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EtherType Protocol Identification of In-situ OAM Data
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Authors Brian Weis , Frank Brockners , Craig Hill , Shwetha Bhandari , Vengada Prasad Govindan , Carlos Pignataro , Hannes Gredler , John Leddy , Stephen Youell , Tal Mizrahi , Aviv Kfir , Barak Gafni , Petr Lapukhov , Mickey Spiegel
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draft-weis-ippm-ioam-eth-01
ippm                                                             B. Weis
Internet-Draft                                               Independent
Intended status: Standards Track                            F. Brockners
Expires: September 11, 2019                                      C. Hill
                                                             S. Bhandari
                                                             V. Govindan
                                                            C. Pignataro
                                                                   Cisco
                                                              H. Gredler
                                                            RtBrick Inc.
                                                                J. Leddy
                                                                 Comcast
                                                               S. Youell
                                                                    JMPC
                                                              T. Mizrahi
                                        Huawei Network.IO Innovation Lab
                                                                 A. Kfir
                                                                B. Gafni
                                             Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
                                                             P. Lapukhov
                                                                Facebook
                                                              M. Spiegel
                                                       Barefoot Networks
                                                          March 10, 2019

         EtherType Protocol Identification of In-situ OAM Data
                      draft-weis-ippm-ioam-eth-01

Abstract

   In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) records
   operational and telemetry information in the packet while the packet
   traverses a path between two points in the network.  This document
   defines an EtherType that identifies IOAM data fields as being the
   next protocol in a packet, and a header that encapsulates the IOAM
   data fields.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.2.  Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  IOAM EtherType  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Usage Examples of the IOAM EtherType  . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     4.1.  Example: GRE Encapsulation of IOAM Data Fields  . . . . .   4
     4.2.  Example: Geneve Encapsulation of IOAM Data Fields . . . .   5
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

1.  Introduction

   In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) records
   operational and telemetry information in the packet while the packet
   traverses a particular network domain.  The term "in-situ" refers to
   the fact that the IOAM data fields are added to the data packets
   rather than being sent within packets specifically dedicated to OAM.
   This document defines how IOAM data fields are carried as part of
   encapsulations where the IOAM data follows a header that uses an

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   EtherType to denote the next protocol in the packet.  Examples of
   these protocols are GRE [RFC2890] and Geneve [I-D.ietf-nvo3-geneve]).
   This document outlines how IOAM data fields are encoded in these
   protocols.

2.  Conventions

2.1.  Requirements Language

   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.

2.2.  Abbreviations

   Abbreviations used in this document:

   E2E:       Edge-to-Edge

   Geneve:    Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation

   GRE:       Generic Routing Encapsulation

   IOAM:      In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance

   OAM:       Operations, Administration, and Maintenance

   POT:       Proof of Transit

3.  IOAM EtherType

   When the IOAM data fields are included within an encapsulation that
   identifies the next protocol using an EtherType (e.g., GRE or Geneve)
   the presence of IOAM data fields are identified with TBD_IOAM.  When
   this EtherType is used, an additional IOAM header is also included.
   This header indicates the type of IOAM data that follows, and the
   next protocol that follows the IOAM data.

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      0                   1                   2                   3
      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     |   IOAM-Type   |   IOAM HDR len|        Next Protocol          |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
     !                                                               |
     !                                                               |
     ~                 IOAM Option and Data Space                    ~
     |                                                               |
     |                                                               |
     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The IOAM encapsulation is defined as follows.

   IOAM Type:  8-bit field defining the IOAM Option type, as defined in
      Section 7.2 of [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].

   IOAM HDR Len:  8 bit Length field contains the length of the IOAM
      header in 4-octet units.

   Next Protocol:  16 bits Next Protocol Type field contains the
      protocol type of the packet following IOAM protocol header.
      Protocol Type is defined to be an EtherType value from [ETYPES].
      An implementation receiving a packet containing a Protocol Type
      which is not listed in one of those registries SHOULD discard the
      packet.

   IOAM Option and Data Space:  IOAM option header and data is present
      as specified by the IOAM-Type field, and is defined in Section 4
      of [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].

   Multiple IOAM options MAY be included within the IOAM Option and Data
   Space.  For example, if two IOAM options are included, the Next
   Protocol field of the first IOAM option will contain the value of
   TBD_IOAM, while the Next Protocol field of the second IOAM option
   will contain the EtherType indicating the type of the data packet.

4.  Usage Examples of the IOAM EtherType

   The IOAM EtherType can be used with many encapsulations.  The
   following sections show how it can be used with GRE and Geneve.

4.1.  Example: GRE Encapsulation of IOAM Data Fields

   When IOAM data fields are carried in GRE, the IOAM encapsulation
   defined above follows the GRE header, as shown in Figure 1.

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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+<-+
   |C| |K|S| Reserved0       | Ver | Protocol Type = <TBD_IOAM>    |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   |      Checksum (optional)      |       Reserved1 (Optional)    |  G
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  R
   |                         Key (optional)                        |  E
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |
   |                 Sequence Number (Optional)                    |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+<-+
   |   IOAM-Type   |   IOAM HDR len|        Next Protocol          |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  I
   !                                                               |  O
   !                                                               |  A
   ~                 IOAM Option and Data Space                    ~  M
   |                                                               |  |
   |                                                               |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+<-+
   |                                                               |
   |             Payload + Padding (L2/L3/ESP/...)                 |
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                    Figure 1: GRE Encapsulation Example

   The GRE header and fields are defined in [RFC2890].  The GRE Protocol
   Type value is TBD_IOAM.

4.2.  Example: Geneve Encapsulation of IOAM Data Fields

   When IOAM data fields are carried in Geneve, the IOAM encapsulation
   defined above follows the Geneve header, as shown in Figure 2.

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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+<-+
   |Ver|  Opt Len  |O|C|    Rsvd.  | Protocol Type = <TBD_IOAM>    |  |G
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |E
   |        Virtual Network Identifier (VNI)       |    Reserved   |  |N
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  |E
   |                    Variable Length Options                    |  |V
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+<-+E
   |   IOAM-Type   |   IOAM HDR len|        Next Protocol          |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  I
   !                                                               |  O
   !                                                               |  A
   ~                 IOAM Option and Data Space                    ~  M
   |                                                               |  |
   |                                                               |  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+<-+
   |                                                               |
   |  Inner header + Payload + Padding (L2/L3/ESP/...)             |
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                  Figure 2: Geneve Encapsulation Example

   The GENEVE header and fields are defined in [I-D.ietf-nvo3-geneve].
   The Geneve Protocol Type value is TBD_IOAM.

5.  Security Considerations

   This document describes the encapsulation of IOAM data fields in GRE.
   Security considerations of the specific IOAM data fields for each
   case (i.e., Trace, Proof of Transit, and E2E) are described in
   defined in [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].

   As this document describes new protocol fields within the existing
   GRE encapsulation, these are similar to the security considerations
   of [RFC2890].

   IOAM data transported in an OAM E2E header SHOULD be integrity
   protected (e.g., with IPsec ESP [RFC4303]) to detect changes made by
   a device between the sending and receiving OAM endpoints.

6.  IANA Considerations

   A new EtherType value is requested to be added to the [ETYPES] IANA
   registry.  The description should be "In-situ OAM (IOAM)".

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7.  References

7.1.  Normative References

   [ETYPES]   "IANA Ethernet Numbers",
              <https://www.iana.org/assignments/ieee-802-numbers/
              ieee-802-numbers.xhtml>.

   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data]
              Brockners, F., Bhandari, S., Pignataro, C., Gredler, H.,
              Leddy, J., Youell, S., Mizrahi, T., Mozes, D., Lapukhov,
              P., Chang, R., daniel.bernier@bell.ca, d., and J. Lemon,
              "Data Fields for In-situ OAM", draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-
              data-04 (work in progress), October 2018.

   [I-D.ietf-nvo3-geneve]
              Gross, J., Ganga, I., and T. Sridhar, "Geneve: Generic
              Network Virtualization Encapsulation", draft-ietf-
              nvo3-geneve-11 (work in progress), March 2019.

   [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>.

   [RFC2890]  Dommety, G., "Key and Sequence Number Extensions to GRE",
              RFC 2890, DOI 10.17487/RFC2890, September 2000,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2890>.

   [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>.

7.2.  Informative References

   [RFC4303]  Kent, S., "IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)",
              RFC 4303, DOI 10.17487/RFC4303, December 2005,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4303>.

Authors' Addresses

   Brian Weis
   Independent
   USA

   Email: bew.stds@gmail.com

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   Frank Brockners
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Hansaallee 249, 3rd Floor
   DUESSELDORF, NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN  40549
   Germany

   Email: fbrockne@cisco.com

   Craig Hill
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   13600 Dulles Technology Drive
   Herndon, Virginia  20171
   United States

   Email: crhill@cisco.com

   Shwetha Bhandari
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Cessna Business Park, Sarjapura Marathalli Outer Ring Road
   Bangalore, KARNATAKA 560 087
   India

   Email: shwethab@cisco.com

   Vengada Prasad Govindan
   Cisco Systems, Inc.

   Email: venggovi@cisco.com

   Carlos Pignataro
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   7200-11 Kit Creek Road
   Research Triangle Park, NC  27709
   United States

   Email: cpignata@cisco.com

   Hannes Gredler
   RtBrick Inc.

   Email: hannes@rtbrick.com

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   John Leddy
   Comcast

   Email: John_Leddy@cable.comcast.com

   Stephen Youell
   JP Morgan Chase
   25 Bank Street
   London  E14 5JP
   United Kingdom

   Email: stephen.youell@jpmorgan.com

   Tal Mizrahi
   Huawei Network.IO Innovation Lab
   Israel

   Email: tal.mizrahi.phd@gmail.com

   Aviv Kfir
   Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
   350 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 100
   Sunnyvale, CA  94085
   U.S.A.

   Email: avivk@mellanox.com

   Barak Gafni
   Mellanox Technologies, Inc.
   350 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 100
   Sunnyvale, CA  94085
   U.S.A.

   Email: gbarak@mellanox.com

   Petr Lapukhov
   Facebook
   1 Hacker Way
   Menlo Park, CA  94025
   US

   Email: petr@fb.com

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   Mickey Spiegel
   Barefoot Networks
   2185 Park Boulevard
   Palo Alto, CA  94306
   US

   Email: mspiegel@barefootnetworks.com

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