A Connectivity Monitoring Metric for IPPM
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ippm                                                        R. Geib, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                          Deutsche Telekom
Intended status: Standards Track                            July 3, 2020
Expires: January 4, 2021

               A Connectivity Monitoring Metric for IPPM
               draft-geib-ippm-connectivity-monitoring-03

Abstract

   Within a Segment Routing domain, segment routed measurement packets
   can be sent along pre-determined paths.  This enables new kinds of
   measurements.  Connectivity monitoring allows to supervise the state
   and performance of a connection or a (sub)path from one or a few
   central monitoring systems.  This document specifies a suitable
   type-P connectivity monitoring metric.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   2.  A brief segment routing connectivity monitoring framework . .   4
   3.  Singleton Definition for Type-P-SR-Path-Connectivity-and-
       Congestion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.1.  Metric Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.2.  Metric Parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.3.  Metric Units  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.4.  Definition  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.5.  Discussion  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     3.6.  Methodologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     3.7.  Errors and Uncertainties  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     3.8.  Reporting the Metric  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   4.  Singleton Definition for Type-P-SR-Path-Round-Trip-Delay-
       Estimate  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

1.  Introduction

   Within a Segment Routing domain, measurement packets can be sent
   along pre-determined segment routed paths [RFC8402].  A segment
   routed path may consist of pre-determined sub paths, specific router-
   interfaces or a combination of both.  A measurement path may also
   consist of sub paths spanning multiple routers, given that all
   segments to address a desired path are available and known at the SR
   domain edge interface.

   A Path Monitoring System or PMS (see [RFC8403]) is a dedicated
   central Segment Routing (SR) domain monitoring device (as compared to
   a distributed monitoring approach based on router-data and -functions
   only).  Monitoring individual sub-paths or point-to-point connections
   is executed for different purposes.  IGP exchanges hello messages
   between neighbors to keep alive routing and swiftly adapt routing to
   topology changes.  Network Operators may be interested in monitoring
   connectivity and congestion of interfaces or sub-paths at a timescale