IETF 116 MPLS WG Meeting (version 00)

Date/Time: Tuesday Session III, March 28, 2023 15:30 - 16:30 (local)
Room: G403

Chairs: Loa Andersson/Tarek Saad/Nicolai Leymann
Secretary: Mach Chen (notes courtesy Dave Sinicrope and others via
Hedgedoc)
Max participants noted: 93

Slides:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/116/session/mpls/
Codimd for Notes Taking:
https://codimd.ietf.org/notes-ietf-116-mpls/
Meetecho:
http://www.meetecho.com/ietf116/mpls/
Jabber:
xmpp:mpls@jabber.ietf.org?join

  1. Working Group Status
    Duration: 10 mins
    Presenter: WG Chairs
    Nic presented the slides and went through the working group status.
    There was a question about the duration of the drafts ready for
    approval. The AD noted that he has drafts in his queue and that
    movement should occur after IETF 116.
    Stewart: would like an update from the AD on the SFL draft that is
    sitting in the queue for a while now.
    Andrew: acknowledge the presence of the document in the queue and
    planning on taking action on those after this meeting.

  2. State-updating mechanism in RSVP-TE for MPLS network
    Duration: 10mins
    Presenter: David Dai
    ID:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gao-mpls-teas-rsvpte-state-update-05

    David Dai presented the slides -
    asking for comment and feedback. Also asking for implementation.
    Vishnu Beeram: the problem statement is already resolved RFC-8370
    2018 - some text in the draft is reproduced from RFC 8370 so hard ot
    understand why this draft is proposed.
    https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8370.html#section-3 covers this in
    detail
    From the Meetecho chat: "Vishnu Beeram: To the authors of
    draft-gao-mpls-teas-rsvpte-state-update -- There isn't anything in
    this draft that is not already covered by the Refresh-Interval
    Independent (RI-RSVP) procedures discussed in RFC8370. Since RFC8370
    is listed as a normative reference for this draft, I'm assuming that
    you have read it. So, please elaborate on the list why
    draft-gao-mpls-teas-rsvpte-state-update is needed."

    David: will take comment and discuss with the authors
    Lou: does this belong in this working group? Would belong in the
    TEAS WG which has the remit for general RSVP-TE, if it is to be
    progressed.
    Loa: CCAMP as well
    Lou: CCAMP is not technology specific so not needed - just TEAS

  3. Clarifying Use of LSP Ping to Bootstrap BFD over MPLS LSP
    Duration: 10mins
    Presenter: Greg Mirsky
    ID:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mirsky-mpls-bfd-bootstrap-clarify-03

    Greg presented the slides
    asking for WG adoption
    no questions or comments

  4. Simple Two-way Active Measurement Protocol (STAMP) for MPLS Label
    Switched Paths (LSPs)
    Duration: 10mins
    Presenter: Greg Mirsky
    ID: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mirsky-mpls-stamp-04
    Greg presented the slides
    asking for WG adoption, comments and feedback
    Jared Mauch: is the response from the UDP port coming from the
    hardware path or punted to the control path?
    Greg: implementation specific, some could do it with hardware assist
    others not. what is important is how the timestamping is done and
    the packet handling is not as important.
    Jared: in order to protect the control plane, we use filters and are
    running out of filter space. When we look at a new UDP port that may
    punt info to the control plane it gives concern. Perhaps it could
    use LSP Ping or another mechanism that would prevent another port
    from being allocated.
    Greg: the purpose of using UDP ports was to make it less detectable
    but could use others. Want to use this as a performance monitoring
    protocol
    Jared: we shouldn't factor into all hardware limitations into new
    protocols but we should still consider them and think about them.
    Perhaps using specific port numbers may help mitigate concerns.
    Tarek: the current approach relies on LSP ping to bootstrap the
    STAMP session. If STAMP has applicability beyond MPLS dataplane
    should there be a generic approach to bootstrap the STAMP session?
    Greg: currently under consideration and needs to be put into
    documentation

  5. mLDP/RSVP-TE P2MP Tunnel with SRv6 SID
    Duration: 10 min
    Presenter: Jeffrey Zhang
    ID:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zzhang-mpls-mldp-rsvp-p2mp-srv6-01

    Jeffery presented the slides Eventually separate drafts on LDP vs
    RSVP but want to get the document started.
    Tarek: the SR nodes needs to be enabled with RSVP/LDP to support
    this proposal. This may not be always desirable. Why not just do
    RSVP end-to-end then?
    Jeffery: there are some operators that want to migrate away from
    MPLS so they can use this in the core and the rest of the tunnel can
    be MPLS based. Situation is end to end it is RSPV-TE going through
    and SRv6 core.

  6. MNA for Performance Measurement with Alternate Marking Method &
    Encapsulation For MPLS Performance Measurement with Alternate
    Marking Method (2 drafts)
    Duration: 10 min
    Presenter: Weiqiang Cheng
    ID: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cx-mpls-mna-inband-pm-00

    ID:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-inband-pm-encapsulation-05

    Weiqiang presented the slides
    The draft has been around for a while
    Asking for WG LC
    Fang Gao: interested in the applicability of this to MPLS and
    MPLS-TP. Why is there not a different value space for the labels?
    Weiqiang: we listed some examples e.g., Hierarchical LSPs you need
    performance LSP and PW monitoring at different levels and both may
    be desirable. Just an example on how to use the Flow label.
    Loa: backward compatibility on the TC field
    Weiqiang: had some discussion on this during adoption call and text
    is in the draft - most people think what is in the document is OK.
    Approach follows other RFCs.

    2nd draft presented by Weiqiang -
    no questions or comments

Total presentation time: 60 mins
Shuffling time: 0 mins