Rajiv Papneja ([e-mail])

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IETF BMWGMPLS Protection MechanismsStatus and
Update

• Rajiv Papneja (rpapneja_at_isocore.com)
• Samir Vapiwala (svapiwala_at_cisco.com)
• Jay Karthik (jkarthik_at_cisco.com)
• Scott Poretsky (sporetsky_at_reefpoint.com)
• JL Le Roux (jeanlouis.leroux_at_orange-ft.com
• Shankar Rao (shankar.rao_at_qwest.com)

67th IETF Meeting San Diego
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History/Background And Progress So Far
Terminology For Protection
Benchmarking
Benchmarking Methodology for MPLS Protection
draft
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kimura
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protection
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term
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00
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txt
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October
2002
Mechanisms

draft
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kimura
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protection
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term
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01
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txt
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April
2003
draft
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poretsky
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mpls
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protection
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meth
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00
June
2003
Parallel Efforts
draft
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kimura
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protection
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term
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02
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txt

October
2003
draft
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poretsky
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mpls
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protection
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meth
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01
Oct
.
2003
draft
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kimura
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protection
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term
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02
.
txt

April
2005
draft
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poretsky
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mpls
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protection
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meth
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02
Feb
2004
draft
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poretsky
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mpls
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protection
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meth
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03
draft
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poretsky
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mpls
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protection
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meth
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04
Created single work item
July
2005
with common Terminology
Common Terminology created With Effort
led by Kimura
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san
Received numerous comments for
additional test cases and
benchmarking metrics
Terminology For Protection
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Benchmarking

July
2005
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draft
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poretsky
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protection
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term
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txt
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Created
draft
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poretsky
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mpls
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protection
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meth
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05
Feb
2006
December 2005 More Protection Scenarios Proposed
Under
Final WG Item
draft-vapiwala-bmwg-frr-failover-meth-00.txt
Work Group Item 1. draft-ietf-bmwg-protectio
n-meth-00.txt 2. draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-term-0
0.txt
Mailing List Decision
to Merge The two Efforts

Followed by action item
from Dallas IETF
WG Item
Final Decision
1
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Significant Interest in the effort
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Interest has reached peak
3
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Formal Proposal Submitted to the Mailing list
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Significant support received
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New Merged Draft Submitted
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Draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-meth-00.txt

• After an overwhelming support on the list two
  complementing protection benchmarking methodology
  drafts were merged
• draft-papneja-mpls-protection-meth-merge-00.txt
• Further comments from the IETF 66 were
  incorporated to produce
• Draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-meth-00.txt
• Draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-term-00.txt

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Update from Previous Version and Current Status

• Retain the key elements of both drafts
• draft-vapiwala-bmwg-frr-failover-meth-00.txt
• draft-poretsky-mpls-protection-meth-05.txt
• Added reviews and addressed comments received on
• Draft-papneja-protection-meth-merge-00.txt
• Avoid any duplicate test cases or procedures
• Simplify topologies and added self explanatory
  terms to the diagrams
• Use common terminology as defined in
• Draft-poretsky-protection-term-02.txt which is
  submitted as draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-term-00.tx
  t
• Added a basic MPLS benchmarking test
• Now a working group item
• Associated drafts
• Draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-meth-00.txt
• Draft-ietf-bmwg-protection-term-00.txt
• We seek input to take the draft to a stable state

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Next Steps

• Need for WG feedback on this new work group Item
• Looking forward to be ready for WG Last Call

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Acknowledgements

• Thanks to BMWG-ers for support shown in the work
  item
• The authors wish to thank the following for their
  invaluable input to the merged document
• Curtis Villamizar
• Jean Philippe Vasseur
• Karu Ratnam
• Arun Gandhi