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Stateless and Scalable Network Slice Identification for SRv6
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draft-filsfils-spring-srv6-stateless-slice-id-01
SPRING                                                  C. Filsfils, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                              F. Clad, Ed.
Intended status: Standards Track                            P. Camarillo
Expires: January 14, 2021                                        K. Raza
                                                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                           July 13, 2020

      Stateless and Scalable Network Slice Identification for SRv6
            draft-filsfils-spring-srv6-stateless-slice-id-01

Abstract

   This document defines a stateless and scalable solution to achieve
   network slicing with SRv6.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Slice Identifier  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   3.  Ingress PE SLID Assignment  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   4.  Per-Slice Forwarding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   5.  Bandwidth-Allocation Slice  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   6.  Backward Compatibility  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   7.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     8.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     8.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

1.  Introduction

   SRv6 Network Programming[I-D.ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming]
   enables the creation of overlays with underlay optimization to be
   deployed in an SR domain[RFC8402].

   As defined in [RFC8754], all inter-domain packets are encapsulated
   for the part of the packet journey that is within the SR domain.  The
   outer IPv6 header is originated by a node of the SR domain and is
   destined to a node of the SR domain.

   This document describes a stateless encoding of slice identification
   in the outer IPv6 header of an SR domain.  The slice identification
   is independent of topology and the QoS/DiffServ policy of the
   network, thus enabling scalable network slicing for SRv6 overlays.

2.  Slice Identifier

   Each network slice in an SR domain is uniquely identified by an 8-bit
   Slice Identifier (SLID).

3.  Ingress PE SLID Assignment

   When an ingress PE receives a packet that traverses the SR domain, it
   encapsulates the packet in an outer IPv6 header and optional SRH as
   defined in [RFC8754].  The ingress PE MAY also classify the packet
   into a slice and set the slice identifier as follows:

   o  Set the SPI bit (SLID Presence Indicator) in the Traffic Class
      field of the outer IPv6 header.

   o  Write this SLID in the 8 most significant bits of the Flow Label
      field of the outer IPv6 header.  The remaining 12 bits of the Flow

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      Label field were set as described in section 5.5 of [RFC8754] for
      inter-domain packets.

   The slice classification method is outside the scope of this
   document.

   The choice of the SPI bit from within the IPv6 Traffic Class field is
   a domain-wide configuration and is outside the scope of this
   document.

4.  Per-Slice Forwarding

   Any router within the SR domain that forwards a packet with SPI bit
   set uses the SLID to select a slice and apply per-slice policies.

   There are many different policies that could define a slice for a
   particular application or service.  The most basic of these is
   bandwidth-allocation, an implementation complying with this
   specification SHOULD support the bandwidth-allocation slice as
   defined in the next section.

5.  Bandwidth-Allocation Slice

   A per-slice policy is configured at each interface of each router in
   the SR domain, with one traffic shaper per SLID.  The bitrate of each
   shaper is configured to reflect the bandwidth allocation of the per-
   slice policy.

   If shapers are not available, or desirable, an implementation MAY
   configure one scheduling queue per SLID with a guaranteed bandwidth
   equal to the bandwidth-allocation for the slice.  This option allows
   a slice to consume more bandwidth than its allocation when available.

   Per-slice shapers or queues effectively provides a virtual port per
   slice.  This solution MAY be complemented with a per-virtual-port
   hierarchical DiffServ policy.  Within the context of one specific
   slice, packets are further classified into children DiffServ queues
   which hang from the virtual port.  The DSCP value in the IPv6 header
   SHOULD be used for queue selection.

6.  Backward Compatibility

   The Flow Label usage described in this document is consistent with
   [RFC6437] and [RFC6438].

   PE routers that do not set the SPI bit do not enable the SLID
   semantic of the Flow Label bits.  Hence, SLID-aware routers would not
   attempt to classify these packets into a slice.

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   Any router that does not process the SPI nor the SLID forwards
   packets as usual.

7.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Darren Dukes, Ketan Talaulikar, Jisu
   Bhattacharya, John Bettink, and Aman Manot for their insightful
   feedback on this document.

8.  References

8.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming]
              Filsfils, C., Camarillo, P., Leddy, J., Voyer, D.,
              Matsushima, S., and Z. Li, "SRv6 Network Programming",
              draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming-16 (work in
              progress), June 2020.

   [RFC8402]  Filsfils, C., Ed., Previdi, S., Ed., Ginsberg, L.,
              Decraene, B., Litkowski, S., and R. Shakir, "Segment
              Routing Architecture", RFC 8402, DOI 10.17487/RFC8402,
              July 2018, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8402>.

   [RFC8754]  Filsfils, C., Ed., Dukes, D., Ed., Previdi, S., Leddy, J.,
              Matsushima, S., and D. Voyer, "IPv6 Segment Routing Header
              (SRH)", RFC 8754, DOI 10.17487/RFC8754, March 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8754>.

8.2.  Informative References

   [RFC6437]  Amante, S., Carpenter, B., Jiang, S., and J. Rajahalme,
              "IPv6 Flow Label Specification", RFC 6437,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6437, November 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6437>.

   [RFC6438]  Carpenter, B. and S. Amante, "Using the IPv6 Flow Label
              for Equal Cost Multipath Routing and Link Aggregation in
              Tunnels", RFC 6438, DOI 10.17487/RFC6438, November 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6438>.

Authors' Addresses

   Clarence Filsfils (editor)
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Belgium

   Email: cf@cisco.com

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   Francois Clad (editor)
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   France

   Email: fclad@cisco.com

   Pablo Camarillo
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Spain

   Email: pcamaril@cisco.com

   Kamran Raza
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Canada

   Email: skraza@cisco.com

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