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draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3

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Technical Summary:

      This document specifies a mechanism to transport OSPFv3 packets over IPv4
      routing domain using the existing OSPFv3 Address Family extension. It
      simplifies transition from an OSPFv2 IPv4-only routing domain to an
      OSPFv3 dual-stack routing domain. It updates RFC 5838 to support virtual
      links in the IPv4 unicast address family when using OSPFv3 over IPv4.

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     This document brings in deployment benefit with little change to OSPFv3
     protocol and no impact to IPv4 transport. It received strong support
     for WG acceptance. There has not been any more comments since WGLC.

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      Most questions were raised and addressed during the I.D stage.
      Since then the draft is stable, without changes to the technical
      solution for more than six months.

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      Wenhu Lu is the Document Shepherd.
      Alia Atlas is the Responsible Area Director.

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      The email discussion that leads to revision 05, 06, 07, 08 and 09:

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 6:23 AM, Acee Lindem (acee) <acee@cisco.com> wrote:
Thanks Helen!

From: Helen Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com>
Date: Friday, June 17, 2016 at 9:08 AM
To: Acee Lindem <acee@cisco.com>, Alexander Okonnikov
<alexander.okonnikov@gmail.com>, Ran Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com>, Wenhu Lu
<wenhu.lu@gmail.com> Cc: "draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org"
<draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org> Subject: RE: Mail regarding
draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3

Hi Acee,

Thanks for the quick responses.  I uploaded the change.

Name:                  draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3

Revision:              09

Title:                      OSPFv3 over IPv4 for IPv6 Transition

Document date:               2016-06-17

Group:                  ospf

Pages:                   10

URL:           
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-09.txt

Status:        
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3/

Htmlized:      
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-09

Diff:          
https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-09

Thanks,
Helen

From: Acee Lindem (acee) [mailto:acee@cisco.com]
Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 8:24 AM
To: Acee Lindem (acee) <acee@cisco.com>; Alexander Okonnikov
<alexander.okonnikov@gmail.com>; Randal Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com>; Wenhu
Lu <wenhu.lu@gmail.com>; Ing-Wher (Helen) Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com> Cc:
draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org Subject: Re: Mail regarding
draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3

Hi Helen,

Can we add the statement to the second paragraph:

    “When OSPFv3 adjacencies on different IPv4 subnets are supported,
    Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) [RFC 5881]) cannot be used for
    adjacency loss detection since BFD is restricted to a single subnet.”

Thanks,
Acee

From: Acee Lindem <acee@cisco.com>
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 7:33 PM
To: Alexander Okonnikov <alexander.okonnikov@gmail.com>, Ran Atkinson
<rja.lists@gmail.com>, Wenhu Lu <wenhu.lu@gmail.com>, Helen Chen
<ichen@kuatrotech.com> Cc: "draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org"
<draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org> Subject: Re: Mail regarding
draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3 Resent-From: <alias-bounces@ietf.org>
Resent-To: Acee Lindem <acee@cisco.com>, Helen Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com>, Ran
Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com> Resent-Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 7:33 PM

From: Alexander Okonnikov <alexander.okonnikov@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 7:12 PM
To: Ran Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com>, Wenhu Lu <wenhu.lu@gmail.com>, Helen
Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com>, Acee Lindem <acee@cisco.com> Cc:
"draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org"
<draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org> Subject: Re: Mail regarding
draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3 Resent-From: <alias-bounces@ietf.org>
Resent-To: Acee Lindem <acee@cisco.com>, Helen Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com>, Ran
Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com> Resent-Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 7:12 PM

Is my understanding correct that section 3.1 implies: if two neighbors are in
different subnets then BFD session might not be established (in case BFD
implementation closely adhere RFC 5881)?

Actually, we could add a caveat that BFD cannot be used to the second paragraph
since it is not supported across subnets. Thanks, Acee

Thank you.

17 июня 2016 г., 1:55 +0300, Acee Lindem (acee) <acee@cisco.com>, писал:

Hi Alex,

Since we did not want to solve all these types of incompatibilities with IPv4,
we have the same restriction for OSPFv3 over IPv4:

3.1.  Source Address

     For OSPFv3 over IPv4, the source address is the primary IPv4
     address for the interface over which the packet is transmitted.
     All OSPFv3 routers on the link SHOULD share the same IPv4 subnet
     for IPv4 transport to function correctly.

     While OSPFv2 operates on a subnet, OSPFv3 operates on a link
     [RFC5340].  Accordingly, an OSPFv3 router implementation MAY
     support adjacencies with OSPFv3 neighbors on different IPv4
     subnets.  If this is supported, the IPv4 data plane MUST resolve
     IPv4 addresses to layer-2 addresses using Address Resolution
     Protocol (ARP) on multi-access networks and point-to-point over LAN
     [RFC5309] for direct next-hops on different IPv4 subnets.

Thanks,
Acee
From: Alexander Okonnikov <alexander.okonnikov@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 6:49 PM
To: Ran Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com>, Wenhu Lu <wenhu.lu@gmail.com>, Helen
Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com>, Acee Lindem <acee@cisco.com> Cc:
"draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org"
<draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org> Subject: Re: Mail regarding
draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3

Hello Acee,

I doubt about follow statement from RFC 5881:

6. Addressing Issues

...
On a multiaccess network, BFD Control packets MUST be transmitted
with source and destination addresses that are part of the subnet
(addressed from and to interfaces on the subnet).
...

17 июня 2016 г., 1:29 +0300, Acee Lindem (acee) <acee@cisco.com>, писал:

Hi Alex,
If one is using IPv4 transport you’d presumably need to use IPv4 BFD so I know
that this draft changes anything. Hence, you’d wouldn’t need any changes to RFC
5881. What am I missing? Thanks, Acee

From: Alexander Okonnikov <alexander.okonnikov@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, June 16, 2016 at 5:28 PM
To: Acee Lindem <acee@cisco.com>, Ran Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com>, Wenhu Lu
<wenhu.lu@gmail.com>, Helen Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com> Cc:
"draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org"
<draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org> Subject: RE: Mail regarding
draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3

Hello all,

I have thought that as soon as OSPFv3 will be allowed to establish session with
neighbor in different subnet, note about usage of BFD may need to be added.
Currently RFC 5881 says that source and destination should be from the same
subnet. I guess that it would be right to update RFC 5881 in this part (to
relax this rule), but before it will happen (if any), it is better to clarify
this point here.

Thank you.

25 мая 2016 г., 16:19 +0300, Ing-Wher (Helen) Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com>,
писал:

Actually, Acee is the thoughtful one.

Nonetheless, we thank you for your review.

Thanks,
Helen

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Okonnikov [mailto:alexander.okonnikov@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:39 PM
To: Ing-Wher (Helen) Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com>; Acee Lindem (acee)
<acee@cisco.com>; Randal Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com>; Wenhu Lu
<wenhu.lu@gmail.com
Cc: draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org
Subject: Re: Mail regarding draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3

Thank you, Helen!

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 7:02 AM, Ing-Wher (Helen) Chen <ichen@kuatrotech.com>
wrote: Here's the latest version of the draft, version -06, which includes a
new acknowledgment section to thank Alexander for his comments.  Thanks
Alexander!

Name:           draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3
Revision:       07
Title:          OSPFv3 over IPv4 for IPv6 Transition
Document date:  2016-05-24
Group:          ospf
Pages:          10
URL:           
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-07.txt
Status:        
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3/
Htmlized:      
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-07 Diff:      
    https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-07

Thanks,
Helen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ing-Wher (Helen) Chen [mailto:ichen@kuatrotech.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2016 11:38 AM
> To: Acee Lindem (acee) <acee@cisco.com>; Randal Atkinson
> <rja.lists@gmail.com>
> Cc: Alexander Okonnikov <alexander.okonnikov@gmail.com>; draft-ietf-
> ospf-transition-to-ospfv3@ietf.org
> Subject: RE: Mail regarding draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3
>
> I made the suggested changes, including Ran's edit, to Section 3.1 and
> submitted a new revision.  The correct new version is -06 (please ignore
> version -05), and the diff between -04 and -06 is here:
>
> <http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url1=https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-
> ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-04.txt&url2=https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-
> ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3-06.txt>
>
> Name:         draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3
> Revision:     06
> Title:                OSPFv3 over IPv4 for IPv6 Transition
> Document date:        2016-05-23
> Group:                ospf
> Pages:                10
> URL:           
https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ospf-transition- >
to-ospfv3-06.txt > Status:        
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to- > ospfv3/ >
Htmlized:      
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3- > 06 > Diff: 
         https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to- >
ospfv3-06 > > Thanks, > Helen > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Acee
Lindem (acee) [mailto:acee@cisco.com] > > Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2016 4:41 PM >
> To: Randal Atkinson <rja.lists@gmail.com> > > Cc: Ing-Wher (Helen) Chen
<ichen@kuatrotech.com>; Alexander > Okonnikov > >
<alexander.okonnikov@gmail.com>; draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to- > >
ospfv3@ietf.org > > Subject: Re: Mail regarding
draft-ietf-ospf-transition-to-ospfv3 > > > > Hi Ran, > > Sounds good to me. > >
Thanks, > > Acee > > > > On 5/22/16, 2:51 PM, "Randal Atkinson"
<rja.lists@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > >> On 19May2016, at 12:49, Acee
Lindem (acee) <acee@cisco.com> > wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi Helen, > > >> > > >> I
agree. Though I missed the context to Alex’s comment in my reply, > > >> I
actually meant to add rather than replace as you are proposing. > > >> > > >>
Thanks, > > >> Acee > > >> > > >> On 5/19/16, 11:25 AM, "Ing-Wher (Helen) Chen"
> > <ichen@kuatrotech.com> > > >>wrote: > > >> > > >>> How about the following
text for Section 3.1, in its entirety?  (I > > >>>think  it's  important to
emphasize the normal case.) > > >>> > > >>> <begin Section 3.1> > > >>> > > >>>
For OSPFv3 over IPv4, the source address is the primary IPv4 > > >>> address
for the interface over which the packet is transmitted. > > >>> All OSPFv3
routers on the link SHOULD share the same IPv4 subnet > > >>> for > > >>> IPv4
transport to function correctly. > > >>> > > >>> An OSPFv3 router
implementation MAY support adjacencies with > > >>> neighbors on different IPv4
subnets since OSPFv3 runs on a link > > >>> rather than on a subnet [RFC5340].
If this is supported, the IPv4 > > >>> data plane MUST resolve the layer-2
address using ARP on > > >>> multi-access networks and point-to-point over LAN
[RFC5309] for > > >>> direct next-hops in different subnets. > > >>> > > >>>
<end Section 3.1> > > > > > >All, > > > > > >I agree with the principle, but
I’d like to suggest a clarifying edit > > >to the 2nd paragraph above: > > > >
> >[begin candidate new text for 2nd paragraph above] > > > > > >“While OSPFv2
operates on a subnet, OSPFv3 operates on a link [RFC- > 5340]. > >
>Accordingly, an OSPFv3 router implementation MAY support adjacencies > > >with
OSPFv3 neighbors on different IPv4 subnets.  If this is > > >supported, the > >
>IPv4 data plane MUST resolve the layer-2 address using ARP on > >
>multi-access networks and point-to-point over LAN [RFC 5309] for > > >direct
next-hops on different IPv4 subnets.” > > > > > >[end candidate new text for
2nd paragraph above] > > > > > >Yours, > > > > > >Ran > > > > > >

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