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                       RIFT: Routing in Fat Trees
                        draft-ietf-rift-rift-06

Abstract

   This document outlines a specialized, dynamic routing protocol for
   Clos and fat-tree network topologies.  The protocol (1) deals with
   fully automated construction of fat-tree topologies based on
   detection of links, (2) minimizes the amount of routing state held at
   each level, (3) automatically prunes and load balances topology
   flooding exchanges over a sufficient subset of links, (4) supports
   automatic disaggregation of prefixes on link and node failures to
   prevent black-holing and suboptimal routing, (5) allows traffic
   steering and re-routing policies, (6) allows loop-free non-ECMP
   forwarding, (7) automatically re-balances traffic towards the spines
   based on bandwidth available and finally (8) provides mechanisms to
   synchronize a limited key-value data-store that can be used after
   protocol convergence to e.g.  bootstrap higher levels of
   functionality on nodes.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   2.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   3.  Reference Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.1.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.2.  Topology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   4.  Requirement Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   5.  RIFT: Routing in Fat Trees  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     5.1.  Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       5.1.1.  Properties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       5.1.2.  Generalized Topology View . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       5.1.3.  Fallen Leaf Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  26
       5.1.4.  Discovering Fallen Leaves . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  28
       5.1.5.  Addressing the Fallen Leaves Problem  . . . . . . . .  29
     5.2.  Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
       5.2.1.  Transport . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
       5.2.2.  Link (Neighbor) Discovery (LIE Exchange)  . . . . . .  31
       5.2.3.  Topology Exchange (TIE Exchange)  . . . . . . . . . .  33
         5.2.3.1.  Topology Information Elements . . . . . . . . . .  33
         5.2.3.2.  South- and Northbound Representation  . . . . . .  33
         5.2.3.3.  Flooding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
         5.2.3.4.  TIE Flooding Scopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
         5.2.3.5.  'Flood Only Node TIEs' Bit  . . . . . . . . . . .  39
         5.2.3.6.  Initial and Periodic Database Synchronization . .  40
         5.2.3.7.  Purging and Roll-Overs  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
         5.2.3.8.  Southbound Default Route Origination  . . . . . .  41
         5.2.3.9.  Northbound TIE Flooding Reduction . . . . . . . .  41
         5.2.3.10. Special Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  46
       5.2.4.  Reachability Computation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  47
         5.2.4.1.  Northbound SPF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  47
         5.2.4.2.  Southbound SPF  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  48
         5.2.4.3.  East-West Forwarding Within a Level . . . . . . .  48
       5.2.5.  Automatic Disaggregation on Link & Node Failures  . .  48
         5.2.5.1.  Positive, Non-transitive Disaggregation . . . . .  48
         5.2.5.2.  Negative, Transitive Disaggregation for Fallen
                   Leafs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  52



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       5.2.6.  Attaching Prefixes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  54
       5.2.7.  Optional Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)  . . . . . . .  63
         5.2.7.1.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  64
         5.2.7.2.  Automatic SystemID Selection  . . . . . . . . . .  65
         5.2.7.3.  Generic Fabric Example  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  66
         5.2.7.4.  Level Determination Procedure . . . . . . . . . .  67
         5.2.7.5.  Resulting Topologies  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  68
       5.2.8.  Stability Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  70
     5.3.  Further Mechanisms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  70
       5.3.1.  Overload Bit  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  70
       5.3.2.  Optimized Route Computation on Leafs  . . . . . . . .  70
       5.3.3.  Mobility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  70
         5.3.3.1.  Clock Comparison  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  72
         5.3.3.2.  Interaction between Time Stamps and Sequence
                   Counters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  72
         5.3.3.3.  Anycast vs. Unicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  73
         5.3.3.4.  Overlays and Signaling  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  73
       5.3.4.  Key/Value Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  74
         5.3.4.1.  Southbound  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  74
         5.3.4.2.  Northbound  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  74
       5.3.5.  Interactions with BFD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  74
       5.3.6.  Fabric Bandwidth Balancing  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  75
         5.3.6.1.  Northbound Direction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  75
         5.3.6.2.  Southbound Direction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  77
       5.3.7.  Label Binding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  78
       5.3.8.  Segment Routing Support with RIFT . . . . . . . . . .  78
         5.3.8.1.  Global Segment Identifiers Assignment . . . . . .  78
         5.3.8.2.  Distribution of Topology Information  . . . . . .  78
       5.3.9.  Leaf to Leaf Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  79
       5.3.10. Address Family and Multi Topology Considerations  . .  79
       5.3.11. Reachability of Internal Nodes in the Fabric  . . . .  79
       5.3.12. One-Hop Healing of Levels with East-West Links  . . .  80
     5.4.  Security  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  80
       5.4.1.  Security Model  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  80
       5.4.2.  Security Mechanisms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  82
       5.4.3.  Security Envelope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  82
       5.4.4.  Weak Nonces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  85
       5.4.5.  Lifetime  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  86
       5.4.6.  Key Management  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  86
       5.4.7.  Security Association Changes  . . . . . . . . . . . .  86
   6.  Examples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  87
     6.1.  Normal Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  87
     6.2.  Leaf Link Failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  88
     6.3.  Partitioned Fabric  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  89
     6.4.  Northbound Partitioned Router and Optional East-West
           Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  91
     6.5.  Multi-Plane Fabric and Negative Disaggregation  . . . . .  92
   7.  Implementation and Operation: Further Details . . . . . . . .  92



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     7.1.  Considerations for Leaf-Only Implementation . . . . . . .  92
     7.2.  Considerations for Spine Implementation . . . . . . . . .  93
     7.3.  Adaptations to Other Proposed Data Center Topologies  . .  93
     7.4.  Originating Non-Default Route Southbound  . . . . . . . .  94
   8.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  95
     8.1.  General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  95
     8.2.  ZTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  95
     8.3.  Lifetime  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  95
     8.4.  Packet Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  95
     8.5.  Outer Fingerprint Attacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  96
     8.6.  TIE Origin Fingerprint DoS Attacks  . . . . . . . . . . .  96
   9.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  96
   10. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  96
   11. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  97
     11.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  97
     11.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  99
   Appendix A.  Sequence Number Binary Arithmetic  . . . . . . . . . 102
   Appendix B.  Information Elements Schema  . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
     B.1.  common.thrift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
     B.2.  encoding.thrift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
   Appendix C.  Finite State Machines and Precise Operational
                Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
     C.1.  LIE FSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
     C.2.  ZTP FSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
     C.3.  Flooding Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
       C.3.1.  FloodState Structure per Adjacency  . . . . . . . . . 132
       C.3.2.  TIDEs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
         C.3.2.1.  TIDE Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
         C.3.2.2.  TIDE Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
       C.3.3.  TIREs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
         C.3.3.1.  TIRE Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
         C.3.3.2.  TIRE Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
       C.3.4.  TIEs Processing on Flood State Adjacency  . . . . . . 137
       C.3.5.  TIEs Processing When LSDB Received Newer Version on
               Other Adjacencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
       C.3.6.  Sending TIEs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
   Appendix D.  Constants  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
     D.1.  Configurable Protocol Constants . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
   Appendix E.  TODO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

1.  Authors

   This work is a product of a growing list of individuals.







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          Tony Przygienda, Ed | Alankar Sharma | Pascal Thubert
          Juniper Networks    | Comcast        | Cisco

          Bruno Rijsman       | Ilya Vershkov  | Dmitry Afanasiev
          Individual          | Mellanox       | Yandex

          Don Fedyk           | Alia Atlas     | John Drake
          Individual          | Individual     | Juniper

                           Table 1: RIFT Authors

2.  Introduction

   Clos [CLOS] and Fat-Tree [FATTREE] topologies have gained prominence
   in today's networking, primarily as result of the paradigm shift
   towards a centralized data-center based architecture that is poised
   to deliver a majority of computation and storage services in the
   future.  Today's current routing protocols were geared towards a
   network with an irregular topology and low degree of connectivity
   originally but given they were the only available options,
   consequently several attempts to apply those protocols to Clos have
   been made.  Most successfully BGP [RFC4271] [RFC7938] has been
   extended to this purpose, not as much due to its inherent suitability
   but rather because the perceived capability to easily modify BGP and
   the immanent difficulties with link-state [DIJKSTRA] based protocols
   to optimize topology exchange and converge quickly in large scale
   densely meshed topologies.  The incumbent protocols precondition
   normally extensive configuration or provisioning during bring up and
   re-dimensioning which is only viable for a set of organizations with
   according networking operation skills and budgets.  For the majority
   of data center consumers a preferable protocol would be one that
   auto-configures itself and deals with failures and misconfigurations
   with a minimum of human intervention only.  Such a solution would
   allow local IP fabric bandwidth to be consumed in a standardized
   component fashion, i.e. provision it much faster and operate it at
   much lower costs, much like compute or storage is consumed today.

   In looking at the problem through the lens of data center
   requirements, an optimal approach does not seem however to be a
   simple modification of either a link-state (distributed computation)
   or distance-vector (diffused computation) approach but rather a
   mixture of both, colloquially best described as "link-state towards
   the spine" and "distance vector towards the leafs".  In other words,
   "bottom" levels are flooding their link-state information in the
   "northern" direction while each node generates under normal
   conditions a default route and floods it in the "southern" direction.
   This type of protocol allows naturally for highly desirable
   aggregation.  Alas, such aggregation could blackhole traffic in cases



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   of misconfiguration or while failures are being resolved or even
   cause partial network partitioning and this has to be addressed.  The
   approach RIFT takes is described in Section 5.2.5 and is basically
   based on automatic, sufficient disaggregation of prefixes.

   For the visually oriented reader, Figure 1 presents a first level
   simplified view of the resulting information and routes on a RIFT
   fabric.  The top of the fabric is holding in its link-state database
   the nodes below it and the routes to them.  In the second row of the
   database table we indicate that partial information of other nodes in
   the same level is available as well.  The details of how this is
   achieved will be postponed for the moment.  When we look at the
   "bottom" of the fabric, the leafs, we see that the topology is
   basically empty and they only hold a load balanced default route to
   the next level.

   The balance of this document details the resulting protocol and fills
   in the missing details.

              .                                  [A,B,C,D]
              .                                  [E]
              .             +-----+      +-----+
              .             |  E  |      |  F  | A/32 @ [C,D]
              .             +-+-+-+      +-+-+-+ B/32 @ [C,D]
              .               | |          | |   C/32 @ C
              .               | |    +-----+ |   D/32 @ D
              .               | |    |       |
              .               | +------+     |
              .               |      | |     |
              .       [A,B] +-+---+  | | +---+-+ [A,B]
              .       [D]   |  C  +--+ +-+  D  | [C]
              .             +-+-+-+      +-+-+-+
              .  0/0  @ [E,F] | |          | |   0/0  @ [E,F]
              .  A/32 @ A     | |    +-----+ |   A/32 @ A
              .  B/32 @ B     | |    |       |   B/32 @ B
              .               | +------+     |
              .               |      | |     |
              .             +-+---+  | | +---+-+
              .             |  A  +--+ +-+  B  |
              . 0/0 @ [C,D] +-----+      +-----+ 0/0 @ [C,D]


                  Figure 1: RIFT information distribution








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2.1.  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].

3.  Reference Frame

3.1.  Terminology

   This section presents the terminology used in this document.  It is
   assumed that the reader is thoroughly familiar with the terms and
   concepts used in OSPF [RFC2328] and IS-IS [ISO10589-Second-Edition],
   [ISO10589] as well as the according graph theoretical concepts of
   shortest path first (SPF) [DIJKSTRA] computation and directed acyclic
   graphs (DAG).

   Level:  Clos and Fat Tree networks are topologically partially
      ordered graphs and 'level' denotes the set of nodes at the same
      height in such a network, where the bottom level (leaf) is the
      level with lowest value.  A node has links to nodes one level down
      and/or one level up.  Under some circumstances, a node may have
      links to nodes at the same level.  As footnote: Clos terminology
      uses often the concept of "stage" but due to the folded nature of
      the Fat Tree we do not use it to prevent misunderstandings.

   Superspine/Aggregation or Spine/Edge Levels:  Traditional names in
      5-stages folded Clos for Level 2, 1 and 0 respectively.  Level 0
      is often called leaf as well.  We normalize this language to talk
      about leafs, spines and top-of-fabric (ToF).

   Point of Delivery (PoD):  A self-contained vertical slice or subset
      of a Clos or Fat Tree network containing normally only level 0 and
      level 1 nodes.  A node in a PoD communicates with nodes in other
      PoDs via the Top-of-Fabric.  We number PoDs to distinguish them
      and use PoD #0 to denote "undefined" PoD.

   Top of PoD (ToP):  The set of nodes that provide intra-PoD
      communication and have northbound adjacencies outside of the PoD,
      i.e. are at the "top" of the PoD.

   Top of Fabric (ToF):  The set of nodes that provide inter-PoD
      communication and have no northbound adjacencies, i.e. are at the
      "very top" of the fabric.  ToF nodes do not belong to any PoD and
      are assigned "undefined" PoD value to indicate the equivalent of
      "any" PoD.





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   Spine:  Any nodes north of leafs and south of top-of-fabric nodes.
      Multiple layers of spines in a PoD are possible.

   Leaf:  A node without southbound adjacencies.  Its level is 0 (except
      cases where it is deriving its level via ZTP and is running
      without LEAF_ONLY which will be explained in Section 5.2.7).

   Top-of-fabric Plane or Partition:  In large fabrics top-of-fabric
      switches may not have enough ports to aggregate all switches south
      of them and with that, the ToF is 'split' into multiple
      independent planes.  Introduction and Section 5.1.2 explains the
      concept in more detail.  A plane is subset of ToF nodes that see
      each other through south reflection or E-W links.

   Radix:  A radix of a switch is basically number of switching ports it
      provides.  It's sometimes called fanout as well.

   North Radix:  Ports cabled northbound to higher level nodes.

   South Radix:  Ports cabled southbound to lower level nodes.

   South/Southbound and North/Northbound (Direction):  When describing
      protocol elements and procedures, we will be using in different
      situations the directionality of the compass.  I.e., 'south' or
      'southbound' mean moving towards the bottom of the Clos or Fat
      Tree network and 'north' and 'northbound' mean moving towards the
      top of the Clos or Fat Tree network.

   Northbound Link:  A link to a node one level up or in other words,
      one level further north.

   Southbound Link:  A link to a node one level down or in other words,
      one level further south.

   East-West Link:  A link between two nodes at the same level.  East-
      West links are normally not part of Clos or "fat-tree" topologies.

   Leaf shortcuts (L2L):  East-West links at leaf level will need to be
      differentiated from East-West links at other levels.

   Southbound representation:  Subset of topology information sent
      towards a lower level.

   South Reflection:  Often abbreviated just as "reflection" it defines
      a mechanism where South Node TIEs are "reflected" back up north to
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   TIE:  This is an acronym for a "Topology Information Element".  TIEs
      are exchanged between RIFT nodes to describe parts of a network
      such as links and address prefixes.  A TIE can be thought of as
      largely equivalent to ISIS LSPs or OSPF LSA.  We will talk about
      N-TIEs when talking about TIEs in the northbound representation
      and S-TIEs for the southbound equivalent.

   Node TIE:  This is an acronym for a "Node Topology Information
      Element", largely equivalent to OSPF Router LSA, i.e. it contains
      all adjacencies the node discovered and information about node
      itself.

   Prefix TIE:  This is an acronym for a "Prefix Topology Information
      Element" and it contains all prefixes directly attached to this
      node in case of a N-TIE and in case of S-TIE the necessary default
      the node passes southbound.

   Key Value TIE:  A S-TIE that is carrying a set of key value pairs
      [DYNAMO].  It can be used to distribute information in the
      southbound direction within the protocol.

   TIDE:  Topology Information Description Element, equivalent to CSNP
      in ISIS.

   TIRE:  Topology Information Request Element, equivalent to PSNP in
      ISIS.  It can both confirm received and request missing TIEs.

   De-aggregation/Disaggregation:  Process in which a node decides to
      advertise certain prefixes it received in N-TIEs to prevent black-
      holing and suboptimal routing upon link failures.

   LIE:  This is an acronym for a "Link Information Element", largely
      equivalent to HELLOs in IGPs and exchanged over all the links
      between systems running RIFT to form adjacencies.

   Flood Repeater (FR):  A node can designate one or more northbound
      neighbor nodes to be flood repeaters.  The flood repeaters are
      responsible for flooding northbound TIEs further north.  They are
      similar to MPR in OSLR.  The document sometimes calls them flood
      leaders as well.

   Bandwidth Adjusted Distance (BAD):  This is an acronym for Bandwidth
      Adjusted Distance.  Each RIFT node calculates the amount of
      northbound bandwidth available towards a node compared to other
      nodes at the same level and modifies the default route distance
      accordingly to allow for the lower level to adjust their load
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   Overloaded:  Applies to a node advertising `overload` attribute as
      set.  The semantics closely follow the meaning of the same
      attribute in [ISO10589-Second-Edition].

   Interface:  A layer 3 entity over which RIFT control packets are
      exchanged.

   Adjacency:  RIFT tries to form a unique adjacency over an interface
      and exchange local configuration and necessary ZTP information.

   Neighbor:  Once a three way adjacency has been formed a neighborship
      relationship contains the neighbor's properties.  Multiple
      adjacencies can be formed to a neighbor via parallel interfaces
      but such adjacencies are NOT sharing a neighbor structure.  Saying
      "neighbor" is thus equivalent to saying "a three way adjacency".

   Cost:  The term signifies the weighted distance between two
      neighbors.

   Distance:  Sum of costs (bound by infinite distance) between two
      nodes.

   Metric:  Without going deeper into the proper differentiation, a
      metric is equivalent to distance.

3.2.  Topology

























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    .                +--------+          +--------+          ^ N
    .                |ToF   21|          |ToF   22|          |
    .Level 2         ++-+--+-++          ++-+--+-++        <-*-> E/W
    .                 | |  | |            | |  | |           |
    .             P111/2|  |P121          | |  | |         S v
    .                 ^ ^  ^ ^            | |  | |
    .                 | |  | |            | |  | |
    .  +--------------+ |  +-----------+  | |  | +---------------+
    .  |                |    |         |  | |  |                 |
    . South +-----------------------------+ |  |                 ^
    .  |    |           |    |         |    |  |              All TIEs
    .  0/0  0/0        0/0   +-----------------------------+     |
    .  v    v           v              |    |  |           |     |
    .  |    |           +-+    +<-0/0----------+           |     |
    .  |    |             |    |       |    |              |     |
    .+-+----++ optional +-+----++     ++----+-+           ++-----++
    .|       | E/W link |       |     |       |           |       |
    .|Spin111+----------+Spin112|     |Spin121|           |Spin122|
    .+-+---+-+          ++----+-+     +-+---+-+           ++---+--+
    .  |   |             |   South      |   |              |   |
    .  |   +---0/0--->-----+ 0/0        |   +----------------+ |
    . 0/0                | |  |         |                  | | |
    .  |   +---<-0/0-----+ |  v         |   +--------------+ | |
    .  v   |               |  |         |   |                | |
    .+-+---+-+          +--+--+-+     +-+---+-+          +---+-+-+
    .|       |  (L2L)   |       |     |       |  Level 0 |       |
    .|Leaf111~~~~~~~~~~~~Leaf112|     |Leaf121|          |Leaf122|
    .+-+-----+          +-+---+-+     +--+--+-+          +-+-----+
    .  +                  +    \        /   +              +
    .  Prefix111   Prefix112    \      /   Prefix121    Prefix122
    .                          multi-homed
    .                            Prefix
    .+---------- Pod 1 ---------+     +---------- Pod 2 ---------+


              Figure 2: A three level spine-and-leaf topology















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                    .+--------+  +--------+  +--------+  +--------+
                    .|ToF   A1|  |ToF   B1|  |ToF   B2|  |ToF   A2|
                    .++-+-----+  ++-+-----+  ++-+-----+  ++-+-----+
                    . | |         | |         | |         | |
                    . | |         | |         | +---------------+
                    . | |         | |         |           | |   |
                    . | |         | +-------------------------+ |
                    . | |         |           |           | | | |
                    . | +-----------------------+         | | | |
                    . |           |           | |         | | | |
                    . |           | +---------+ | +---------+ | |
                    . |           | |           | |       |   | |
                    . | +---------------------------------+   | |
                    . | |         | |           | |           | |
                    .++-+-----+  ++-+-----+  +--+-+---+  +----+-+-+
                    .|Spine111|  |Spine112|  |Spine121|  |Spine122|
                    .+-+---+--+  ++----+--+  +-+---+--+  ++---+---+
                    .  |   |      |    |       |   |      |   |
                    .  |   +--------+  |       |   +--------+ |
                    .  |          | |  |       |          | | |
                    .  |   -------+ |  |       |   +------+ | |
                    .  |   |        |  |       |   |        | |
                    .+-+---+-+   +--+--+-+   +-+---+-+  +---+-+-+
                    .|Leaf111|   |Leaf112|   |Leaf121|  |Leaf122|
                    .+-------+   +-------+   +-------+  +-------+


                  Figure 3: Topology with multiple planes

   We will use topology in Figure 2 (called commonly a fat tree/network
   in modern IP fabric considerations [VAHDAT08] as homonym to the
   original definition of the term [FATTREE]) in all further
   considerations.  This figure depicts a generic "single plane fat-
   tree" and the concepts explained using three levels apply by
   induction to further levels and higher degrees of connectivity.
   Further, this document will deal also with designs that provide only
   sparser connectivity and "partitioned spines" as shown in Figure 3
   and explained further in Section 5.1.2.

4.  Requirement Considerations

   [RFC7938] gives the original set of requirements augmented here based
   upon recent experience in the operation of fat-tree networks.

   REQ1:    The control protocol should discover the physical links
            automatically and be able to detect cabling that violates
            fat-tree topology constraints.  It must react accordingly to
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            adjacencies between nodes from being formed and traffic from
            being forwarded on those mis-cabled links.  E.g.  connecting
            a leaf to a spine at level 2 should be detected and ideally
            prevented.

   REQ2:    A node without any configuration beside default values
            should come up at the correct level in any PoD it is
            introduced into.  Optionally, it must be possible to
            configure nodes to restrict their participation to the
            PoD(s) targeted at any level.

   REQ3:    Optionally, the protocol should allow to provision IP
            fabrics where the individual switches carry no configuration
            information and are all deriving their level from a "seed".
            Observe that this requirement may collide with the desire to
            detect cabling misconfiguration and with that only one of
            the requirements can be fully met in a chosen configuration
            mode.

   REQ4:    The solution should allow for minimum size routing
            information base and forwarding tables at leaf level for
            speed, cost and simplicity reasons.  Holding excessive
            amount of information away from leaf nodes simplifies
            operation and lowers cost of the underlay and allows to
            scale and introduce proper multi-homing down to the server
            level.  The routing solution should allow for easy
            instantiation of multiple routing planes.  Coupled with
            mobility defined in Paragraph 17 this should allow for
            "light-weight" overlays on an IP fabric with e.g. native
            IPv6 mobility support.

   REQ5:    Very high degree of ECMP must be supported.  Maximum ECMP is
            currently understood as the most efficient routing approach
            to maximize the throughput of switching fabrics
            [MAKSIC2013].

   REQ6:    Non equal cost anycast must be supported to allow for easy
            and robust multi-homing of services without regressing to
            careful balancing of link costs.

   REQ7:    Traffic engineering should be allowed by modification of
            prefixes and/or their next-hops.

   REQ8:    The solution should allow for access to link states of the
            whole topology to enable efficient support for modern
            control architectures like SPRING [RFC7855] or PCE
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   REQ9:    The solution should easily accommodate opaque data to be
            carried throughout the topology to subsets of nodes.  This
            can be used for many purposes, one of them being a key-value
            store that allows bootstrapping of nodes based right at the
            time of topology discovery.  Another use is distributing MAC
            to L3 address binding from the leafs up north in case of
            e.g.  DHCP.

   REQ10:   Nodes should be taken out and introduced into production
            with minimum wait-times and minimum of "shaking" of the
            network, i.e.  radius of propagation (often called "blast
            radius") of changed information should be as small as
            feasible.

   REQ11:   The protocol should allow for maximum aggregation of carried
            routing information while at the same time automatically de-
            aggregating the prefixes to prevent black-holing in case of
            failures.  The de-aggregation should support maximum
            possible ECMP/N-ECMP remaining after failure.

   REQ12:   Reducing the scope of communication needed throughout the
            network on link and state failure, as well as reducing
            advertisements of repeating or idiomatic information in
            stable state is highly desirable since it leads to better
            stability and faster convergence behavior.

   REQ13:   Once a packet traverses a link in a "southbound" direction,
            it must not take any further "northbound" steps along its
            path to delivery to its destination under normal, i.e.
            fully converged, conditions.  Taking a path through the
            spine in cases where a shorter path is available is highly
            undesirable.

   REQ14:   Parallel links between same set of nodes must be
            distinguishable for SPF, failure and traffic engineering
            purposes.

   REQ15:   The protocol must not rely on interfaces having discernible
            unique addresses, i.e. it must operate in presence of
            unnumbered links (even parallel ones) or links of a single
            node having same addresses.

   REQ16:   It would be desirable to achieve fast re-balancing of flows
            when links, especially towards the spines are lost or
            provisioned without regressing to per flow traffic
            engineering which introduces significant amount of
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   REQ17:   The control plane should be able to unambiguously determine
            the current point of attachment (which port on which leaf
            node) of a prefix, even in a context of fast mobility, e.g.,
            when the prefix is a host address on a wireless node that 1)
            may associate to any of multiple access points (APs) that
            are attached to different ports on a same leaf node or to
            different leaf nodes, and 2) may move and reassociate
            several times to a different access point within a sub-
            second period.

   REQ18:   The protocol should provide security mechanisms that allow
            to restrict nodes, especially leafs without proper
            credentials from forming three-way adjacencies.

   Following list represents possible requirements and requirements
   under discussion:

   PEND1:   Supporting anything but point-to-point links is a non-
            requirement.  Questions remain: for connecting to the
            leaves, is there a case where multipoint is desirable?  One
            could still model it as point-to-point links; it seems there
            is no need for anything more than a NBMA-type construct.

   PEND2:   What is the maximum scale of number leaf prefixes we need to
            carry.  500'000 seems plenty even if we deploy RIFT down to
            servers as leafs.

   Finally, following are the non-requirements:

   NONREQ1:   Broadcast media support is unnecessary.  However,
              miscabling leading to multiple nodes on a broadcast
              segment must be operationally easily recognizable and
              detectable while not taxing the protocol excessively.

   NONREQ2:   Purging link state elements is unnecessary given its
              fragility and complexity and today's large memory size on
              even modest switches and routers.

   NONREQ3:   Special support for layer 3 multi-hop adjacencies is not
              part of the protocol specification.  Such support can be
              easily provided by using tunneling technologies the same
              way IGPs today are solving the problem.

5.  RIFT: Routing in Fat Trees

   Derived from the above requirements we present a detailed outline of
   a protocol optimized for Routing in Fat Trees (RIFT) that in most
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   [RFC2328][ISO10589-Second-Edition] when "pointing north" and path-
   vector [RFC4271] protocol when "pointing south".  While this is an
   unusual combination, it does quite naturally exhibit the desirable
   properties we seek.

5.1.  Overview

5.1.1.  Properties

   The most singular property of RIFT is that it floods flat link-state
   information northbound only so that each level obtains the full
   topology of levels south of it.  That information is never flooded
   East-West (we'll talk about exceptions later) or back South again.
   In the southbound direction the protocol operates like a "fully
   summarizing, unidirectional" path vector protocol or rather a
   distance vector with implicit split horizon whereas the information
   propagates one hop south and is 're-advertised' by nodes at next
   lower level, normally just the default route.  However, RIFT uses
   flooding in the southern direction as well to avoid the necessity to
   build an update per adjacency.  We omit describing the East-West
   direction out for the moment.

   Those information flow constraints create not only an anisotropic
   protocol (i.e. the information is not distributed "evenly" or
   "clumped" but summarized along the N-S gradient) but also a "smooth"
   information propagation where nodes do not receive the same
   information from multiple fronts which would force them to perform a
   diffused computation to tie-break the same reachability information
   arriving on arbitrary links and ultimately force hop-by-hop
   forwarding on shortest-paths only.  The application of those
   principle lead to RIFT having moreover the highly desirable
   properties of being loop-free and guaranteeing valley-free forwarding
   behavior.

   To account for the "northern" and the "southern" information split
   the link state database is partitioned into "north representation"
   and "south representation" TIEs, whereas in simplest terms the N-TIEs
   contain a link state topology description of lower levels and and
   S-TIEs carry simply default routes.  This oversimplified view will be
   refined gradually in following sections while introducing protocol
   procedures aimed to fulfill the described requirements.

5.1.2.  Generalized Topology View

   This section will dwell on the topologies addresses by RIFT including
   multi plane fabrics and their related implications.  Readers that are
   only interested in single plane designs, i.e. all top-of-fabric nodes
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   at the level below them can skip this section and resulting
   Section 5.2.5.2 as well.

   Given the difficulty of visualizing multi plane design which are
   effectively multi-dimensional switching matrices we will introduce a
   methodology allowing us to visualize the connectivity in a two-
   dimensional document and leverage the fact that we are dealing
   basically with crossbar fabrics stacked on top of each other where
   ports also align "on top of each other" in a regular fashion.

   The typical topology for which RIFT is defined is built of a number P
   of PoDs, connected together by a number S of spine nodes.  A PoD node
   has a number of ports called Radix, with half of them (K=Radix/2)
   used to connect host devices from the south, and half to connect to
   interleaved PoD Top-Level switches to the north.  Ratio K can be
   chosen differently without loss of generality when port speeds differ
   or fabric is oversubscribed but K=R/2 allows for more readable
   representation whereby there are as many ports facing north as south
   on any intermediate node.  We represent a node hence in a schematic
   fashion with ports "sticking out" to its north and south rather than
   by the usual real-world front faceplate designs of the day.

   Figure 4 provides a view of a leaf node as seen from the north, i.e.
   showing ports that connect northbound and for lack of a better
   symbol, we have chosen to use the "HH" symbol as ASCII visualisation
   of a RJ45 jack.  In that example, K_LEAF is chosen to be 6 ports.
   Observe that the number of PoDs is not related to Radix unless the
   ToF Nodes are constrained to be the same as the PoD nodes in a
   particular deployment.






















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       Top view
        +----+
        |    |
        | HH |     e.g., Radix = 12, K_LEAF = 6
        |    |
        | HH |
        |    |      -------------------------
        | HH ------- Physical Port (Ethernet) ----+
        |    |      -------------------------     |
        | HH |                                    |
        |    |                                    |
        | HH |                                    |
        |    |                                    |
        | HH |                                    |
        |    |                                    |
        +----+                                    |

          ||              ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||
        +----+        +------------------------------------------------+
        |    |        |                                                |
        +----+        +------------------------------------------------+
          ||              ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||
              Side views


                      Figure 4: A Leaf Node, K_LEAF=6

   The Radix of a node on top of a PoD may be different than that of the
   leaf node, though more often than not a same type of node is used for
   both, effectively forming a square (K*K).  In the general case, we
   could have switches with K_TOP southern ports on nodes at the top of
   the PoD that is not necessarily the same as K_LEAF; for instance, in
   the representations below, we pick a K_LEAF of 6 and a K_TOP of 8.
   In order to form a crossbar, we need K_TOP Leaf Nodes as illustrated
   in Figure 5.
















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         +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+
         |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |
         | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |
         |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |
         | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |
         |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |
         | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |
         |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |
         | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |
         |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |
         | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |
         |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |
         | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |
         |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |
         +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+

                 Figure 5: Southern View of a PoD, K_TOP=8

   The K_TOP Leaf Nodes are fully interconnected with the K_LEAF PoD-top
   nodes, providing a connectivity that can be represented as a crossbar
   as seen from the north and illustrated in Figure 6.  The result is
   that, in the absence of a breakage, a packet entering the PoD from
   North on any port can be routed to any port on the south of the PoD
   and vice versa.



























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                                 E<-*->W

     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+
     |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   |   HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH   |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   |   HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH   |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   |   HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH   |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   |   HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH   |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+
   |   HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH   |<-+
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+  |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+  |
   |   HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH      HH   |  |
   +----------------------------------------------------------------+  |
     |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |    |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+    |
                ^                                                      |
                |                                                      |
                |     ----------                ---------------------  |
                +----- Leaf Node                PoD top Node (Spine) --+
                      ----------                ---------------------

            Figure 6: Northern View of a PoD's Spines, K_TOP=8

   Side views of this PoD is illustrated in Figure 7 and Figure 8.


















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                      Connecting to Spine

      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||
  +----------------------------------------------------------------+   N
  |                    PoD top Node seen sideways                  |   ^
  +----------------------------------------------------------------+   |
      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||       *
    +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+     |
    |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |     v
    +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+     S
      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||

                           Connecting to Client nodes


              Figure 7: Side View of a PoD, K_TOP=8, K_LEAF=6


                      Connecting to Spine

             ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||
           +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+              N
           |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |   PoD top Nodes   ^
           +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+              |
             ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||                *
         +------------------------------------------------+            |
         |              Leaf seen sideways                |            v
         +------------------------------------------------+            S
             ||      ||      ||      ||      ||      ||

                      Connecting to Client nodes


    Figure 8: Other side View of a PoD, K_TOP=8, K_LEAF=6, 90o turn in
                                 E-W Plane

   Note that a resulting PoD can be abstracted as a bigger node with a
   number K of K_POD= K_TOP * K_LEAF, and the design can recurse.

   It is critical at this junction that the concept and the picture of
   those "crossed crossbars" is clear before progressing further,
   otherwise following considerations will be difficult to comprehend.

   Further, the PoDs are interconnected with one another through a Top-
   of-Fabric at the very top or the north edge of the fabric.  The
   resulting ToF is NOT partitioned if and only if (IIF) every PoD top
   level node (spine) is connected to every ToF Node.  This is also
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   1::1 connectivity ratio between the ToF and the Leaves, it results
   that there are K_TOP ToF nodes, because each port of a ToP node
   connects to a different ToF node, and K_LEAF ToP nodes for the same
   reason.  Consequently, it takes (P * K_LEAF) ports on a ToF node to
   connect to each of the K_LEAF ToP nodes of the P PoDs, as illustrated
   in Figure 9.


        [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] <-----+
         |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |        |
      [=================================]     |     -----------
         |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |        +----- Top-of-Fabric
        [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]       +----- Node      -------+
                                              |     -----------       |
                                              |                       v
        +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ <-----+                      +-+
        | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |                              | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]                            | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] -------------------------  | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H<--- Physical Port (Ethernet)  | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] -------------------------  | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]                            | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]                            | |
        | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |                              | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]                            | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]      --------------        | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] <---  PoD top level        | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]       node (Spine)  ---+   | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]      --------------    |   | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]                        |   | |
        | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  -+           +-   +-+   v   | |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] |           |  --| |--[ ]--| |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] |   -----   |  --| |--[ ]--| |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] +--- PoD ---+  --| |--[ ]--| |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] |   -----   |  --| |--[ ]--| |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] |           |  --| |--[ ]--| |
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] |           |  --| |--[ ]--| |
        | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  -+           +-   +-+       | |
        +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+                              +-+


      Figure 9: Fabric Spines and TOFs in Single Plane Design, 3 PoDs

   The top view can be collapsed into a third dimension where the hidden
   depth index is representing the PoD number.  So we can show one PoD
   as a class of PoDs and hence save one dimension in our
   representation.  The Spine Node expands in the depth and the vertical
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   horizontal dimension.  A port in the 2-D representation represents
   effectively the class of all the ports at the same position in all
   the PoDs that are projected in its position along the depth axis.
   This is shown in Figure 10.

            / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
           / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
          / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /
         / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / /   ]
        +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+ +-+   ]]
        | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |  ]   ---------------------------
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ] <-- PoD top level node (Spine)
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]    ---------------------------
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]]]]
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]]]     ^^
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]]     //  PoDs
      [ |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| |H| ]     // (in depth)
        | |/| |/| |/| |/| |/| |/| |/| |/     //
        +-+ +-+ +-+/+-+/+-+ +-+ +-+ +-+     //
                 ^
                 |     ----------------
                 +----- Top-of-Fabric Node
                       ----------------

   Figure 10: Collapsed Northern View of a Fabric for Any Number of PoDs

   This type of deployment introduces a "single plane limit" where the
   bound is the available radix of the ToF nodes, which limits (P *
   K_LEAF).  Nevertheless, a distinct advantage of a connected or
   unpartitioned Top-of-Fabric is that all failures can be resolved by
   simple, non-transitive, positive disaggregation described in
   Section 5.2.5.1 that propagates only within one level of the fabric.
   In other words unpartitoned ToF nodes can always reach nodes below or
   withdraw the routes from PoDs they cannot reach unambiguously.  To be
   more precise, all failures which still allow all the ToF nodes to see
   each other via south reflection as explained in Section 5.2.5.

   In order to scale beyond the "single plane limit", the Top-of-Fabric
   can be partitioned by a number N of identically wired planes, N being
   an integer divider of K_LEAF.  The 1::1 ratio and the desired
   symmetry are still served, this time with (K_TOP * N) ToF nodes, each
   of (P * K_LEAF / N) ports.  N=1 represents a non-partitioned Spine
   and N=K_LEAF is a maximally partitioned Spine.  Further, if R is any
   divisor of K_LEAF, then (N=K_LEAF/R) is a feasible number of planes
   and R a redundancy factor.  If proves convenient for deployments to
   use a radix for the leaf nodes that is a power of 2 so they can pick
   a number of planes that is a lower power of 2.  The example in
   Figure 11 splits the Spine in 2 planes with a redundancy factor R=3,



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   meaning that there are 3 non-intersecting paths between any leaf node
   and any ToF node.  A ToF node must have in this case at least 3*P
   ports, and be directly connected to 3 of the 6 PoD-ToP nodes (spines)
   in each PoD.

        +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | |
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | |
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | |
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
        +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+

      Plane 1
     ----------- . ------------ . ------------ . ------------ . --------
      Plane 2

        +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | |
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | |
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
      | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | |
      +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+
        +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+
                   ^
                   |
                   |     ----------------
                   +----- Top-of-Fabric node
                          "across" depth
                         ----------------

    Figure 11: Northern View of a Multi-Plane ToF Level, K_LEAF=6, N=2

   At the extreme end of the spectrum, it is even possible to fully
   partition the spine with N = K_LEAF and R=1, while maintaining
   connectivity between each leaf node and each Top-of-Fabric node.  In
   that case the ToF node connects to a single Port per PoD, so it
   appears as a single port in the projected view represented in
   Figure 12 and the number of ports required on the Spine Node is more
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   Plane 1
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  -+
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |
   | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | | |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |
  ----------- . ------------ . ------------ . ------------ . -------- |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |
   | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | | |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |
  ----------- . ------------ . ------------ . ------------ . -------- |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |
   | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | | |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |
  ----------- . ------------ . ------------ . ------------ . -------- +<-+
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |  |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |  |
   | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | | |  |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |  |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |  |
  ----------- . ------------ . ------------ . ------------ . -------- |  |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |  |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |  |
   | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | | |  |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |  |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |  |
  ----------- . ------------ . ------------ . ------------ . -------- |  |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+   |  |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |  |
   | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | | |  |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+ |  |
     +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  -+  |
   Plane 6      ^                                                        |
                |                                                        |
                |     ----------------                 --------------    |
                +-----  ToF       Node                 Class of PoDs  ---+
                      ----------------                 -------------

    Figure 12: Northern View of a Maximally Partitioned ToF Level, R=1








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5.1.3.  Fallen Leaf Problem

   As mentioned earlier, RIFT exhibits an anisotropic behavior tailored
   for fabrics with a North / South orientation and a high level of
   interleaving paths.  A non-partitioned fabric makes a total loss of
   connectivity between a Top-of-Fabric node at the north and a leaf
   node at the south a very rare but yet possible occasion that is fully
   healed by positive disaggregation described in Section 5.2.5.1.  In
   large fabrics or fabrics built from switches with low radix, the ToF
   ends often being partioned in planes which makes the occurrence of
   having a given leaf being only reachable from a subset of the ToF
   nodes more likely to happen.  This makes some further considerations
   necessary.

   We define a "Fallen Leaf" as a leaf that can be reached by only a
   subset of Top-of-Fabric nodes but cannot be reached by all due to
   missing connectivity.  If R is the redundancy factor, then it takes
   at least R breakages to reach a "Fallen Leaf" situation.

   In a general manner, the mechanism of non-transitive positive
   disaggregation is sufficient when the disaggregating ToF nodes
   collectively connect to all the ToP nodes in the broken plane.  This
   happens in the following case:

      If the breakage is the last northern link from a ToP node to a ToF
      node going down, then the fallen leaf problem affects only The ToF
      node, and the connectivity to all the nodes in the PoD is lost
      from that ToF node.  This can be observed by other ToF nodes
      within the plane where the ToP node is located and positively
      disaggregated within that plane.

   On the other hand, there is a need to disaggregate the routes to
   Fallen Leaves in a transitive fashion all the way to the other leaves
   in the following cases:

      If the breakage is the last northern link from a Leaf node within
      a plane - there is only one such link in a maximally partitioned
      fabric - that goes down, then connectivity to all unicast prefixes
      attached to the Leaf node is lost within the plane where the link
      is located.  Southern Reflection by a Leaf Node - e.g., between
      ToP nodes if the PoD has only 2 levels - happens in between
      planes, allowing the ToP nodes to detect the problem within the
      PoD where it occurs and positively disaggregate.  The breakage can
      be observed by the ToF nodes in the same plane through the
      flooding of N-TIEs from the ToP nodes, but the ToF nodes need to
      be aware of all the affected prefixes for the negative
      disaggregation to be fully effective.  The problem can also be
      observed by the ToF nodes in the other planes through the flooding



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      of N-TIEs from the affected Leaf nodes, together with non-node
      N-TIEs which indicate the affected prefixes.  To be effective in
      that case, the positive disaggregation must reach down to the
      nodes that make the plane selection, which are typically the
      ingress Leaf nodes, and the information is not useful for routing
      in the intermediate levels.

      If the breakage is a ToP node in a maximally partitioned fabric -
      in which case it is the only ToP node serving that plane in that
      PoD - that goes down, then the connectivity to all the nodes in
      the PoD is lost within the plane where the ToP node is located -
      all leaves fall.  Since the Southern Reflection between the ToF
      nodes happens only within a plane, ToF nodes in other planes
      cannot discover the case of fallen leaves in a different plane,
      and cannot determine beyond their local plane whether a Leaf node
      that was initially reachable has become unreachable.  As above,
      the breakage can be observed by the ToF nodes in the plane where
      the breakage happened, and then again, the ToF nodes in the plane
      need to be aware of all the affected prefixes for the negative
      disaggregation to be fully effective.  The problem can also be
      observed by the ToF nodes in the other planes through the flooding
      of N-TIEs from the affected Leaf nodes, if there are only 3 levels
      and the ToP nodes are directly connected to the Leaf nodes, and
      then again it can only be effective it is propagated transitively
      to the Leaf, and useless above that level.

   For the sake of easy comprehension let us roll the abstractions back
   to a simple example and observe that in Figure 3 the loss of link
   Spine 122 to Leaf 122 will make Leaf 122 a fallen leaf for Top-of-
   Fabric plane B.  Worse, if the cabling was never present in first
   place, plane B will not even be able to know that such a fallen leaf
   exists.  Hence partitioning without further treatment results in two
   grave problems:

   o  Leaf111 trying to route to Leaf122 MUST choose Spine 111 in plane
      A as its next hop since plane B will inevitably blackhole the
      packet when forwarding using default routes or do excessive bow
      tie'ing, i.e.  this information must be in its routing table.

   o  any kind of "flooding" or distance vector trying to deal with the
      problem by distributing host routes will be able to converge only
      using paths through leafs, i.e. the flooding of information on
      Leaf122 will go up to Top-of-Fabric A and then "loopback" over
      other leafs to ToF B leading in extreme cases to traffic for
      Leaf122 when presented to plane B taking an "inverted fabric" path
      where leafs start to serve as TOFs.





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5.1.4.  Discovering Fallen Leaves

   As we illustrate later and without further proof here, to deal with
   fallen leafs in multi-plane designs RIFT requires all the ToF nodes
   to share the same topology database.  This happens naturally in
   single plane design but needs additional considerations in multi-
   plane fabrics.  To satisfy this RIFT in multi-plane designs relies at
   the ToF Level on ring interconnection of switches in multiple planes.
   Other solutions are possible but they either need more cabling or end
   up having much longer flooding path and/or single points of failure.

   In more detail, by reserving two ports on each Top-of-Fabric node it
   is possible to connect them together in an interplane bi-directional
   ring as illustrated in Figure 13 (where we show a bi-directional ring
   connecting switches across planes).  The rings will exchange full
   topology information between planes and with that allow consequently
   by the means of transitive, negative disaggregation described in
   Section 5.2.5.2 to efficiently fix any possible fallen leaf scenario.
   Somewhat as a side-effect, the exchange of information fulfills the
   requirement to present full view of the fabric topology at the Top-
   of-Fabric level without the need to collate it from multiple points
   by additional complexity of technologies like [RFC7752].





























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       +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +--------+
       |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |        |
       |       |       |       |       |       |       |        |
     +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+     |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+   |
   | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | |   | Plane A
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+   |
     +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+     |
       |       |       |       |       |       |       |        |
     +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+     |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+   |
   | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | |   | Plane B
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+   |
     +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+     |
       |       |       |       |       |       |       |        |
                                  ...                           |
       |       |       |       |       |       |       |        |
     +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+     |
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+   |
   | | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH |  | HH | |   | Plane X
   +-|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |--|    |-+   |
     +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+  +-o--+     |
       |       |       |       |       |       |       |        |
       |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |    |  |        |
       +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +----+  +--------+




   Figure 13: Connecting Top-of-Fabric Nodes Across Planes by Two Rings

5.1.5.  Addressing the Fallen Leaves Problem

   One consequence of the Fallen Leaf problem is that some prefixes
   attached to the fallen leaf become unreachable from some of the ToF
   nodes.  RIFT proposes two methods to address this issue, the positive
   and the negative disaggregation.  Both methods flood S-TIEs to
   advertise the impacted prefix(es).

   When used for the operation of disaggregation, a positive S-TIE, as
   usual, indicates reachability to a prefix of given length and all
   addresses subsumed by it.  In contrast, a negative route
   advertisement indicates that the origin cannot route to the
   advertised prefix.

   The positive disaggregation is originated by a router that can still
   reach the advertised prefix, and the operation is not transitive,
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   a consequence of receiving positive disaggregation advertisements
   from an higher level node.  The effect of a positive disaggregation
   is that the traffic to the impacted prefix will follow the prefix
   longest match and will be limited to the northbound routers that
   advertised the more specific route.

   In contrast, the negative disaggregation is transitive, and is
   propagated south when all the possible routes northwards are barred.
   A negative route advertisement is only actionable when the negative
   prefix is aggregated by a positive route advertisement for a shorter
   prefix.  In that case, the negative advertisement carves an exception
   to the positive route in the routing table (one could think of
   "punching a hole"), making the positive prefix reachable through the
   originator with the special consideration of the negative prefix
   removing certain next hop neighbors.

   When the ToF is not partitioned, the collective southern flooding of
   the positive disaggregation by the ToF nodes that can still reach the
   impacted prefix is in general enough to cover all the switches at the
   next level south, typically the ToP nodes.  If all those switches are
   aware of the disaggregation, they collectively create a ceiling that
   intercepts all the traffic north and forwards it to the ToF nodes
   that advertised the more specific route.  In that case, the positive
   disaggregation alone is sufficient to solve the fallen leaf problem.

   On the other hand, when the fabric is partitioned in planes, the
   positive disaggregation from ToF nodes in different planes do not
   reach the ToP switches in the affected plane and cannot solve the
   fallen leaves problem.  In other words, a breakage in a plane can
   only be solved in that plane.  Also, the selection of the plane for a
   packet typically occurs at the leaf level and the disaggregation must
   be transitive and reach all the leaves.  In that case, the negative
   disaggregation is necessary.  The details on the RIFT approach to
   deal with fallen leafs in an optimal way is specified in
   Section 5.2.5.2.

5.2.  Specification

5.2.1.  Transport

   All packet formats are defined in Thrift models in Appendix B.

   The serialized model is carried in an envelope within a UDP frame
   that provides security and allows validation/modification of several
   important fields without de-serialization for performance and
   security reasons.





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5.2.2.  Link (Neighbor) Discovery (LIE Exchange)

   LIE exchange happens over well-known administratively locally scoped
   and configured or otherwise well-known IPv4 multicast address
   [RFC2365] or link-local multicast scope [RFC4291] for IPv6 [RFC8200]
   using a configured or otherwise a well-known destination UDP port
   defined in Appendix D.1.  LIEs SHOULD be sent with a TTL of 1 to
   prevent RIFT information reaching beyond a single L3 next-hop in the
   topology.  LIEs SHOULD be sent with network control precedence.
   Originating port of the LIE has no further significance other than
   identifying the origination point.  LIEs are exchanged over all links
   running RIFT.  An implementation MAY listen and send LIEs on IPv4
   and/or IPv6 multicast addresses.  LIEs on same link are considered
   part of the same negotiation independent on the address family they
   arrive on.  Observe further that the LIE source address may not
   identify the peer uniquely in unnumbered or link-local address cases
   so the response transmission MUST occur over the same interface the
   LIEs have been received on.  A node CAN use any of the adjacency's
   source addresses it saw in LIEs on the specific interface during
   adjacency formation to send TIEs.  That implies that an
   implementation MUST be ready to accept TIEs on all addresses it used
   as source of LIE frames.

   Observe further that the protocol does NOT support selective
   disabling of address families or any local address changes in three
   way state, i.e. if a link has entered three way IPv4 and/or IPv6 with
   a neighbor on an adjacency and it wants to stop supporting one of the
   families or change any of its local addresses, it has to tear down
   and rebuild the adjacency.  It also has to remove any information it
   stored about adjacency's' LIE source addresses seen.

   All RIFT routers MUST support IPv4 forwarding and MAY support IPv6
   forwarding.  A three way adjacency over IPv6 addresses implies
   support for IPv4 forwarding.

   Unless Section 5.2.7 is used, each node is provisioned with the level
   at which it is operating and its PoD (or otherwise a default level
   and "undefined" PoD are assumed; meaning that leafs do not need to be
   configured at all if initial configuration values are all left at 0).
   Nodes in the spine are configured with "any" PoD which has the same
   value "undefined" PoD hence we will talk about "undefined/any" PoD.
   This information is propagated in the LIEs exchanged.

   Further definitions of leaf flags are found in Section 5.2.7 given
   they have implications in terms of level and adjacency forming here.

   A node tries to form a three way adjacency if and only if




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   1.  the node is in the same PoD or either the node or the neighbor
       advertises "undefined/any" PoD membership (PoD# = 0) AND

   2.  the neighboring node is running the same MAJOR schema version AND

   3.  the neighbor is not member of some PoD while the node has a
       northbound adjacency already joining another PoD AND

   4.  the neighboring node uses a valid System ID AND

   5.  the neighboring node uses a different System ID than the node
       itself

   6.  the advertised MTUs match on both sides AND

   7.  both nodes advertise defined level values AND

   8.  [

          i) the node is at level 0 and has no three way adjacencies
          already to HAT nodes with level different than the adjacent
          node OR

          ii) the node is not at level 0 and the neighboring node is at
          level 0 OR

          iii) both nodes are at level 0 AND both indicate support for
          Section 5.3.9 OR

          iv) neither node is at level 0 and the neighboring node is at
          most one level away

       ].

   The rule in Paragraph 3 MAY be optionally disregarded by a node if
   PoD detection is undesirable or has to be ignored.

   A node configured with "undefined" PoD membership MUST, after
   building first northbound three way adjacencies to a node being in a
   defined PoD, advertise that PoD as part of its LIEs.  In case that
   adjacency is lost, from all available northbound three way
   adjacencies the node with the highest System ID and defined PoD is
   chosen.  That way the northmost defined PoD value (normally the top
   spines in a PoD) can diffuse southbound towards the leafs "forcing"
   the PoD value on any node with "undefined" PoD.

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   A node SHOULD NOT send out LIEs without defined level in the header
   but in certain scenarios it may be beneficial for trouble-shooting
   purposes.

   LIE exchange uses three way handshake mechanism which is a cleaned up
   version of [RFC5303].  Observe that for easier comprehension the
   terminology of one/two and three-way states does NOT align with OSPF
   or ISIS FSMs albeit they use roughly same mechanisms.

5.2.3.  Topology Exchange (TIE Exchange)

5.2.3.1.  Topology Information Elements

   Topology and reachability information in RIFT is conveyed by the
   means of TIEs which have good amount of commonalities with LSAs in
   OSPF.

   The TIE exchange mechanism uses the port indicated by each node in
   the LIE exchange and the interface on which the adjacency has been
   formed as destination.  It SHOULD use TTL of 1 as well and set inter-
   network control precedence on according packets.

   TIEs contain sequence numbers, lifetimes and a type.  Each type has
   ample identifying number space and information is spread across
   possibly many TIEs of a certain type by the means of a hash function
   that a node or deployment can individually determine.  One extreme
   design choice is a prefix per TIE which leads to more BGP-like
   behavior where small increments are only advertised on route changes
   vs. deploying with dense prefix packing into few TIEs leading to more
   traditional IGP trade-off with fewer TIEs.  An implementation may
   even rehash prefix to TIE mapping at any time at the cost of
   significant amount of re-advertisements of TIEs.

   More information about the TIE structure can be found in the schema
   in Appendix B.

5.2.3.2.  South- and Northbound Representation

   A central concept of RIFT is that each node represents itself
   differently depending on the direction in which it is advertising
   information.  More precisely, a spine node represents two different
   databases over its adjacencies depending whether it advertises TIEs
   to the north or to the south/sideways.  We call those differing TIE
   databases either south- or northbound (S-TIEs and N-TIEs) depending
   on the direction of distribution.

   The N-TIEs hold all of the node's adjacencies and local prefixes
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   prefix with necessary disaggregated prefixes and local prefixes.  We
   will explain this in detail further in Section 5.2.5.

   The TIE types are mostly symmetric in both directions and Table 2
   provides a quick reference to main TIE types including direction and
   their function.

   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | TIE-Type          | Content                                       |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | Node N-TIE        | node properties and adjacencies               |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | Node S-TIE        | same content as node N-TIE                    |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | Prefix N-TIE      | contains nodes' directly reachable prefixes   |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | Prefix S-TIE      | contains originated defaults and directly     |
   |                   | reachable prefixes                            |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | Positive          | contains disaggregated prefixes               |
   | Disaggregation    |                                               |
   | S-TIE             |                                               |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | Negative          | contains special, negatively disaggreagted    |
   | Disaggregation    | prefixes to support multi-plane designs       |
   | S-TIE             |                                               |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | External Prefix   | contains external prefixes                    |
   | N-TIE             |                                               |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | Key-Value N-TIE   | contains nodes northbound KVs                 |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+
   | Key-Value S-TIE   | contains nodes southbound KVs                 |
   +-------------------+-----------------------------------------------+

                            Table 2: TIE Types

   As an example illustrating a databases holding both representations,
   consider the topology in Figure 2 with the optional link between
   spine 111 and spine 112 (so that the flooding on an East-West link
   can be shown).  This example assumes unnumbered interfaces.  First,
   here are the TIEs generated by some nodes.  For simplicity, the key
   value elements which may be included in their S-TIEs or N-TIEs are
   not shown.


        Spine21 S-TIEs:
        Node S-TIE:



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          NodeElement(level=2, neighbors((Spine 111, level 1, cost 1),
          (Spine 112, level 1, cost 1), (Spine 121, level 1, cost 1),
          (Spine 122, level 1, cost 1)))
        Prefix S-TIE:
          SouthPrefixesElement(prefixes(0/0, cost 1), (::/0, cost 1))

        Spine 111 S-TIEs:
        Node S-TIE:
          NodeElement(level=1, neighbors((Spine21, level 2, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Spine22, level 2, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Spine 112, level 1, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Leaf111, level 0, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Leaf112, level 0, cost 1, links(...))))
        Prefix S-TIE:
          SouthPrefixesElement(prefixes(0/0, cost 1), (::/0, cost 1))

        Spine 111 N-TIEs:
        Node N-TIE:
          NodeElement(level=1,
          neighbors((Spine21, level 2, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Spine22, level 2, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Spine 112, level 1, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Leaf111, level 0, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Leaf112, level 0, cost 1, links(...))))
        Prefix N-TIE:
          NorthPrefixesElement(prefixes(Spine 111.loopback)

        Spine 121 S-TIEs:
        Node S-TIE:
          NodeElement(level=1, neighbors((Spine21,level 2,cost 1),
          (Spine22, level 2, cost 1), (Leaf121, level 0, cost 1),
          (Leaf122, level 0, cost 1)))
        Prefix S-TIE:
          SouthPrefixesElement(prefixes(0/0, cost 1), (::/0, cost 1))

        Spine 121 N-TIEs:
        Node N-TIE:
          NodeElement(level=1,
          neighbors((Spine21, level 2, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Spine22, level 2, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Leaf121, level 0, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Leaf122, level 0, cost 1, links(...))))
        Prefix N-TIE:
          NorthPrefixesElement(prefixes(Spine 121.loopback)

        Leaf112 N-TIEs:
        Node N-TIE:
          NodeElement(level=0,



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          neighbors((Spine 111, level 1, cost 1, links(...)),
          (Spine 112, level 1, cost 1, links(...))))
        Prefix N-TIE:
          NorthPrefixesElement(prefixes(Leaf112.loopback, Prefix112,
          Prefix_MH))


       Figure 14: example TIES generated in a 2 level spine-and-leaf
                                 topology

5.2.3.3.  Flooding

   The mechanism used to distribute TIEs is the well-known (albeit
   modified in several respects to address fat tree requirements)
   flooding mechanism used by today's link-state protocols.  Although
   flooding is initially more demanding to implement it avoids many
   problems with update style used in diffused computation such as path
   vector protocols.  Since flooding tends to present an unscalable
   burden in large, densely meshed topologies (fat trees being
   unfortunately such a topology) we provide as solution a close to
   optimal global flood reduction and load balancing optimization in
   Section 5.2.3.9.

   As described before, TIEs themselves are transported over UDP with
   the ports indicated in the LIE exchanges and using the destination
   address on which the LIE adjacency has been formed.  For unnumbered
   IPv4 interfaces same considerations apply as in equivalent OSPF case.

   On reception of a TIE with an undefined level value in the packet
   header the node SHOULD issue a warning and indiscriminately discard
   the packet.

   Precise finite state machines and procedures can be found in
   Appendix C.3.

5.2.3.4.  TIE Flooding Scopes

   In a somewhat analogous fashion to link-local, area and domain
   flooding scopes, RIFT defines several complex "flooding scopes"
   depending on the direction and type of TIE propagated.

   Every N-TIE is flooded northbound, providing a node at a given level
   with the complete topology of the Clos or Fat Tree network underneath
   it, including all specific prefixes.  This means that a packet
   received from a node at the same or lower level whose destination is
   covered by one of those specific prefixes may be routed directly
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   A node's Node S-TIEs, consisting of all node's adjacencies and prefix
   S-TIEs limited to those related to default IP prefix and
   disaggregated prefixes, are flooded southbound in order to allow the
   nodes one level down to see connectivity of the higher level as well
   as reachability to the rest of the fabric.  In order to allow an E-W
   disconnected node in a given level to receive the S-TIEs of other
   nodes at its level, every *NODE* S-TIE is "reflected" northbound to
   level from which it was received.  It should be noted that East-West
   links are included in South TIE flooding (except at ToF level); those
   TIEs need to be flooded to satisfy algorithms in Section 5.2.4.  In
   that way nodes at same level can learn about each other without a
   lower level, e.g. in case of leaf level.  The precise flooding scopes
   are given in Table 3.  Those rules govern as well what SHOULD be
   included in TIDEs on the adjacency.  Again, East-West flooding scopes
   are identical to South flooding scopes except in case of ToF East-
   West links (rings).

   Node S-TIE "south reflection" allows to support positive
   disaggregation on failures describes in Section 5.2.5 and flooding
   reduction in Section 5.2.3.9.































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   +-----------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------+
   | Type /    | South               | North         | East-West       |
   | Direction |                     |               |                 |
   +-----------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------+
   | node      | flood if level of   | flood if      | flood only if   |
   | S-TIE     | originator is equal | level of      | this node is    |
   |           | to this node        | originator is | not ToF         |
   |           |                     | higher than   |                 |
   |           |                     | this node     |                 |
   +-----------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------+
   | non-node  | flood self-         | flood only if | flood only if   |
   | S-TIE     | originated only     | neighbor is   | self-originated |
   |           |                     | originator of | and this node   |
   |           |                     | TIE           | is not ToF      |
   +-----------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------+
   | all       | never flood         | flood always  | flood only if   |
   | N-TIEs    |                     |               | this node is    |
   |           |                     |               | ToF             |
   +-----------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------+
   | TIDE      | include at least    | include at    | if this node is |
   |           | all non-self        | least all     | ToF then        |
   |           | originated N-TIE    | node S-TIEs   | include all     |
   |           | headers and self-   | and all       | N-TIEs,         |
   |           | originated S-TIE    | S-TIEs        | otherwise only  |
   |           | headers and node    | originated by | self-originated |
   |           | S-TIEs of nodes at  | peer and all  | TIEs            |
   |           | same level          | N-TIEs        |                 |
   +-----------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------+
   | TIRE as   | request all N-TIEs  | request all   | if this node is |
   | Request   | and all peer's      | S-TIEs        | ToF then apply  |
   |           | self-originated     |               | North scope     |
   |           | TIEs and all node   |               | rules,          |
   |           | S-TIEs              |               | otherwise South |
   |           |                     |               | scope rules     |
   +-----------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------+
   | TIRE as   | Ack all received    | Ack all       | Ack all         |
   | Ack       | TIEs                | received TIEs | received TIEs   |
   +-----------+---------------------+---------------+-----------------+

                         Table 3: Flooding Scopes

   If the TIDE includes additional TIE headers beside the ones
   specified, the receiving neighbor must apply according filter to the
   received TIDE strictly and MUST NOT request the extra TIE headers
   that were not allowed by the flooding scope rules in its direction.

   As an example to illustrate these rules, consider using the topology
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   and the associated TIEs given in Figure 14.  The flooding from
   particular nodes of the TIEs is given in Table 4.

   +-------------+----------+------------------------------------------+
   | Router      | Neighbor | TIEs                                     |
   | floods to   |          |                                          |
   +-------------+----------+------------------------------------------+
   | Leaf111     | Spine    | Leaf111 N-TIEs, Spine 111 node S-TIE     |
   |             | 112      |                                          |
   | Leaf111     | Spine    | Leaf111 N-TIEs, Spine 112 node S-TIE     |
   |             | 111      |                                          |
   |             |          |                                          |
   | Spine 111   | Leaf111  | Spine 111 S-TIEs                         |
   | Spine 111   | Leaf112  | Spine 111 S-TIEs                         |
   | Spine 111   | Spine    | Spine 111 S-TIEs                         |
   |             | 112      |                                          |
   | Spine 111   | Spine21  | Spine 111 N-TIEs, Leaf111 N-TIEs,        |
   |             |          | Leaf112 N-TIEs, Spine22 node S-TIE       |
   | Spine 111   | Spine22  | Spine 111 N-TIEs, Leaf111 N-TIEs,        |
   |             |          | Leaf112 N-TIEs, Spine21 node S-TIE       |
   |             |          |                                          |
   | ...         | ...      | ...                                      |
   | Spine21     | Spine    | Spine21 S-TIEs                           |
   |             | 111      |                                          |
   | Spine21     | Spine    | Spine21 S-TIEs                           |
   |             | 112      |                                          |
   | Spine21     | Spine    | Spine21 S-TIEs                           |
   |             | 121      |                                          |
   | Spine21     | Spine    | Spine21 S-TIEs                           |
   |             | 122      |                                          |
   | ...         | ...      | ...                                      |
   +-------------+----------+------------------------------------------+

             Table 4: Flooding some TIEs from example topology

5.2.3.5.  'Flood Only Node TIEs' Bit

   RIFT includes an optional ECN mechanism to prevent "flooding inrush"
   on restart or bring-up with many southbound neighbors.  A node MAY
   set on its LIEs the according bit to indicate to the neighbor that it
   should temporarily flood node TIEs only to it.  It should only set it
   in the southbound direction.  The receiving node SHOULD accomodate
   the request to lessen the flooding load on the affected node if south
   of the sender and SHOULD ignore the bit if northbound.

   Obviously this mechanism is most useful in southbound direction.  The
   distribution of node TIEs guarantees correct behavior of algorithms
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   though, the use of this bit presents an inherent trade-off between
   processing load and convergence speed since suppressing flooding of
   northbound prefixes from neighbors will lead to blackholes.

5.2.3.6.  Initial and Periodic Database Synchronization

   The initial exchange of RIFT is modeled after ISIS with TIDE being
   equivalent to CSNP and TIRE playing the role of PSNP.  The content of
   TIDEs and TIREs is governed by Table 3.

5.2.3.7.  Purging and Roll-Overs

   RIFT does not purge information that has been distributed by the
   protocol.  Purging mechanisms in other routing protocols have proven
   to be complex and fragile over many years of experience.  Abundant
   amounts of memory are available today even on low-end platforms.  The
   information will age out and all computations will deliver correct
   results if a node leaves the network due to the new information
   distributed by its adjacent nodes.

   Once a RIFT node issues a TIE with an ID, it MUST preserve the ID as
   long as feasible (also when the protocol restarts), even if the TIE
   looses all content.  The re-advertisement of empty TIE fulfills the
   purpose of purging any information advertised in previous versions.
   The originator is free to not re-originate the according empty TIE
   again or originate an empty TIE with relatively short lifetime to
   prevent large number of long-lived empty stubs polluting the network.
   Each node MUST timeout and clean up the according empty TIEs
   independently.

   Upon restart a node MUST, as any link-state implementation, be
   prepared to receive TIEs with its own system ID and supersede them
   with equivalent, newly generated, empty TIEs with a higher sequence
   number.  As above, the lifetime can be relatively short since it only
   needs to exceed the necessary propagation and processing delay by all
   the nodes that are within the TIE's flooding scope.

   TIE sequence numbers are rolled over using the method described in
   Appendix A.  First sequence number of any spontaneously originated
   TIE (i.e. not originated to override a detected older copy in the
   network) MUST be a reasonbly unpredictable random number in the
   interval [0, 2^10-1] which will prevent otherwise identical TIE
   headers to remain "stuck" in the network with content different from
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5.2.3.8.  Southbound Default Route Origination

   Under certain conditions nodes issue a default route in their South
   Prefix TIEs with costs as computed in Section 5.3.6.1.

   A node X that

   1.  is NOT overloaded AND

   2.  has southbound or East-West adjacencies

   originates in its south prefix TIE such a default route IIF

   1.  all other nodes at X's' level are overloaded OR

   2.  all other nodes at X's' level have NO northbound adjacencies OR

   3.  X has computed reachability to a default route during N-SPF.

   The term "all other nodes at X's' level" describes obviously just the
   nodes at the same level in the PoD with a viable lower level
   (otherwise the node S-TIEs cannot be reflected and the nodes in e.g.
   PoD 1 and PoD 2 are "invisible" to each other).

   A node originating a southbound default route MUST install a default
   discard route if it did not compute a default route during N-SPF.

5.2.3.9.  Northbound TIE Flooding Reduction

   Section 1.4 of the Optimized Link State Routing Protocol [RFC3626]
   (OLSR) introduces the concept of a "multipoint relay" (MPR) that
   minimize the overhead of flooding messages in the network by reducing
   redundant retransmissions in the same region.

   A similar technique is applied to RIFT to control northbound
   flooding.  Important observations first:

   1.  a node MUST flood self-originated N-TIEs to all the reachable
       nodes at the level above which we call the node's "parents";

   2.  it is typically not necessary that all parents reflood the N-TIEs
       to achieve a complete flooding of all the reachable nodes two
       levels above which we choose to call the node's "grandparents";

   3.  to control the volume of its flooding two hops North and yet keep
       it robust enough, it is advantageous for a node to select a
       subset of its parents as "Flood Repeaters" (FRs), which combined




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       together deliver two or more copies of its flooding to all of its
       parents, i.e. the originating node's grandparents;

   4.  nodes at the same level do NOT have to agree on a specific
       algorithm to select the FRs, but overall load balancing should be
       achieved so that different nodes at the same level should tend to
       select different parents as FRs;

   5.  there are usually many solutions to the problem of finding a set
       of FRs for a given node; the problem of finding the minimal set
       is (similar to) a NP-Complete problem and a globally optimal set
       may not be the minimal one if load-balancing with other nodes is
       an important consideration;

   6.  it is expected that there will be often sets of equivalent nodes
       at a level L, defined as having a common set of parents at L+1.
       Applying this observation at both L and L+1, an algorithm may
       attempt to split the larger problem in a sum of smaller separate
       problems;

   7.  it is another expectation that there will be from time to time a
       broken link between a parent and a grandparent, and in that case
       the parent is probably a poor FR due to its lower reliability.
       An algorithm may attempt to eliminate parents with broken
       northbound adjacencies first in order to reduce the number of
       FRs.  Albeit it could be argued that relying on higher fanout FRs
       will slow flooding due to higher replication load reliability of
       FR's links seems to be a more pressing concern.

   In a fully connected Clos Network, this means that a node selects one
   arbitrary parent as FR and then a second one for redundancy.  The
   computation can be kept relatively simple and completely distributed
   without any need for synchronization amongst nodes.  In a "PoD"
   structure, where the Level L+2 is partitioned in silos of equivalent
   grandparents that are only reachable from respective parents, this
   means treating each silo as a fully connected Clos Network and solve
   the problem within the silo.

   In terms of signaling, a node has enough information to select its
   set of FRs; this information is derived from the node's parents' Node
   S-TIEs, which indicate the parent's reachable northbound adjacencies
   to its own parents, i.e. the node's grandparents.  A node may send a
   LIE to a northbound neighbor with the optional boolean field
   `you_are_flood_repeater` set to false, to indicate that the
   northbound neighbor is not a flood repeater for the node that sent
   the LIE.  In that case the northbound neighbor SHOULD NOT reflood
   northbound TIEs received from the node that sent the LIE.  If the
   `you_are_flood_repeater` is absent or if `you_are_flood_repeater` is



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   set to true, then the northbound neighbor is a flood repeater for the
   node that sent the LIE and MUST reflood northbound TIEs received from
   that node.

   This specification proposes a simple default algorithm that SHOULD be
   implemented and used by default on every RIFT node.

   o  let |NA(Node) be the set of Northbound adjacencies of node Node
      and CN(Node) be the cardinality of |NA(Node);

   o  let |SA(Node) be the set of Southbound adjacencies of node Node
      and CS(Node) be the cardinality of |SA(Node);

   o  let |P(Node) be the set of node Node's parents;

   o  let |G(Node) be the set of node Node's grandparents.  Observe
      that |G(Node) = |P(|P(Node));

   o  let N be the child node at level L computing a set of FR;

   o  let P be a node at level L+1 and a parent node of N, i.e. bi-
      directionally reachable over adjacency A(N, P);

   o  let G be a grandparent node of N, reachable transitively via a
      parent P over adjacencies ADJ(N, P) and ADJ(P, G).  Observe that N
      does not have enough information to check bidirectional
      reachability of A(P, G);

   o  let R be a redundancy constant integer; a value of 2 or higher for
      R is RECOMMENDED;

   o  let S be a similarity constant integer; a value in range 0 .. 2
      for S is RECOMMENDED, the value of 1 SHOULD be used.  Two
      cardinalities are considered as equivalent if their absolute
      difference is less than or equal to S, i.e.  |a-b|<=S.

   o  let RND be a 64-bit random number generated by the system once on
      startup.

   The algorithm consists of the following steps:

   1.  Derive a 64-bits number by XOR'ing 'N's system ID with RND.

   2.  Derive a 16-bits pseudo-random unsigned integer PR(N) from the
       resulting 64-bits number by splitting it in 16-bits-long words
       W1, W2, W3, W4 (where W1 are the least significant 16 bits of the
       64-bits number, and W4 are the most significant 16 bits) and then
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          (W1<<1) xor (W2<<2) xor (W3<<3) xor (W4<<4);

          where << is the circular shift operator.

   3.  Sort the parents by decreasing number of northbound adjacencies
       (using decreasing system id of the parent as tie-breaker):
       sort |P(N) by decreasing CN(P), for all P in |P(N), as ordered
       array |A(N)

   4.  Partition |A(N) in subarrays |A_k(N) of parents with equivalent
       cardinality of northbound adjacencies (in other words with
       equivalent number of grandparents they can reach):

       1.  set k=0; // k is the ID of the subarrray

       2.  set i=0;

       3.  while i < CN(N) do

           1.  set j=i;

           2.  while i < CN(N) and CN(|A(N)[j]) - CN(|A(N)[i]) <= S

               1.  place |A(N)[i] in |A_k(N) // abstract action, maybe
                   noop

               2.  set i=i+1;

           3.  /* At this point j is the index in |A(N) of the first
               member of |A_k(N) and (i-j) is C_k(N) defined as the
               cardinality of |A_k(N) */

           4.  set k=k+1;

       4.  /* At this point k is the total number of subarrays,
           initialized for the shuffling operation below */

   5.  shuffle individually each subarrays |A_k(N) of cardinality C_k(N)
       within |A(N) using the Durstenfeld variation of Fisher-Yates
       algorithm that depends on N's System ID:

       1.  while k > 0 do

           1.  for i from C_k(N)-1 to 1 decrementing by 1 do

               1.  set j to PR(N) modulo i;

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           2.  set k=k-1;

   6.  For each grandparent G, initialize a counter c(G) with the number
       of its south-bound adjacencies to elected flood repeaters (which
       is initially zero):

       1.  for each G in |G(N) set c(G) = 0;

   7.  Finally keep as FRs only parents that are needed to maintain the
       number of adjacencies between the FRs and any grandparent G equal
       or above the redundancy constant R:

       1.  for each P in reshuffled |A(N);

           1.  if there exists an adjacency ADJ(P, G) in |NA(P) such
               that c(G) < R then

               1.  place P in FR set;

               2.  for all adjacencies ADJ(P, G') in |NA(P) increment
                   c(G')

       2.  If any c(G) is still < R, it was not possible to elect a set
           of FRs that covers all grandparents with redundancy R

   Additional rules for flooding reduction:

   1.  The algorithm MUST be re-evaluated by a node on every change of
       local adjacencies or reception of a parent S-TIE with changed
       adjacencies.  A node MAY apply a hysteresis to prevent excessive
       amount of computation during periods of network instability just
       like in case of reachability computation.

   2.  A node SHOULD send out LIEs that grant flood repeater status
       before LIEs that revoke it on flood repeater set changes to
       prevent transient behavior where the full coverage of grand
       parents is not guaranteed.  Albeit the condition will correct in
       positively stable manner due to LIE retransmission and periodic
       TIDEs, it can slow down flooding convergence on flood repeater
       status changes.

   3.  A node always floods its self-originated TIEs.

   4.  A node receiving a TIE originated by a node for which it is not a
       flood repeater does NOT re-flood such TIEs to its neighbors
       except for rules in Paragraph 6.





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   5.  The indication of flood reduction capability is carried in the
       node TIEs and can be used to optimize the algorithm to account
       for nodes that will flood regardless.

   6.  A node generates TIDEs as usual but when receiving TIREs or TIDEs
       resulting in requests for a TIE of which the newest received copy
       came on an adjacency where the node was not flood repeater it
       SHOULD ignore such requests on first and first request ONLY.
       Normally, the nodes that received the TIEs as flooding repeaters
       should satisfy the requesting node and with that no further TIREs
       for such TIEs will be generated.  Otherwise, the next set of
       TIDEs and TIREs MUST lead to flooding independent of the flood
       repeater status.  This solves a very difficult incast problem on
       nodes restarting with a very wide fanout, especially northbound.
       To retrieve the full database they often end up processing many
       in-rushing copies whereas this approach should load-balance the
       incoming database between adjacent nodes and flood repeaters
       should guarantee that two copies are sent by different nodes to
       ensure against any losses.

   7.  Obviously sine flooding reduction does NOT apply to self
       originated TIEs and since all policy-guided information consists
       of self-originated TIEs those are unaffected.

5.2.3.10.  Special Considerations

   First, due to the distributed, asynchronous nature of ZTP, it can
   create temporary convergence anomalies where nodes at higher levels
   of the fabric temporarily see themselves lower than they belong.
   Since flooding can begin before ZTP is "finished" and in fact must do
   so given there is no global termination criteria, information may end
   up in wrong layers.  A special clause when changing level takes care
   of that.

   More difficult is a condition where a node floods a TIE north towards
   a super-spine, then its spine reboots, in fact partitioning
   superspine from it directly and then the node itself reboots.  That
   leaves in a sense the super-spine holding the "primary copy" of the
   node's TIE.  Normally this condition is resolved easily by the node
   re-originating its TIE with a higher sequence number than it sees in
   northbound TIEs, here however, when spine comes back it won't be able
   to obtain a N-TIE from its superspine easily and with that the node
   below may issue the same version of the TIE with a lower sequence
   number.  Flooding procedures are are extended to deal with the
   problem by the means of special clauses that override the database of
   a lower level with headers of newer TIEs seen in TIDEs coming from
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5.2.4.  Reachability Computation

   A node has three sources of relevant information.  A node knows the
   full topology south from the received N-TIEs.  A node has the set of
   prefixes with associated distances and bandwidths from received
   S-TIEs.

   To compute reachability, a node runs conceptually a northbound and a
   southbound SPF.  We call that N-SPF and S-SPF.

   Since neither computation can "loop", it is possible to compute non-
   equal-cost or even k-shortest paths [EPPSTEIN] and "saturate" the
   fabric to the extent desired.

5.2.4.1.  Northbound SPF

   N-SPF uses northbound and East-West adjacencies in the computing
   node's node N-TIEs (since if the node is a leaf it may not have
   generated a node S-TIE) when starting Dijkstra.  Observe that N-SPF
   is really just a one hop variety since Node S-TIEs are not re-flooded
   southbound beyond a single level (or East-West) and with that the
   computation cannot progress beyond adjacent nodes.

   Once progressing, we are using the next level's node S-TIEs to find
   according adjacencies to verify backlink connectivity.  Just as in
   case of IS-IS or OSPF, two unidirectional links are associated
   together to confirm bidirectional connectivity.  Particular care MUST
   be paid that the Node TIEs do not only contain the correct system IDs
   but matching levels as well.

   Default route found when crossing an E-W link is used IIF

   1.  the node itself does NOT have any northbound adjacencies AND

   2.  the adjacent node has one or more northbound adjacencies

   This rule forms a "one-hop default route split-horizon" and prevents
   looping over default routes while allowing for "one-hop protection"
   of nodes that lost all northbound adjacencies except at Top-of-Fabric
   where the links are used exclusively to flood topology information in
   multi-plane designs.

   Other south prefixes found when crossing E-W link MAY be used IIF

   1.  no north neighbors are advertising same or supersuming non-
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   2.  the node does not originate a non-default supersuming prefix
       itself.

   i.e. the E-W link can be used as the gateway of last resort for a
   specific prefix only.  Using south prefixes across E-W link can be
   beneficial e.g.  on automatic de-aggregation in pathological fabric
   partitioning scenarios.

   A detailed example can be found in Section 6.4.

5.2.4.2.  Southbound SPF

   S-SPF uses only the southbound adjacencies in the node S-TIEs, i.e.
   progresses towards nodes at lower levels.  Observe that E-W
   adjacencies are NEVER used in the computation.  This enforces the
   requirement that a packet traversing in a southbound direction must
   never change its direction.

   S-SPF uses northbound adjacencies in node N-TIEs to verify backlink
   connectivity.

5.2.4.3.  East-West Forwarding Within a Level

   Ultimately, it should be observed that in presence of a "ring" of E-W
   links in a level neither SPF will provide a "ring protection" scheme
   since such a computation would have to deal necessarily with breaking
   of "loops" in generic Dijkstra sense; an application for which RIFT
   is not intended.  It is outside the scope of this document how an
   underlay can be used to provide a full-mesh connectivity between
   nodes in the same level that would allow for N-SPF to provide
   protection for a single node loosing all its northbound adjacencies
   (as long as any of the other nodes in the level are northbound
   connected).

   Using south prefixes over horizontal links is optional and can
   protect against pathological fabric partitioning cases that leave
   only paths to destinations that would necessitate multiple changes of
   forwarding direction between north and south.

5.2.5.  Automatic Disaggregation on Link & Node Failures

5.2.5.1.  Positive, Non-transitive Disaggregation

   Under normal circumstances, node's S-TIEs contain just the
   adjacencies and a default route.  However, if a node detects that its
   default IP prefix covers one or more prefixes that are reachable
   through it but not through one or more other nodes at the same level,
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   Otherwise, some percentage of the northbound traffic for those
   prefixes would be sent to nodes without according reachability,
   causing it to be black-holed.  Even when not black-holing, the
   resulting forwarding could 'backhaul' packets through the higher
   level spines, clearly an undesirable condition affecting the blocking
   probabilities of the fabric.

   We refer to the process of advertising additional prefixes southbound
   as 'positive de-aggregation' or 'positive dis-aggregation'.

   A node determines the set of prefixes needing de-aggregation using
   the following steps:

   1.  A DAG computation in the southern direction is performed first,
       i.e. the N-TIEs are used to find all of prefixes it can reach and
       the set of next-hops in the lower level for each of them.  Such a
       computation can be easily performed on a fat tree by e.g. setting
       all link costs in the southern direction to 1 and all northern
       directions to infinity.  We term set of those prefixes |R, and
       for each prefix, r, in |R, we define its set of next-hops to
       be |H(r).

   2.  The node uses reflected S-TIEs to find all nodes at the same
       level in the same PoD and the set of southbound adjacencies for
       each.  The set of nodes at the same level is termed |N and for
       each node, n, in |N, we define its set of southbound adjacencies
       to be |A(n).

   3.  For a given r, if the intersection of |H(r) and |A(n), for any n,
       is null then that prefix r must be explicitly advertised by the
       node in an S-TIE.

   4.  Identical set of de-aggregated prefixes is flooded on each of the
       node's southbound adjacencies.  In accordance with the normal
       flooding rules for an S-TIE, a node at the lower level that
       receives this S-TIE will not propagate it south-bound.  Neither
       is it necessary for the receiving node to reflect the
       disaggregated prefixes back over its adjacencies to nodes at the
       level from which it was received.

   To summarize the above in simplest terms: if a node detects that its
   default route encompasses prefixes for which one of the other nodes
   in its level has no possible next-hops in the level below, it has to
   disaggregate it to prevent black-holing or suboptimal routing through
   such nodes.  Hence a node X needs to determine if it can reach a
   different set of south neighbors than other nodes at the same level,
   which are connected to it via at least one common south neighbor.  If
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   then no prefix disaggregation is needed.  An example of
   disaggregation is provided in Section 6.3.

   A possible algorithm is described last:

   1.  Create partial_neighbors = (empty), a set of neighbors with
       partial connectivity to the node X's level from X's perspective.
       Each entry is a list of south neighbor of X and a list of nodes
       of X.level that can't reach that neighbor.

   2.  A node X determines its set of southbound neighbors
       X.south_neighbors.

   3.  For each S-TIE originated from a node Y that X has which is at
       X.level, if Y.south_neighbors is not the same as
       X.south_neighbors but the nodes share at least one southern
       neighbor, for each neighbor N in X.south_neighbors but not in
       Y.south_neighbors, add (N, (Y)) to partial_neighbors if N isn't
       there or add Y to the list for N.

   4.  If partial_neighbors is empty, then node X does not to
       disaggregate any prefixes.  If node X is advertising
       disaggregated prefixes in its S-TIE, X SHOULD remove them and re-
       advertise its according S-TIEs.

   A node X computes reachability to all nodes below it based upon the
   received N-TIEs first.  This results in a set of routes, each
   categorized by (prefix, path_distance, next-hop-set).  Alternately,
   for clarity in the following procedure, these can be organized by
   next-hop-set as ( (next-hops), {(prefix, path_distance)}).  If
   partial_neighbors isn't empty, then the following procedure describes
   how to identify prefixes to disaggregate.



















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            disaggregated_prefixes = { empty }
            nodes_same_level = { empty }
            for each S-TIE
              if (S-TIE.level == X.level and
                  X shares at least one S-neighbor with X)
                add S-TIE.originator to nodes_same_level
                end if
              end for

            for each next-hop-set NHS
              isolated_nodes = nodes_same_level
              for each NH in NHS
                if NH in partial_neighbors
                  isolated_nodes = intersection(isolated_nodes,
                                                partial_neighbors[NH].nodes)
                  end if
                end for

              if isolated_nodes is not empty
                for each prefix using NHS
                  add (prefix, distance) to disaggregated_prefixes
                  end for
                end if
              end for

            copy disaggregated_prefixes to X's S-TIE
            if X's S-TIE is different
              schedule S-TIE for flooding
              end if


             Figure 15: Computation of Disaggregated Prefixes

   Each disaggregated prefix is sent with the according path_distance.
   This allows a node to send the same S-TIE to each south neighbor.
   The south neighbor which is connected to that prefix will thus have a
   shorter path.

   Finally, to summarize the less obvious points partially omitted in
   the algorithms to keep them more tractable:

   1.  all neighbor relationships MUST perform backlink checks.

   2.  overload bits as introduced in Section 5.3.1 have to be respected
       during the computation.

   3.  all the lower level nodes are flooded the same disaggregated
       prefixes since we don't want to build an S-TIE per node and



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       complicate things unnecessarily.  The PoD containing the prefix
       will prefer southbound anyway.

   4.  positively disaggregated prefixes do NOT have to propagate to
       lower levels.  With that the disturbance in terms of new flooding
       is contained to a single level experiencing failures.

   5.  disaggregated prefix S-TIEs are not "reflected" by the lower
       level, i.e.  nodes within same level do NOT need to be aware
       which node computed the need for disaggregation.

   6.  The fabric is still supporting maximum load balancing properties
       while not trying to send traffic northbound unless necessary.

   In case positive disaggregation is triggered and due to the very
   stable but un-synchronized nature of the algorithm the nodes may
   issue the necessary disaggregated prefixes at different points in
   time.  This can lead for a short time to an "incast" behavior where
   the first advertising router based on the nature of longest prefix
   match will attract all the traffic.  An implementation MAY hence
   choose different strategies to address this behavior if needed.

   To close this section it is worth to observe that in a single plane
   ToF this disaggregation prevents blackholing up to (K_LEAF * P) link
   failures in terms of Section 5.1.2 or in other terms, it takes at
   minimum that many link failures to partition the ToF into multiple
   planes.

5.2.5.2.  Negative, Transitive Disaggregation for Fallen Leafs

   As explained in Section 5.1.3 failures in multi-plane Top-of-Fabric
   or more than (K_LEAF * P) links failing in single plane design can
   generate fallen leafs.  Such scenario cannot be addressed by positive
   disaggregation only and needs a further mechanism.

5.2.5.2.1.  Cabling of Multiple Top-of-Fabric Planes

   Let us return in this section to designs with multiple planes as
   shown in Figure 3.  Figure 16 highlights how the ToF is cabled in
   case of two planes by the means of dual-rings to distribute all the
   N-TIEs within both planes.  For people familiar with traditional
   link-state routing protocols ToF level can be considered equivalent
   to area 0 in OSPF or level-2 in ISIS which need to be "connected" as
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             .     ++==========++          ++==========++
             .     II          II          II          II
             .+----++--+  +----++--+  +----++--+  +----++--+
             .|ToF   A1|  |ToF   B1|  |ToF   B2|  |ToF   A2|
             .++-+-++--+  ++-+-++--+  ++-+-++--+  ++-+-++--+
             . | | II      | | II      | | II      | | II
             . | | ++==========++      | | ++==========++
             . | |         | |         | |         | |
             .
             . ~~~ Highlighted ToF of the previous multi-plane figure ~~


                 Figure 16: Topologically connected planes

   As described in Section 5.1.3 failures in multi-plane fabrics can
   lead to blackholes which normal positive disaggregation cannot fix.
   The mechanism of negative, transitive disaggregation incorporated in
   RIFT provides the according solution.

5.2.5.2.2.  Transitive Advertisement of Negative Disaggregates

   A ToF node that discovers that it cannot reach a fallen leaf
   disaggregates all the prefixes of such leafs.  It uses for that
   purpose negative prefix S-TIEs that are, as usual, flooded southwards
   with the scope defined in Section 5.2.3.4.

   Transitively, a node explicitly loses connectivity to a prefix when
   none of its children advertises it and when the prefix is negatively
   disaggregated by all of its parents.  When that happens, the node
   originates the negative prefix further down south.  Since the
   mechanism applies recursively south the negative prefix may propagate
   transitively all the way down to the leaf.  This is necessary since
   leafs connected to multiple planes by means of disjoint paths may
   have to choose the correct plane already at the very bottom of the
   fabric to make sure that they don't send traffic towards another leaf
   using a plane where it is "fallen" at which in point a blackhole is
   unavoidable.

   When the connectivity is restored, a node that disaggregated a prefix
   withdraws the negative disaggregation by the usual mechanism of re-
   advertising TIEs omitting the negative prefix.

5.2.5.2.3.  Computation of Negative Disaggregates

   The document omitted so far the description of the computation
   necessary to generate the correct set of negative prefixes.  Negative
   prefixes can in fact be advertised due to two different triggers.  We
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   The first origination reason is a computation that uses all the node
   N-TIEs to build the set of all reachable nodes by reachability
   computation over the complete graph and including ToF links.  The
   computation uses the node itself as root.  This is compared with the
   result of the normal southbound SPF as described in Section 5.2.4.2.
   The difference are the fallen leafs and all their attached prefixes
   are advertised as negative prefixes southbound if the node does not
   see the prefix being reachable within southbound SPF.

   The second mechanism hinges on the understanding how the negative
   prefixes are used within the computation as described in Figure 17.
   When attaching the negative prefixes at certain point in time the
   negative prefix may find itself with all the viable nodes from the
   shorter match nexthop being pruned.  In other words, all its
   northbound neighbors provided a negative prefix advertisement.  This
   is the trigger to advertise this negative prefix transitively south
   and normally caused by the node being in a plane where the prefix
   belongs to a fabric leaf that has "fallen" in this plane.  Obviously,
   when one of the northbound switches withdraws its negative
   advertisement, the node has to withdraw its transitively provided
   negative prefix as well.

5.2.6.  Attaching Prefixes

   After the SPF is run, it is necessary to attach according prefixes.
   For S-SPF, prefixes from an N-TIE are attached to the originating
   node with that node's next-hop set and a distance equal to the
   prefix's cost plus the node's minimized path distance.  The RIFT
   route database, a set of (prefix, type=spf, path_distance, next-hop
   set), accumulates these results.  Obviously, the prefix retains its
   type which is used to tie-break between the same prefix advertised
   with different types.

   In case of N-SPF prefixes from each S-TIE need to also be added to
   the RIFT route database.  The N-SPF is really just a stub so the
   computing node needs simply to determine, for each prefix in an S-TIE
   that originated from adjacent node, what next-hops to use to reach
   that node.  Since there may be parallel links, the next-hops to use
   can be a set; presence of the computing node in the associated Node
   S-TIE is sufficient to verify that at least one link has
   bidirectional connectivity.  The set of minimum cost next-hops from
   the computing node X to the originating adjacent node is determined.

   Each prefix has its cost adjusted before being added into the RIFT
   route database.  The cost of the prefix is set to the cost received
   plus the cost of the minimum distance next-hop to that neighbor while
   taking into account its attributes such as mobility per Section 5.3.3
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   database with the next_hop_set; ties are broken based upon type first
   and then distance and further attributes.  RIFT route preferences are
   normalized by the according thrift model type.

   An exemplary implementation for node X follows:


  for each S-TIE
     if S-TIE.level > X.level
        next_hop_set = set of minimum cost links to the S-TIE.originator
        next_hop_cost = minimum cost link to S-TIE.originator
        end if
     for each prefix P in the S-TIE
        P.cost = P.cost + next_hop_cost
        if P not in route_database:
          add (P, type=DistVector, P.cost, next_hop_set) to route_database
          end if
        if (P in route_database):
          if route_database[P].cost > P.cost or route_database[P].type > P.type:
            update route_database[P] with (P, DistVector, P.cost, P.type, next_hop_set)
          else if route_database[P].cost == P.cost and route_database[P].type == P.type:
            update route_database[P] with (P, DistVector, P.cost, P.type,
               merge(next_hop_set, route_database[P].next_hop_set))
          else
            // Not preferred route so ignore
            end if
          end if
        end for
     end for


    Figure 17: Adding Routes from S-TIE Positive and Negative Prefixes

   After the positive prefixes are attached and tie-broken, negative
   prefixes are attached and used in case of northbound computation,
   ideally from the shortest length to the longest.  The nexthop
   adjacencies for a negative prefix are inherited from the longest
   prefix that aggregates it, and subsequently adjacencies to nodes that
   advertised negative for this prefix are removed.

   The rule of inheritance MUST be maintained when the nexthop list for
   a prefix is modified, as the modification may affect the entries for
   matching negative prefixes of immediate longer prefix length.  For
   instance, if a nexthop is added, then by inheritance it must be added
   to all the negative routes of immediate longer prefixes length unless
   it is pruned due to a negative advertisement for the same next hop.
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   deleted for all the immediately aggregated negative routes.  This
   will recurse in the case of nested negative prefix aggregations.

   The rule of inheritance must also be maintained when a new prefix of
   intermediate length is inserted, or when the immediately aggregating
   prefix is deleted from the routing table, making an even shorter
   aggregating prefix the one from which the negative routes now inherit
   their adjacencies.  As the aggregating prefix changes, all the
   negative routes must be recomputed, and then again the process may
   recurse in case of nested negative prefix aggregations.

   Observe that despite seeming quite computationally expensive the
   operations are only necessary if the only available advertisements
   for a prefix are negative since tie-breaking always prefers positive
   information for the prefix which stops any kind of recursion since
   positive information never inherits next hops.

   To make the negative disaggregation less abstract and provide an
   example let us consider a ToP node T1 with 4 ToF parents S1..S4 as
   represented in Figure 18:


                    +----+    +----+    +----+    +----+          N
                    | S1 |    | S1 |    | S1 |    | S1 |          ^
                    +----+    +----+    +----+    +----+       W< + >E
                     |         |         |         |              v
                     |+--------+         |         |              S
                     ||+-----------------+         |
                     |||+----------------+---------+
                     ||||
                    +----+
                    | T1 |
                    +----+


                   Figure 18: A ToP node with 4 parents

   If all ToF nodes can reach all the prefixes in the network; with
   RIFT, they will normally advertise a default route south.  An
   abstract Routing Information Base (RIB), more commonly known as a
   routing table, stores all types of maintained routes including the
   negative ones and "tie-breaks" for the best one, whereas an abstract
   Forwarding table (FIB) retains only the ultimately computed
   "positive" routing instructions.  In T1, those tables would look as
   illustrated in Figure 19:






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                                  +---------+
                                  | Default |
                                  +---------+
                                       |
                                       |     +--------+
                                       +---> | Via S1 |
                                       |     +--------+
                                       |
                                       |     +--------+
                                       +---> | Via S2 |
                                       |     +--------+
                                       |
                                       |     +--------+
                                       +---> | Via S3 |
                                       |     +---------+
                                       |
                                       |     +--------+
                                       +---> | Via S4 |
                                             +--------+



                          Figure 19: Abstract RIB

   In case T1 receives a negative advertisement for prefix 2001:db8::/32
   from S1 a negative route is stored in the RIB (indicated by a ~
   sign), while the more specific routes to the complementing ToF nodes
   are installed in FIB.  RIB and FIB in T1 now look as illustrated in
   Figure 20 and Figure 21, respectively:






















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           +---------+                 +-----------------+
           | Default | <-------------- | ~2001:db8::/32  |
           +---------+                 +-----------------+
                |                               |
                |     +--------+                |     +--------+
                +---> | Via S1 |                +---> | Via S1 |
                |     +--------+                      +--------+
                |
                |     +--------+
                +---> | Via S2 |
                |     +--------+
                |
                |     +--------+
                +---> | Via S3 |
                |     +---------+
                |
                |     +--------+
                +---> | Via S4 |
                      +--------+



       Figure 20: Abstract RIB after negative 2001:db8::/32 from S1

   Negative 2001:db8::/32 entry inherits from ::/0, so the positive more
   specific routes are the complements to S1 in the set of next-hops for
   the default route.  That entry is composed of S2, S3, and S4, or, in
   other words, it uses all entries of the default route with a "hole
   punched" for S1 into them.  These are the next hops that are still
   available to reach 2001:db8::/32, now that S1 advertised that it will
   not forward 2001:db8::/32 anymore.  Ultimately, those resulting next-
   hops are installed in FIB for the more specific route to
   2001:db8::/32 as illustrated below:


















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           +---------+                  +---------------+
           | Default |                  | 2001:db8::/32 |
           +---------+                  +---------------+
                |                               |
                |     +--------+                |
                +---> | Via S1 |                |
                |     +--------+                |
                |                               |
                |     +--------+                |     +--------+
                +---> | Via S2 |                +---> | Via S2 |
                |     +--------+                |     +--------+
                |                               |
                |     +--------+                |     +--------+
                +---> | Via S3 |                +---> | Via S3 |
                |     +--------+                |     +--------+
                |                               |
                |     +--------+                |     +--------+
                +---> | Via S4 |                +---> | Via S4 |
                      +--------+                      +--------+



       Figure 21: Abstract FIB after negative 2001:db8::/32 from S1

   To illustrate matters further let us consider T1 receiving a negative
   advertisement for prefix 2001:db8:1::/48 from S2, which is stored in
   RIB again.  After the update, the RIB in T1 is illustrated in
   Figure 22:























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 +---------+        +----------------+         +------------------+
 | Default | <----- | ~2001:db8::/32 | <------ | ~2001:db8:1::/48 |
 +---------+        +----------------+         +------------------+
      |                     |                           |
      |     +--------+      |     +--------+            |
      +---> | Via S1 |      +---> | Via S1 |            |
      |     +--------+            +--------+            |
      |                                                 |
      |     +--------+                                  |     +--------+
      +---> | Via S2 |                                  +---> | Via S2 |
      |     +--------+                                        +--------+
      |
      |     +--------+
      +---> | Via S3 |
      |     +---------+
      |
      |     +--------+
      +---> | Via S4 |
            +--------+



      Figure 22: Abstract RIB after negative 2001:db8:1::/48 from S2

   Negative 2001:db8:1::/48 inherits from 2001:db8::/32 now, so the
   positive more specific routes are the complements to S2 in the set of
   next hops for 2001:db8::/32, which are S3 and S4, or, in other words,
   all entries of the father with the negative holes "punched in" again.
   After the update, the FIB in T1 shows as illustrated in Figure 23:






















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 +---------+         +---------------+         +-----------------+
 | Default |         | 2001:db8::/32 |         | 2001:db8:1::/48 |
 +---------+         +---------------+         +-----------------+
      |                     |                           |
      |     +--------+      |                           |
      +---> | Via S1 |      |                           |
      |     +--------+      |                           |
      |                     |                           |
      |     +--------+      |     +--------+            |
      +---> | Via S2 |      +---> | Via S2 |            |
      |     +--------+      |     +--------+            |
      |                     |                           |
      |     +--------+      |     +--------+            |     +--------+
      +---> | Via S3 |      +---> | Via S3 |            +---> | Via S3 |
      |     +--------+      |     +--------+            |     +--------+
      |                     |                           |
      |     +--------+      |     +--------+            |     +--------+
      +---> | Via S4 |      +---> | Via S4 |            +---> | Via S4 |
            +--------+            +--------+                  +--------+



      Figure 23: Abstract FIB after negative 2001:db8:1::/48 from S2

   Further, let us say that S3 stops advertising its service as default
   gateway.  The entry is removed from RIB as usual.  In order to update
   the FIB, it is necessary to eliminate the FIB entry for the default
   route, as well as all the FIB entries that were created for negative
   routes pointing to the RIB entry being removed (::/0).  This is done
   recursively for 2001:db8::/32 and then for, 2001:db8:1::/48.  The
   related FIB entries via S3 are removed, as illustrated in Figure 24.




















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 +---------+         +---------------+         +-----------------+
 | Default |         | 2001:db8::/32 |         | 2001:db8:1::/48 |
 +---------+         +---------------+         +-----------------+
      |                     |                           |
      |     +--------+      |                           |
      +---> | Via S1 |      |                           |
      |     +--------+      |                           |
      |                     |                           |
      |     +--------+      |     +--------+            |
      +---> | Via S2 |      +---> | Via S2 |            |
      |     +--------+      |     +--------+            |
      |                     |                           |
      |                     |                           |
      |                     |                           |
      |                     |                           |
      |                     |                           |
      |     +--------+      |     +--------+            |     +--------+
      +---> | Via S4 |      +---> | Via S4 |            +---> | Via S4 |
            +--------+            +--------+                  +--------+



                 Figure 24: Abstract FIB after loss of S3

   Say that at that time, S4 would also disaggregate prefix
   2001:db8:1::/48.  This would mean that the FIB entry for
   2001:db8:1::/48 becomes a discard route, and that would be the signal
   for T1 to disaggregate prefix 2001:db8:1::/48 negatively in a
   transitive fashion with its own children.

   Finally, let us look at the case where S3 becomes available again as
   default gateway, and a negative advertisement is received from S4
   about prefix 2001:db8:2::/48 as opposed to 2001:db8:1::/48.  Again, a
   negative route is stored in the RIB, and the more specific route to
   the complementing ToF nodes are installed in FIB.  Since
   2001:db8:2::/48 inherits from 2001:db8::/32, the positive FIB routes
   are chosen by removing S4 from S2, S3, S4.  The abstract FIB in T1
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                                                +-----------------+
                                                | 2001:db8:2::/48 |
                                                +-----------------+
                                                        |
  +---------+       +---------------+    +-----------------+
  | Default |       | 2001:db8::/32 |    | 2001:db8:1::/48 |
  +---------+       +---------------+    +-----------------+
       |                    |                    |      |
       |     +--------+     |                    |      |     +--------+
       +---> | Via S1 |     |                    |      +---> | Via S2 |
       |     +--------+     |                    |      |     +--------+
       |                    |                    |      |
       |     +--------+     |     +--------+     |      |     +--------+
       +---> | Via S2 |     +---> | Via S2 |     |      +---> | Via S3 |
       |     +--------+     |     +--------+     |            +--------+
       |                    |                    |
       |     +--------+     |     +--------+     |     +--------+
       +---> | Via S3 |     +---> | Via S3 |     +---> | Via S3 |
       |     +--------+     |     +--------+     |     +--------+
       |                    |                    |
       |     +--------+     |     +--------+     |     +--------+
       +---> | Via S4 |     +---> | Via S4 |     +---> | Via S4 |
             +--------+            +--------+          +--------+



      Figure 25: Abstract FIB after negative 2001:db8:2::/48 from S4

5.2.7.  Optional Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)

   Each RIFT node can optionally operate in zero touch provisioning
   (ZTP) mode, i.e. it has no configuration (unless it is a Top-of-
   Fabric at the top of the topology or the must operate in the topology
   as leaf and/or support leaf-2-leaf procedures) and it will fully
   configure itself after being attached to the topology.  Configured
   nodes and nodes operating in ZTP can be mixed and will form a valid
   topology if achievable.

   The derivation of the level of each node happens based on offers
   received from its neighbors whereas each node (with possibly
   exceptions of configured leafs) tries to attach at the highest
   possible point in the fabric.  This guarantees that even if the
   diffusion front reaches a node from "below" faster than from "above",
   it will greedily abandon already negotiated level derived from nodes
   topologically below it and properly peers with nodes above.

   The fabric is very conciously numbered from the top to allow for PoDs
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   in this case just a TOP_OF_FABRIC flag on every node at the top of
   the fabric.

   This section describes the necessary concepts and procedures for ZTP
   operation.

5.2.7.1.  Terminology

   The interdependencies between the different flags and the configured
   level can be somewhat vexing at first and it may take multiple reads
   of the glossary to comprehend them.

   Automatic Level Derivation:  Procedures which allow nodes without
      level configured to derive it automatically.  Only applied if
      CONFIGURED_LEVEL is undefined.

   UNDEFINED_LEVEL:  A "null" value that indicates that the level has
      not beeen determined and has not been configured.  Schemas
      normally indicate that by a missing optional value without an
      available defined default.

   LEAF_ONLY:  An optional configuration flag that can be configured on
      a node to make sure it never leaves the "bottom of the hierarchy".
      TOP_OF_FABRIC flag and CONFIGURED_LEVEL cannot be defined at the
      same time as this flag.  It implies CONFIGURED_LEVEL value of 0.

   TOP_OF_FABRIC flag:  Configuration flag that MUST be provided to all
      Top-of-Fabric nodes.  LEAF_FLAG and CONFIGURED_LEVEL cannot be
      defined at the same time as this flag.  It implies a
      CONFIGURED_LEVEL value.  In fact, it is basically a shortcut for
      configuring same level at all Top-of-Fabric nodes which is
      unavoidable since an initial 'seed' is needed for other ZTP nodes
      to derive their level in the topology.  The flag plays an
      important role in fabrics with multiple planes to enable
      successful negative disaggregation (Section 5.2.5.2).

   CONFIGURED_LEVEL:  A level value provided manually.  When this is
      defined (i.e. it is not an UNDEFINED_LEVEL) the node is not
      participating in ZTP.  TOP_OF_FABRIC flag is ignored when this
      value is defined.  LEAF_ONLY can be set only if this value is
      undefined or set to 0.

   DERIVED_LEVEL:  Level value computed via automatic level derivation
      when CONFIGURED_LEVEL is equal to UNDEFINED_LEVEL.

   LEAF_2_LEAF:  An optional flag that can be configured on a node to
      make sure it supports procedures defined in Section 5.3.9.  In a
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      according restrictions.  TOP_OF_FABRIC flag is ignored when set at
      the same time as this flag.

   LEVEL_VALUE:  In ZTP case the original definition of "level" in
      Section 3.1 is both extended and relaxed.  First, level is defined
      now as LEVEL_VALUE and is the first defined value of
      CONFIGURED_LEVEL followed by DERIVED_LEVEL.  Second, it is
      possible for nodes to be more than one level apart to form
      adjacencies if any of the nodes is at least LEAF_ONLY.

   Valid Offered Level (VOL):  A neighbor's level received on a valid
      LIE (i.e. passing all checks for adjacency formation while
      disregarding all clauses involving level values) persisting for
      the duration of the holdtime interval on the LIE.  Observe that
      offers from nodes offering level value of 0 do not constitute VOLs
      (since no valid DERIVED_LEVEL can be obtained from those and
      consequently `not_a_ztp_offer` MUST be ignored).  Offers from LIEs
      with `not_a_ztp_offer` being true are not VOLs either.  If a node
      maintains parallel adjacencies to the neighbor, VOL on each
      adjacency is considered as equivalent, i.e. the newest VOL from
      any such adjacency updates the VOL received from the same node.

   Highest Available Level (HAL):  Highest defined level value seen from
      all VOLs received.

   Highest Available Level Systems (HALS):  Set of nodes offering HAL
      VOLs.

   Highest Adjacency Three Way (HAT):  Highest neigbhor level of all the
      formed three way adjacencies for the node.

5.2.7.2.  Automatic SystemID Selection

   RIFT identifies each node via a SystemID which is a 64 bits wide
   integer.  It is relatively simple to derive a, for all practical
   purposes collision free, value for each node on startup.  For that
   purpose, a node MUST use as system ID EUI-64 MA-L format [EUI64]
   where the organizationally governed 24 bits can be used to generate
   system IDs for multiple RIFT instances running on the system.

   As matter of operational concern, the router MUST ensure that such
   identifier is not changing very frequently (or at least not without
   sending all its TIEs with fairly short lifetimes) since otherwise the
   network may be left with large amounts of stale TIEs in other nodes
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5.2.7.3.  Generic Fabric Example

   ZTP forces us to think about miscabled or unusually cabled fabric and
   how such a topology can be forced into a "lattice" structure which a
   fabric represents (with further restrictions).  Let us consider a
   necessary and sufficient physical cabling in Figure 26.  We assume
   all nodes being in the same PoD.

          .        +---+
          .        | A |                      s   = TOP_OF_FABRIC
          .        | s |                      l   = LEAF_ONLY
          .        ++-++                      l2l = LEAF_2_LEAF
          .         | |
          .      +--+ +--+
          .      |       |
          .   +--++     ++--+
          .   | E |     | F |
          .   |   +-+   |   +-----------+
          .   ++--+ |   ++-++           |
          .    |    |    | |            |
          .    | +-------+ |            |
          .    | |  |      |            |
          .    | |  +----+ |            |
          .    | |       | |            |
          .   ++-++     ++-++           |
          .   | I +-----+ J |           |
          .   |   |     |   +-+         |
          .   ++-++     +--++ |         |
          .    | |         |  |         |
          .    +---------+ |  +------+  |
          .      |       | |         |  |
          .      +-----------------+ |  |
          .              | |       | |  |
          .             ++-++     ++-++ |
          .             | X +-----+ Y +-+
          .             |l2l|     | l |
          .             +---+     +---+


               Figure 26: Generic ZTP Cabling Considerations

   First, we must anchor the "top" of the cabling and that's what the
   TOP_OF_FABRIC flag at node A is for.  Then things look smooth until
   we have to decide whether node Y is at the same level as I, J or at
   the same level as Y and consequently, X is south of it.  This is
   unresolvable here until we "nail down the bottom" of the topology.
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   will see further then whether Y chooses to form adjacencies to F or
   I, J successively.

5.2.7.4.  Level Determination Procedure

   A node starting up with UNDEFINED_VALUE (i.e. without a
   CONFIGURED_LEVEL or any leaf or TOP_OF_FABRIC flag) MUST follow those
   additional procedures:

   1.  It advertises its LEVEL_VALUE on all LIEs (observe that this can
       be UNDEFINED_LEVEL which in terms of the schema is simply an
       omitted optional value).

   2.  It computes HAL as numerically highest available level in all
       VOLs.

   3.  It chooses then MAX(HAL-1,0) as its DERIVED_LEVEL.  The node then
       starts to advertise this derived level.

   4.  A node that lost all adjacencies with HAL value MUST hold down
       computation of new DERIVED_LEVEL for a short period of time
       unless it has no VOLs from southbound adjacencies.  After the
       holddown expired, it MUST discard all received offers, recompute
       DERIVED_LEVEL and announce it to all neighbors.

   5.  A node MUST reset any adjacency that has changed the level it is
       offering and is in three way state.

   6.  A node that changed its defined level value MUST readvertise its
       own TIEs (since the new `PacketHeader` will contain a different
       level than before).  Sequence number of each TIE MUST be
       increased.

   7.  After a level has been derived the node MUST set the
       `not_a_ztp_offer` on LIEs towards all systems offering a VOL for
       HAL.

   8.  A node that changed its level SHOULD flush from its link state
       database TIEs of all other nodes, otherwise stale information may
       persist on "direction reversal", i.e.  nodes that seemed south
       are now north or east-west.  This will not prevent the correct
       operation of the protocol but could be slightly confusing
       operationally.

   A node starting with LEVEL_VALUE being 0 (i.e. it assumes a leaf
   function by being configured with the appropriate flags or has a
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   1.  It computes HAT per procedures above but does NOT use it to
       compute DERIVED_LEVEL.  HAT is used to limit adjacency formation
       per Section 5.2.2.

   It MAY also follow modified procedures:

   1.  It may pick a different strategy to choose VOL, e.g.  use the VOL
       value with highest number of VOLs.  Such strategies are only
       possible since the node always remains "at the bottom of the
       fabric" while another layer could "invert" the fabric by picking
       its prefered VOL in a different fashion than always trying to
       achieve the highest viable level.

5.2.7.5.  Resulting Topologies

   The procedures defined in Section 5.2.7.4 will lead to the RIFT
   topology and levels depicted in Figure 27.

                      .        +---+
                      .        | As|
                      .        | 24|
                      .        ++-++
                      .         | |
                      .      +--+ +--+
                      .      |       |
                      .   +--++     ++--+
                      .   | E |     | F |
                      .   | 23+-+   | 23+-----------+
                      .   ++--+ |   ++-++           |
                      .    |    |    | |            |
                      .    | +-------+ |            |
                      .    | |  |      |            |
                      .    | |  +----+ |            |
                      .    | |       | |            |
                      .   ++-++     ++-++           |
                      .   | I +-----+ J |           |
                      .   | 22|     | 22|           |
                      .   ++--+     +--++           |
                      .    |           |            |
                      .    +---------+ |            |
                      .              | |            |
                      .             ++-++     +---+ |
                      .             | X |     | Y +-+
                      .             | 0 |     | 0 |
                      .             +---+     +---+


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   In case we imagine the LEAF_ONLY restriction on Y is removed the
   outcome would be very different however and result in Figure 28.
   This demonstrates basically that auto configuration makes miscabling
   detection hard and with that can lead to undesirable effects in cases
   where leafs are not "nailed" by the accordingly configured flags and
   arbitrarily cabled.

   A node MAY analyze the outstanding level offers on its interfaces and
   generate warnings when its internal ruleset flags a possible
   miscabling.  As an example, when a node's sees ZTP level offers that
   differ by more than one level from its chosen level (with proper
   accounting for leaf's being at level 0) this can indicate miscabling.

                       .        +---+
                       .        | As|
                       .        | 24|
                       .        ++-++
                       .         | |
                       .      +--+ +--+
                       .      |       |
                       .   +--++     ++--+
                       .   | E |     | F |
                       .   | 23+-+   | 23+-------+
                       .   ++--+ |   ++-++       |
                       .    |    |    | |        |
                       .    | +-------+ |        |
                       .    | |  |      |        |
                       .    | |  +----+ |        |
                       .    | |       | |        |
                       .   ++-++     ++-++     +-+-+
                       .   | I +-----+ J +-----+ Y |
                       .   | 22|     | 22|     | 22|
                       .   ++-++     +--++     ++-++
                       .    | |         |       | |
                       .    | +-----------------+ |
                       .    |           |         |
                       .    +---------+ |         |
                       .              | |         |
                       .             ++-++        |
                       .             | X +--------+
                       .             | 0 |
                       .             +---+



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5.2.8.  Stability Considerations

   The autoconfiguration mechanism computes a global maximum of levels
   by diffusion.  The achieved equilibrium can be disturbed massively by
   all nodes with highest level either leaving or entering the domain
   (with some finer distinctions not explained further).  It is
   therefore recommended that each node is multi-homed towards nodes
   with respective HAL offerings.  Fortuntately, this is the natural
   state of things for the topology variants considered in RIFT.

5.3.  Further Mechanisms

5.3.1.  Overload Bit

   Overload Bit MUST be respected in all according reachability
   computations.  A node with overload bit set SHOULD NOT advertise any
   reachability prefixes southbound except locally hosted ones.  A node
   in overload SHOULD advertise all its locally hosted prefixes north
   and southbound.

   The leaf node SHOULD set the 'overload' bit on its node TIEs, since
   if the spine nodes were to forward traffic not meant for the local
   node, the leaf node does not have the topology information to prevent
   a routing/forwarding loop.

5.3.2.  Optimized Route Computation on Leafs

   Since the leafs do see only "one hop away" they do not need to run a
   full SPF but can simply gather prefix candidates from their neighbors
   and build the according routing table.

   A leaf will have no N-TIEs except its own and optionally from its
   East-West neighbors.  A leaf will have S-TIEs from its neighbors.

   Instead of creating a network graph from its N-TIEs and neighbor's
   S-TIEs and then running an SPF, a leaf node can simply compute the
   minimum cost and next_hop_set to each leaf neighbor by examining its
   local adjacencies, determining bi-directionality from the associated
   N-TIE, and specifying the neighbor's next_hop_set set and cost from
   the minimum cost local adjacency to that neighbor.

   Then a leaf attaches prefixes as described in Section 5.2.6.

5.3.3.  Mobility

   It is a requirement for RIFT to maintain at the control plane a real
   time status of which prefix is attached to which port of which leaf,




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   even in a context of mobility where the point of attachement may
   change several times in a subsecond period of time.

   There are two classical approaches to maintain such knowledge in an
   unambiguous fashion:

   time stamp:  With this method, the infrastructure memorizes the
      precise time at which the movement is observed.  One key advantage
      of this technique is that it has no dependency on the mobile
      device.  One drawback is that the infrastructure must be precisely
      synchronized to be able to compare time stamps as observed by the
      various points of attachment, e.g., using the variation of the
      Precision Time Protocol (PTP) IEEE Std. 1588 [IEEEstd1588],
      [IEEEstd8021AS] designed for bridged LANs IEEE Std. 802.1AS
      [IEEEstd8021AS].  Both the precision of the synchronisation
      protocol and the resolution of the time stamp must beat the
      highest possible roaming time on the fabric.  Another drawback is
      that the presence of the mobile device may be observed only
      asynchronously, e.g., after it starts using an IP protocol such as
      ARP [RFC0826], IPv6 Neighbor Discovery [RFC4861][RFC4862], or DHCP
      [RFC2131][RFC8415].

   sequence counter:  With this method, a mobile node notifies its point
      of attachment on arrival with a sequence counter that is
      incremented upon each movement.  On the positive side, this method
      does not have a dependency on a precise sense of time, since the
      sequence of movements is kept in order by the device.  The
      disadvantage of this approach is the lack of support for protocols
      that may be used by the mobile node to register its presence to
      the leaf node with the capability to provide a sequence counter.
      Well-known issues with wrapping sequence counters must be
      addressed properly, and many forms of sequence counters that vary
      in both wrapping rules and comparison rules.  A particular
      knowledge of the source of the sequence counter is required to
      operate it, and the comparison between sequence counters from
      heterogeneous sources can be hard to impossible.

   RIFT supports a hybrid approach contained in an optional
   `PrefixSequenceType` prefix attribute that we call a `monotonic
   clock` consisting of a timestamp and optional sequence number.  In
   case of presence of the attribute:

   o  The leaf node MUST advertise a time stamp of the latest sighting
      of a prefix, e.g., by snooping IP protocols or the node using the
      time at which it advertised the prefix.  RIFT transports the time
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   o  RIFT may interoperate with the "update to 6LoWPAN Neighbor
      Discovery" [RFC8505], which provides a method for registering a
      prefix with a sequence counter called a Transaction ID (TID).
      RIFT transports in such case the TID in its native form.

   o  RIFT also defines an abstract negative clock (ANSC) that compares
      as less than any other clock.  By default, the lack of a
      `PrefixSequenceType` in a Prefix N-TIE is interpreted as ANSC.  We
      call this also an `undefined` clock.

   o  Any prefix present on the fabric in multiple nodes that has the
      `same` clock is considered as anycast.  ASNC is always considered
      smaller than any defined clock.

   o  RIFT implementation assumes by default that all nodes are being
      synchronized to 200 milliseconds precision which is easily
      achievable even in very large fabrics using [RFC5905].  An
      implementation MAY provide a way to reconfigure a domain to a
      different value.  We call this variable MAXIMUM_CLOCK_DELTA.

5.3.3.1.  Clock Comparison

   All monotonic clock values are comparable to each other using the
   following rules:

   1.  ASNC is older than any other value except ASNC AND

   2.  Clock with timestamp differing by more than MAXIMUM_CLOCK_DELTA
       are comparable by using the timestamps only AND

   3.  Clocks with timestamps differing by less than MAXIMUM_CLOCK_DELTA
       are comparable by using their TIDs only AND

   4.  An undefined TID is always older than any other TID AND

   5.  TIDs are compared using rules of [RFC8505].

5.3.3.2.  Interaction between Time Stamps and Sequence Counters

   For slow movements that occur less frequently than e.g. once per
   second, the time stamp that the RIFT infrastruture captures is enough
   to determine the freshest discovery.  If the point of attachement
   changes faster than the maximum drift of the time stamping mechanism
   (i.e.  MAXIMUM_CLOCK_DELTA), then a sequence counter is required to
   add resolution to the freshness evaluation, and it must be sized so
   that the counters stay comparable within the resolution of the time
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   The sequence counter in [RFC8505] is encoded as one octet and wraps
   around using Appendix A.

   Within the resolution of MAXIMUM_CLOCK_DELTA the sequence counters
   captured during 2 sequential values of the time stamp SHOULD be
   comparable.  This means with default values that a node may move up
   to 127 times during a 200 milliseconds period and the clocks remain
   still comparable thus allowing the infrastructure to assert the
   freshest advertisement with no ambiguity.

5.3.3.3.  Anycast vs. Unicast

   A unicast prefix can be attached to at most one leaf, whereas an
   anycast prefix may be reachable via more than one leaf.

   If a monotonic clock attribute is provided on the prefix, then the
   prefix with the `newest` clock value is strictly prefered.  An
   anycast prefix does not carry a clock or all clock attributes MUST be
   the same under the rules of Section 5.3.3.1.

   Observe that it is important that in mobility events the leaf is re-
   flooding as quickly as possible the absence of the prefix that moved
   away.

   Observe further that without support for [RFC8505] movements on the
   fabric within intervals smaller than 100msec will be seen as anycast.

5.3.3.4.  Overlays and Signaling

   RIFT is agnostic whether any overlay technology like [MIP, LISP,
   VxLAN, NVO3] and the associated signaling is deployed over it.  But
   it is expected that leaf nodes, and possibly Top-of-Fabric nodes can
   perform the according encapsulation.

   In the context of mobility, overlays provide a classical solution to
   avoid injecting mobile prefixes in the fabric and improve the
   scalability of the solution.  It makes sense on a data center that
   already uses overlays to consider their applicability to the mobility
   solution; as an example, a mobility protocol such as LISP may inform
   the ingress leaf of the location of the egress leaf in real time.

   Another possibility is to consider that mobility as an underlay
   service and support it in RIFT to an extent.  The load on the fabric
   augments with the amount of mobility obviously since a move forces
   flooding and computation on all nodes in the scope of the move so
   tunneling from leaf to the Top-of-Fabric may be desired.  Future
   versions of this document may describe support for such tunneling in
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5.3.4.  Key/Value Store

5.3.4.1.  Southbound

   The protocol supports a southbound distribution of key-value pairs
   that can be used to e.g. distribute configuration information during
   topology bring-up.  The KV S-TIEs can arrive from multiple nodes and
   hence need tie-breaking per key.  We use the following rules

   1.  Only KV TIEs originated by nodes to which the receiver has a bi-
       directional adjacency are considered.

   2.  Within all such valid KV S-TIEs containing the key, the value of
       the KV S-TIE for which the according node S-TIE is present, has
       the highest level and within the same level has highest
       originating system ID is preferred.  If keys in the most
       preferred TIEs are overlapping, the behavior is undefined.

   Observe that if a node goes down, the node south of it looses
   adjacencies to it and with that the KVs will be disregarded and on
   tie-break changes new KV re-advertised to prevent stale information
   being used by nodes further south.  KV information in southbound
   direction is not result of independent computation of every node over
   same set of TIEs but a diffused computation.

5.3.4.2.  Northbound

   Certain use cases seem to necessitate distribution of essentialy KV
   information that is generated in the leafs in the northbound
   direction.  Such information is flooded in KV N-TIEs.  Since the
   originator of northbound KV is preserved during northbound flooding,
   overlapping keys could be used.  However, to omit further protocol
   complexity, only the value of the key in TIE tie-broken in same
   fashion as southbound KV TIEs is used.

5.3.5.  Interactions with BFD

   RIFT MAY incorporate BFD [RFC5881] to react quickly to link failures.
   In such case following procedures are introduced:

      After RIFT three way hello adjacency convergence a BFD session MAY
      be formed automatically between the RIFT endpoints without further
      configuration using the exchanged discriminators.  The capability
      of the remote side to support BFD is carried on the LIEs.

      In case established BFD session goes Down after it was Up, RIFT
      adjacency should be re-initialized started from Init.




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      In case of parallel links between nodes each link may run its own
      independent BFD session or they may share a session.

      In case RIFT changes link identifiers or BFD capability indication
      both the LIE as well as the BFD sessions SHOULD be brought down
      and back up again.

      Multiple RIFT instances MAY choose to share a single BFD session
      (in such case it is undefined what discriminators are used albeit
      RIFT CAN advertise the same link ID for the same interface in
      multiple instances and with that "share" the discriminators).

      BFD TTL follows [RFC5082].

5.3.6.  Fabric Bandwidth Balancing

   A well understood problem in fabrics is that in case of link losses
   it would be ideal to rebalance how much traffic is offered to
   switches in the next level based on the ingress and egress bandwidth
   they have.  Current attempts rely mostly on specialized traffic
   engineering via controller or leafs being aware of complete topology
   with according cost and complexity.

   RIFT can support a very light weight mechanism that can deal with the
   problem in an approximate way based on the fact that RIFT is loop-
   free.

5.3.6.1.  Northbound Direction

   Every RIFT node SHOULD compute the amount of northbound bandwith
   available through neighbors at higher level and modify distance
   received on default route from this neighbor.  Those different
   distances SHOULD be used to support weighted ECMP forwarding towards
   higher level when using default route.  We call such a distance
   Bandwidth Adjusted Distance or BAD.  This is best illustrated by a
   simple example.















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                             .   100  x             100 100 MBits
                             .    |   x              |   |
                             .  +-+---+-+          +-+---+-+
                             .  |       |          |       |
                             .  |Spin111|          |Spin112|
                             .  +-+---+++          ++----+++
                             .    |x  ||           ||    ||
                             .    ||  |+---------------+ ||
                             .    ||  +---------------+| ||
                             .    ||               || || ||
                             .    ||               || || ||
                             .   -----All Links 10 MBit-------
                             .    ||               || || ||
                             .    ||               || || ||
                             .    ||  +------------+| || ||
                             .    ||  |+------------+ || ||
                             .    |x  ||              || ||
                             .  +-+---+++          +--++-+++
                             .  |       |          |       |
                             .  |Leaf111|          |Leaf112|
                             .  +-------+          +-------+



                      Figure 29: Balancing Bandwidth

   All links from Leafs in Figure 29 are assumed to 10 MBit/s bandwidth
   while the uplinks one level further up are assumed to be 100 MBit/s.
   Further, in Figure 29 we assume that Leaf111 lost one of the parallel
   links to Spine 111 and with that wants to possibly push more traffic
   onto Spine 112.  Leaf 112 has equal bandwidth to Spine 111 and Spine
   112 but Spine 111 lost one of its uplinks.

   The local modification of the received default route distance from
   upper level is achieved by running a relatively simple algorithm
   where the bandwidth is weighted exponentially while the distance on
   the default route represents a multiplier for the bandwidth weight
   for easy operational adjustements.

   On a node L use Node TIEs to compute for each non-overloaded
   northbound neighbor N three values:

      L_N_u: as sum of the bandwidth available to N

      N_u: as sum of the uplink bandwidth available on N

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   For all T_N_u determine the according M_N_u as
   log_2(next_power_2(T_N_u)) and determine MAX_M_N_u as maximum value
   of all M_N_u.

   For each advertised default route from a node N modify the advertised
   distance D to BAD = D * (1 + MAX_M_N_u - M_N_u) and use BAD instead
   of distance D to weight balance default forwarding towards N.

   For the example above a simple table of values will help the
   understanding.  We assume the default route distance is advertised
   with D=1 everywhere and OVERSUBSCRIPTION_CONSTANT = 1.

               +---------+-----------+-------+-------+-----+
               | Node    | N         | T_N_u | M_N_u | BAD |
               +---------+-----------+-------+-------+-----+
               | Leaf111 | Spine 111 | 110   | 7     | 2   |
               +---------+-----------+-------+-------+-----+
               | Leaf111 | Spine 112 | 220   | 8     | 1   |
               +---------+-----------+-------+-------+-----+
               | Leaf112 | Spine 111 | 120   | 7     | 2   |
               +---------+-----------+-------+-------+-----+
               | Leaf112 | Spine 112 | 220   | 8     | 1   |
               +---------+-----------+-------+-------+-----+

                         Table 5: BAD Computation

   All the multiplications and additions are saturating, i.e. when
   exceeding range of the bandwidth type are set to highest possible
   value of the type.

   BAD is only computed for default routes.  A node MAY compute and use
   BAD for any disaggregated prefixes or other RIFT routes.  A node MAY
   use another algorithm than BAD to weight northbound traffic based on
   bandwidth given that the algorithm is distributed and un-synchronized
   and ultimately, its correct behavior does not depend on uniformity of
   balancing algorithms used in the fabric.  E.g. it is conceivable that
   leafs could use real time link loads gathered by analytics to change
   the amount of traffic assigned to each default route next hop.

   Observe further that a change in available bandwidth will only affect
   at maximum two levels down in the fabric, i.e. blast radius of
   bandwidth changes is contained no matter its height.

5.3.6.2.  Southbound Direction

   Due to its loop free properties a node CAN take during S-SPF into
   account the available bandwidth on the nodes in lower levels and
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   nodes based as what it sees is the total achievable maximum flow
   through those nodes.  It is worth observing that such computations
   may work better if standardized but does not have to be necessarily.
   As long the packet keeps on heading south it will take one of the
   available paths and arrive at the intended destination.

5.3.7.  Label Binding

   A node MAY advertise on its TIEs a locally significant, downstream
   assigned label for the according interface.  One use of such label is
   a hop-by-hop encapsulation allowing to easily distinguish forwarding
   planes served by a multiplicity of RIFT instances.

5.3.8.  Segment Routing Support with RIFT

   Recently, alternative architecture to reuse labels as segment
   identifiers [RFC8402] has gained traction and may present use cases
   in IP fabric that would justify its deployment.  Such use cases will
   either precondition an assignment of a label per node (or other
   entities where the mechanisms are equivalent) or a global assignment
   and a knowledge of topology everywhere to compute segment stacks of
   interest.  We deal with the two issues separately.

5.3.8.1.  Global Segment Identifiers Assignment

   Global segment identifiers are normally assumed to be provided by
   some kind of a centralized "controller" instance and distributed to
   other entities.  This can be performed in RIFT by attaching a
   controller to the Top-of-Fabric nodes at the top of the fabric where
   the whole topology is always visible, assign such identifiers and
   then distribute those via the KV mechanism towards all nodes so they
   can perform things like probing the fabric for failures using a stack
   of segments.

5.3.8.2.  Distribution of Topology Information

   Some segment routing use cases seem to precondition full knowledge of
   fabric topology in all nodes which can be performed albeit at the
   loss of one of highly desirable properties of RIFT, namely minimal
   blast radius.  Basically, RIFT can function as a flat IGP by
   switching off its flooding scopes.  All nodes will end up with full
   topology view and albeit the N-SPF and S-SPF are still performed
   based on RIFT rules, any computation with segment identifiers that
   needs full topology can use it.

   Beside blast radius problem, excessive flooding may present
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5.3.9.  Leaf to Leaf Procedures

   RIFT can optionally allow special leaf East-West adjacencies under
   additional set of rules.  The leaf supporting those procedures MUST:

      advertise the LEAF_2_LEAF flag in node capabilities AND

      set the overload bit on all leaf's node TIEs AND

      flood only node's own north and south TIEs over E-W leaf
      adjacencies AND

      always use E-W leaf adjacency in both north as well as south
      computation AND

      install a discard route for any advertised aggregate in leaf's
      TIEs AND

      never form southbound adjacencies.

   This will allow the E-W leaf nodes to exchange traffic strictly for
   the prefixes advertised in each other's north prefix TIEs (since the
   southbound computation will find the reverse direction in the other
   node's TIE and install its north prefixes).

5.3.10.  Address Family and Multi Topology Considerations

   Multi-Topology (MT)[RFC5120] and Multi-Instance (MI)[RFC8202] is used
   today in link-state routing protocols to support several domains on
   the same physical topology.  RIFT supports this capability by
   carrying transport ports in the LIE protocol exchanges.  Multiplexing
   of LIEs can be achieved by either choosing varying multicast
   addresses or ports on the same address.

   BFD interactions in Section 5.3.5 are implementation dependent when
   multiple RIFT instances run on the same link.

5.3.11.  Reachability of Internal Nodes in the Fabric

   RIFT does not precondition that its nodes have reachable addresses
   albeit for operational purposes this is clearly desirable.  Under
   normal operating conditions this can be easily achieved by e.g.
   injecting the node's loopback address into North and South Prefix
   TIEs or other implementation specific mechanisms.

   Things get more interesting in case a node looses all its northbound
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   scope of this document and may be covered in a separate document
   about policy guided prefixes [PGP reference].

5.3.12.  One-Hop Healing of Levels with East-West Links

   Based on the rules defined in Section 5.2.4, Section 5.2.3.8 and
   given presence of E-W links, RIFT can provide a one-hop protection of
   nodes that lost all their northbound links or in other complex link
   set failure scenarios except at Top-of-Fabric where the links are
   used exclusively to flood topology information in multi-plane
   designs.  Section 6.4 explains the resulting behavior based on one
   such example.

5.4.  Security

5.4.1.  Security Model

   An inherent property of any security and ZTP architecture is the
   resulting trade-off in regard to integrity verification of the
   information distributed through the fabric vs. necessary provisioning
   and auto-configuration.  At a minimum, in all approaches, the
   security of an established adjacency can be ensured.  The stricter
   the security model the more provisioning must take over the role of
   ZTP.

   The most security conscious operators will want to have full control
   over which port on which router/switch is connected to the respective
   port on the "other side", which we will call the "port-association
   model" (PAM) achievable e.g. by configuring on each port pair a
   designated shared key or pair of private/public keys.  In secure data
   center locations, operators may want to control which router/switch
   is connected to which other router/switch only or choose a "node-
   association model" (NAM) which allows, for example, simplified port
   sparing.  In an even more relaxed environment, an operator may only
   be concerned that the router/switches share credentials ensuring that
   they belong to this particular data center network hence allowing the
   flexible sparing of whole routers/switches.  We will define that case
   as the "fabric-association model" (FAM), equivalent to using a shared
   secret for the whole fabric.  Such flexibility may make sense for
   leaf nodes such as servers where the addition and swapping of servers
   is more frequent than the rest of the data center network.
   Generally, leafs of the fabric tend to be less trusted than switches.
   The different models could be mixed throughout the fabric if the
   benefits outweigh the cost of increased complexity in provisioning.

   In each of the above cases, some configuration mechanism is needed to
   allow the operator to specify which connections are allowed, and some
   mechanism is needed to:



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   a.  specify the according level in the fabric,

   b.  discover and report missing connections,

   c.  discover and report unexpected connections, and prevent such
       adjacencies from forming.

   On the more relaxed configuration side of the spectrum, operators
   might only configure the level of each switch, but don't explicitly
   configure which connections are allowed.  In this case, RIFT will
   only allow adjacencies to come up between nodes are that in adjacent
   levels.  The operators with lowest security requirements may not use
   any configuration to specify which connections are allowed.  Such
   fabrics could rely fully on ZTP for each router/switch to discover
   its level and would only allow adjacencies between adjacent levels to
   come up.  Figure 30 illustrates the tradeoffs inherent in the
   different security models.

   Ultimately, some level of verification of the link quality may be
   required before an adjacency is allowed to be used for forwarding.
   For example, an implementation may require that a BFD session comes
   up before advertising the adjacency.

   For the above outlined cases, RIFT has two approaches to enforce that
   a local port is connected to the correct port on the correct remote
   router/switch.  One approach is to piggy-back on RIFT's
   authentication mechanism.  Assuming the provisioning model (e.g. the
   YANG model) is flexible enough, operators can choose to provision a
   unique authentication key for:

   a.  each pair of ports in "port-association model" or

   b.  each pair of switches in "node-association model" or

   c.  each pair of levels or

   d.  the entire fabric in "fabric-association model".

   The other approach is to rely on the system-id, port-id and level
   fields in the LIE message to validate an adjacency against the
   configured expected cabling topology, and optionally introduce some
   new rules in the FSM to allow the adjacency to come up if the
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                   ^                 /\                  |
                  /|\               /  \                 |
                   |               /    \                |
                   |              / PAM  \               |
               Increasing        /        \          Increasing
               Integrity        +----------+         Flexibility
                   &           /    NAM     \            &
              Increasing      +--------------+         Less
              Provisioning   /      FAM       \     Configuration
                   |        +------------------+         |
                   |       / Level Provisioning \        |
                   |      +----------------------+      \|/
                   |     /    Zero Configuration  \      v
                        +--------------------------+



                         Figure 30: Security Model

5.4.2.  Security Mechanisms

   RIFT Security goals are to ensure authentication, message integrity
   and prevention of replay attacks.  Low processing overhead and
   efficient messaging are also a goal.  Message confidentiality is a
   non-goal.

   The model in the previous section allows a range of security key
   types that are analogous to the various security association models.
   PAM and NAM allow security associations at the port or node level
   using symmetric or asymmetric keys that are pre-installed.  FAM
   argues for security associations to be applied only at a group level
   or to be refined once the topology has been established.  RIFT does
   not specify how security keys are installed or updated it specifies
   how the key can be used to achieve goals.

   The protocol has provisions for "weak" nonces to prevent replay
   attacks and includes authentication mechanisms comparable to
   [RFC5709] and [RFC7987].

5.4.3.  Security Envelope

   RIFT MUST be carried in a mandatory secure envelope illustrated in
   Figure 31.  Any value in the packet following a security fingerprint
   MUST be used only after the according fingerprint has been validated.

   Local configuration MAY allow to skip the checking of the envelope's
   integrity.




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       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

      UDP Header:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |           Source Port         |       RIFT destination port   |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |           UDP Length          |        UDP Checksum           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

      Outer Security Envelope Header:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |           RIFT MAGIC          |         Packet Number         |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |    Reserved   |  RIFT Major   | Outer Key ID  | Fingerprint   |
      |               |    Version    |               |    Length     |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                                                               |
      ~       Security Fingerprint covers all following content       ~
      |                                                               |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Weak Nonce Local              | Weak Nonce Remote             |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |            Remaining TIE Lifetime (all 1s in case of LIE)     |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

      TIE Origin Security Envelope Header:
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |              TIE Origin Key ID                |  Fingerprint  |
      |                                               |    Length     |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                                                               |
      ~       Security Fingerprint covers all following content       ~
      |                                                               |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

      Serialized RIFT Model Object
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                                                               |
      ~                Serialized RIFT Model Object                   ~
      |                                                               |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+



                       Figure 31: Security Envelope





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   RIFT MAGIC:  16 bits.  Constant value of 0xA1F7 that allows to
      classify RIFT packets independent of used UDP port.

   Packet Number:  16 bits.  An optional, per packet type monotonically
      growing number rolling over using sequence number arithmetic
      defined inAppendix A.  A node SHOULD correctly set the number on
      subsequent packets or otherwise MUST set the value to
      `undefined_packet_number` as provided in the schema.  This number
      can be used to detect losses and misordering in flooding for
      either operational purposes or in implementation to adjust
      flooding behavior to current link or buffer quality.  This number
      MUST NOT be used to discard or validate the correctness of
      packets.

   RIFT Major Version:  8 bits.  It allows to check whether protocol
      versions are compatible, i.e. the serialized object can be decoded
      at all.  An implementation MUST drop packets with unexpected value
      and MAY report a problem.  Must be same as in encoded model
      object, otherwise packet is dropped.

   Outer Key ID:  8 bits to allow key rollovers.  This implies key type
      and used algorithm.  Value 0 means that no valid fingerprint was
      computed.  This key ID scope is local to the nodes on both ends of
      the adjacency.

   TIE Origin Key ID:  24 bits.  This implies key type and used
      algorithm.  Value 0 means that no valid fingerprint was computed.
      This key ID scope is global to the RIFT instance since it implies
      the originator of the TIE so the contained object does not have to
      be de-serialized to obtain it.

   Length of Fingerprint:  8 bits.  Length in 32-bit multiples of the
      following fingerprint not including lifetime or weak nonces.  It
      allows to navigate the structure when an unknown key type is
      present.  To clarify a common cornercase when this value is set to
      0 it signifies an empty (0 bytes long) security fingerprint.

   Security Fingerprint:  32 bits * Length of Fingerprint.  This is a
      signature that is computed over all data following after it.  If
      the signficant bits of fingerprint are fewer than the 32 bits
      padded length than the signficant bits MUST be left aligned and
      remaining bits on the right padded with 0s.  When using PKI the
      Security fingerprint originating node uses its private key to
      create the signature.  The original packet can then be verified
      provided the public key is shared and current.

   Remaining TIE Lifetime:  32 bits.  In case of anything but TIEs this
      field MUST be set to all ones and Origin Security Envelope Header



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      MUST NOT be present in the packet.  For TIEs this field represents
      the remaining lifetime of the TIE and Origin Security Envelope
      Header MUST be present in the packet.  The value in the serialized
      model object MUST be ignored.

   Weak Nonce Local:   16 bits.  Local Weak Nonce of the adjacency as
      advertised in LIEs.

   Weak Nonce Remote:   16 bits.  Remote Weak Nonce of the adjacency as
      received in LIEs.

   TIE Origin Security Envelope Header:  It MUST be present if and only
      if the Remaining TIE Lifetime field is NOT all ones.  It carries
      through the originators key ID and according fingerprint of the
      object to protect TIE from modification during flooding.  This
      ensures origin validation and integrity (but does not provide
      validation of a chain of trust).

   Observe that due to the schema migration rules per Appendix B the
   contained model can be always decoded if the major version matches
   and the envelope integrity has been validated.  Consequently,
   description of the TIE is available to flood it properly including
   unknown TIE types.

5.4.4.  Weak Nonces

   The protocol uses two 16 bit nonces to salt generated signatures.  We
   use the term "nonce" a bit loosely since RIFT nonces are not being
   changed on every packet as common in cryptography.  For efficiency
   purposes they are changed at a frequency high enough to dwarf replay
   attacks attempts for all practical purposes.  Therefore, we call them
   "weak" nonces.

   Any implementation including RIFT security MUST generate and wrap
   around local nonces properly.  When a nonce increment leads to
   `undefined_nonce` value the value SHOULD be incremented again
   immediately.  All implementation MUST reflect the neighbor's nonces.
   An implementation SHOULD increment a chosen nonce on every LIE FSM
   transition that ends up in a different state from the previous and
   MUST increment its nonce at least every 5 minutes (such
   considerations allow for efficient implementations without opening a
   significant security risk).  When flooding TIEs, the implementation
   MUST use recent (i.e. within allowed difference) nonces reflected in
   the LIE exchange.  The schema specifies maximum allowable nonce value
   difference on a packet compared to reflected nonces in the LIEs.  Any
   packet received with nonces deviating more than the allowed delta
   MUST be discarded without further computation of signatures to
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   In case where a secure implementation does not receive signatures or
   receives undefined nonces from neighbor indicating that it does not
   support or verify signatures, it is a matter of local policy how such
   packets are treated.  Any secure implementation MUST discard packets
   where its local nonce is not correctly mirrored but it may choose to
   either refuse forming an adjacency with an implementation not
   advertising signatures or valid nonces or simply keep on signing
   local packets while accepting neighbor's packets without further
   verification beside checking for proper nonce reflection.

   As a necessary exception, an implementation MUST advertise
   `undefined_nonce` for remote nonce value when the FSM is not in 2-way
   or 3-way state and accept an `undefined_nonce` for its local nonce
   value on packets in any other state than 3-way.

   As optional optimization, an implemenation MAY send one LIE with
   previously negotiated neighbor's nonce to try to speed up a
   neighbor's transition from 3-way to 1-way and MUST revert to sending
   `undefined_nonce` after that.

5.4.5.  Lifetime

   Protecting lifetime on flooding may lead to excessive number of
   security fingerprint computation and hence an application generating
   such fingerprints on TIEs MAY round the value down to the next
   `rounddown_lifetime_interval` defined in the schema when sending TIEs
   albeit such optimization in presence of security hashes over
   advancing weak nonces may not be feasible.

5.4.6.  Key Management

   As outlined in the Security Model a private shared key or a public/
   private key pair is used to Authenticate the adjacency.  The actual
   method of key distribution and key synchronization is assumed to be
   out of band from RIFT's perspective.  Both nodes in the adjacency
   must share the same keys and configuration of key type and algorithm
   for a key ID.  Mismatched keys will obviously not inter-operate due
   to unverifiable security envelope.

   Key roll-over while the adjacency is active is allowed and the
   technique is well known and described in e.g.  [RFC6518].  Key
   distribution procedures are out of scope for RIFT.

5.4.7.  Security Association Changes

   There in no mechanism to convert a security envelope for the same key
   ID from one algorithm to another once the envelope is operational.
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   adjacency down and make the changes and then bring the adjacency up.
   Obviously, an implementation may choose to stop verifying security
   envelope for the duration of key change to keep the adjacency up but
   since this introduces a security vulnerability window, such roll-over
   is not recommended.

6.  Examples

6.1.  Normal Operation

   This section describes RIFT deployment in the example topology
   without any node or link failures.  We disregard flooding reduction
   for simplicity's sake.

   As first step, the following bi-directional adjacencies will be
   created (and any other links that do not fulfill LIE rules in
   Section 5.2.2 disregarded):

   1.  Spine 21 (PoD 0) to Spine 111, Spine 112, Spine 121, and Spine
       122

   2.  Spine 22 (PoD 0) to Spine 111, Spine 112, Spine 121, and Spine
       122

   3.  Spine 111 to Leaf 111, Leaf 112

   4.  Spine 112 to Leaf 111, Leaf 112

   5.  Spine 121 to Leaf 121, Leaf 122

   6.  Spine 122 to Leaf 121, Leaf 122

   Consequently, N-TIEs would be originated by Spine 111 and Spine 112
   and each set would be sent to both Spine 21 and Spine 22.  N-TIEs
   also would be originated by Leaf 111 (w/ Prefix 111) and Leaf 112 (w/
   Prefix 112 and the multi-homed prefix) and each set would be sent to
   Spine 111 and Spine 112.  Spine 111 and Spine 112 would then flood
   these N-TIEs to Spine 21 and Spine 22.

   Similarly, N-TIEs would be originated by Spine 121 and Spine 122 and
   each set would be sent to both Spine 21 and Spine 22.  N-TIEs also
   would be originated by Leaf 121 (w/ Prefix 121 and the multi-homed
   prefix) and Leaf 122 (w/ Prefix 122) and each set would be sent to
   Spine 121 and Spine 122.  Spine 121 and Spine 122 would then flood
   these N-TIEs to Spine 21 and Spine 22.

   At this point both Spine 21 and Spine 22, as well as any controller
   to which they are connected, would have the complete network



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   topology.  At the same time, Spine 111/112/121/122 hold only the
   N-ties of level 0 of their respective PoD.  Leafs hold only their own
   N-TIEs.

   S-TIEs with adjacencies and a default IP prefix would then be
   originated by Spine 21 and Spine 22 and each would be flooded to
   Spine 111, Spine 112, Spine 121, and Spine 122.  Spine 111, Spine
   112, Spine 121, and Spine 122 would each send the S-TIE from Spine 21
   to Spine 22 and the S-TIE from Spine 22 to Spine 21.  (S-TIEs are
   reflected up to level from which they are received but they are NOT
   propagated southbound.)

   A S-TIE with a default IP prefix would be originated by Node 111 and
   Spine 112 and each would be sent to Leaf 111 and Leaf 112.

   Similarly, an S-TIE with a default IP prefix would be originated by
   Node 121 and Spine 122 and each would be sent to Leaf 121 and Leaf
   122.  At this point IP connectivity with maximum possible ECMP has
   been established between the leafs while constraining the amount of
   information held by each node to the minimum necessary for normal
   operation and dealing with failures.

6.2.  Leaf Link Failure

                    .  |   |              |   |
                    .+-+---+-+          +-+---+-+
                    .|       |          |       |
                    .|Spin111|          |Spin112|
                    .+-+---+-+          ++----+-+
                    .  |   |             |    |
                    .  |   +---------------+  X
                    .  |                 | |  X Failure
                    .  |   +-------------+ |  X
                    .  |   |               |  |
                    .+-+---+-+          +--+--+-+
                    .|       |          |       |
                    .|Leaf111|          |Leaf112|
                    .+-------+          +-------+
                    .      +                  +
                    .     Prefix111     Prefix112


                    Figure 32: Single Leaf link failure

   In case of a failing leaf link between spine 112 and leaf 112 the
   link-state information will cause re-computation of the necessary SPF
   and the higher levels will stop forwarding towards prefix 112 through
   spine 112.  Only spines 111 and 112, as well as both spines will see



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   control traffic.  Leaf 111 will receive a new S-TIE from spine 112
   and reflect back to spine 111.  Spine 111 will de-aggregate prefix
   111 and prefix 112 but we will not describe it further here since de-
   aggregation is emphasized in the next example.  It is worth observing
   however in this example that if leaf 111 would keep on forwarding
   traffic towards prefix 112 using the advertised south-bound default
   of spine 112 the traffic would end up on Top-of-Fabric 21 and ToF 22
   and cross back into pod 1 using spine 111.  This is arguably not as
   bad as black-holing present in the next example but clearly
   undesirable.  Fortunately, de-aggregation prevents this type of
   behavior except for a transitory period of time.

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   .                +--------+          +--------+   S-TIE of Spine21
   .                |        |          |        |   received by
   .                |ToF   21|          |ToF   22|   south reflection of
   .                ++-+--+-++          ++-+--+-++   spines 112 and 111
   .                 | |  | |            | |  | |
   .                 | |  | |            | |  | 0/0
   .                 | |  | |            | |  | |
   .                 | |  | |            | |  | |
   .  +--------------+ |  +--- XXXXXX +  | |  | +---------------+
   .  |                |    |         |  | |  |                 |
   .  |    +-----------------------------+ |  |                 |
   .  0/0  |           |    |         |    |  |                 |
   .  |    0/0       0/0    +- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX -+     |
   .  |  1.1/16        |              |    |  |           |     |
   .  |    |           +-+    +-0/0-----------+           |     |
   .  |    |             |   1.1./16  |    |              |     |
   .+-+----++          +-+-----+     ++-----0/0          ++----0/0
   .|       |          |       |     |    1.1/16         |   1.1/16
   .|Spin111|          |Spin112|     |Spin121|           |Spin122|
   .+-+---+-+          ++----+-+     +-+---+-+           ++---+--+
   .  |   |             |    |         |   |              |   |
   .  |   +---------------+  |         |   +----------------+ |
   .  |                 | |  |         |                  | | |
   .  |   +-------------+ |  |         |   +--------------+ | |
   .  |   |               |  |         |   |                | |
   .+-+---+-+          +--+--+-+     +-+---+-+          +---+-+-+
   .|       |          |       |     |       |          |       |
   .|Leaf111|          |Leaf112|     |Leaf121|          |Leaf122|
   .+-+-----+          ++------+     +-----+-+          +-+-----+
   .  +                 +                  +              +
   .  Prefix111    Prefix112             Prefix121     Prefix122
   .                                       1.1/16


                        Figure 33: Fabric partition

   Figure 33 shows the arguably a more catastrophic but also a more
   interesting case.  Spine 21 is completely severed from access to
   Prefix 121 (we use in the figure 1.1/16 as example) by double link
   failure.  However unlikely, if left unresolved, forwarding from leaf
   111 and leaf 112 to prefix 121 would suffer 50% black-holing based on
   pure default route advertisements by Top-of-Fabric 21 and ToF 22.

   The mechanism used to resolve this scenario is hinging on the
   distribution of southbound representation by Top-of-Fabric 21 that is
   reflected by spine 111 and spine 112 to ToF 22.  Spine 22, having
   computed reachability to all prefixes in the network, advertises with
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   neighbors that ToF 21 does not show an adjacency to.  That results in
   spine 111 and spine 112 obtaining a longest-prefix match to prefix
   121 which leads through ToF 22 and prevents black-holing through ToF
   21 still advertising the 0/0 aggregate only.

   The prefix 121 advertised by Top-of-Fabric 22 does not have to be
   propagated further towards leafs since they do no benefit from this
   information.  Hence the amount of flooding is restricted to ToF 21
   reissuing its S-TIEs and south reflection of those by spine 111 and
   spine 112.  The resulting SPF in ToF 22 issues a new prefix S-TIEs
   containing 1.1/16.  None of the leafs become aware of the changes and
   the failure is constrained strictly to the level that became
   partitioned.

   To finish with an example of the resulting sets computed using
   notation introduced in Section 5.2.5, Top-of-Fabric 22 constructs the
   following sets:

      |R = Prefix 111, Prefix 112, Prefix 121, Prefix 122

      |H (for r=Prefix 111) = Spine 111, Spine 112

      |H (for r=Prefix 112) = Spine 111, Spine 112

      |H (for r=Prefix 121) = Spine 121, Spine 122

      |H (for r=Prefix 122) = Spine 121, Spine 122

      |A (for Spine 21) = Spine 111, Spine 112

   With that and |H (for r=prefix 121) and |H (for r=prefix 122) being
   disjoint from |A (for Top-of-Fabric 21), ToF 22 will originate an
   S-TIE with prefix 121 and prefix 122, that is flooded to spines 112,
   112, 121 and 122.

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         .   +                  +                  +
         .   X N1               | N2               | N3
         .   X                  |                  |
         .+--+----+          +--+----+          +--+-----+
         .|       |0/0>  <0/0|       |0/0>  <0/0|        |
         .|  A01  +----------+  A02  +----------+  A03   | Level 1
         .++-+-+--+          ++--+--++          +---+-+-++
         . | | |              |  |  |               | | |
         . | | +----------------------------------+ | | |
         . | |                |  |  |             | | | |
         . | +-------------+  |  |  |  +--------------+ |
         . |               |  |  |  |  |          | |   |
         . | +----------------+  |  +-----------------+ |
         . | |             |     |     |          | | | |
         . | | +------------------------------------+ | |
         . | | |           |     |     |          |   | |
         .++-+-+--+        | +---+---+ |        +-+---+-++
         .|       |        +-+       +-+        |        |
         .|  L01  |          |  L02  |          |  L03   | Level 0
         .+-------+          +-------+          +--------+


                    Figure 34: North Partitioned Router

   Figure 34 shows a part of a fabric where level 1 is horizontally
   connected and A01 lost its only northbound adjacency.  Based on N-SPF
   rules in Section 5.2.4.1 A01 will compute northbound reachability by
   using the link A01 to A02 (whereas A02 will NOT use this link during
   N-SPF).  Hence A01 will still advertise the default towards level 0
   and route unidirectionally using the horizontal link.

   As further consideration, the moment A02 looses link N2 the situation
   evolves again.  A01 will have no more northbound reachability while
   still seeing A03 advertising northbound adjacencies in its south node
   tie.  With that it will stop advertising a default route due to
   Section 5.2.3.8.

6.5.  Multi-Plane Fabric and Negative Disaggregation

   TODO

7.  Implementation and Operation: Further Details

7.1.  Considerations for Leaf-Only Implementation

   RIFT can and is intended to be stretched to the lowest level in the
   IP fabric to integrate ToRs or even servers.  Since those entities
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   version is significantly simpler to implement and requires much less
   resources:

   1.  Under normal conditions, the leaf needs to support a multipath
       default route only.  In most catastrophic partitioning case it
       has to be capable of accommodating all the leaf routes in its own
       PoD to prevent black-holing.

   2.  Leaf nodes hold only their own N-TIEs and S-TIEs of Level 1 nodes
       they are connected to; so overall few in numbers.

   3.  Leaf node does not have to support any type of de-aggregation
       computation or propagation.

   4.  Leaf nodes do not have to support overload bit normally.

   5.  Unless optional leaf-2-leaf procedures are desired default route
       origination and S-TIE origination is unnecessary.

7.2.  Considerations for Spine Implementation

   In case of spines, i.e. nodes that will never act as Top of Fabric a
   full implementation is not required, specifically the node does not
   need to perform any computation of negative disaggregation except
   respecting northbound disaggregation advertised from the north.

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                         .  +-----+        +-----+
                         .  |     |        |     |
                         .+-+ S0  |        | S1  |
                         .| ++---++        ++---++
                         .|  |   |          |   |
                         .|  | +------------+   |
                         .|  | | +------------+ |
                         .|  | |              | |
                         .| ++-+--+        +--+-++
                         .| |     |        |     |
                         .| | A0  |        | A1  |
                         .| +-+--++        ++---++
                         .|   |  |          |   |
                         .|   |  +------------+ |
                         .|   | +-----------+ | |
                         .|   | |             | |
                         .| +-+-+-+        +--+-++
                         .+-+     |        |     |
                         .  | L0  |        | L1  |
                         .  +-----+        +-----+


                         Figure 35: Level Shortcut

   Strictly speaking, RIFT is not limited to Clos variations only.  The
   protocol preconditions only a sense of 'compass rose direction'
   achieved by configuration (or derivation) of levels and other
   topologies are possible within this framework.  So, conceptually, one
   could include leaf to leaf links and even shortcut between levels but
   certain requirements in Section 4 will not be met anymore.  As an
   example, shortcutting levels illustrated in Figure 35 will lead
   either to suboptimal routing when L0 sends traffic to L1 (since using
   S0's default route will lead to the traffic being sent back to A0 or
   A1) or the leafs need each other's routes installed to understand
   that only A0 and A1 should be used to talk to each other.

   Whether such modifications of topology constraints make sense is
   dependent on many technology variables and the exhausting treatment
   of the topic is definitely outside the scope of this document.

7.4.  Originating Non-Default Route Southbound

   Obviously, an implementation may choose to originate southbound
   instead of a strict default route (as described in Section 5.2.3.8) a
   shorter prefix P' but in such a scenario all addresses carried within
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8.  Security Considerations

8.1.  General

   One can consider attack vectors where a router may reboot many times
   while changing its system ID and pollute the network with many stale
   TIEs or TIEs are sent with very long lifetimes and not cleaned up
   when the routes vanishes.  Those attack vectors are not unique to
   RIFT.  Given large memory footprints available today those attacks
   should be relatively benign.  Otherwise a node SHOULD implement a
   strategy of discarding contents of all TIEs that were not present in
   the SPF tree over a certain, configurable period of time.  Since the
   protocol, like all modern link-state protocols, is self-stabilizing
   and will advertise the presence of such TIEs to its neighbors, they
   can be re-requested again if a computation finds that it sees an
   adjacency formed towards the system ID of the discarded TIEs.

8.2.  ZTP

   Section 5.2.7 presents many attack vectors in untrusted environments,
   starting with nodes that oscillate their level offers to the
   possiblity of a node offering a three way adjacency with the highest
   possible level value with a very long holdtime trying to put itself
   "on top of the lattice" and with that gaining access to the whole
   southbound topology.  Session authentication mechanisms are necessary
   in environments where this is possible and RIFT provides the
   according security envelope to ensure this if desired.

8.3.  Lifetime

   Traditional IGP protocols are vulnerable to lifetime modification and
   replay attacks that can be somewhat mitigated by using techniques
   like [RFC7987].  RIFT removes this attack vector by protecting the
   lifetime behind a signature computed over it and additional nonce
   combination which makes even the replay attack window very small and
   for practical purposes irrelevant since lifetime cannot be
   artificially shortened by the attacker.

8.4.  Packet Number

   Optional packet number is carried in the security envelope without
   any encryption protection and is hence vulnerable to replay and
   modification attacks.  Contrary to nonces this number must change on
   every packet and would present a very high cryptographic load if
   signed.  The attack vector packet number present is relatively
   benign.  Changing the packet number by a man-in-the-middle attack
   will only affect operational validation tools and possibly some
   performance optimizations on flooding.  It is expected that an



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   implementation detecting too many "fake losses" or "misorderings" due
   to the attack on the packet number would simply suppress its further
   processing.

8.5.  Outer Fingerprint Attacks

   A node can try to inject LIE packets observing a conversation on the
   wire by using the outer key ID albeit it cannot generate valid hashes
   in case it changes the integrity of the message so the only possible
   attack is DoS due to excessive LIE validation.

   A node can try to replay previous LIEs with changed state that it
   recorded but the attack is hard to replicate since the nonce
   combination must match the ongoing exchange and is then limited to a
   single flap only since both nodes will advance their nonces in case
   the adjacency state changed.  Even in the most unlikely case the
   attack length is limited due to both sides periodically increasing
   their nonces.

8.6.  TIE Origin Fingerprint DoS Attacks

   A compromised node can attempt to generate "fake TIEs" using other
   nodes' TIE origin key identifiers.  Albeit the ultimate validation of
   the origin fingerprint will fail in such scenarios and not progress
   further than immediately peering nodes, the resulting denial of
   service attack seems unavoidable since the TIE origin key id is only
   protected by the, here assumed to be compromised, node.

9.  IANA Considerations

   This specification will request at an opportune time multiple
   registry points to exchange protocol packets in a standardized way,
   amongst them multicast address assignments and standard port numbers.
   The schema itself defines many values and codepoints which can be
   considered registries themselves.

10.  Acknowledgments

   A new routing protocol in its complexity is not a product of a parent
   but of a village as the author list shows already.  However, many
   more people provided input, fine-combed the specification based on
   their experience in design or implementation.  This section will make
   an inadequate attempt in recording their contribution.

   Many thanks to Naiming Shen for some of the early discussions around
   the topic of using IGPs for routing in topologies related to Clos.
   Russ White to be especially acknowledged for the key conversation on
   epistomology that allowed to tie current asynchronous distributed



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   systems theory results to a modern protocol design presented here.
   Adrian Farrel, Joel Halpern, Jeffrey Zhang, Krzysztof Szarkowicz,
   Nagendra Kumar provided thoughtful comments that improved the
   readability of the document and found good amount of corners where
   the light failed to shine.  Kris Price was first to mention single
   router, single arm default considerations.  Jeff Tantsura helped out
   with some initial thoughts on BFD interactions while Jeff Haas
   corrected several misconceptions about BFD's finer points.  Artur
   Makutunowicz pointed out many possible improvements and acted as
   sounding board in regard to modern protocol implementation techniques
   RIFT is exploring.  Barak Gafni formalized first time clearly the
   problem of partitioned spine and fallen leafs on a (clean) napkin in
   Singapore that led to the very important part of the specification
   centered around multiple Top-of-Fabric planes and negative
   disaggregation.  Igor Gashinsky and others shared many thoughts on
   problems encountered in design and operation of large-scale data
   center fabrics.  Xu Benchong found a delicate error in the flooding
   procedures while implementing.

11.  References

11.1.  Normative References

   [ISO10589]
              ISO "International Organization for Standardization",
              "Intermediate system to Intermediate system intra-domain
              routeing information exchange protocol for use in
              conjunction with the protocol for providing the
              connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473), ISO/IEC
              10589:2002, Second Edition.", Nov 2002.

   [RFC1982]  Elz, R. and R. Bush, "Serial Number Arithmetic", RFC 1982,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC1982, August 1996,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1982>.

   [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>.

   [RFC2328]  Moy, J., "OSPF Version 2", STD 54, RFC 2328,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2328, April 1998,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2328>.

   [RFC2365]  Meyer, D., "Administratively Scoped IP Multicast", BCP 23,
              RFC 2365, DOI 10.17487/RFC2365, July 1998,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2365>.




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   [RFC4271]  Rekhter, Y., Ed., Li, T., Ed., and S. Hares, Ed., "A
              Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4271, January 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4271>.

   [RFC4291]  Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
              Architecture", RFC 4291, DOI 10.17487/RFC4291, February
              2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4291>.

   [RFC5082]  Gill, V., Heasley, J., Meyer, D., Savola, P., Ed., and C.
              Pignataro, "The Generalized TTL Security Mechanism
              (GTSM)", RFC 5082, DOI 10.17487/RFC5082, October 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5082>.

   [RFC5120]  Przygienda, T., Shen, N., and N. Sheth, "M-ISIS: Multi
              Topology (MT) Routing in Intermediate System to
              Intermediate Systems (IS-ISs)", RFC 5120,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5120, February 2008,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5120>.

   [RFC5303]  Katz, D., Saluja, R., and D. Eastlake 3rd, "Three-Way
              Handshake for IS-IS Point-to-Point Adjacencies", RFC 5303,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5303, October 2008,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5303>.

   [RFC5709]  Bhatia, M., Manral, V., Fanto, M., White, R., Barnes, M.,
              Li, T., and R. Atkinson, "OSPFv2 HMAC-SHA Cryptographic
              Authentication", RFC 5709, DOI 10.17487/RFC5709, October
              2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5709>.

   [RFC5881]  Katz, D. and D. Ward, "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection
              (BFD) for IPv4 and IPv6 (Single Hop)", RFC 5881,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5881, June 2010,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5881>.

   [RFC5905]  Mills, D., Martin, J., Ed., Burbank, J., and W. Kasch,
              "Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms
              Specification", RFC 5905, DOI 10.17487/RFC5905, June 2010,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5905>.

   [RFC7752]  Gredler, H., Ed., Medved, J., Previdi, S., Farrel, A., and
              S. Ray, "North-Bound Distribution of Link-State and
              Traffic Engineering (TE) Information Using BGP", RFC 7752,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7752, March 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7752>.






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   [RFC7987]  Ginsberg, L., Wells, P., Decraene, B., Przygienda, T., and
              H. Gredler, "IS-IS Minimum Remaining Lifetime", RFC 7987,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7987, October 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7987>.

   [RFC8200]  Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
              (IPv6) Specification", STD 86, RFC 8200,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8200, July 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8200>.

   [RFC8202]  Ginsberg, L., Previdi, S., and W. Henderickx, "IS-IS
              Multi-Instance", RFC 8202, DOI 10.17487/RFC8202, June
              2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8202>.

   [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>.

   [RFC8505]  Thubert, P., Ed., Nordmark, E., Chakrabarti, S., and C.
              Perkins, "Registration Extensions for IPv6 over Low-Power
              Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) Neighbor
              Discovery", RFC 8505, DOI 10.17487/RFC8505, November 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8505>.

11.2.  Informative References

   [CLOS]     Yuan, X., "On Nonblocking Folded-Clos Networks in Computer
              Communication Environments", IEEE International Parallel &
              Distributed Processing Symposium, 2011.

   [DIJKSTRA]
              Dijkstra, E., "A Note on Two Problems in Connexion with
              Graphs", Journal Numer. Math. , 1959.

   [DOT]      Ellson, J. and L. Koutsofios, "Graphviz: open source graph
              drawing tools", Springer-Verlag , 2001.

   [DYNAMO]   De Candia et al., G., "Dynamo: amazon's highly available
              key-value store", ACM SIGOPS symposium on Operating
              systems principles (SOSP '07), 2007.

   [EPPSTEIN]
              Eppstein, D., "Finding the k-Shortest Paths", 1997.







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   [EUI64]    IEEE, "Guidelines for Use of Extended Unique Identifier
              (EUI), Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI), and
              Company ID (CID)", IEEE EUI,
              <http://standards.ieee.org/develop/regauth/tut/eui.pdf>.

   [FATTREE]  Leiserson, C., "Fat-Trees: Universal Networks for
              Hardware-Efficient Supercomputing", 1985.

   [IEEEstd1588]
              IEEE, "IEEE Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization
              Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems",
              IEEE Standard 1588,
              <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4579760/>.

   [IEEEstd8021AS]
              IEEE, "IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area
              Networks - Timing and Synchronization for Time-Sensitive
              Applications in Bridged Local Area Networks",
              IEEE Standard 802.1AS,
              <https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5741898/>.

   [ISO10589-Second-Edition]
              International Organization for Standardization,
              "Intermediate system to Intermediate system intra-domain
              routeing information exchange protocol for use in
              conjunction with the protocol for providing the
              connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473)", Nov 2002.

   [MAKSIC2013]
              Maksic et al., N., "Improving Utilization of Data Center
              Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine, Nov 2013.

   [RFC0826]  Plummer, D., "An Ethernet Address Resolution Protocol: Or
              Converting Network Protocol Addresses to 48.bit Ethernet
              Address for Transmission on Ethernet Hardware", STD 37,
              RFC 826, DOI 10.17487/RFC0826, November 1982,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc826>.

   [RFC2131]  Droms, R., "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol",
              RFC 2131, DOI 10.17487/RFC2131, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2131>.

   [RFC3626]  Clausen, T., Ed. and P. Jacquet, Ed., "Optimized Link
              State Routing Protocol (OLSR)", RFC 3626,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3626, October 2003,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3626>.





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   [RFC4655]  Farrel, A., Vasseur, J., and J. Ash, "A Path Computation
              Element (PCE)-Based Architecture", RFC 4655,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4655, August 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4655>.

   [RFC4861]  Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H. Soliman,
              "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6 (IPv6)", RFC 4861,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, September 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.

   [RFC4862]  Thomson, S., Narten, T., and T. Jinmei, "IPv6 Stateless
              Address Autoconfiguration", RFC 4862,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4862, September 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4862>.

   [RFC6518]  Lebovitz, G. and M. Bhatia, "Keying and Authentication for
              Routing Protocols (KARP) Design Guidelines", RFC 6518,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6518, February 2012,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6518>.

   [RFC7855]  Previdi, S., Ed., Filsfils, C., Ed., Decraene, B.,
              Litkowski, S., Horneffer, M., and R. Shakir, "Source
              Packet Routing in Networking (SPRING) Problem Statement
              and Requirements", RFC 7855, DOI 10.17487/RFC7855, May
              2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7855>.

   [RFC7938]  Lapukhov, P., Premji, A., and J. Mitchell, Ed., "Use of
              BGP for Routing in Large-Scale Data Centers", RFC 7938,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7938, August 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7938>.

   [RFC8415]  Mrugalski, T., Siodelski, M., Volz, B., Yourtchenko, A.,
              Richardson, M., Jiang, S., Lemon, T., and T. Winters,
              "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6)",
              RFC 8415, DOI 10.17487/RFC8415, November 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8415>.

   [VAHDAT08]
              Al-Fares, M., Loukissas, A., and A. Vahdat, "A Scalable,
              Commodity Data Center Network Architecture", SIGCOMM ,
              2008.

   [Wikipedia]
              Wikipedia,
              "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_number_arithmetic",
              2016.





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Appendix A.  Sequence Number Binary Arithmetic

   The only reasonably reference to a cleaner than [RFC1982] sequence
   number solution is given in [Wikipedia].  It basically converts the
   problem into two complement's arithmetic.  Assuming a straight two
   complement's substractions on the bit-width of the sequence number
   the according >: and =: relations are defined as:

      U_1, U_2 are 12-bits aligned unsigned version number

      D_f is  ( U_1 - U_2 ) interpreted as two complement signed 12-bits
      D_b is  ( U_2 - U_1 ) interpreted as two complement signed 12-bits

      U_1 >: U_2 IIF D_f > 0 AND D_b < 0
      U_1 =: U_2 IIF D_f = 0

   The >: relationsship is symmetric but not transitive.  Observe that
   this leaves the case of the numbers having maximum two complement
   distance, e.g. ( 0 and 0x800 ) undefined in our 12-bits case since
   D_f and D_b are both -0x7ff.

   A simple example of the relationship in case of 3-bit arithmetic
   follows as table indicating D_f/D_b values and then the relationship
   of U_1 to U_2:

           U2 / U1   0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7
           0        +/+  +/-  +/-  +/-  -/-  -/+  -/+  -/+
           1        -/+  +/+  +/-  +/-  +/-  -/-  -/+  -/+
           2        -/+  -/+  +/+  +/-  +/-  +/-  -/-  -/+
           3        -/+  -/+  -/+  +/+  +/-  +/-  +/-  -/-
           4        -/-  -/+  -/+  -/+  +/+  +/-  +/-  +/-
           5        +/-  -/-  -/+  -/+  -/+  +/+  +/-  +/-
           6        +/-  +/-  -/-  -/+  -/+  -/+  +/+  +/-
           7        +/-  +/-  +/-  -/-  -/+  -/+  -/+  +/+

          U2 / U1   0    1    2    3    4    5    6    7
          0         =    >    >    >    ?    <    <    <
          1         <    =    >    >    >    ?    <    <
          2         <    <    =    >    >    >    ?    <
          3         <    <    <    =    >    >    >    ?
          4         ?    <    <    <    =    >    >    >
          5         >    ?    <    <    <    =    >    >
          6         >    >    ?    <    <    <    =    >
          7         >    >    >    ?    <    <    <    =







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Appendix B.  Information Elements Schema

   This section introduces the schema for information elements.

   On schema changes that

   1.   change field numbers or

   2.   add new *required* fields or

   3.   remove any fields or

   4.   change lists into sets, unions into structures or

   5.   change multiplicity of fields or

   6.   changes name of any field or type or

   7.   change datatypes of any field or

   8.   adds, changes or removes a default value of any *existing* field
        or

   9.   removes or changes any defined constant or constant value or

   10.  changes any enumeration type except extending `common.TIEType`
        (use of enumeration types is generally discouraged)

   major version of the schema MUST increase.  All other changes MUST
   increase minor version within the same major.

   Observe however that introducing an optional field does not cause a
   major version increase even if the fields inside the structure are
   optional with defaults.

   All signed integer as forced by Thrift support must be cast for
   internal purposes to equivalent unsigned values without discarding
   the signedness bit.  An implementation SHOULD try to avoid using the
   signedness bit when generating values.

   The schema is normative.

B.1.  common.thrift


/**
    Thrift file with common definitions for RIFT
*/



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/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned 64 bits.
 *        The implementation SHOULD NOT use the MSB.
 */
typedef i64      SystemIDType
typedef i32      IPv4Address
/** this has to be of length long enough to accomodate prefix */
typedef binary   IPv6Address
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned */
typedef i16      UDPPortType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned */
typedef i32      TIENrType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned */
typedef i32      MTUSizeType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned rollling over number */
typedef i16      SeqNrType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned */
typedef i32      LifeTimeInSecType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned */
typedef i8       LevelType
/** optional, recommended monotonically increasing number _per packet type per adjacency_
    that can be used to detect losses/misordering/restarts.
    This will be moved into envelope in the future.
    @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned rollling over number */
typedef i16      PacketNumberType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned */
typedef i32      PodType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned. This is carried in the
          security envelope and MUST fit into 8 bits. */
typedef i8       VersionType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned */
typedef i16      MinorVersionType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned */
typedef i32      MetricType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned and unstructured */
typedef i64      RouteTagType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unstructured label value */
typedef i32      LabelType
/** @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned */
typedef i32      BandwithInMegaBitsType
/** @note Key Value key ID type */
typedef string   KeyIDType
/** node local, unique identification for a link (interface/tunnel
  * etc. Basically anything RIFT runs on). This is kept
  * at 32 bits so it aligns with BFD [RFC5880] discriminator size.
  */
typedef i32    LinkIDType
typedef string KeyNameType
typedef i8     PrefixLenType



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/** timestamp in seconds since the epoch */
typedef i64    TimestampInSecsType
/** security nonce.
 *  @note MUST be interpreted in implementation as rolling over unsigned value */
typedef i16    NonceType
/** LIE FSM holdtime type */
typedef i16    TimeIntervalInSecType
/** Transaction ID type for prefix mobility as specified by RFC6550,  value
    MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned  */
typedef i8     PrefixTransactionIDType
/** timestamp per IEEE 802.1AS, values MUST be interpreted in implementation as unsigned  */
struct IEEE802_1ASTimeStampType {
    1: required     i64     AS_sec;
    2: optional     i32     AS_nsec;
}
/** generic counter type */
typedef i64 CounterType
/** Platform Interface Index type, i.e. index of interface on hardware, can be used e.g. with
    RFC5837 */
typedef i32 PlatformInterfaceIndex

/** Flags indicating nodes behavior in case of ZTP and support
    for special optimization procedures. It will force level to `leaf_level` or
    `top-of-fabric` level accordingly and enable according procedures
 */
enum HierarchyIndications {
    leaf_only                            = 0,
    leaf_only_and_leaf_2_leaf_procedures = 1,
    top_of_fabric                        = 2,
}

const PacketNumberType  undefined_packet_number    = 0
/** This MUST be used when node is configured as top of fabric in ZTP.
    This is kept reasonably low to alow for fast ZTP convergence on
    failures. */
const LevelType   top_of_fabric_level              = 24
/** default bandwidth on a link */
const BandwithInMegaBitsType  default_bandwidth    = 100
/** fixed leaf level when ZTP is not used */
const LevelType   leaf_level                  = 0
const LevelType   default_level               = leaf_level
const PodType     default_pod                 = 0
const LinkIDType  undefined_linkid            = 0

/** default distance used */
const MetricType  default_distance         = 1
/** any distance larger than this will be considered infinity */
const MetricType  infinite_distance       = 0x7FFFFFFF



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/** represents invalid distance */
const MetricType  invalid_distance        = 0
const bool overload_default               = false
const bool flood_reduction_default        = true
/** default LIE FSM holddown time */
const TimeIntervalInSecType   default_lie_holdtime  = 3
/** default ZTP FSM holddown time */
const TimeIntervalInSecType   default_ztp_holdtime  = 1
/** by default LIE levels are ZTP offers */
const bool default_not_a_ztp_offer        = false
/** by default e'one is repeating flooding */
const bool default_you_are_flood_repeater = true
/** 0 is illegal for SystemID */
const SystemIDType IllegalSystemID        = 0
/** empty set of nodes */
const set<SystemIDType> empty_set_of_nodeids = {}
/** default lifetime of TIE is one week */
const LifeTimeInSecType default_lifetime      = 604800
/** default lifetime when TIEs are purged is 5 minutes */
const LifeTimeInSecType purge_lifetime        = 300
/** round down interval when TIEs are sent with security hashes
    to prevent excessive computation. **/
const LifeTimeInSecType rounddown_lifetime_interval = 60
/** any `TieHeader` that has a smaller lifetime difference
    than this constant is equal (if other fields equal). This
    constant MUST be larger than `purge_lifetime` to avoid
    retransmissions */
const LifeTimeInSecType lifetime_diff2ignore  = 400

/** default UDP port to run LIEs on */
const UDPPortType     default_lie_udp_port       =  911
/** default UDP port to receive TIEs on, that can be peer specific */
const UDPPortType     default_tie_udp_flood_port =  912

/** default MTU link size to use */
const MTUSizeType     default_mtu_size           = 1400
/** default link being BFD capable */
const bool            bfd_default                = true

/** undefined nonce, equivalent to missing nonce */
const NonceType       undefined_nonce            = 0;
/** outer security key id */
typedef i8            OuterSecurityKeyID
/** outer security key id */
typedef i32           InnerSecurityKeyID
/** security key id */
typedef i32           TIESecurityKeyID
/** undefined key */



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const TIESecurityKeyID undefined_securitykey_id   = 0;
/** Maximum delta (negative or positive) that a mirrored nonce can
    deviate from local value to be considered valid. If nonces are
    changed every minute on both sides this opens statistically
    a `maximum_valid_nonce_delta` minutes window of identical LIEs,
    TIE, TI(x)E replays.
    The interval cannot be too small since LIE FSM may change
    states fairly quickly during ZTP without sending LIEs*/
const i16             maximum_valid_nonce_delta  = 5;

/** indicates whether the direction is northbound/east-west
  * or southbound */
enum TieDirectionType {
    Illegal           = 0,
    South             = 1,
    North             = 2,
    DirectionMaxValue = 3,
}

enum AddressFamilyType {
   Illegal                = 0,
   AddressFamilyMinValue  = 1,
   IPv4     = 2,
   IPv6     = 3,
   AddressFamilyMaxValue  = 4,
}

struct IPv4PrefixType {
    1: required IPv4Address    address;
    2: required PrefixLenType  prefixlen;
}

struct IPv6PrefixType {
    1: required IPv6Address    address;
    2: required PrefixLenType  prefixlen;
}

union IPAddressType {
    1: optional IPv4Address   ipv4address;
    2: optional IPv6Address   ipv6address;
}

/** Prefix representing reachablity. Observe that for interface
    addresses the protocol can propagate the address part beyond
    the subnet mask and on reachability computation that has to
    be normalized. The non-significant bits can be used for operational
    purposes.
*/



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union IPPrefixType {
    1: optional IPv4PrefixType   ipv4prefix;
    2: optional IPv6PrefixType   ipv6prefix;
}

/** @note: Sequence of a prefix. Comparison function:
    if diff(timestamps) < 200msecs better transactionid wins
    else better time wins
 */
struct PrefixSequenceType {
    1: required IEEE802_1ASTimeStampType  timestamp;
    2: optional PrefixTransactionIDType   transactionid;
}

/** Type of TIE.

    This enum indicates what TIE type the TIE is carrying.
    In case the value is not known to the receiver,
    re-flooded the same way as prefix TIEs. This allows for
    future extensions of the protocol within the same schema major
    with types opaque to some nodes unless the flooding scope is not
    the same as prefix TIE, then a major version revision MUST
    be performed.
*/
enum TIETypeType {
    Illegal                             = 0,
    TIETypeMinValue                     = 1,
    /** first legal value */
    NodeTIEType                         = 2,
    PrefixTIEType                       = 3,
    PositiveDisaggregationPrefixTIEType = 4,
    NegativeDisaggregationPrefixTIEType = 5,
    PGPrefixTIEType                     = 6,
    KeyValueTIEType                     = 7,
    ExternalPrefixTIEType               = 8,
    TIETypeMaxValue                     = 9,
}

/** @note: route types which MUST be ordered on their preference
    PGP prefixes are most preferred attracting
    traffic north (towards spine) and then south
    normal prefixes are attracting traffic south (towards leafs),
    i.e. prefix in NORTH PREFIX TIE is preferred over SOUTH PREFIX TIE.

    @note: The only purpose of those values is to introduce an
           ordering whereas an implementation can choose internally
           any other values as long the ordering is preserved
 */



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enum RouteType {
    Illegal               =  0,
    RouteTypeMinValue     =  1,
    /** First legal value. */
    /** Discard routes are most prefered */
    Discard               =  2,

    /** Local prefixes are directly attached prefixes on the
     *  system such as e.g. interface routes.
     */
    LocalPrefix           =  3,
    /** advertised in S-TIEs */
    SouthPGPPrefix        =  4,
    /** advertised in N-TIEs */
    NorthPGPPrefix        =  5,
    /** advertised in N-TIEs */
    NorthPrefix           =  6,
    /** externally imported north */
    NorthExternalPrefix   =  7,
    /** advertised in S-TIEs, either normal prefix or positive disaggregation */
    SouthPrefix           =  8,
    /** externally imported south */
    SouthExternalPrefix   =  9,
    /** negative, transitive prefixes are least preferred of
        local variety */
    NegativeSouthPrefix   = 10,
    RouteTypeMaxValue     = 11,
}


B.2.  encoding.thrift


/**
    Thrift file for packet encodings for RIFT
*/

include "common.thrift"

/**
    Thrift file for packet encodings for RIFT

    Copyright (c) Juniper Networks, Inc., 2016-
    All rights reserved.
*/

include "common.thrift"




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namespace rs models
namespace py encoding

/** represents protocol encoding schema major version */
const common.VersionType protocol_major_version = 2
/** represents protocol encoding schema minor version */
const common.MinorVersionType protocol_minor_version =  0

/** common RIFT packet header */
struct PacketHeader {
    1: required common.VersionType major_version = protocol_major_version;
    2: required common.VersionType minor_version = protocol_minor_version;
    /** this is the node sending the packet, in case of LIE/TIRE/TIDE
        also the originator of it */
    3: required common.SystemIDType  sender;
    /** level of the node sending the packet, required on everything except
      * LIEs. Lack of presence on LIEs indicates UNDEFINED_LEVEL and is used
      * in ZTP procedures.
     */
    4: optional common.LevelType            level;
}

/** Community serves as community for PGP purposes */
struct Community {
    1: required i32          top;
    2: required i32          bottom;
}

/** Neighbor structure  */
struct Neighbor {
    1: required common.SystemIDType        originator;
    2: required common.LinkIDType          remote_id;
}

/** Capabilities the node supports. The schema may add to this
    field future capabilities to indicate whether it will support
    interpretation of future schema extensions on the same major
    revision. Such fields MUST be optional and have an implicit or
    explicit false default value. If a future capability changes route
    selection or generates blackholes if some nodes are not supporting
    it then a major version increment is unavoidable.
*/
struct NodeCapabilities {
    /** can this node participate in flood reduction */
    1: optional bool                           flood_reduction =
            common.flood_reduction_default;
    /** does this node restrict itself to be top-of-fabric or
        leaf only (in ZTP) and does it support leaf-2-leaf procedures */



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    2: optional common.HierarchyIndications    hierarchy_indications;
}

/* Link capabilities */
struct LinkCapabilities {
    /* indicates that the link's `local ID` can be used as its BFD
       discriminator and the link is supporting BFD */
    1: optional bool                           bfd =
            common.bfd_default;
}

/** RIFT LIE packet

    @note this node's level is already included on the packet header */
struct LIEPacket {
    /** optional node or adjacency name */
    1: optional string                        name;
    /** local link ID */
    2: required common.LinkIDType             local_id;
    /** UDP port to which we can receive flooded TIEs */
    3: required common.UDPPortType            flood_port =
            common.default_tie_udp_flood_port;
    /** layer 3 MTU, used to discover to mismatch. */
    4: optional common.MTUSizeType            link_mtu_size =
            common.default_mtu_size;
    /** local link bandwidth on the interface */
    5: optional common.BandwithInMegaBitsType link_bandwidth =
            common.default_bandwidth;
    /** this will reflect the neighbor once received to provide
        3-way connectivity */
    6: optional Neighbor                      neighbor;
    7: optional common.PodType                pod =
            common.default_pod;
    /** optional node capabilities shown in the LIE. The capabilies
        MUST match the capabilities shown in the Node TIEs, otherwise
        the behavior is unspecified. A node detecting the mismatch
        SHOULD generate according error */
   10: optional NodeCapabilities              node_capabilities;
   11: optional LinkCapabilities              link_capabilities;
   /** required holdtime of the adjacency, i.e. how much time
       MUST expire without LIE for the adjacency to drop */
   12: required common.TimeIntervalInSecType  holdtime =
            common.default_lie_holdtime;
   /** optional downstream assigned locally significant label
       value for the adjacency */
   13: optional common.LabelType              label;
    /** indicates that the level on the LIE MUST NOT be used
        to derive a ZTP level by the receiving node */



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   21: optional bool                          not_a_ztp_offer =
            common.default_not_a_ztp_offer;
   /** indicates to northbound neighbor that it should
       be reflooding this node's N-TIEs to achieve flood reduction and
       balancing for northbound flooding. To be ignored if received from a
       northbound adjacency */
   22: optional bool                          you_are_flood_repeater =
             common.default_you_are_flood_repeater;
   /** can be optionally set to indicate to neighbor that packet losses are seen on
       reception based on packet numbers or the rate is too high. The receiver SHOULD
       temporarily slow down flooding rates.
    */
   23: optional bool                          you_are_sending_too_quickly =
             false;

}

/** LinkID pair describes one of parallel links between two nodes */
struct LinkIDPair {
    /** node-wide unique value for the local link */
    1: required common.LinkIDType      local_id;
    /** received remote link ID for this link */
    2: required common.LinkIDType      remote_id;

    /** optionally describes the local interface index of the link */
   10: optional common.PlatformInterfaceIndex       platform_interface_index;
   /** optionally describes the local interface name */
   11: optional string                              platform_interface_name;
   /** optional indication whether the link is secured, i.e. protected by outer key, absence
       of this element means no indication, undefined outer key means not secured */
   12: optional common.OuterSecurityKeyID           trusted_outer_security_key;
    /** more properties of the link can go in here */
}

/** ID of a TIE

    @note: TIEID space is a total order achieved by comparing the elements
           in sequence defined and comparing each value as an
           unsigned integer of according length.
*/
struct TIEID {
    /** indicates direction of the TIE */
    1: required common.TieDirectionType    direction;
    /** indicates originator of the TIE */
    2: required common.SystemIDType        originator;
    3: required common.TIETypeType         tietype;
    4: required common.TIENrType           tie_nr;
}



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/** Header of a TIE.

   @note: TIEID space is a total order achieved by comparing the elements
              in sequence defined and comparing each value as an
              unsigned integer of according length.

              After sequence number the lifetime received on the envelope
              must be used for comparison before further fields.

              `origination_time` and `origination_lifetime` are disregarded
              for comparison purposes and carried purely for debugging/security
              purposes if present.
*/
struct TIEHeader {
    2: required TIEID                             tieid;
    3: required common.SeqNrType                  seq_nr;

    /** optional absolute timestamp when the TIE
        was generated. This can be used on fabrics with
        synchronized clock to prevent lifetime modification attacks. */
   10: optional common.IEEE802_1ASTimeStampType   origination_time;
   /** optional original lifetime when the TIE
       was generated. This can be used on fabrics with
       synchronized clock to prevent lifetime modification attacks. */
   12: optional common.LifeTimeInSecType          origination_lifetime;
}

/** Header of a TIE as described in TIRE/TIDE.
*/
struct TIEHeaderWithLifeTime {
    1: required     TIEHeader                         header;
    /** remaining lifetime that expires down to 0 just like in ISIS.
        TIEs with lifetimes differing by less than `lifetime_diff2ignore` MUST
        be considered EQUAL. */
    2: required     common.LifeTimeInSecType          remaining_lifetime;
}

/** A TIDE with sorted TIE headers, if headers unsorted, behavior is undefined */
struct TIDEPacket {
    /** all 00s marks starts */
    1: required TIEID                       start_range;
    /** all FFs mark end */
    2: required TIEID                       end_range;
    /** _sorted_ list of headers */
    3: required list<TIEHeaderWithLifeTime> headers;
}

/** A TIRE packet */



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struct TIREPacket {
    1: required set<TIEHeaderWithLifeTime>  headers;
}

/** Neighbor of a node */
struct NodeNeighborsTIEElement {
    /** Level of neighbor */
    1: required common.LevelType                level;
    /**  Cost to neighbor.

         @note: All parallel links to same node
         incur same cost, in case the neighbor has multiple
         parallel links at different cost, the largest distance
         (highest numerical value) MUST be advertised
         @note: any neighbor with cost <= 0 MUST be ignored in computations */
    3: optional common.MetricType               cost = common.default_distance;
    /** can carry description of multiple parallel links in a TIE */
    4: optional set<LinkIDPair>                 link_ids;

    /** total bandwith to neighbor, this will be normally sum of the
        bandwidths of all the parallel links. */
    5: optional common.BandwithInMegaBitsType   bandwidth =
            common.default_bandwidth;
}

/** Flags the node sets */
struct NodeFlags {
    /** node is in overload, do not transit traffic through it */
    1: optional bool         overload = common.overload_default;
}

/** Description of a node.

    It may occur multiple times in different TIEs but if either
        * capabilities values do not match or
        * flags values do not match or
        * neighbors repeat with different values

    the behavior is undefined and a warning SHOULD be generated.
    Neighbors can be distributed across multiple TIEs however if
    the sets are disjoint. Miscablings SHOULD be repeated in every
    node TIE, otherwise the behavior is undefined.

    @note: observe that absence of fields implies defined defaults
*/
struct NodeTIEElement {
    1: required common.LevelType            level;
    /** If neighbor systemID repeats in other node TIEs of same node



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        the behavior is undefined. */
    2: required map<common.SystemIDType,
                NodeNeighborsTIEElement>    neighbors;
    3: optional NodeCapabilities            capabilities;
    4: optional NodeFlags                   flags;
    /** optional node name for easier operations */
    5: optional string                      name;
    /** PoD to which the node belongs */
    6: optional common.PodType              pod;

    /** if any local links are miscabled, the indication is flooded. */
   10: optional set<common.LinkIDType>      miscabled_links;

}

struct PrefixAttributes {
    2: required common.MetricType            metric = common.default_distance;
    /** generic unordered set of route tags, can be redistributed to other protocols or use
        within the context of real time analytics */
    3: optional set<common.RouteTagType>     tags;
    /** optional monotonic clock for mobile addresses */
    4: optional common.PrefixSequenceType    monotonic_clock;
    /** optionally indicates the interface is a node loopback */
    6: optional bool                         loopback = false;
    /** indicates that the prefix is directly attached, i.e. should be routed to even if
        the node is in overload. **/
    7: optional bool                         directly_attached = true;

    /** in case of locally originated prefixes, i.e. interface addresses this can
        describe which link the address belongs to. */
   10: optional common.LinkIDType            from_link;
}

/** multiple prefixes */
struct PrefixTIEElement {
    /** prefixes with the associated attributes.
        if the same prefix repeats in multiple TIEs of same node
        behavior is unspecified */
    1: required map<common.IPPrefixType, PrefixAttributes> prefixes;
}

/** keys with their values */
struct KeyValueTIEElement {
    /** if the same key repeats in multiple TIEs of same node
        or with different values, behavior is unspecified */
    1: required map<common.KeyIDType,string>    keyvalues;
}




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/** single element in a TIE. enum `common.TIETypeType`
    in TIEID indicates which elements MUST be present
    in the TIEElement. In case of mismatch the unexpected
    elements MUST be ignored. In case of lack of expected
    element the TIE an error MUST be reported and the TIE
    MUST be ignored.

    This type can be extended with new optional elements
    for new `common.TIETypeType` values without breaking
    the major but if it is necessary to understand whether
    all nodes support the new type a node capability must
    be added as well.
 */
union TIEElement {
    /** in case of enum common.TIETypeType.NodeTIEType */
    1: optional NodeTIEElement            node;
    /** in case of enum common.TIETypeType.PrefixTIEType */
    2: optional PrefixTIEElement          prefixes;
    /** positive prefixes (always southbound)
        It MUST NOT be advertised within a North TIE.
    */
    3: optional PrefixTIEElement          positive_disaggregation_prefixes;
    /** transitive, negative prefixes (always southbound) which
        MUST be aggregated and propagated
        according to the specification
        southwards towards lower levels to heal
        pathological upper level partitioning, otherwise
        blackholes may occur in multiplane fabrics.
        It MUST NOT be advertised within a North TIE.
    */
    4: optional PrefixTIEElement          negative_disaggregation_prefixes;
    /** externally reimported prefixes */
    5: optional PrefixTIEElement          external_prefixes;
    /** Key-Value store elements */
    6: optional KeyValueTIEElement        keyvalues;
    /** @todo: policy guided prefixes */
}

struct TIEPacket {
    1: required TIEHeader  header;
    2: required TIEElement element;
}

union PacketContent {
    1: optional LIEPacket     lie;
    2: optional TIDEPacket    tide;
    3: optional TIREPacket    tire;
    4: optional TIEPacket     tie;



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}

/** protocol packet structure */
struct ProtocolPacket {
    1: required PacketHeader  header;
    2: required PacketContent content;
}


Appendix C.  Finite State Machines and Precise Operational
             Specifications

   Some FSM figures are provided as [DOT] description due to limitations
   of ASCII art.

   On Entry action is performed every time and right before the
   according state is entered, i.e. after any transitions from previous
   state.

   On Exit action is performed every time and immediately when a state
   is exited, i.e. before any transitions towards target state are
   performed.

   Any attempt to transition from a state towards another on reception
   of an event where no action is specified MUST be considered an
   unrecoverable error.

   The FSMs and procedures are NOT normative in the sense that an
   implementation MUST implement them literally (which would be
   overspecification) but an implementation MUST exhibit externally
   observable behavior that is identical to the execution of the
   specified FSMs.

   Where a FSM representation is inconvenient, i.e. the amount of
   procedures and kept state exceeds the amount of transitions, we defer
   to a more procedural description on data structures.

C.1.  LIE FSM

   Initial state is `OneWay`.

   Event `MultipleNeighbors` occurs normally when more than two nodes
   see each other on the same link or a remote node is quickly
   reconfigured or rebooted without regressing to `OneWay` first.  Each
   occurence of the event SHOULD generate a clear, according
   notification to help operational deployments.





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   The machine sends LIEs on several transitions to accelerate adjacency
   bring-up without waiting for the timer tic.

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    [label="|HALChanged|\n|HATChanged|\n|HALSChanged|\n|UpdateZTPOffer|"]
    [color="blue"][arrowhead="normal" dir="both" arrowtail="none"];



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    Nd16ab5092c6b421c88da482eb4ae36b6 -> Nfeef2e6859ae4567bd7613a32cc28c0e
    [label="|NeighborDroppedReflection|"]
    [color="red"][arrowhead="normal" dir="both" arrowtail="none"];
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                                LIE FSM DOT


   .. To be updated ..


                              LIE FSM Figure

   Events

   o  TimerTick: one second timer tic

   o  LevelChanged: node's level has been changed by ZTP or
      configuration

   o  HALChanged: best HAL computed by ZTP has changed

   o  HATChanged: HAT computed by ZTP has changed

   o  HALSChanged: set of HAL offering systems computed by ZTP has
      changed

   o  LieRcvd: received LIE

   o  NewNeighbor: new neighbor parsed

   o  ValidReflection: received own reflection from neighbor

   o  NeighborDroppedReflection: lost previous own reflection from
      neighbor

   o  NeighborChangedLevel: neighbor changed advertised level

   o  NeighborChangedAddress: neighbor changed IP address

   o  UnacceptableHeader: unacceptable header seen

   o  MTUMismatch: MTU mismatched

   o  PODMismatch: Unacceptable PoD seen



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   o  HoldtimeExpired: adjacency hold down expired

   o  MultipleNeighbors: more than one neighbor seen on interface

   o  SendLie: send a LIE out

   o  UpdateZTPOffer: update this node's ZTP offer

   Actions

      on TimerTick in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: PUSH SendLie event, if
      holdtime expired PUSH HoldtimeExpired event

      on HALChanged in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: store new HAL

      on MTUMismatch in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HALChanged in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: store new HAL

      on ValidReflection in TwoWay finishes in ThreeWay: no action

      on ValidReflection in OneWay finishes in ThreeWay: no action

      on NeighborDroppedReflection in ThreeWay finishes in TwoWay: no
      action

      on LieRcvd in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: PROCESS_LIE

      on MultipleNeighbors in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on UnacceptableHeader in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on MTUMismatch in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on LevelChanged in OneWay finishes in OneWay: update level with
      event value, PUSH SendLie event

      on UnacceptableHeader in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HALSChanged in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: store HALS

      on UpdateZTPOffer in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: send offer to ZTP
      FSM

      on NeighborChangedLevel in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on NewNeighbor in OneWay finishes in TwoWay: PUSH SendLie event




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      on NeighborChangedAddress in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no
      action

      on HALChanged in OneWay finishes in OneWay: store new HAL

      on NeighborChangedLevel in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HoldtimeExpired in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on SendLie in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: SEND_LIE

      on LevelChanged in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: update level with
      event value

      on NeighborChangedAddress in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HATChanged in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: store HAT

      on LieRcvd in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: PROCESS_LIE

      on MultipleNeighbors in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on MTUMismatch in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on SendLie in OneWay finishes in OneWay: SEND_LIE

      on LieRcvd in OneWay finishes in OneWay: PROCESS_LIE

      on TimerTick in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: PUSH SendLie event,
      if holdtime expired PUSH HoldtimeExpired event

      on TimerTick in OneWay finishes in OneWay: PUSH SendLie event

      on PODMismatch in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on LevelChanged in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: update level with
      event value

      on NeighborChangedLevel in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on UpdateZTPOffer in OneWay finishes in OneWay: send offer to ZTP
      FSM

      on UpdateZTPOffer in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: send offer to
      ZTP FSM

      on HATChanged in OneWay finishes in OneWay: store HAT




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      on HATChanged in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: store HAT

      on HoldtimeExpired in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on UnacceptableHeader in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on PODMismatch in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on SendLie in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: SEND_LIE

      on NeighborChangedAddress in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on ValidReflection in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: no action

      on HALSChanged in OneWay finishes in OneWay: store HALS

      on HoldtimeExpired in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HALSChanged in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: store HALS

      on NeighborDroppedReflection in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no
      action

      on PODMismatch in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on Entry into OneWay: CLEANUP

   Following words are used for well known procedures:

   1.  PUSH Event: pushes an event to be executed by the FSM upon exit
       of this action

   2.  CLEANUP: neighbor MUST be reset to unknown

   3.  SEND_LIE: create a new LIE packet

       1.  reflecting the neighbor if known and valid and

       2.  setting the necessary `not_a_ztp_offer` variable if level was
           derived from last known neighbor on this interface and

       3.  setting `you_are_not_flood_repeater` to computed value

   4.  PROCESS_LIE:

       1.  if lie has wrong major version OR our own system ID or
           invalid system ID then CLEANUP else




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       2.  if lie has non matching MTUs then CLEANUP, PUSH
           UpdateZTPOffer, PUSH MTUMismatch else

       3.  if PoD rules do not allow adjacency forming then CLEANUP,
           PUSH PODMismatch, PUSH MTUMismatch else

       4.  if lie has undefined level OR my level is undefined OR this
           node is leaf and remote level lower than HAT OR (lie's level
           is not leaf AND its difference is more than one from my
           level) then CLEANUP, PUSH UpdateZTPOffer, PUSH
           UnacceptableHeader else

       5.  PUSH UpdateZTPOffer, construct temporary new neighbor
           structure with values from lie, if no current neighbor exists
           then set neighbor to new neighbor, PUSH NewNeighbor event,
           CHECK_THREE_WAY else

           1.  if current neighbor system ID differs from lie's system
               ID then PUSH MultipleNeighbors else

           2.  if current neighbor stored level differs from lie's level
               then PUSH NeighborChangedLevel else

           3.  if current neighbor stored IPv4/v6 address differs from
               lie's address then PUSH NeighborChangedAddress else

           4.  if any of neighbor's flood address port, name, local
               linkid changed then PUSH NeighborChangedMinorFields and

           5.  CHECK_THREE_WAY

   5.  CHECK_THREE_WAY: if current state is one-way do nothing else

       1.  if lie packet does not contain neighbor then if current state
           is three-way then PUSH NeighborDroppedReflection else

       2.  if packet reflects this system's ID and local port and state
           is three-way then PUSH event ValidReflection else PUSH event
           MultipleNeighbors

C.2.  ZTP FSM

   Initial state is ComputeBestOffer.


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[label="Enter"]



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[color="blue"]
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[color="blue"]
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[color="black"]
[arrowhead="normal" dir="both" arrowtail="none"];
    N57a829be68e2489d8dc6b84e10597d0b -> N57a829be68e2489d8dc6b84e10597d0b
[label="|TimerTick|\n|LieRcvd|\n|NeighborChangedLevel|\n|NeighborChangedAddress|\n|NeighborAddressAdded|\n|UnacceptableHeader|\n|MTUMismatch|\n|PODMismatch|\n|HoldtimeExpired|\n|SendLie|"]
[color="black"]
[arrowhead="normal" dir="both" arrowtail="none"];
    N57a829be68e2489d8dc6b84e10597d0b -> Na641d400819a468d987e31182cdb013e
[label="|ValidReflection|"]
[color="red"]
[arrowhead="normal" dir="both" arrowtail="none"];
    N16db54bf2c5d48f093ad6c18e70081ee -> N16db54bf2c5d48f093ad6c18e70081ee
[label="|TimerTick|\n|LieRcvd|\n|SendLie|"]
[color="black"]
[arrowhead="normal" dir="both" arrowtail="none"];
    Na641d400819a468d987e31182cdb013e -> Na641d400819a468d987e31182cdb013e
[label="|ValidReflection|"]
[color="red"]
[arrowhead="normal" dir="both" arrowtail="none"];
}




                                ZTP FSM DOT

   Events

   o  TimerTick: one second timer tic

   o  LevelChanged: node's level has been changed by ZTP or
      configuration

   o  HALChanged: best HAL computed by ZTP has changed

   o  HATChanged: HAT computed by ZTP has changed

   o  HALSChanged: set of HAL offering systems computed by ZTP has
      changed

   o  LieRcvd: received LIE

   o  NewNeighbor: new neighbor parsed

   o  ValidReflection: received own reflection from neighbor



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   o  NeighborDroppedReflection: lost previous own reflection from
      neighbor

   o  NeighborChangedLevel: neighbor changed advertised level

   o  NeighborChangedAddress: neighbor changed IP address

   o  UnacceptableHeader: unacceptable header seen

   o  MTUMismatch: MTU mismatched

   o  PODMismatch: Unacceptable PoD seen

   o  HoldtimeExpired: adjacency hold down expired

   o  MultipleNeighbors: more than one neighbor seen on interface

   o  MultipleNeighborsDone: cooldown for multiple neighbors expired

   o  SendLie: send a LIE out

   o  UpdateZTPOffer: update this node's ZTP offer

   Actions

      on MTUMismatch in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HoldtimeExpired in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on LevelChanged in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: update level with
      event value

      on MultipleNeighbors in MultipleNeighborsWait finishes in
      MultipleNeighborsWait: start multiple neighbors timer as 4 *
      DEFAULT_LIE_HOLDTIME

      on HALChanged in MultipleNeighborsWait finishes in
      MultipleNeighborsWait: store new HAL

      on NeighborChangedAddress in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no
      action

      on ValidReflection in OneWay finishes in ThreeWay: no action

      on MTUMismatch in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action






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      on TimerTick in MultipleNeighborsWait finishes in
      MultipleNeighborsWait: decrement MultipleNeighbors timer, if
      expired PUSH MultipleNeighborsDone

      on MultipleNeighborsDone in MultipleNeighborsWait finishes in
      OneWay: decrement MultipleNeighbors timer, if expired PUSH
      MultipleNeighborsDone

      on HATChanged in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: store HAT

      on UpdateZTPOffer in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: send offer to ZTP
      FSM

      on HALSChanged in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: store HALS

      on PODMismatch in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on LieRcvd in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: PROCESS_LIE

      on PODMismatch in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on TimerTick in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: PUSH SendLie event, if
      holdtime expired PUSH HoldtimeExpired event

      on SendLie in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: SEND_LIE

      on SendLie in OneWay finishes in OneWay: SEND_LIE

      on TimerTick in OneWay finishes in OneWay: PUSH SendLie event

      on HALChanged in OneWay finishes in OneWay: store new HAL

      on HALSChanged in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: store HALS

      on NeighborChangedLevel in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on PODMismatch in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HoldtimeExpired in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on TimerTick in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: PUSH SendLie event,
      if holdtime expired PUSH HoldtimeExpired event

      on MultipleNeighbors in TwoWay finishes in MultipleNeighborsWait:
      start multiple neighbors timer as 4 * DEFAULT_LIE_HOLDTIME

      on UpdateZTPOffer in MultipleNeighborsWait finishes in
      MultipleNeighborsWait: send offer to ZTP FSM



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      on LieRcvd in OneWay finishes in OneWay: PROCESS_LIE

      on LevelChanged in MultipleNeighborsWait finishes in OneWay:
      update level with event value

      on UpdateZTPOffer in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: send offer to
      ZTP FSM

      on HALChanged in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: store new HAL

      on UnacceptableHeader in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HALSChanged in OneWay finishes in OneWay: store HALS

      on HALSChanged in MultipleNeighborsWait finishes in
      MultipleNeighborsWait: store HALS

      on SendLie in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: SEND_LIE

      on MTUMismatch in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HATChanged in MultipleNeighborsWait finishes in
      MultipleNeighborsWait: store HAT

      on NeighborChangedAddress in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on ValidReflection in TwoWay finishes in ThreeWay: no action

      on MultipleNeighbors in OneWay finishes in MultipleNeighborsWait:
      start multiple neighbors timer as 4 * DEFAULT_LIE_HOLDTIME

      on NeighborChangedLevel in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HATChanged in OneWay finishes in OneWay: store HAT

      on NeighborDroppedReflection in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no
      action

      on HALChanged in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: store new HAL

      on NeighborAddressAdded in OneWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on NeighborChangedAddress in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on LieRcvd in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: PROCESS_LIE

      on UnacceptableHeader in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: no action




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      on LevelChanged in TwoWay finishes in OneWay: update level with
      event value

      on HATChanged in TwoWay finishes in TwoWay: store HAT

      on UpdateZTPOffer in OneWay finishes in OneWay: send offer to ZTP
      FSM

      on ValidReflection in ThreeWay finishes in ThreeWay: no action

      on UnacceptableHeader in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on HoldtimeExpired in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on NeighborChangedLevel in ThreeWay finishes in OneWay: no action

      on LevelChanged in OneWay finishes in OneWay: update level with
      event value, PUSH SendLie event

      on NewNeighbor in OneWay finishes in TwoWay: PUSH SendLie event

      on NeighborDroppedReflection in ThreeWay finishes in TwoWay: no
      action

      on MultipleNeighbors in ThreeWay finishes in
      MultipleNeighborsWait: start multiple neighbors timer as 4 *
      DEFAULT_LIE_HOLDTIME

      on Entry into OneWay: CLEANUP

   Following words are used for well known procedures:

   1.  PUSH Event: pushes an event to be executed by the FSM upon exit
       of this action

   2.  CLEANUP: neighbor MUST be reset to unknown

   3.  SEND_LIE: create a new LIE packet

       1.  reflecting the neighbor if known and valid and

       2.  setting the necessary `not_a_ztp_offer` variable if level was
           derived from last known neighbor on this interface and

       3.  setting `you_are_not_flood_repeater` to computed value

   4.  PROCESS_LIE:




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       1.  if lie has wrong major version OR our own system ID or
           invalid system ID then CLEANUP else

       2.  if lie has non matching MTUs then CLEANUP, PUSH
           UpdateZTPOffer, PUSH MTUMismatch else

       3.  if PoD rules do not allow adjacency forming then CLEANUP,
           PUSH PODMismatch, PUSH MTUMismatch else

       4.  if lie has undefined level OR my level is undefined OR this
           node is leaf and remote level lower than HAT OR (lie's level
           is not leaf AND its difference is more than one from my
           level) then CLEANUP, PUSH UpdateZTPOffer, PUSH
           UnacceptableHeader else

       5.  PUSH UpdateZTPOffer, construct temporary new neighbor
           structure with values from lie, if no current neighbor exists
           then set neighbor to new neighbor, PUSH NewNeighbor event,
           CHECK_THREE_WAY else

           1.  if current neighbor system ID differs from lie's system
               ID then PUSH MultipleNeighbors else

           2.  if current neighbor stored level differs from lie's level
               then PUSH NeighborChangedLevel else

           3.  if current neighbor stored IPv4/v6 address differs from
               lie's address then PUSH NeighborChangedAddress else

           4.  if any of neighbor's flood address port, name, local
               linkid changed then PUSH NeighborChangedMinorFields and

           5.  CHECK_THREE_WAY

   5.  CHECK_THREE_WAY: if current state is one-way do nothing else

       1.  if lie packet does not contain neighbor then if current state
           is three-way then PUSH NeighborDroppedReflection else

       2.  if packet reflects this system's ID and local port and state
           is three-way then PUSH event ValidReflection else PUSH event
           MultipleNeighbors

C.3.  Flooding Procedures

   Flooding Procedures are described in terms of a flooding state of an
   adjacency and resulting operations on it driven by packet arrivals.




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   The FSM has basically a single state and is not well suited to
   represent the behavior.

   RIFT does not specify any kind of flood rate limiting since such
   specifications always assume particular points in available
   technology speeds and feeds and those points are shifting at faster
   and faster rate (speed of light holding for the moment).  The encoded
   packets provide hints to react accordingly to losses or overruns.

   Flooding of all according topology exchange elements SHOULD be
   performed at highest feasible rate whereas the rate of transmission
   MUST be throttled by reacting to adequate features of the system such
   as e.g. queue lengths or congestion indications in the protocol
   packets.

C.3.1.  FloodState Structure per Adjacency

   The structure contains conceptually the following elements.  The word
   collection or queue indicates a set of elements that can be iterated:

   TIES_TX:  Collection containing all the TIEs to transmit on the
      adjacency.

   TIES_ACK:  Collection containing all the TIEs that have to be
      acknowledged on the adjacency.

   TIES_REQ:  Collection containing all the TIE headers that have to be
      requested on the adjacency.

   TIES_RTX:  Collection containing all TIEs that need retransmission
      with the according time to retransmit.

   Following words are used for well known procedures operating on this
   structure:

   TIE  Describes either a full RIFT TIE or accordingly just the
      `TIEHeader` or `TIEID`. The according meaning is unambiguously
      contained in the context of the algorithm.

   is_flood_reduced(TIE):  returns whether a TIE can be flood reduced or
      not.

   is_tide_entry_filtered(TIE):  returns whether a header should be
      propagated in TIDE according to flooding scopes.

   is_request_filtered(TIE):  returns whether a TIE request should be
      propagated to neighbor or not according to flooding scopes.




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   is_flood_filtered(TIE):  returns whether a TIE requested be flooded
      to neighbor or not according to flooding scopes.

   try_to_transmit_tie(TIE):

      A.  if not is_flood_filtered(TIE) then

          1.  remove TIE from TIES_RTX if present

          2.  if TIE" with same key on TIES_ACK then

              a.  if TIE" same or newer than TIE do nothing else

              b.  remove TIE" from TIES_ACK and add TIE to TIES_TX

          3.  else insert TIE into TIES_TX

   ack_tie(TIE):  remove TIE from all collections and then insert TIE
      into TIES_ACK.

   tie_been_acked(TIE):  remove TIE from all collections.

   remove_from_all_queues(TIE):  same as `tie_been_acked`.

   request_tie(TIE):  if not is_request_filtered(TIE) then
      remove_from_all_queues(TIE) and add to TIES_REQ.

   move_to_rtx_list(TIE):  remove TIE from TIES_TX and then add to
      TIES_RTX using TIE retransmission interval.

   clear_requests(TIEs):  remove all TIEs from TIES_REQ.

   bump_own_tie(TIE):  for self-originated TIE originate an empty or re-
      generate with version number higher then the one in TIE.

   The collection SHOULD be served with following priorities if the
   system cannot process all the collections in real time:

      Elements on TIES_ACK should be processed with highest priority

      TIES_TX

      TIES_REQ and TIES_RTX








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C.3.2.  TIDEs

   `TIEID` and `TIEHeader` space forms a strict total order (modulo
   uncomparable sequence numbers in the very unlikely event that can
   occur if a TIE is "stuck" in a part of a network while the originator
   reboots and reissues TIEs many times to the point its sequence# rolls
   over and forms incomparable distance to the "stuck" copy) which
   implies that a comparison relation is possible between two elements.
   With that it is implictly possible to compare TIEs, TIEHeaders and
   TIEIDs to each other whereas the shortest viable key is always
   implied.

   When generating and sending TIDEs an implementation SHOULD ensure
   that enough bandwidth is left to send elements of Floodstate
   structure.

C.3.2.1.  TIDE Generation

   As given by timer constant, periodically generate TIDEs by:

      NEXT_TIDE_ID: ID of next TIE to be sent in TIDE.

      TIDE_START: Begin of TIDE packet range.

   a.  NEXT_TIDE_ID = MIN_TIEID

   b.  while NEXT_TIDE_ID not equal to MAX_TIEID do

       1.  TIDE_START = NEXT_TIDE_ID

       2.  HEADERS = At most TIRDEs_PER_PKT headers in TIEDB starting at
           NEXT_TIDE_ID or higher that SHOULD be filtered by
           is_tide_entry_filtered and MUST either have a lifetime left >
           0 or have no content

       3.  if HEADERS is empty then START = MIN_TIEID else START = first
           element in HEADERS

       4.  if HEADERS' size less than TIRDEs_PER_PKT then END =
           MAX_TIEID else END = last element in HEADERS

       5.  send sorted HEADERS as TIDE setting START and END as its
           range

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   The constant `TIRDEs_PER_PKT` SHOULD be generated and used by the
   implementation to limit the amount of TIE headers per TIDE so the
   sent TIDE PDU does not exceed interface MTU.

   TIDE PDUs SHOULD be spaced on sending to prevent packet drops.

C.3.2.2.  TIDE Processing

   On reception of TIDEs the following processing is performed:

      TXKEYS: Collection of TIE Headers to be send after processing of
      the packet

      REQKEYS: Collection of TIEIDs to be requested after processing of
      the packet

      CLEARKEYS: Collection of TIEIDs to be removed from flood state
      queues

      LASTPROCESSED: Last processed TIEID in TIDE

      DBTIE: TIE in the LSDB if found

   a.  LASTPROCESSED = TIDE.start_range

   b.  for every HEADER in TIDE do

       1.  DBTIE = find HEADER in current LSDB

       2.  if HEADER < LASTPROCESSED then report error and reset
           adjacency and return

       3.  put all TIEs in LSDB where (TIE.HEADER > LASTPROCESSED and
           TIE.HEADER < HEADER) into TXKEYS

       4.  LASTPROCESSED = HEADER

       5.  if DBTIE not found then

           I)     if originator is this node then bump_own_tie

           II)    else put HEADER into REQKEYS

       6.  if DBTIE.HEADER < HEADER then

           I)    if originator is this node then bump_own_tie else





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                 i.     if this is a N-TIE header from a northbound
                        neighbor then override DBTIE in LSDB with HEADER

                 ii.    else put HEADER into REQKEYS

       7.  if DBTIE.HEADER > HEADER then put DBTIE.HEADER into TXKEYS

       8.  if DBTIE.HEADER = HEADER then

           I)     if DBTIE has content already then put DBTIE.HEADER
                  into CLEARKEYS

           II)    else put HEADER into REQKEYS

   c.  put all TIEs in LSDB where (TIE.HEADER > LASTPROCESSED and
       TIE.HEADER <= TIDE.end_range) into TXKEYS

   d.  for all TIEs in TXKEYS try_to_transmit_tie(TIE)

   e.  for all TIEs in REQKEYS request_tie(TIE)

   f.  for all TIEs in CLEARKEYS remove_from_all_queues(TIE)

C.3.3.  TIREs

C.3.3.1.  TIRE Generation

   There is not much to say here.  Elements from both TIES_REQ and
   TIES_ACK MUST be collected and sent out as fast as feasible as TIREs.
   When sending TIREs with elements from TIES_REQ the `lifetime` field
   MUST be set to 0 to force reflooding from the neighbor even if the
   TIEs seem to be same.

C.3.3.2.  TIRE Processing

   On reception of TIREs the following processing is performed:

      TXKEYS: Collection of TIE Headers to be send after processing of
      the packet

      REQKEYS: Collection of TIEIDs to be requested after processing of
      the packet

      ACKKEYS: Collection of TIEIDs that have been acked

      DBTIE: TIE in the LSDB if found

   a.  for every HEADER in TIRE do



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       1.  DBTIE = find HEADER in current LSDB

       2.  if DBTIE not found then do nothing

       3.  if DBTIE.HEADER < HEADER then put HEADER into REQKEYS

       4.  if DBTIE.HEADER > HEADER then put DBTIE.HEADER into TXKEYS

       5.  if DBTIE.HEADER = HEADER then put DBTIE.HEADER into ACKKEYS

   b.  for all TIEs in TXKEYS try_to_transmit_tie(TIE)

   c.  for all TIEs in REQKEYS request_tie(TIE)

   d.  for all TIEs in ACKKEYS tie_been_acked(TIE)

C.3.4.  TIEs Processing on Flood State Adjacency

   On reception of TIEs the following processing is performed:

      ACKTIE: TIE to acknowledge

      TXTIE: TIE to transmit

      DBTIE: TIE in the LSDB if found

   a.  DBTIE = find TIE in current LSDB

   b.  if DBTIE not found then

       1.  if originator is this node then bump_own_tie with a short
           remaining lifetime

       2.  else insert TIE into LSDB and ACKTIE = TIE

       else

       1.  if DBTIE.HEADER = TIE.HEADER then

           i.     if DBTIE has content already then ACKTIE = TIE

           ii.    else process like the "DBTIE.HEADER < TIE.HEADER" case

       2.  if DBTIE.HEADER < TIE.HEADER then

           i.     if originator is this node then bump_own_tie

           ii.    else insert TIE into LSDB and ACKTIE = TIE



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       3.  if DBTIE.HEADER > TIE.HEADER then

           i.     if DBTIE has content already then TXTIE = DBTIE

           ii.    else ACKTIE = DBTIE

   c.  if TXTIE is set then try_to_transmit_tie(TXTIE)

   d.  if ACKTIE is set then ack_tie(TIE)

C.3.5.  TIEs Processing When LSDB Received Newer Version on Other
        Adjacencies

   The Link State Database can be considered to be a switchboard that
   does not need any flooding procedures but can be given new versions
   of TIEs by a peer.  Consecutively, a peer receives from the LSDB
   newer versions of TIEs received by other peeers and processes them
   (without any filtering) just like receving TIEs from its remote peer.
   This publisher model can be implemented in many ways.

C.3.6.  Sending TIEs

   On a periodic basis all TIEs with lifetime left > 0 MUST be sent out
   on the adjacency, removed from TIES_TX list and requeued onto
   TIES_RTX list.

Appendix D.  Constants

D.1.  Configurable Protocol Constants

   This section gather constants that are provided in the schema files
   and the document.



















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   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   |                | Type         | Value                             |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   | LIE IPv4       | Default      | 224.0.0.120 or all-rift-routers   |
   | Multicast      | Value,       | to be assigned in IPv4 Multicast  |
   | Address        | Configurable | Address Space Registry in Local   |
   |                |              | Network Control Block             |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   | LIE IPv6       | Default      | FF02::A1F7 or all-rift-routers to |
   | Multicast      | Value,       | be assigned in IPv6 Multicast     |
   | Address        | Configurable | Address Assignments               |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   | LIE            | Default      | 911                               |
   | Destination    | Value,       |                                   |
   | Port           | Configurable |                                   |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   | Level value    | Constant     | 24                                |
   | for            |              |                                   |
   | TOP_OF_FABRIC  |              |                                   |
   | flag           |              |                                   |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   | Default LIE    | Default      | 3 seconds                         |
   | Holdtime       | Value,       |                                   |
   |                | Configurable |                                   |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   | TIE            | Default      | 1 second                          |
   | Retransmission | Value        |                                   |
   | Interval       |              |                                   |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   | TIDE           | Default      | 5 seconds                         |
   | Generation     | Value,       |                                   |
   | Interval       | Configurable |                                   |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   | MIN_TIEID      | Constant     | TIE Key with minimal values:      |
   | signifies      |              | TIEID(originator=0,               |
   | start of TIDEs |              | tietype=TIETypeMinValue,          |
   |                |              | tie_nr=0, direction=South)        |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+
   | MAX_TIEID      | Constant     | TIE Key with maximal values:      |
   | signifies end  |              | TIEID(originator=MAX_UINT64,      |
   | of TIDEs       |              | tietype=TIETypeMaxValue,          |
   |                |              | tie_nr=MAX_UINT64,                |
   |                |              | direction=North)                  |
   +----------------+--------------+-----------------------------------+

                          Table 6: all_constants





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Appendix E.  TODO

   o  section on E-W superspine/ToF flooding scope to connect partitions

Author's Address

   The RIFT Team












































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