Minutes interim-2020-roll-01: Wed 11:00
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ROLL IETF 107 Interim Meeting

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  NAME  ---  AFFILIATION
Ines Robles   Aalto University
Remous-Aris Koutsiamanis --- IMT Atlantique, France
Pascal Thubert - Cisco Systems France
Rahul Jadhav - Huawei
Rabi Narayan Sahoo  - Juniper
Dominique Barthel - Orange
Dimitrios Sourailidis ---  IMT Atlantique, France
Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works
Georgios PAPADOPOULOS - IMT Atlantique, Framce
Tim Costello - BT
Amelia Andersdotter (CENTR)
Alvaro Retana - Futurewei

Meeting notes below.

 Agenda Interim Meeting ROLL IETF 107 :

+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
|          Time          |                       Topic                         
                |    Presenter      |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
| 11:00 - 11:10 (10 min) |                     WG Status                       
                | Ines/Dominique    |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
| 11:10 - 11:30 (20 min) |          draft-ietf-roll-unaware-leaves             
                |     Pascal        |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
|  11:30- 11:35 (5 min)  |             NPDAO and unaware-leaves                
                |      Rahul        |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
|  11:35 - 11:40 (5 min) | Updates on AP-ND and 6BBR, state of cluster C310    
                |     Pascal        | +------------------
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| 11:40 - 11:55 (15 min) |           draft-ietf-roll-capabilities /
draft-ietf-roll-mopex       |      Rahul        |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
| 11:55 - 12:05 (10 min) |           draft-ietf-roll-nsa-extension             
                |      Aris         |
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| 12:05 - 12:15 (10 min) |         draft-ietf-roll-rpl-observations            
                |      Rahul        |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
| 12:15 - 12:25 (10 min) |    draft-papadopoulos-roll-dis-mods-use-cases       
                |    Georgios       |
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| 12:25 - 12:35 (10 min) |        draft-ietf-roll-enrollment-priority          
                |     Michael       |
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| 12:35 - 12:45 (10 min) |    draft-thubert-roll-eliding-dio-information       
                |       Pascal      |
+------------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+
 12:45 - 13:00 (15 min)  |                    Open Floor                       
                 |    Everyone       |
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Meeting minutes

Times in UTC
[11:02] WG status (Ines)

[11:07] draft-ietf-roll-unaware-leaves (Pascal)
was holding Cluster 310.
need from the field.
This draft has normative dependency to UseOfRPLInfo.
9 slides illustrate the various situations. They are good help to read the
draft. Last 4 drawings are new recommendations. Rahul: requests to put these
slides into github, into the ROLL/RAL repository. MCR: There is also: 
https://github.com/iot-dir/slides where slides about IoT stuff, and the icons
and components to make new slides are welcome. [MCR: I also used Pascal's
template RPL DODAG for my slides] Pascal: will do

[11:25] NPDAO and unaware-leaves (Rahul)
justifies the value 195. Aligns with 8505 and unaware-leaves.
Only change in the draft.

[11:28] Updates on AP-ND and 6BBR, state of cluster C310 (Pascal)
Pascal informs of notion of clusters at RFC Editor, and the dependencies
between drafts in the queue. Rahul: how is core-stateless dependant on
unaware-leaves? Pascal: minimal-security and architecture depend on it.

[11:34] draft-ietf-roll-capabilities / draft-ietf-roll-mopex (Rahul)
explains the rationale behind capabilities, and allocation of instances.
mopex: no design change, just forked into separate document.
discusses backward compatibility issues, and proposed interpretation of msb of
option value. Pascal: yes. Very important. This is a cornerstone for what it is
to be RPLv2. Pascal: ignore the option or ignore the DIO altogether? Rahul: get
that topic into ML. Back to capabilities draft. - Section added to explain
difference between capabilities, Config option and Routing Metrics/Constraints.
- G flag to mean Global, capability must be copied down unchanged through 6LRs.
- binary capabilities grouped into a bitfield, called Capability Indicators.
Dominique: anticipated to use it with Length!=3? MCR: align the bits to the
right, or better to the left? Rahul: either, would need to think about it. MCR:
bunch them into bytes, and extend bytes to the right? we could ask IANA to help
crafting this. Rahul: new capability - routing resource capability (useful for
P-DAO?), should we use the same approach for neighbor chache? if we do it,
should we put it into the same capability or a separate one? bring question to
ML.

11:55] draft-ietf-roll-nsa-extension Aris-Remous
changed DMC to be metric instead of constraint.
highlights that this metric is not taken into account when computing rank.
Dominique: do we need a hook to allow future compression?
Aris: we did implement compression in early work. example provided by 6loRH, we
used for parent set address. But after discussion with Pascal it would be good
to have compression for all the control packets, more general approach instead
of special solution. Typically same compression level for all addressed in the
set. Can tell by size if 6loRH compression is used. Dominique: We could use
capabilities to understand which nodes are able to understand the compress
form. Then, the question which messages use the compressed form, which do not.
Aris: The compressor decide. If you would like to do piece-meal compression,
some parts compressed and some not, maybe a field should be added. not sure.
Rahul: general compression is really needed, for example TIO. This message is
DIO, multicast. Compression is a must. MCR: used GHC to compress DIO messages.
Would compress any IPv6 address in any option, avoid ad-hoc solutions. Suggest
creating a RPL-level compressor, to be negociated as a capability. Aris:
agreed. Would also compress Target Address option, especially beneficial when
same address is present in both. Pascal: does it mean GHC MUST be present in
every RPLv2 node? Pascal: in dao projection, not use of full IPv6 addresses.
DAO projection would do same. Pascal: default model should be 8138, until we
have GHC. Pascal: options can be elided. This is also a form of compression.
Pascal: some options may have to be made mandatory, so that they are never
elided. Dominique: conclusion is that we don't need specific signalling to
allow future compression. Aris: so next steps? WGLC? Dominique: OK, didn't hear
any objections. Dominique: Will post a WGLC on the mailing list.

[12:09] RPL observations (Rahul)
explains issue of DAO-ACK.
Proposal is to use TIO to have the BR send a DAO-ACK directly to the
originating node, even in storingmode. Pascal: maybe this message does not need
to be called DAO-ACK. DAO's can be aggregated on the way up. Pascal: first DAO
indicates new reachable node. For periodic refresh, no latency issue, as long
as within lifetime. Rahul: agree, very important. The first DAO should be
responded with this message. Rahul: agree we should not be calling it DAO-ACK.
This asynchronous message could be used for other purposes, too. This is the
first time, in storing mode, that we have a direct message from the root to a
node down the graph. Only change is setting of the K flag, saying that
acknowledgement is sought. Rabi: when a node switches parent, needs the
reachability information? Rahul: if parent switches parent, will send
aggregated DAO without K flag. Pascal: I am concerned about piggybacking this
information in the DAO. Maybe the First DAO is copied as received all the way
up. But normally, DAO can be completely regenerated by the intermediate nodes.
it doesnt have to be stored and forwarded, meaning, should we store this K flag
and should we put it in every copy that we sent up until we get a DAO from
below? Rahul: K flag similar to E flag in terms of behavior. Intermediate node
has to remember that E flag is set, on behalf of other node. Pascal: E does not
change over time, is a physical property of a node. Should intermediate node
store K? Pascal: root response could be different on first node appearance.
MCR: kind of a RPL ping. Seems that's what we want. Pascal: need to take care
that the RPL ping does not pass the DAO, otherwise root does not know what to
do. Hence the piggybacking. MCR: this initial exchange is opportunity to do
capabilities exchange. Then, refresh knowledge of parents. Ines: running out of
time. Good discussion. To be brought to the mailing list. Rahul: this draft not
to be published, how to handle the proposals? errata? Ines: will discuss on the
ML and at the interim meeting in May [MCR: really good idea. Is there a date?]
Doodle to go out within the next hours/days.

[12:28] draft-papadopoulos-roll-dis-mods-use-cases (Georgios)
Describes 3 uses cases that prompt for modifications in DIS message.
- new node joining established network
- identifying defunct DODAG
- probing adjacencies
Shows preliminary simulation results for use case #1. Shows benefits of
proposed solutions of dis-modifications Pascal: another use-case is power down,
then power-up and electrical smart meters can back up again,. On a power-up,
you would want multicast DIOs to save on individual transmission. Dominique:
will take this use case into account.

[12:43] draft-ietf-roll-enrollment-priority Michael
goes through "animated" slides.
Node 32 can accept more pledges, sends 0x7f as a priority.
Node 24 does not know option, deletes it. Node 35, not seing the option,
assumes half-way value of 0x40. Ines: we need reviews. Please volunteer!

[12:49] draft-thubert-roll-eliding-dio-information (Pascal)
witness that more and more configuration information appearing in RPL.
Good because allows autonomous behavior.
But inflates DIOs.
Per 6550, DIO options are "optional to send", allows to save on DIO size.
But what if node misses important option? How to make sure ithas the latest
update? How can it probe for last update? (DIS modification) Not worked on this
draft since IETF106 meeting. Left on the backburner. Work to be resumed.
Probably should be part of cluster of "RPLv2" RFCs. Proposal: DIO sequence
number. - DIO message can be split in multiple messages, still with same
sequence number to tell they real form a single one. - can check freshness of
last received value. Introduces an new option, the option of Abbreviated Option
(AOO). Sequence number can also be used to detect that root has rebooted, e.g.,
through lollipop. Georgios: merge with dis-modifications. MCR: let this "coast"
for a bit, so that we can push the other documents and get experience. MCR:
getting close to writing 6550.

[13:04] AOB
Ines: need for a work meeting in May?
Dominique: yes.

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(2:19:05 PM) mcr: really awesome slides.  These will be very useful for future
people. (2:19:14 PM) ines: yep (2:20:40 PM) aretana: I wonder how these could
look in SVG so we can include them in the draft.. ;-)   A slightly simpler
version, of course. (2:22:04 PM) mcr: well, we'd get no colour. (2:22:09 PM)
mcr: (and no u in colour) (2:22:56 PM) mcr: and not even grayscale, so we can't
put one thing on another, transparently. (2:23:19 PM) mcr: but, there could be
a version that probably worked. (2:23:27 PM) aretana: No, but it would be a lot
more useful than figuring it all out as you read the descriptions…and hoping
you got it right. (2:23:33 PM) mcr: I agree. (2:44:12 PM) mcr: I guess we need
to number these bits from left to right? (3:04:43 PM) ines: rfc 7400
6LoWPAN-GHC: Generic Header Compression for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless
Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs) (3:05:04 PM) mcr: brb. 2min. (3:06:32 PM)
ines: ok (3:21:56 PM) mcr: (8am crontab loads funny pages) (3:27:10 PM) mcr:
proposal: virtual interim for observations draft only. (3:27:35 PM) mcr: we
clearly need to get some of the other items out of observations into errata or
updates. (15:13:44) mcr: okay, we really need to think about rechartering soon
for RFC6550bis. We need to start thinking about this soon, even if it might
take some time to figure out what is in and what is out. (15:14:17) mcr:
Internet Standard step or cycle at Proposed Standard... (15:14:55) mcr: yeah,
let's not call it the DAOACK.  RootACK. (15:15:07) ines: charter contains that
in oct sept we should take that in consideration

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