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Re: [ANCP] Comments on draft-ietf-ancp-framework-05.txt



Hi Sven,
	during Vancouver meeting we discussed about adding in the framework draft a new use case  describing the Reporting capability; during the meeting no particular concerns or objections on the reporting functionality itself were raised, the only comment I received was related to one of the possible reporting method proposed ("AN global Report-Query") 
My understanding from the meeting was that the proposed use case had been accepted in principle by the working group together with the "Port Report-Query" and "Multicast Flow Report-Query" proposed methods. Looking at the latest version of the framework draft I saw that the reporting capability has not been added thus I was wondering if you see any problem in inserting this use case in the framework draft.
Please let me know.

Thanks and best regards
Roberta



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From: ancp-bounces at ietf.org on behalf of Francois Le Faucheur IMAP
Sent: Wed 3/5/2008 10:30 AM
To: OOGHE Sven; ancp at ietf.org
Subject: [ANCP] Comments on draft-ietf-ancp-framework-05.txt
 
Hello,

Please find below a few comments/suggestions on framework-05.

Francois


* under section 3.4.2:  first bullet.
The following text has been added:
      "The NAS may locally maintain available "video"
       bandwidth on the Access Loop, and perform video bandwidth
       accounting for the Access Loop.  Upon receiving an Admission
       Request from the AN, the NAS can check available "video"  
bandwidth
       before admitting or denying the multicast flow.  In the process,
       the NAS may communicate with the Policy Server.  For unicast  
video
       services such as Video on Demand (VoD), the Policy Server may  
also
       query the NAS, so that it can perform admission control for the
       unicast flow, and update the available video bandwidth maintained
       by the NAS.
"
Could we make this slightly more generic and replace the last  
sentence with something like:
"For unicast video services such as Video on Demand (VoD), the NAS  
may also be  queried (by a Policy Server or via on-path CAC  
signaling), so that it can perform admission control for the unicast  
flow, and update the available video bandwidth maintained by the NAS."

* section 3.4.2: 2nd bullet.
Similarly could we replace:
"For unicast video services the policy server may query the NAS to  
perform admission control for the unicast flow, and update the  
available video bandwidth maintained by the NAS."
by
"For unicast video services the NAS may be queried (by a policy  
server or via on-path CAC signaling) to perform admission control for  
the unicast flow, and update the available video bandwidth maintained  
by the NAS."


* section 4.7.6
The last requirement in the section is intended to reflect the  
"Spontaneous Admission Response" functionality described in section  
3.4.4.
As agreed, one scenario has been added to section 3.4.4 (ie where the  
NAS is made aware of Join/Leave by other means than ANCP), and this  
scenario needs to be reflected in section 4.7.6. I'd suggest adding  
something like:
"   o  Upon receiving an Admission Response from the NAS indicating  
that replication of a multicast flow is to start or stop on a given  
access port of the AN, the AN must enforce this decision whether a  
corresponding Admission Request was issued earlier by the AN or not.
"

* section 4.7.6:
replace:
"the AN should support receiving ANCP messages from the NAS  
containing conditional access information of multiple multicast flows"
by
"the AN should support receiving ANCP messages from the NAS  
containing conditional/admission access information of multiple  
multicast flows"

* section 4.7.6
There is one requirement stating that
"the AN should support receiving ANCP messages from the NAS  
containing conditional access information of multiple multicast flows."
The details of such mechanism is largely left to the protocol design  
team, which is fine.
But it may be useful to identify one additional associated  
requirement on AN, allowing AN to tell NAS that there is no longer  
any multicast flows joined (within the admitted set of flows) so the  
corresponding bandwidth can be freed up (where CAC is performed).  
This could read :
"   o  after receiving ANCP messages from the NAS containing  
conditional access information of a set of multicast flows, the AN  
should support using ANCP to notify the NAS when there is no longer  
any multicast flows from that set joined for a configurable time-out  
period."


*section 4.8.6:
replace:
"the NAS should support sending an Admission Response message  
containing conditional access information of multiple multicast flows"
by
"the NAS should support sending an Admission Response message  
containing conditional/admission access information of multiple  
multicast flows"


* section 4.8.6:
there needs to be a requirement here also for spontaneous admission  
response. I would propose:
"   o  the NAS may support using ANCP to indicate to the AN that  
replication of a multicast flow is to start or stop on a given access  
port of the AN, without having received a corresponding Admission  
Request earlier from the AN.
"

*section 4.8.6
I believe the WG agreed that the following text needs to be confirmed  
on the list before it could stay in framework doc.
"
    o  The ANCP MUST allow the NAS, when replying to an AN request, to
       OPTIONALLY convey information on multiple multicast flows sharing
       the same conditional access rules.  This allows the AN to take
       autonomous decisions for these flows later on.
"


editorial suggestions:
================
* Section 3.4:
Current text:
"The NAS can perform conditional
    access and multicast admission control on IGMP joins, and create
    replication state in the AN if the flow is admitted by the NAS."
Change:
replace "IGMP joins" by "joins"
Justification:
Joins/leaves may be communicated via IGMP or via some other means.

* section 3.4.2.2
replace:
"Otherwise, the Access Node would have to query the NAS for Multicast  
Admission Control"
by:
"Otherwise, the Access Node would have to query the NAS for Multicast  
Admission Control (as per Grey List behavior)"


Typos:
=====
* section 3.4.2:
s/as well as for other a set of multicast flows/as well as for a set  
of multicast flows/
* in a few places: replace "lateron" by "later on"
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