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DLEP IEEE 802.1Q Aware Credit Window Extension
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draft-berger-manet-dlep-ether-credit-extension-00
Network Working Group                                         D. Wiggins
Internet-Draft                                        Lincoln Laboratory
Intended status: Standards Track                               L. Berger
Expires: November 2, 2018                        LabN Consulting, L.L.C.
                                                             May 1, 2018

             DLEP IEEE 802.1Q Aware Credit Window Extension
           draft-berger-manet-dlep-ether-credit-extension-00

Abstract

   This document defines an extension to the DLEP protocol that enables
   a Ethernet IEEE 802.1Q aware credit-window scheme for destination-
   specific and shared flow control.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Key Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Extension Usage and Identification  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Management Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     5.1.  Extension Type Value  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   6.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     6.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     6.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   Appendix A.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6

1.  Introduction

   The Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) is defined in [RFC8175].
   It provides the exchange of link related control information between
   DLEP peers.  DLEP peers are comprised of a modem and a router.  DLEP
   defines a base set of mechanisms as well as support for possible
   extensions.  This document defines one such extension.

   The base DLEP specification does not include any flow control
   capability.  There are various flow control techniques theoretically
   possible with DLEP.  For example, a DiffServ aware credit window
   extension is defined in [I-D.ietf-manet-dlep-da-credit-extension].

   This document defines a DLEP extension which provides a flow control
   mechanism for traffic sent from a router to a modem.  Flow control is
   provided using one or more logical "Credit Windows", each of which
   will typically be supported by an associated virtual or physical
   queue.  Traffic sent by a router will use traffic flow classification
   information provided by the modem to identify which traffic is
   associated with each credit window.  (For general background on
   traffic classification see [RFC2475] Section 2.3.)  Credit windows
   may be shared or dedicated on a per flow basis.  The extension is
   structured to allow for reuse of the defined credit window based flow
   control with different traffic classification techniques.

   This document uses the traffic classification and credit window
   control mechanisms defined in [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control] to
   provided credit window based flow control based on on DLEP
   destination and Ethernet VLANs and Priority Code Points.  Ethernet
   Priority Code Point support is defined as part of the IEEE 802.1Q
   [IEEE.802.1Q_2014] tag format and includes a 3 bit "PCP" field.  The
   tag format also includes a 12 bit VLAN identifier (VID) field.  The
   defined mechanism allows for credit windows to be shared across

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   traffic sent to multiple DLEP destinations VLANs, and PCPs, or used
   exclusively for traffic sent to a particular destination and/or VLAN
   and/or PCP.  The extension also supports the "wildcard" matching of
   any PCP or VID.

   The extension defined in this document is referred to as "IEEE 802.1Q
   Aware Credit Window" or, more simply, the "Ethernet Credit"
   extension.  The reader should be familiar with both the traffic
   classification and credit window control mechanisms defined in
   [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control].

   This document defines a new DLEP Extension Type Value in Section 2
   which is used to indicate support for the extension.

1.1.  Key Words

   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.

2.  Extension Usage and Identification

   The extension defined in this document is composed of the mechanisms
   and processing defined in [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control].  To
   indicate that the IEEE 802.1Q Aware Credit Window Extension is to be
   used, an implementation MUST include the IEEE 802.1Q Aware Credit
   Window Type Value in the Extensions Supported Data Item.  The
   Extensions Supported Data Item is sent and processed according to
   [RFC8175].  Any implementation that indicates use of the IEEE 802.1Q
   Aware Credit Window Extension MUST support all Messages, Data Items,
   the Ethernet Traffic Classification Sub Data Item, and all related
   processing defined in [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control].

   The IEEE 802.1Q Aware Credit Window Extension Type Value is TBA1, see
   Section 5.

3.  Management Considerations

   This section provides several network management guidelines to
   implementations supporting the IEEE 802.1Q Aware Credit Window
   Extension.

   The use of the extension defined in this document SHOULD be
   configurable on both modems and routers.

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   Modems SHOULD support the configuration of PCP to credit window
   (queue) mapping.

   Modems MAY support the configuration of PCP to credit window (queue)
   mapping on a per VLAN basis.  Note that VID value of zero (0) is used
   by [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control] to indicate that VID is
   ignored and any VID value is used in traffic classification.

   When VLANs are supported by a modem without support from PCPs, the
   modem SHOULD support the configuration of VLAN to credit window
   (queue) mapping.

   Modems MAY support the configuration of the number of credit windows
   (queues) to advertise to a router.

   Routers may have limits on the number of queues that they can support
   and, perhaps, even limits in supported credit window combinations,
   e.g., if per destination queues can even be supported at all.  When
   modem-provided credit window information exceeds the capabilities of
   a router, the router MAY use a subset of the provided credit windows.
   Alternatively, a router MAY reset the session and indicate that the
   extension is not supported.  In either case, the mismatch of
   capabilities SHOULD be reported to the user via normal network
   management mechanisms, e.g., user interface or error logging.

4.  Security Considerations

   This document defines a DLEP extension that uses base DLEP mechanisms
   and the credit window control and flow mechanisms defined in
   [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control].  The use of those mechanisms,
   and the introduction of a new extension, do not inherently introduce
   any additional threats above those documented in [RFC8175].  The
   approach taken to Security in that document applies equally to the
   mechanism defined in this document.

5.  IANA Considerations

   This document requests one assignment by IANA.  All assignments are
   to registries defined by [RFC8175].

5.1.  Extension Type Value

   This document requests 1 new assignment to the DLEP Extensions
   Registry named "Extension Type Values" in the range with the
   "Specification Required" policy.  The requested value is as follows:

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                +------+---------------------------------+
                | Code | Description                     |
                +------+---------------------------------+
                | TBA1 | IEEE 802.1Q Aware Credit Window |
                +------+---------------------------------+

                  Table 1: Requested Extension Type Value

6.  References

6.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control]
              IETF, "DLEP Credit-Based Flow Control Messages and Data
              Items", April 2018.

   [IEEE.802.1Q_2014]
              IEEE, "IEEE Standard for Local and metropolitan area
              networks--Bridges and Bridged Networks", IEEE 802.1Q-2014,
              DOI 10.1109/ieeestd.2014.6991462, December 2014,
              <http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/servlet/
              opac?punumber=6991460>.

   [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>.

   [RFC8175]  Ratliff, S., Jury, S., Satterwhite, D., Taylor, R., and B.
              Berry, "Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP)", RFC 8175,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8175, June 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8175>.

6.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-manet-dlep-da-credit-extension]
              Cheng, B., Wiggins, D., and L. Berger, "DLEP DiffServ
              Aware Credit Window Extension", draft-ietf-manet-dlep-da-
              credit-extension-04 (work in progress), March 2018.

   [RFC2475]  Blake, S., Black, D., Carlson, M., Davies, E., Wang, Z.,
              and W. Weiss, "An Architecture for Differentiated
              Services", RFC 2475, DOI 10.17487/RFC2475, December 1998,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2475>.

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Appendix A.  Acknowledgments

   The document was motivated by discussions in the MANET working group.
   Many useful comments were received from contributors to the MANET
   working group.

Authors' Addresses

   David Wiggins
   Lincoln Laboratory
   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   244 Wood Street
   Lexington, MA  02421-6426

   Email: David.Wiggins@ll.mit.edu

   Lou Berger
   LabN Consulting, L.L.C.

   Email: lberger@labn.net

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