Deterministic Networking specific SID

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

The DetNet Working Group has defined Packet Replication (PRF), Packet Elimination (PEF), and Packet Ordering (POF) Functions (represented as PREOF) to provide service protection by the DetNet service sub-layer [RFC8655]. This service protection method relies on copies of the same packet sent over multiple maximally disjoint paths and uses sequencing information to eliminate duplicates.¶

DetNet over an SRv6 data plane can provide a solution to transport sequencing information within a SID. This document describes a DetNet-specific SID (SID = Segment Identifier, [RFC8402]) and a set of related packet processing rules inside an SRv6 domain. The DetNet-specific SID provides Flow-ID and Sequence-Number information for the DetNet service sub-layer functions (i.e., PREOF).¶

The usage of DetNet-specific SID provides a native IPv6 data plane for DetNet networks and supports the implementation of PREOF functionalities on IPv6-only DetNet nodes. It is using native SRv6 technology and does not require additional tunneling or implementation of other protocol stack(s) (e.g., MPLS).¶

3. DetNet-specific SID

In SRv6, a SID represents a 128-bit value containing the following three parts [RFC8986]:¶

• Locator (LOC): first part of the SID with most significant bits and represents a specific SRv6 node.¶

• Function (FUNCT): the portion of the SID that is local to the owner node and designates a specific SRv6 function (network instruction) that is executed locally on a particular node (specified by Locator).¶

• Arguments (ARG): optional field and represents optional argument(s) to the function.¶

For PREOF processing, two arguments are needed:¶

1. Flow-ID: defines which DetNet flow the packet belongs to (what is used to determine which PREOF instance has to be used on a node). Its size is 20 bits for the DetNet MPLS data plane [RFC8986] and same size is appropriate for DetNet IP data plane as well.¶

2. Sequence Number: defines the sequencing information, it is created at the DetNet edge node (or by the first PRF node) and used by PEF/POF functionalities. For DetNet MPLS data plane the following sizes are defined: 0/16/28 bits [RFC8964].¶

The required size for these two arguments are maximum 48 bits.¶

The explicit format of DetNet-specific SID is network addressing design specific. PREOF specific parameters are encoded as follows:¶

• LOC: specifies the DetNet Relay node (same allocation rule applies as for any SRv6-enabled node).¶

• FUNCT: a single value represents all PREOF instances of a DetNet Relay node.¶

• ARG: Contains the Flow-ID and the Sequence Number parameters.¶

Note: if Function=PREOF, Arg=0 is also a meaningful value and does not refer to the lack of arguments.¶

The DetNet-specific SID must be the last segment in an SR Policy!¶

The following packet processing rules are defined as a new set of SRv6 SID behaviors regarding the DetNet-specific SID: (i) End.PREOF, (ii) H.Encaps.PREOF, (iii) H.Encaps.PREOF.Red, (iv) H.Encaps.PREOF.L2, and (v) H.Encaps.PREOF.L2.Red.¶

4. SRv6 endpoint behaviors

S01. When an SRH is processed {
S02.   If (Segments Left == 0) {
S03.    Send an ICMP Parameter Problem message to the Source Address
             Code TBD-SRH (SR Upper-layer Header Error),
             Pointer set to the offset of the upper-layer header,
             interrupt packet processing and discard the packet
S04.   }
S05.   Extract the ARG part of the SID
S06.   Remove the outer IPv6 header with all its extension headers
S07.   Forward the exposed payload and the ARG part to
           the PREOF functionality
S08. }

5. SR Policy Headend Behaviors

S01. Push an IPv6 header with its own SRH
     Set the ARG part of the LAST SID in the segment list
S02. Set outer IPv6 SA = T and outer IPv6 DA to the first SID
     in the segment list
S03. Set outer Payload Length, Traffic Class, Hop Limit, and
     Flow Label fields
S04. Set the outer Next Header value
S05. Decrement inner IPv6 Hop Limit or IPv4 TTL
S06. Submit the packet to the IPv6 module for transmission to S11

S01. Push an IPv6 header with its own SRH
     Set the ARG part of the LAST SID in the segment list
S02. Set outer IPv6 SA = T and outer IPv6 DA to the first SID
     in the segment list
S03. Set outer Payload Length, Traffic Class, Hop Limit, and
     Flow Label fields
S04. Set the outer Next Header value
S05. <N/A>
S06. Submit the packet to the IPv6 module for transmission to S11

8. IANA Considerations

This document makes no IANA requests.¶

9. Acknowledgements

Authors extend their appreciation to Janos Farkas, Istvan Moldovan and Miklos Mate for their insightful comments and productive discussion that helped to improve the document.¶

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