Path Segment Identifier in MPLS-Based Segment Routing Networks
RFC 9545

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created document RFC 9545, created became rfc relationship between draft-ietf-spring-mpls-path-segment and RFC 9545, set title to 'Path Segment Identifier in MPLS-Based Segment Routing Networks', set abstract to 'A Segment Routing (SR) path is identified by an SR segment list. A subset of segments from the segment list cannot be leveraged to distinguish one SR path from another as they may be partially congruent. SR path identification is a prerequisite for various use cases such as performance measurement and end-to-end 1+1 path protection.

In an SR over MPLS (SR-MPLS) data plane, an egress node cannot determine on which SR path a packet traversed the network from the label stack because the segment identifiers are removed from the label stack as the packet transits the network.

This document defines a Path Segment Identifier (PSID) to identify an SR path on the egress node of the path.', set pages to 11, set standardization level to Proposed Standard, added RFC published event at 2024-02-22)