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SR Policy Extensions for Path Segment and Bidirectional Path
draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-path-segment-09

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draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-path-segment-09
Interdomain Routing Working Group                                  C. Li
Internet-Draft                                                     Z. Li
Intended status: Standards Track                     Huawei Technologies
Expires: 22 August 2024                                           Y. Yin
                                                           China Telecom
                                                                W. Cheng
                                                            China Mobile
                                                           K. Talaulikar
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                        19 February 2024

      SR Policy Extensions for Path Segment and Bidirectional Path
                draft-ietf-idr-sr-policy-path-segment-09

Abstract

   A Segment Routing (SR) policy is a set of candidate SR paths
   consisting of one or more segment lists with necessary path
   attributes.  For each SR path, it may also have its own path
   attributes, and Path Segment is one of them.  A Path Segment is
   defined to identify an SR path, which can be used for performance
   measurement, path correlation, and end-2-end path protection.  Path
   Segment can be also used to correlate two unidirectional SR paths
   into a bidirectional SR path which is required in some scenarios, for
   example, mobile backhaul transport network.

   This document defines extensions to BGP to distribute SR policies
   carrying Path Segment and bidirectional path information.

Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Path Segment in SR Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     3.1.  SR Path Segment Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  SR Policy for Bidirectional Path  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     4.1.  Reverse Path Segment List Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   5.  Operations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     6.1.  Existing Registry: BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
           sub-TLVs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   8.  Contributors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   9.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   10. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     10.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     10.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12

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1.  Introduction

   Segment routing (SR) [RFC8402] is a source routing paradigm that
   explicitly indicates the forwarding path for packets at the ingress
   node.  The ingress node steers packets into a specific path according
   to the Segment Routing Policy ( SR Policy) as defined in [RFC9256].
   For distributing SR policies to the headend, [RFC9256] specifies a
   mechanism by using BGP, and new sub-TLVs are defined for SR Policies
   in BGP UPDATE message.

   In many use cases such as performance measurement, the path to which
   the packets belong is required to be identified.  Futhermore, in some
   scenarios, for example, mobile backhaul transport network, there are
   requirements to support bidirectional path.  However, there is no
   path identification information for each Segment List in the SR
   Policies defined in [RFC9256].  Also, the SR Policies defined in
   [RFC9256] only supports unidirectional SR paths.

   Therefore, this document defines the extension to SR policies that
   carry Path Segment in the Segment List and support bidirectional
   path.  The Path Segment can be a Path Segment in SR-MPLS
   [I-D.ietf-spring-mpls-path-segment] and SRv6
   [I-D.ietf-spring-srv6-path-segment], or other IDs that can identify a
   path.  Also, this document defines extensions to BGP to distribute SR
   policies carrying Path Segment and bidirectional path information.

2.  Terminology

   This memo makes use of the terms defined in [RFC8402] and [RFC9256].

2.1.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  Path Segment in SR Policy

   As defined in [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy] , the SR
   Policy encoding structure is as follows:

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      SR Policy SAFI NLRI: <Distinguisher, Policy-Color, Endpoint>
      Attributes:
         Tunnel Encaps Attribute (23)
            Tunnel Type: SR Policy
                Binding SID
                Preference
                Priority
                Policy Name
                Explicit NULL Label Policy (ENLP)
                Segment List
                    Weight
                    Segment
                    Segment
                    ...
                ...

   An SR path can be specified by an Segment List sub-TLV that contains
   a set of segment sub-TLVs and other sub-TLVs as shown above.  As
   defined in [RFC9256], a candidate path includes multiple SR paths
   specified by SID list.  The Path Segment can be used for identifying
   an SR path(specified by SID list) from the headend and the tailend.
   Also, it can be used for identifying an SR candidate path in some use
   cases if needed.  This document defines a new Path Segment sub-TLV
   within Segment List sub-TLV, the details will be described at section
   3.1.  The new SR Policy encoding structure with Path Segmentg sub-TLV
   is expressed as below:

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      SR Policy SAFI NLRI: <Distinguisher, Policy-Color, Endpoint>
      Attributes:
         Tunnel Encaps Attribute (23)
            Tunnel Type: SR Policy
                Binding SID
                Preference
                Priority
                Policy Name
                Explicit NULL Label Policy (ENLP)
                Segment List
                    Weight
                    Path Segment
                    Segment
                    Segment
                    ...
                Segment List
                    Weight
                    Path Segment
                    Segment
                    Segment
                    ...
                ...

   The Path Segment is used to identified an SR path, and it can be used
   in OAM or IOAM use cases.  When all the SID Lists within a candidate
   path share the same Path Segment ID, the Path Segment can be used to
   collect the aggregated information of the candidate path.  Multiple
   Path Segment MAY be included in a Segment List for different use
   cases, all of them SHOULD be inserted into the SID List.

3.1.  SR Path Segment Sub-TLV

   This section defines an SR Path Segment sub-TLV.

   An SR Path Segment sub-TLV is included in the segment list sub-TLV to
   identify an SID list.  It has the following format:

      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
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |      Type     |    Length     |    Flags      |  RESERVED     |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                     Path Segment ID (Variable)                |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     //     SRv6 Endpoint Behavior and SID Structure (optional)     //
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                        Figure 1. Path Segment sub-TLV

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   Where:

   *  Type: to be assigned by IANA.

   *  Length: the total length of the value field not including Type and
      Length fields.

   *  Flags: 8 bits of flags.  Following flags are defined:

     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
    +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
    |    Reserved     |B |L |
    +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+

   *  -  L-Flag: Local flag.  Set when the Path Segment has local
         significance on an SR node.

      -  B-Flag: This flag, when set, indicates the presence of the SRv6
         Endpoint Behavior and SID Structure encoding specified in
         Section 2.4.4.2.13 of [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy].
         It MUST be ignored when the value of length field is smaller
         than 18.

      -  The rest bits of Flag are reserved and MUST be set to 0 on
         transmission and MUST be ignored on receipt.

   *  Path Segment ID: if the length is 2, then no Path Segment ID is
      present.  If the length is 6 then the Path Segment ID is encoded
      in 4 octets [I-D.ietf-spring-mpls-path-segment] using the format
      below.  TC, S, TTL (Total of 12 bits) are RESERVED and SHOULD be
      set to zero and MUST be ignored.

      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
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |      Type     |    Length     |    Flags      |  Reserved     |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |         Path Segment Label            | TC  |S|       TTL     |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                  Figure 2. SR-MPLS Path Segment sub-TLV

   If the length is 18 then the Path Segment ID contains a 16-octet SRv6
   Path Segment ID [I-D.ietf-spring-srv6-path-segment].

   If the length is larger than 18 and B-flag is set, then SRv6 Endpoint
   Behavior and SID Structure TLVs
   [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy] is included.

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4.  SR Policy for Bidirectional Path

   In some scenarios, for example, mobile backhaul transport network,
   there are requirements to support bidirectional path.  In SR, a
   bidirectional path can be represented as a binding of two
   unidirectional SR paths.  This document also defines a Reverse
   Segment List sub-TLV to describe the reverse path associated with the
   forward path specified by the Segment List.  An SR policy carrying SR
   bidirectional path information is expressed as below:

       SR Policy SAFI NLRI: <Distinguisher, Policy-Color, Endpoint>
           Attributes: Tunnel Encaps Attribute (23)
           Tunnel Type: SR Policy
               Binding SID
               Preference
               Priority
               Policy Name
               Explicit NULL Label Policy (ENLP)
               Segment List
                   Weight
                   Path Segment
                   Segment
                   Segment
                   ...
                   Reverse Segment List
                       Path Segment
                       Segment
                       Segment
                       ...

4.1.  Reverse Path Segment List Sub-TLV

   A Reverse Path Segment List sub-TLV is defined to specify an SR
   reverse path associated with the path specified by the Segment List,
   and it has the following format:

      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
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |    Type       |             Length            |   RESERVED    |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |                        Sub-TLVs (Variable)                    |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
               Figure 3. SR Reverse Path Segment List Sub-TLV

   where:

   Type: TBA.

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   Length: the total length of the sub-TLVs encoded within the Reverse
   Path Segment List Sub-TLV not including the Type and Length fields.

   RESERVED: 1 octet of reserved bits.  SHOULD be unset on transmission
   and MUST be ignored on receipt.

   sub-TLVs, reuse the sub-TLVs in Segment List defined in
   [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy].

   *  One or more mandatory SR Path Segment sub-TLVs that contains the
      Path Segments of the reverse SR path.

   *  One or more Segment sub-TLVs to specify the reverse SR path.

   The Segment sub-TLVs in the Reverse Path Segment List sub-TLV
   provides the information of the reverse SR path, which can be used
   for directing egress BFD peer to use specific path for the reverse
   direction of the BFD session [I-D.ietf-mpls-bfd-directed] or other
   applications.

5.  Operations

   The document does not bring new operation beyond the description of
   operations defined in [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy].  The
   existing operations defined in
   [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy] can apply to this document
   directly.

   Typically but not limit to, the unidirectional or bidirectional SR
   policies carrying path identification infomation are configured by a
   controller.

   After configuration, the unidirectional or bidirectional SR policies
   carrying path identification infomation will be advertised by BGP
   update messages.  The operation of advertisement is the same as
   defined in [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy], as well as the
   reception.

   The consumer of the unidirectional or bidirectional SR policies is
   not the BGP process, it can be any applications, such as performance
   measurement [I-D.gandhi-spring-udp-pm].  The operation of sending
   information to consumers is out of scope of this document.

6.  IANA Considerations

   This document defines new Sub-TLVs in following registries:

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6.1.  Existing Registry: BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute sub-TLVs

   This document defines new sub-TLVs in the registry "SR Policy List
   Sub-TLVs" [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy] to be assigned by
   IANA:

        Codepoint   Description                           Reference
        -------------------------------------------------------------
        TBA         Path Segment sub-TLV                  This document
        TBA         Reverse Segment List sub-TLV          This document

7.  Security Considerations

   TBA

8.  Contributors

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      Mach(Guoyi) Chen
      Huawei Technologies
      Huawei Campus, No. 156 Beiqing Rd.
      Beijing  100095
      China

      Email: Mach.chen@huawei.com

      Jie Dong
      Huawei Technologies
      Huawei Campus, No. 156 Beiqing Rd.
      Beijing  100095
      China

      Email: jie.dong@huawei.com

      James N Guichard
      Futurewei Technologies
      2330 Central Express Way
      Santa Clara
      USA

      Email: james.n.guichard@futurewei.com

      Huanan Chen
      China Telecom
      109 West Zhongshan Ave
      Guangzhou
      China

      Email: chenhuan6@chinatelecom.cn

9.  Acknowledgements

   Many thanks to Shraddha Hedge for her detailed review and
   professional comments.

10.  References

10.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-idr-segment-routing-te-policy]
              Previdi, S., Filsfils, C., Talaulikar, K., Mattes, P., and
              D. Jain, "Advertising Segment Routing Policies in BGP",
              Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-idr-segment-

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              routing-te-policy-26, 23 October 2023,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-idr-
              segment-routing-te-policy-26>.

   [I-D.ietf-spring-mpls-path-segment]
              Cheng, W., Li, H., Li, C., Gandhi, R., and R. Zigler,
              "Path Segment Identifier in MPLS Based Segment Routing
              Network", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-
              spring-mpls-path-segment-22, 30 November 2023,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-spring-
              mpls-path-segment-22>.

   [I-D.ietf-spring-srv6-path-segment]
              Li, C., Cheng, W., Chen, M., Dhody, D., and Y. Zhu, "Path
              Segment for SRv6 (Segment Routing in IPv6)", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-spring-srv6-path-
              segment-07, 19 October 2023,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-spring-
              srv6-path-segment-07>.

   [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>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

   [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>.

   [RFC9256]  Filsfils, C., Talaulikar, K., Ed., Voyer, D., Bogdanov,
              A., and P. Mattes, "Segment Routing Policy Architecture",
              RFC 9256, DOI 10.17487/RFC9256, July 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9256>.

10.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.gandhi-spring-udp-pm]
              Gandhi, R., Filsfils, C., Voyer, D., Salsano, S., Ventre,
              P. L., and M. Chen, "UDP Path for In-band Performance
              Measurement for Segment Routing Networks", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-gandhi-spring-udp-pm-02,
              14 September 2018, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/
              draft-gandhi-spring-udp-pm-02>.

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   [I-D.ietf-mpls-bfd-directed]
              Mirsky, G., Tantsura, J., Varlashkin, I., and M. Chen,
              "Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) Directed Return
              Path for MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs)", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-mpls-bfd-directed-25,
              31 December 2023, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/
              draft-ietf-mpls-bfd-directed-25>.

Authors' Addresses

   Cheng Li
   Huawei Technologies
   Huawei Campus, No. 156 Beiqing Rd.
   Beijing
   100095
   China
   Email: c.l@huawei.com

   Zhenbin Li
   Huawei Technologies
   Huawei Campus, No. 156 Beiqing Rd.
   Beijing
   100095
   China
   Email: lizhenbin@huawei.com

   Yuanyang Yin
   China Telecom
   Guangzhou
   China
   Email: yinyuany@chinatelecom.cn

   Weiqiang Cheng
   China Mobile
   Beijing
   China
   Email: chengweiqiang@chinamobile.com

   Ketan Talaulikar
   Cisco Systems
   Email: ketant.ietf@gmail.com

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