Network working Group W. Imajuku, M. Suzuki, K. Matsuda, NTT Internet-Draft K. Ogaki, T. Otani KDDI R&D Labs. Category: Informational N. Bitar Verizon Expires May 2008 November 19 2007 Service Provider Requirements for Ethernet control with GMPLS draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on May 19, 2008. Abstract Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) is applicable to Ethernet switches supporting Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) networks. The GMPLS controlled Ethernet label switch network not only automates creation of Ethernet Label Switched Paths(Eth-LSPs), it also provides sophisticated Eth-LSP recovery Mechanisms such as protection and restoration of an Eth-LSP. This document describes the requirements for the set of solutions of GMPLS controlled Ethernet label switch networks. Imajuku, et al. Expires January 2008 [Page 1] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Conventions used in this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Reference model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.1. Single-layer network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3.2. Multi-layer network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 4. Requirements for Ethernet layer control . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.1. Control plane architecture and functionality . . . . . . 5 4.1.1. In-band control plane channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.1.2 Neighbor discovery mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.1.3 Hybrid operation with legacy Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.2. Ethernet LSP control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.2.1. Prevention of Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4.2.2. Service Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.2.3 P2MP and MP2MP LSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.3. OA&M related functionality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4.4. Protection and restoration Related functionalities . . . 6 4.5. Link Aggregation Group related functionalities . . . . . 6 4.5.1 Failure or deletion of LAG member link . . . . . . . . . 7 4.5.2 Recovery or addition of LAG member link . . . . . . . . . 7 4.6. Inter-domain Ethernet LSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.7. Multi-layer network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.7.1. Dynamic formation of LAG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.7.2. Other requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.8 Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7.1. Normative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 7.2. Informative references . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 8. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 9. Contributors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 10. Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 11 Copyright Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1. Introduction Scalability and manageability of Ethernet switch networks has continuously improved, and the deployment of Ethernet switches supporting Provider Bridging (PB) [IEEE802.1ad] has became one of the solutions for service providers to provide enterprise WAN/LAN services. IEEE standardization activities of Provider Backbone Bridge(PBB) [IEEE 802.1ah] and PBB for Traffic Engineering (PBB-TE) [IEEE802.1Qay] provide an opportunity not only for enhancing the scalability, manageability, and controllability of the Ethernet service networks, but also for more efficiently deploying access/metro access networks. Imajuku, et al. Expires January 2008 [Page 2] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) provides the framework for handling and controlling various types of switching technologies, namely packet switching with various label formats TDM switching, and wavelength switching [RFC3945]. Therefore, the combined use of GMPLS and PBB-TE is a fairly suitable "use case" that contributes to enhancing the flexibility of Ethernet Label Switched Path (Eth-LSP) over Ethernet switch networks without defining additional connection layers. This document describes requirements for GMPLS protocols to control Ethernet label switch networks and comprises mainly two parts. The first one is the requirements for GMPLS extension for controlling Ethernet layer. The second one includes the requirements for GMPLS extensions to support multi-layer operation. Although a large portion of requirements in the second scope coincides with the description in [Interwk-fwk] and [Interwk-req], some of important requirements are also described in this document. 2. Conventions used in this document The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. 3. Reference model 3.1 Single Layer This document describes requirements based on the reference model depicted in Fig. 1. The first reference model is an intra-domain and single layer GMPLS controlled Ethernet label switching network in which Eth-LSPs traverse over between Back Bone Core Bridges (BCBs) or Back Bone Edge Bridges (BEBs). -------- | LSR3 |__ P-based IF -------- ----- _____|(IB-BEB)|__ S-tagged IF P-based IF | LSR1 |____|LSR2 | | |__ I-tagged IF S-tagged IF |(IB-BEB)| |(BCB)| -------- I-tagged IF | | | |_____ -------- -------- ----- | LSR4 | | (B-BEB)| | |__ I-tagged IF -------- | GMPLS Eth-LSP | | (BVID/BMAC) | |<---------------| Figure 1 Single layer GMPLS controlled PBB-TE network Imajuku, et al. Expires January 2008 [Page 3] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 The BEBs provide mainly three types of service interfaces, namely Port based service interface (P-based IF), S-tagged service interface (S-tagged IF), and I-tagged service Interface (I-tagged IF) [IEEE802.1ah]. The "P-based IF" and "S-tagged IF" are connected to the I-component of a BEB (I-BEB), while the I-tagged IF is connected to the B-component of a BEB (B-BEB). "S-tagged IF" can perform various types of mapping between Service VLAN ID (S-VID) and Backbone instance Service Identifier (I-SID). Here, S-VID is assigned within customer network domain or Provider Bridge (PB) domain. On the other hand, I-SID is defined between I-components of BEBs. 3.2 Multi-layer The second reference model is Ethernet and L1 (such as TDM, OTN, etc) multi-layer network. Each Ethernet switch node behaves as a border node between the Ethernet layer and optical Layers. Each BCB or BEB terminates Optical Label Switched Path (O-LSPs) with Ethernet encoding type and some O-LSPs dynamically form LAG. Thus, some Eth-LSPs traverse over multiple O-LSPs, while other Eth-LSPs traverse over single O-LSPs. Also, it is technically possible to form multiple layer Ethernet switch networks. Namely, the reference model is defined as the case that Ethernet switch network substitutes L1 network in Fig.2, and realizes MAC in MAC Ethernet transport. The routing information of optical layer may be isolated (overlay model), shuffled (peer model), or virtualized with FA-LSPs (augmented model) for Ethernet switch layer. -------- ------ -------- P-based IF __| LSR1 | | LSR2 | | LSR3 |__ P-based IF S-tagged IF __|(IB-BEB)| | (BCB)| |(IB-BEB)|__ S-tagged IF I-tagged IF __| | | | | |__ I-tagged IF -------- ------ -------- | | ||LAG LAG|| ......................|...........|..||..........||................... | | || || ---+---- ------ ------ | LSR A |_____|LSR B |_____|LSR C | | (LSC) | |(LSC) | WDM |(LSC) | -------- ------ ------ | GMPLS Eth-LSP (BVID/BMAC)| |<------------------------>| | O-LSP | | O-LSP | |<--------->| |<-------->| Figure 2 Multi-layer GMPLS controlled Ethernet label switched network Imajuku, et al. Expires January 2008 [Page 4] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 4. Requirements Section 4.1 to 4.6 describe requirements for single layer Ethernet label swicth network based on the reference model from Fig.1. In addition, section 4.7 describes requirements for multiple layer network with Ethernet layer and circuit switch layer (such as wavelength switched layer and so on). Finally, section 4.8 describes generic requirements applicable to single and multiple layer networks. 4.1 Control plane architecture and functionality 4.1.1 In-band control plane channel The solution should be able to establish in-band control channel, while preserving the solution of out-band control channel. The solution should include negotiation mechanism to specify bandwidth and priority of control-channel between peer Ethernet switches. 4.1.2 Neighbor discovery mechanism The solution MUST be able to realize automatic neighbor discovery as realized in current PB or PBB networks. Namely, the solution MUST support an automatic negotiation mechanism to exchange information of Node ID, TE-Link ID, Data-link ID (in the case of link Bundling), and IP address of the control channel. On the other hand, the extension should be minimized by making use of [IEEE 802.1AB]. 4.1.3 Hybrid operation with legacy Ethernet The solution should take into consideration the operational scenario that GMPLS controls Ethernet LSPs over PBB-TE and Legacy Ethernet hybrid networks. This morphs of network architecture is possible considering evolution scenario of Ethernet. In such networks, legacy Ethernet functionality such as Spanning Tree Protocol (SPT), Link Aggregation [IEEE802.3], and so on must co-exist with PBB-TE functionality. The solution must not prevent the simultaneous existence of GMPLS controlled Eth-LSPs and PBB[IEE802.1ah] or PB[IEE802.1ad] with native Ethernet Layer2 control protocols on same node and interface. 4.2 Ethernet LSP control 4.2.1 Prevention of Loops The solution should have reliability to prevent creating loops of Eth-LSPs. Specifically if the solution supports numbered TE-Link Imajuku, et al. Expires January 2008 [Page 5] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 addressing, the solution should define a methodology and protocol extensions if needed to detect or prevent loops. 4.2.2 Service control The solution should control various types of service interfaces defined in [IEEE802.1ah]. The service types of Egress port 1) Port based service interface 2) S-tagged service interface a) one-to-one mapping of S-VIDs to I-SIDs b) bundled mapping of S-VIDs to I-SIDs such as many-to-one, all-to-one, transparent mapping 3) I-tagged service interface should be controllable in addition to assignment of Egress port itself. Also, the solution should be flexible to following operational scenarios, 1) Any change of mapping of S-VIDs to I-SIDs 2) Flexibility to nest or stitch higher layer Eth-LSPs. 3) Any change of bandwidth of Eth-LSPs. Here, the solution of bandwidth modification scenario may include bundling of multiple Eth-LSPs. 4.2.3 P2MP and MP2MP requirements Detail requirements will be described in future version. 4.3 OA&M related functionality OAM mechanisms must be defined for GMPLS controlled E-LSPs. Since the data plane is still Ethernet based, the mechanisms should capitalize on existing IEEE802.1ad and Y.1731 mechanisms. Also, the solution should provide admin status control mechanism to coordinate with Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) functionality [IEEE802.1ag]. 4.4 Protection and Restoration related functionality Detail requirements will be described in future version. 4.5 Link Aggregation Group (LAG) related functionality Link Aggregation is beneficial functionality to realize reliable Ethernet label switched networks. The availability of connection Imajuku, et al. Expires January 2008 [Page 6] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 between peer Ethernet switches can be enhanced in the case of single link failure, if member links of the LAG are diversely routed. In this operational scenario, LAG provides for link protection functionality. The solution should include methodology to explicitly assign the links forming LAG a desired link type (which is similar sense to assign link protection type described in [RFC3471]). 4.5.1 Failure or deletion of LAG member link The solution should include functionality to prioritize Eth-LSPs, specifically when total bandwidth of Eth-LSPs exceeds total bandwidth of healthy LAG members after the failure of one or more LAG member links. The solution should provide for rerouting an Eth-LSP setup over a failed member link in a LAG to another member link in the LAG. 4.5.2 Recovery or addition of LAG member link The solution should include functionality to re-optimize Eth-LSP paths after the addition of a LAG member link, i.e. reversion of failed Eth-LSPs after the failure of the LAG member link, or reallocation of other Eth-LSPs traversing congested Links after the addition of LAG member link. 4.6 Inter-domain Ethernet LSP The solution should take into account possible future extension to control inter-domain Eth-LSPs. Here, the possible extensions are Eth-LSPs traverse over 1) I-tagged service interfaces 2) S-tagged service interfaces, and 3) C-tagged service interfaces. 4.7 Multi-layer network 4.7.1 Dynamic formation of LAG The solution should include dynamic formation of a LAG after the creation or deletion of optical LSPs which interconnect ports of Ethernet switches. 4.7.2 Other requirements The architecture and requirements for MPLS-GMPLS inter-working are described in [Interwk-fwk] and [Interwk-req]. Some of the requirements described in [Interwk-req] are valid even for the case of GMPLS-GMPLS Imajuku, et al. Expires January 2008 [Page 7] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 interworking between Ethernet label switched network and L1 network. In other words, 1) End-to-End signaling of Eth-LSPs 2) Triggered establishment of L1 LSPs 3) Avoiding complexity and risks. should be satisfied even for GMPLS control plane for Ethernet. For more details, see [Interwk-req] and MPLS-TE client network written in the document should be understood as Ethernet client network. Regarding to routing issue, 1) Advertisement of Ethernet label switch network information via L1 GMPLS networks 2) Selective Advertisement of Ethernet label switched network information via a Border node should be satisfied even in the case of GMPLS-GMPLS inter-working. Note that there is significant difference between MPLS-TE and GMPLS controlled Ethernet from the view point of methodology to create control channel. 4.8 Scalability The solution MUST be designed to scale according to following metrics. - Number of nodes - Number of TE-Links - Number of LSPs - Number of service ports - Number of bundled S-VLANs mapped to I-SID and Eth-LSPs. 5. Security considerations TBD 6. IANA considerations TBD 7. References 7.1 Normative References [IEEE802.1ad] IEEE Computer Society, "Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks - Amendment 4 : Provider Bridges", P802.1ad/D6.0, Draft, Work in Progress [IEEE802.1ah] "IEEE standard for Provider Backbone Bridges", work in progress. Imajuku, et al. Expires January 2008 [Page 8] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 [IEEE802.1Qay] "IEEE standard for Provider Backbone Bridges Traffic Engineering", work in progress. [RFC3945] E. Mannie (Editor), "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Architecture", RFC 3945, October 2004. [IEEE 802.1AB] "IEEE Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, Station and Media Access Control Connectivity Discovery". [IEEE802.3] IEEE Computer Society, "Amendment to Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detection (CAMS/CD) Access Method and Physical Layer Specifications ? Aggregation of Multiple Link Segements, " P802.3ad, March 2000. [IEEE802.1ag] IEEE Computer Society, "Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks - Amendment 5 : Connectivity Fault Management", P802.1ag/D5.2, Draft, Work in Progress [RFC3471] L.Berger et al., "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) - Signaling Functional Description", RFC 3471, January 2003. 7.2 Informative References [Interwk-frw] Shiomoto, K., Papadimitriou, D., Le Roux, J.L., Brungard, D., Kumaki, K., Ali, Z., Oki, E., Inoue, I., Otani, T., "Framework for MPLS-TE to GMPLS migration", draft-ietf-ccamp-mpls-gmpls-interwork-fmwk, work in progress. [Interwk-req] Kumaki, K., Otani, T., Okamoto, S., Fujihara, K., Ikejiri, Y., "Interworking Requirements to Support operation of MPLS-TE over GMPLS Networks", draft-ietf- ccamp-gmpls-mln-reqs, work in progress. 8. Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Mr. Allan McGuire, Mr. Jullien Meuric, Mr. Lou Berger and Mr. Don Fedyk for their valuable comments. 9. Contributors' Addresses Atsushi Taniguchi NTT Network Innovation Labs Imajuku, et al. Expires January 2008 [Page 9] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Japan Phone: +81-(46) 859-2454 Email: taniguchi.atsushi@lab.ntt.co.jp 10. Authors' Addresses Wataru Imajuku NTT Network Innovation Labs 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Japan Phone: +81-(46) 859-4315 Email: imajuku.wataru@lab.ntt.co.jp Muneyoshi Suzuki NTT Access Service System Labs 1-6 Nakase, Mihama-ku, Chiba Japan Phone: +81-(43) 211-8282 Email: suzuki.muneyoshi@lab.ntt.co.jp Kazuhiro Matsuda NTT Network Innovation Labs 1-1 Hikari-no-oka, Yokosuka, Kanagawa Japan Phone: +81-(46) 859-3177 Email: matsuda.kazuhiro@lab.ntt.co.jp Nabil Bitar Verizon 40 Sylvan Road Waltham, MA 02451 Email: nabil.n.bitar@verizon.com Kenichi Ogaki KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. 2-1-15 Ohara Fujimino-shi Saitama, 356-8502 Japan Phone: +81-49-278-7897 Email: ogaki@kddilabs.jp Imajuku, et al. Expires June 2008 [Page 10] draft-imajuku-ccamp-ethernet-gmpls-req-01.txt November 2007 Tomohiro Otani KDDI R&D Laboratories, Inc. 2-1-15 Ohara Fujimino-shi Saitama, 356-8502 Japan Phone: +81-49-278-7357 Email: otani@kddilabs.jp Intellectual Property Statement The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. 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