IETF 123 MPLS WG Meeting

Date/Time: Monday Session II, July 21, 2025 12:00 - 13:00 (local)
Room: Hidalgo

Chairs: Tarek Saad/Tony Li/Adrian Farrel
Secretary: Mach Chen

Agenda:

  1. WG Status Update (Agenda Bashing) - 12:00
    Duration: 5 mins
    Presenter: WG Chairs
    Slides
    [Tarek]: There was a recent revision posted for mna-hdr draft
    posted. Authors are willing to give a quick update on the mic now.
    [Rakesh]: The recent update addresses all received feedbacks, any
    further review and feedbacks are welcome.
    [Adrian]: So you think this is ready?
    [Rakesh]: Yes
    [Adrian]: Anyone in the meeting want to disagree with that?
    [Silence]: No disagreement in the room.
    [Adrian]: OK. Tarek as shepherd will do the next step.
    [Rakesh]: Note on the slide, the document name is
    "draft-ietf-mpls-mna-ps-hdr" not "draft-ietf-mpls-ps-mna-hdr".

  2. YANG Data Model for MPLS mLDP - 12:05
    ID: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-mldp-yang-13
    Duration: 7 mins
    Presenter: Kamran Raza
    Slides
    [Kamran]: Presents update on the document. Further meeting with
    RTGDIR reviewer is being sought to close on all discussion points.
    [Adrian]: When you do the next update, please fix the company
    affiliation issue and clean ID nits.
    [Kamran]: That was part of version 10, but will definitely do one
    more on that.
    [Tarek]: Please consider involving the WG on the recent seemingly
    'controversial' dicussion points raised during the RTG review.
    [Kamran]: There are recursive effect related comments, I'm still
    trying to finalize those. If there is anything that needs WG input,
    we will share with the wider list. In addition, will meet with
    Jeffery in person during the meeting to close last couple of points
    regardin the recursive effect. How we model this in the current
    model is what we're debating, it's related to the base mLDP specs.
    [Tarek]: There is another discussion point on opaque data, should
    it be interpreted or not? I don't know if that is closed or not.
    [Kamran]: That's part of the recursive issue as well, and we will
    discuss it.

  3. MPLS Network Action for Deterministic Latency - 12:12
    ID:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-sxg-mpls-mna-deterministic-latency-03

    Duration: 5 mins
    Presenter: Xueyan Song
    Slides
    [Xueyan]: Presents the history and update.
    [...] No questions or comments received.

  4. Signaling MNA Capabilities Using IGP - 12:17
    ID:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ihlesong-mpls-mna-signaling-00

    Duration: 5 mins
    Presenter: Fabian Ihle
    Slides
    [Fabian]: Presents.
    [Jim Guichard]: The encoding (those ISIS related extensions) needs
    to be pursued in the LSR WG.
    [Fabian]: Agree.
    [Mathew Bocci]: 1. Capabilities and RLD are not same thing, we
    have always separated that in the past for entroy label for example.
    2. The capability to accept the bSPL is different from the
    capability to support particular opcodes, I didn't see anyting in
    the draft about do I support MNA at all. 3. I think we also need an
    inter-domain solution, not just a single domian soltuion for the
    IGP, signaling in RSVP-TE is what we've doen in the past.
    [Fabian]: All good points.
    [Greg Mirsky]: It seems that this information is not dynamic, if
    so, maybe doing it with IGP is not a good idea. Maybe YANG is an
    option, rather than using LSP Ping to do on path discovery
    collectiing information about capabilities. In addition, since ISIS
    is more restrictive on the size, if doing IGP based capability
    advertisement, it's better to use 8 bits rather than 16 bits.
    [Fabian]: Agree.

  5. MPLS Network Action for Stack Management - 12:22
    ID:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ihle-mpls-mna-stack-management-00

    Duration: 10 mins
    Presenter: Fabian Ihle
    Slides
    [Fabian]: Presents.
    [...] No questions or comments raised.

  6. Stateless MNA-based Egress Protection (SMEP) - 12:32
    ID:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ihle-mpls-mna-stateless-egress-protection-01

    Duration: 10 mins
    Presenter: Fabian Ihle
    Slides
    [Fabian]: Presents.
    [Tarek]: Mechanism seems generic enough to be applicable to
    protecting egress and transit LSRs - hence maybe generalize the name
    of the draft?
    [Fabian]: Yes, it is generically applicable to the LSR
    merge-point. Will consider if this is desirable for transit LSRs
    too.
    [Joel]: Processing of the pop-n action - is the condition to
    trigger encoded in the NAS?
    [Fabian]: Yes, good point, it is possible to encode such
    additional conditions by using a single bit of the reserved bits.

  7. MNA for Metadata in SR-MPLS Service Programming - 12:42
    ID:
    https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-liu-mpls-mna-sr-service-metadata-01

    Duration: 5 mins
    Presenter: Yao Liu
    Slides
    [Yao Liu]: Presents.
    [Adrian]: Doesn't look like we have any question, this is still
    quite early work. I'd like people to read it and discuss it on the
    list.

  8. Explicit Congestion Notification Using MPLS Network Actions - 12:47

    ID: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-halmir-mpls-ecn-00
    Duration: 10 mins
    Presenter: Greg Mirsky
    Slides
    [Greg Mirsky]: Presents and asks for WG adoption.
    [Adrian]: How is this proposal better than existing ECN
    mechanisms?
    [Greg]: MPLS does not support ECN. Using MNA to support ECN is
    better than not supporting ECN in MPLS domain.