Internet-Draft | IGP SR NRP SIDs | July 2022 |
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Segment Routing (SR) defines a set of topological "segments" within an IGP topology to enable steering over a specific SR path. These segments are advertised by the link-state routing protocols (IS-IS and OSPF).¶
This document describes extensions to the IS-IS and OSPF required to support the signaling of Resource Partition (NRP) segments that operate over SR-MPLS and SRv6 dataplanes. Multiple SR NRP segments can be associated with the same topological element to allow offering of different forwarding treatments (e.g. scheduling and drop policy) associated with each NRP.¶
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The Segment Routing (SR) architecture [RFC8402] defines a set of topological "segments" within an IGP topology as means to enable steering over a specific SR end-to-end path. These segments are advertised by the IGP link-state routing protocols (IS-IS and OSPF). The SR control plane can be applied to both IPv6 and MPLS data planes.¶
The definition of a network slice for use within the IETF and the characteristics of IETF network slice are specified in [I-D.ietf-teas-ietf-network-slice-definition]. A framework for reusing IETF VPN and traffic-engineering technologies to realize IETF network slices is discussed in [I-D.nsdt-teas-ns-framework].¶
[I-D.bestbar-teas-ns-packet] introduces a Slice-Flow Aggregate as the collection of packets (from one or more IETF network slice traffic streams) that match an NRP Policy selection criteria and are offered the same forwarding treatment. The NRP Policy is used to realize an NRP by instantiating specific control and data plane resources on select topological elements in an IP/MPLS network.¶
[I-D.bestbar-spring-scalable-ns] describes an approach to extend SR to advertise new SID types called NRP SIDs. Such NRP SIDs are used by a router to define the forwarding action for a packet (next-hop selection), as well as to enforce the specific treatment (scheduling and drop policy) associated with the NRP.¶
This document defines the IS-IS and OSPF specific encodings for the IGP-Prefix Segment, the IGP-Adjacency Segment, the IGP-LAN-Adjacency Segment that are required to support the signaling of SR NRP SIDs operating over SR-MPLS and SRv6 dataplanes.¶
When the NRP segments share the same topology (and Algorithm for NRP Prefix-SIDs), the different NRP SIDs of the same topological element share the same forwarding path (i.e., IGP next-hop(s)), but are associated with the specific forwarding treatment (e.g. scheduling and drop policy) of each NRP.¶
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.¶
Segment Routing can be directly instantiated on the MPLS data plane through the use of the Segment Routing header instantiated as a stack of MPLS labels defined in [RFC8402].¶
[RFC8667] defines the IS-IS Prefix Segment Identifier sub-TLV (Prefix-SID sub-TLV) that is applicable to SR-MPLS dataplane. The Prefix-SID sub-TLV carries the Segment Routing IGP-Prefix-SID, and is associated with a prefix advertised by a router.¶
A new IS-IS SR Network Resource Partition Prefix SID (NRP Prefix-SID) sub-TLV is defined to allow a router advertising a prefix to associate multiple NRP Prefix-SIDs to the same prefix. The NRP Prefix-SIDs associated with the same prefix share the same IGP path to the destination prefix within the specific mapped or customized topology/algorithm but offer the specific QoS treatment associated with the specific NRP.¶
The NRP ID is carried in the NRP Prefix-SID sub-TLV in order to associate the Prefix-SID with the specific NRP. The NRP Prefix-SID sub-TLV has the following format:¶
where:¶
This sub-TLV MAY be present in any of the following TLVs:¶
This sub-TLV MAY appear multiple times in each TLV.¶
[RFC8667] defines the IS-IS Adjacency Segment Identifier sub-TLV (Adj-SID sub-TLV). The Adj-SID sub-TLV is an optional sub-TLV carrying the Segment Routing IGP Adjacency-SID as defined in [RFC8402].¶
A new SR Network Resource Partition Adjacency SID (NRP Adj-SID) sub-TLV is defined to allow a router to allocate and advertise multiple NRP Adj-SIDs towards the same IS-IS neighbor (adjacency). The NRP Adj-SIDs allows a router to enforce the specific treatment associated with the NRP on the specific adjacency.¶
The NRP ID is carried in the NRP Adj-SID sub-TLV to associate it to the specific NRP, and has the following format:¶
where:¶
This sub-TLV MAY be present in any of the following TLVs:¶
Multiple Adj-SID sub-TLVs MAY be associated with a single IS-IS neighbor. This sub-TLV MAY appear multiple times in each TLV.¶
[I-D.ietf-lsr-algorithm-related-adjacency-sid] defines ISIS Adjacency Segment Identifier (Adj-SID) per Algorithm Sub-TLV.¶
A new per Algorithm SR NRP Adj-SID is defined to allow a router to allocate and advertise multiple NRP Adj-SIDs towards the same adjacency. The per Algorithm NRP Adj-SID allow the router to enforce the specific forwarding treatment associated with the NRP on to packets using that NRP Adj-SID as active segment.¶
The NRP ID is carried in the NRP per Algorithm Adj-SID sub-TLV to associate it to the specific NRP. The sub-TLV has the following format:¶
where:¶
In LAN subnetworks, [RFC8667] defines the SR-MPLS LAN-Adj-SID sub-TLV for a router to advertise the Adj-SID of each of its neighbors.¶
A new SR Network Resource Partition LAN Adjacency SID (NRP LAN-Adj-SID) sub-TLV is defined to allow a router to allocate and advertise multiple NRP LAN-Adj-SIDs towards each of its neighbors on the LAN. The NRP LAN-Adj-SIDs allows a router to enforce the specific treatment associated with the specific NRP towards a neighbor.¶
The NRP ID is carried in the NRP LAN-Adj-SID sub-TLV to associate it to the specific NRP, and it has the following format:¶
where:¶
This sub-TLV MAY be present in any of the following TLVs:¶
Multiple LAN-Adj-SID sub-TLVs MAY be associated with a single IS-IS neighbor. This sub-TLV MAY appear multiple times in each TLV.¶
ISIS Adjacency Segment Identifier (LAN-Adj-SID) per Algorithm Sub-TLV has the following format:¶
where:¶
Segment Routing can be directly instantiated on the IPv6 data plane through the use of the Segment Routing Header defined in [RFC8754]. SRv6 refers to this SR instantiation on the IPv6 dataplane.¶
The SRv6 Locator TLV was introduced in [I-D.ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions] to advertise SRv6 Locators and End SIDs associated with each locator.¶
The SRv6 End SID sub-TLV was introduced in [I-D.ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions] to advertise SRv6 Segment Identifiers (SID) with Endpoint behaviors which do not require a particular neighbor.¶
The SRv6 End SID sub-TLV is advertised in the SRv6 Locator TLV, and inherits the topology/algorithm from the parent locator. The SRv6 End SID sub-TLV defined in [I-D.ietf-lsr-isis-srv6-extensions] carries optional sub-sub-TLVs.¶
A new SRv6 NRP SID Sub-Sub-TLV is defined to allow a router to assign and advertise an SRv6 End SID that is associated with a specific NRP. The SRv6 SID NRP Sub-Sub-TLV allows routers to infer and enforce the specific treatment associated with the NRP on the selected next-hops along the path to the End SID destination.¶
where:¶
ISIS SRv6 SID NRP Sub-Sub-TLV MUST NOT appear more than once in its parent Sub-TLV. If it appears more than once in its parent Sub- TLV, the parent Sub-TLV MUST be ignored by the receiver.¶
The new SRv6 SID NRP Sub-Sub-TLV is an optional Sub-Sub-TLV of:¶
This document requests allocation for the following Sub-TLVs types.¶
Table 1 summarizes registrations made in the "Sub-TLVs for TLV 135,235,226 and 237 registry".¶
Sub-TLV Type | Description | Reference |
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TBD1 | NRP Prefix-SID Sub-TLV | Section 3.1 |
Table 1: Summary of Sub-TLV registrations for TLVs 135,235,226 and 237 (to be assigned by IANA).¶
Table 2 summarizes registrations made in the "Sub-TLVs for TLV 22, 23, 25, 141, 222, and 223" registry.¶
Sub-TLV Type | Description | Reference |
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TBD2 | NRP Adj-SID Sub-TLV | Section 3.2 |
TBD3 | NRP LAN-Adj-SID Sub-TLV | Section 3.4 |
TBD4 | NRP Per Algo Adj-SID Sub-TLV | Section 3.3 |
TBD5 | NRP Per Algo LAN-Adj-SID Sub-TLV | Section 3.5 |
Table 2: Summary of Sub-TLV registrations for TLVs 22, 23, 25, 141, 222, and 223 (to be assigned by IANA).¶
The below is a request to allocate a new sub-sub-TLV type from the "sub-sub-TLVs for SRv6 End SID and SRv6 End.X SID" registry:¶
The authors would like to thank Swamy SRK, and Prabhu Raj Villadathu Karunakaran for their review of this document, and for providing valuable feedback on it.¶
The following individuals contributed to this document:¶
Colby Barth Juniper Networks Email: cbarth@juniper.net Srihari R. Sangli Juniper Networks Email: ssangli@juniper.net Chandra Ramachandran Juniper Networks Email: csekar@juniper.net¶