Ideas for a Next Generation of the Reliable Server Pooling Framework
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Network Working Group T. Dreibholz
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Intended status: Informational September 09, 2020
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Ideas for a Next Generation of the Reliable Server Pooling Framework
draft-dreibholz-rserpool-nextgen-ideas-14
Abstract
This document collects some idea for a next generation of the
Reliable Server Pooling framework.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2. Reliable Server Pooling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3. Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. What to Change in the Next Generation of RSerPool? . . . . . 3
2.1. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2.2. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Reference Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Testbed Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1. Introduction
1.1. Abbreviations
o ASAP: Aggregate Server Access Protocol
o ENRP: Endpoint Handlespace Redundancy Protocol
o ID: Identifier
o MPTCP: Multi-Path Transmission Control Protocol
o PE: Pool Element
o PR: Pool Registrar
o PU: Pool User
o RSerPool: Reliable Server Pooling
o SCTP: Stream Control Transmission Protocol
o TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
o VNFPOOL: Virtual Network Function Resource Pooling
1.2. Reliable Server Pooling
Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) has been defined as RFCs in [1],
[2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8]. There is also a detailed
introduction provided by [16] as well as lots of further information
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material on [22]. RSerPool is therefore not introduced in more
detail here.
1.3. Scope
The scope of this document is to collect some ideas of what to
update/change for a next generation of the RSerPool framework. It is
a result of lessons learned with more than one decade of RSerPool
deployment (see also [17], [18], [19]) as well as ongoing discussions
on applying RSerPool for Virtual Network Function Resource
Pooling (VNFPOOL; as introduced in more detail in [15]).
2. What to Change in the Next Generation of RSerPool?
o ENRP servers denote the management systems in the context of
RSerPool. The term "server" is misleading, since ENRP servers are
actually ENRP peers. Literature on RSerPool -- for example [16]
-- therefore uses the more accurate term "Pool Registrar" (PR). A
future revision of RSerPool should also use this term. (The
RSerPool documents did not use "registrar" to avoid confusion with
SIP registrars.)
o Pool Element Identifiers (PE ID) and Pool Registrar
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