
              March 2009.

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

   [RFC4774]  Floyd, S., "Specifying Alternate Semantics for the
              Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Field", BCP 124,
              RFC 4774, November 2006.

13.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.briscoe-pcn-3-in-1-encoding]
              Briscoe, B., "PCN 3-State Encoding Extension in a single
              DSCP", draft-briscoe-pcn-3-in-1-encoding-00 (work in
              progress), October 2008.

   [I-D.chan-pcn-encoding-comparison]
              Chan, K., Karagiannis, G., Moncaster, T., Menth, M.,
              Eardley, P., and B. Briscoe, "Pre-Congestion Notification
              Encoding Comparison",
              draft-chan-pcn-encoding-comparison-04 (work in progress),
              March 2009.

   [I-D.ietf-pcn-architecture]
              Eardley, P., "Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN)
              Architecture", draft-ietf-pcn-architecture-11 (work in
              progress), April 2009.

   [I-D.ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding]
              Moncaster, T., Briscoe, B., and M. Menth, "Baseline
              Encoding and Transport of Pre-Congestion Information",
              draft-ietf-pcn-baseline-encoding-03 (work in progress),
              April 2009.

   [I-D.ietf-tsvwg-ecn-tunnel]
              Briscoe, B., "Tunnelling of Explicit Congestion
              Notification", draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-tunnel-02 (work in
              progress), March 2009.

   [I-D.menth-pcn-psdm-encoding]
              Menth, M., Babiarz, J., Moncaster, T., and B. Briscoe,
              "PCN Encoding for Packet-Specific Dual Marking (PSDM)",
              draft-menth-pcn-psdm-encoding-00 (work in progress),



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              July 2008.

   [I-D.sarker-pcn-ecn-pcn-usecases]
              Sarker, Z. and I. Johansson, "Usecases and Benefits of end
              to end ECN support in PCN Domains",
              draft-sarker-pcn-ecn-pcn-usecases-02 (work in progress),
              November 2008.

   [RFC2474]  Nichols, K., Blake, S., Baker, F., and D. Black,
              "Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS
              Field) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers", RFC 2474,
              December 1998.

   [RFC3168]  Ramakrishnan, K., Floyd, S., and D. Black, "The Addition
              of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP",
              RFC 3168, September 2001.

   [RFC3540]  Spring, N., Wetherall, D., and D. Ely, "Robust Explicit
              Congestion Notification (ECN) Signaling with Nonces",
              RFC 3540, June 2003.


Authors' Addresses

   Toby Moncaster
   BT
   B54/70, Adastral Park
   Martlesham Heath
   Ipswich  IP5 3RE
   UK

   Phone: +44 1473 648734
   Email: toby.moncaster@bt.com
   URI:   http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/B.Briscoe/


   Bob Briscoe
   BT & UCL
   B54/77, Adastral Park
   Martlesham Heath
   Ipswich  IP5 3RE
   UK

   Phone: +44 1473 645196
   Email: bob.briscoe@bt.com






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   Michael Menth
   University of Wuerzburg
   room B206, Institute of Computer Science
   Am Hubland
   Wuerzburg  D-97074
   Germany

   Phone: +49 931 888 6644
   Email: menth@informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de










































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