I think the draft is ready to be published.
I have recently discussed with some authors of the draft some questions for
clarification and it might be worthwhile considering minor text changes
proposed below to further improve text clarity.
1) Section 4.3.1.2 and 4.3.2.2
The text describing egress node failures imply that, also in case of wrapping
and short-wrapping, the ingress node, when notified (by RPS) about egress node
failure, will not send traffic to either the working or the protection tunnel
(like it does with steering protection). It might be worthwhile adding some
explicit text
OLD TEXT (Section 4.3.1.2)
In one special case where node D fails, all the ring tunnels with
node D as egress will become unusable. However, before the failure
location information is propagated to all the ring nodes, the
wrapping protection mechanism may cause temporary traffic loop:
NEW TEXT (Section 4.3.1.2)
In one special case where node D fails, all the ring tunnels with
node D as egress will become unusable. The ingress node will update its ring
map according to received RPS messages and determine that the egress node is
not reachable thus it will not send traffic to either the working or the
protection tunnel. However, before the failure
location information is propagated to all the ring nodes, the
wrapping protection mechanism may cause temporary traffic loop:
OLD TEXT (Section 4.3.2.2)
<...> When node D
fails, traffic of LSP1 cannot be protected by any ring tunnels which
use node D as the egress node. However, before the failure location
information is propagated to all the ring nodes using the RPS
protocol, node C switches all the traffic on the working ring tunnel
<...>
NEW TEXT (Section 4.3.2.2)
<...> When node D
fails, traffic of LSP1 cannot be protected by any ring tunnels which
use node D as the egress node. The ingress node will update its ring map
according to received RPS messages and determine that the egress node is not
reachable thus it will not send traffic to either the working or the protection
tunnel. However, before the failure location
information is propagated to all the ring nodes using the RPS
protocol, node C switches all the traffic on the working ring tunnel
<...>
2) Section 4.3.2
With short-wrapping the two traffic directions of protected LSPs are no longer
co-routed under protection switching conditions. This should be mentioned.
OLD TEXT
With short wrapping protection, data traffic switching is executed
only at the node upstream to the failure, and data traffic leaves the
ring in the protection ring tunnel at the egress node. This scheme
can reduce the additional latency and bandwidth consumption when
traffic is switched to the protection path.
NEW TEXT
With short wrapping protection, data traffic switching is executed
only at the node upstream to the failure, and data traffic leaves the
ring in the protection ring tunnel at the egress node. This scheme
can reduce the additional latency and bandwidth consumption when
traffic is switched to the protection path. However the two directions of a
protected bidirectional LSP are no longer co-routed under protection switching
conditions.
3) Section 4.3.2
The difference between wrapping and short-wrapping is in the way protection
tunnel is configured.
OLD TEXT
In the traditional wrapping solution, in normal state the protection
ring tunnel is a closed ring, while in the short wrapping solution,
the protection ring tunnel is ended at the egress node, which is
similar to the working ring tunnel.
NEW TEXT
In the traditional wrapping solution, the protection
ring tunnel is configured as a closed ring, while in the short wrapping
solution,
the protection ring tunnel is configured as ended at the egress node, which
is
similar to the working ring tunnel.
Thanks, Italo
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Subject: Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-tp-shared-ring-protection-05.txt>
(Shared-Ring protection (MSRP) mechanism for ring topology) to Proposed Standard
The IESG has received a request from the Multiprotocol Label Switching WG
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<draft-ietf-mpls-tp-shared-ring-protection-05.txt> as Proposed Standard
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Abstract
This document describes requirements, architecture and solutions for
MPLS-TP Shared Ring Protection (MSRP) in a ring topology for point-
to-point (P2P) services. The MSRP mechanism is described to meet the
ring protection requirements as described in RFC 5654. This document
defines the Ring Protection Switch (RPS) Protocol that is used to
coordinate the protection behavior of the nodes on MPLS ring.
The file can be obtained via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-tp-shared-ring-protection/
IESG discussion can be tracked via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-tp-shared-ring-protection/ballot/
The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2680/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2681/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2682/
https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2683/