Network Working Group                                        Fatai Zhang
Internet-Draft                                                    Dan Li
Intended status: Standards Track                                  Huawei
Expires: January 2011                                      July 05, 2010





           RSVP-TE Extensions for Configuration SRLG of an FA
             draft-zhang-ccamp-srlg-fa-configuration-00.txt



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Abstract

   This memo provides extensions for the Resource ReserVation Protocol-
   Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) for the support of the automatic
   configuration the SRLG of the Forwarding Adjacency (FA).





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Table of Contents


   1. Introduction.................................................2
   2. RSVP-TE Requirements.........................................4
      2.1. FA SRLG Indication......................................4
      2.2. FA SRLG Collecting......................................4
      2.3. FA SRLG Update..........................................4
   3. RSVP-TE Extensions...........................................4
      3.1. FA SRLG Indication......................................4
      3.2. SRLG Information Object.................................4
      3.3. Signaling Procedures....................................5
   4. Manageability Considerations.................................5
   5. IANA Considerations..........................................5
   6. Security Considerations......................................6
   7. References...................................................6


1. Introduction

   An LSP is advertised as a Traffic Engineering (TE) link by a
   Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) node that created the LSP, which is referred
   to as the "forwarding adjacency LSP", or FA-LSP. Such a link is a
   "forwarding adjacency" (FA). [RFC 4206] describes the signaling and
   routing aspects of the FA-LSP.

   [RFC 3477] describes how to create an unnumbered FA and advertise it
   as an unnumbered TE link automatically. [LSP-Hierarchy-bis] defines
   the extensions to RSVP-TE to cover other FA advertising scenarios,
   e.g. signaling of numbered FAs, Signaling an LSP for Use in a Link
   Bundle and Signaling an LSP For use in Another Network.

   In order to advertise the FAs automatically, the attributes of the FA
   need to be configured automatically after the setup of the FAs. The
   following attributes are described in [RFC 4206]:

   o Link Type (OSPF Only, point-to-point)

   o Link ID (OSPF Only, the Router ID of the remote-end of FA-LSP)

   o Local and Remote Interface IP Address

   o Local and Remote Link Identifiers

   o Traffic Engineering Metric




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   o Maximum Bandwidth

   o Unreserved Bandwidth

   o Resource Class/Color

   o Interface Switching Capability

   o SRLG Information

   [RFC 4206] describes how to set the TE metric, maximum bandwidth,
   unreserved bandwidth, resource class and interface switching
   capability. [LSP-Hierarchy-bis] updates [RFC 4206] to provide
   solutions on how to create H-LSP and advertise FA.

   As described in Section 3.1.10 of [RFC 4206], an FA advertisement
   could contain the information about the Shared Risk Link Groups (SRLG)
   for the path taken by the FA-LSP associated with that FA. This
   information may be used for SRLG disjoint path computation by other
   LSRs. The SRLG information of the FA is the union of the SRLGs of the
   TE links and nodes that make up the FA-LSP path.

   In the client/server networks, the detailed path information that
   passes through the server network is usually not provided to end
   points of the FA in the client layer because of confidential
   consideration. In addition, for the client/server networks, usually
   they have separate routing instance, so the end points of the FA can
   not get the SRLG information of FA-LSP.

   Therefore, the SRLG information of the FA needs to be configured
   manually by operator when advertising the FA. However, for manually
   configuration, there are some disadvantages mentioned in Section
   1.3.4 of [LSP-Hierarchy-bis].

   In addition, Section 1.2 of [LSP-Hierarchy-bis] describes it is
   desirable to have a kind of automatic mechanism to advertise the FA
   (i.e., to signal an LSP and automatically coordinate its use and
   advertisement in any of the ways with minimum involvement from an
   operator).

   Therefore, in order to make the FA advertisement completely
   automatically, this document provides an automatic mechanism to
   configure the SRLG of FA automatically.





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2. RSVP-TE Requirements

2.1. FA SRLG Indication

   The head nodes of the FA-LSP must be capable of indicating whether
   the SRLG information of the FA-LSP should be collected during the
   signaling procedure of setting up an FA-LSP.

2.2. FA SRLG Collecting

   The SRLG information can be collected during the setup of an FA-LSP.
   Then the endpoints of the FA-LSP can get the SRLG information and
   configure it to the corresponding FA link automatically.

2.3. FA SRLG Update

   When the SRLG information changes, the endpoints of the FA-LSP need
   to be capable of update the SRLG information of the corresponding FA
   link. It means that the signaling needs to be capable of updating the
   newly SRLG information to the endpoints.

3. RSVP-TE Extensions

3.1. FA SRLG Indication

   The LSP_TUNNEL_INTERFACE_ID Object defined in [LSP-Hierarchy-bis] is
   extended by adding a new flag (S flag) to the Action field:

            -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
           | | |S|H|B|R|T|P|
            -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-

   S-flag (SRLG indication)

     0 means that the endpoints do not need the SRLG information.

     1 means that the endpoints need the SRLG information.

3.2. SRLG Information Object

   An SRLG information is defined to carry the SRLG information of the
   FA-LSP path. The Class-Num and the C-Type of the SRLG Information
   Object need to be assigned by the IANA.






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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
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |            Length             | Class-Num     |  C-Type       |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                 SRLG ID (4 bytes)                             |
      //                   ......                                    //
      |                 SRLG ID (4 bytes)                             |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+


   The SRLG ID list carries the SRLG information of the FA-LSP. This
   object can be carried in a Path/Resv message.

   The SRLG information can be added to the Path/Resv message hop by hop.
   Then the endpoints of the FA-LSP can get the SRLG information of the
   path.

3.3. Signaling Procedures

   When an FA head node determine that it needs to get the SRLG
   information of the FA-LSP before setting up the FA-LSP, it sets the S
   flag in the Action field of the LSP_TUNNEL_INTERFACE_ID Object when
   it sends the Path message to the downstream node. The downstream
   nodes record the SRLG information in the SRLG Information Object hop
   by hop. Then the tail node of the FA-LSP can get the SRLG information
   from the RRO.

   The tail node also needs to set the S flag in the Action field of the
   LSP_TUNNEL_INTERFACE_ID Object when it sends the Resv message to the
   upstream node. The upstream nodes record the SRLG information in the
   SRLG Information Object hop by hop. Then the head node of the FA-LSP
   can get the SRLG information from the RRO.

   Based on the above procedure, the endpoints can get the SRLG
   information automatically. Then the endpoints can configure the SRLG
   information of the FA and advertise it to the routing instance based
   on the procedure described in [LSP-Hierarchy-bis].

4. Manageability Considerations

   TBD.

5. IANA Considerations

   TBD.



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6. Security Considerations

   TBD.


7. References

[LSP-Hierarchy-bis] K. Shiomoto, A. Farrel, " Procedures for
            Dynamically Signaled Hierarchical Label Switched Paths ",
            draft-ietf-ccamp-lsp-hierarchy-bis-08, August 2010.

[RFC 4206]  K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, " Label Switched Paths (LSP)
            Hierarchy with Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching
            (GMPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE) ", rfc4206, October 2005.

[RFC 4874]  CY. Lee, A. Farrel, S. De Cnodder, " Exclude Routes -
            Extension to Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic
            Engineering (RSVP-TE) ", rfc4874, April 2007.

[RFC 3477]  K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, " Signalling Unnumbered Links in
            Resource ReSerVation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-
            TE) ", rfc3477, January 2003.


Authors' Addresses























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   Fatai Zhang
   Huawei Technologies
   F3-5-B R&D Center, Huawei Base
   Bantian, Longgang District
   Shenzhen 518129 P.R.China

   Phone: +86-755-28972912
   Email: zhangfatai@huawei.com


   Dan Li
   Huawei Technologies
   F3-5-B R&D Center, Huawei Base
   Bantian, Longgang District
   Shenzhen 518129 P.R.China

   Phone: +86-755-28970230
   Email: danli@huawei.com


   Xiaobing Zi
   Huawei Technologies
   F3-5-B R&D Center, Huawei Base
   Bantian, Longgang District
   Shenzhen 518129 P.R.China

   Phone: +86-755-28973229
   Email: zixiaobing@huawei.com



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