| Internet-Draft | BGP SPF for VTN | October 2021 |
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A Virtual Transport Network (VTN) is a virtual underlay network which consists of a customized network topology and a set of network resource allocated from the physical network. In a network, multiple VTNs can be created to meet different service requirements, and services may be mapped to the same or different VTNs.¶
In networks where BGP Shortest Path First (SPF) is used to distribute the link-state information among network nodes, the information of VTNs needs to be distributed along with the basic network information. This document specifies the BGP SPF mechanisms with necessary extensions to distribute the VTN information and perform VTN-specific path computaton.¶
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The concept of Virtual Transport Network (VTN) is introduced in [I-D.ietf-teas-enhanced-vpn]. A VTN is a virtual underlay network which has customized network topology and a set of dedicated or shared network resources. In a network, different VTNs may be created to meet different service requirements, and services can be mapped to the same or different VTNs.¶
[I-D.ietf-spring-sr-for-enhanced-vpn] describes the use of resource-aware segments [I-D.ietf-spring-resource-aware-segments] to build SR based VTNs. The SIDs of each VTN and the associated topology and resource attributes need to be distributed using the control plane. [I-D.dong-lsr-sr-enhanced-vpn] specifies the IGP mechanism and extensions to build a set of SR based VTNs. [I-D.dong-idr-bgpls-sr-enhanced-vpn] further specifies the BGP-LS mechanisms and extensions to advertise the VTN information in each domain and the VTN information on the inter-domain links to the network controller, so that the controller could use the collected information to build the inter-domain SR VTNs.¶
In networks where BGP SPF is used to distribute the link-state information among network nodes, the VTN information needs to be distributed along with the basic network link state and TE information. And comparing with the Internal Gateway Protocols (IGPs), BGP SPF may have some advantage in supporting a relatively large number of VTNs. This document specifies the BGP SPF mechanisms with necessary extensions to advertise the information of VTNs. The proposed mechanism is applicable to segment routing with MPLS data plane (SR-MPLS), segment routing with IPv6 data plane (SRv6), and native IPv6 data plane.¶
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP14 RFC 2119 [RFC2119] RFC 8174 [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.¶
As described in [I-D.ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf], the NLRI and TLVs of BGP-LS can be reused by BGP SPF, this section describes the TLVs which are defined in BGP-LS and can be reused in BGP SPF for the distribution of VTN related information.¶
According to [I-D.ietf-teas-enhanced-vpn], a virtual transport network (VTN) has a customized network topology and a set of dedicated or shared network resources. Thus a VTN can be defined as the combination of a set of network attributes, including the topology attribute and the network resource attribute. A VTN is associated with a Multi-Topology ID (MT-ID) and/or an Algorithm ID which are used to define the VTN topology and path computation constraints. In some cases, each VTN may be associated with a separate MT-ID or a Flex-Algo ID. When the amount of VTNs in a network is large, as described in [I-D.dong-teas-enhanced-vpn-vtn-scalability], multiple VTNs may be associated with the same topology and/or algorithm, so that the amount of topology-specific path computation can be shared by a group of VTNs, this could help to reduce the computation overhead in the control plane.¶
[I-D.ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf] does not cover the usage of Multi-Topology or Flex-Algo with BGP SPF. While the mechanism in this document is based on Multi-Topology [RFC4915][RFC5120] or Flex-Algo [I-D.ietf-lsr-flex-algo] with BGP SPF for topology and/or algorithm -specific link-state information distribution and path computation. For this purpose, the Multi-topology TLV as defined in [I-D.ietf-idr-rfc7752bis], the SR Algorithm TLV as defined [RFC9085], and the Flex-Algo Definition TLV as defined in [I-D.ietf-idr-bgp-ls-flex-algo] are reused for BGP SPF.¶
[I-D.ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf] does not explicitly describes the usage with Segment Routing data plane. To build SR based VTN, the SR-MPLS and SRv6 TLVs as defined in [RFC9085] and [I-D.ietf-idr-bgpls-srv6-ext] are reused for BGP SPF.¶
The VTN extensions to BGP-LS as defined in [I-D.dong-idr-bgpls-sr-enhanced-vpn] applies to BGP SPF as well. This section lists the TLVs which are reused by BGP SPF, the detailed format of the TLVs are described in [I-D.dong-idr-bgpls-sr-enhanced-vpn].¶
The BGP-LS Attribute TLVs which are defined in [I-D.dong-idr-bgpls-sr-enhanced-vpn] and reused with BGP-LS-SPF SAFI are listed as below:¶
Further BGP-LS TLVs may be defined in [I-D.dong-idr-bgpls-sr-enhanced-vpn], their usage with BGP SPF will be specified in a future version of this document.¶
In network scenarios where each VTN is associated with a unique MT-ID, The BGP-LS mechanisms used to distribute the VTN topology and resource information to the network controller are described in [I-D.xie-idr-bgpls-sr-vtn-mt]. Such mechanism can be reused for the distribution of VTN information with BGP SPF.¶
In network scenarios where each VTN is associated with a unique Flex-Algo ID, The BGP-LS mechanisms used to distribute the VTN topology and resource information to the network controller are described in [I-D.zhu-idr-bgpls-sr-vtn-flexalgo]. Such mechanism can be reused for the distribution of VTN information with BGP SPF.¶
In network scenarios where multiple VTNs are associated with the same <topology, algorithm> tuple, while each VTN has different resource attributes, the BGP-LS mechanisms which can be used to distribute the VTN topology and resource information to the network controller are described in [I-D.dong-idr-bgpls-sr-enhanced-vpn]. Such mechanism can be reused for the distribution of VTN information with BGP SPF.¶
The Sequence Number TLV as defined in [I-D.ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf] MUST be carried in the BGP-LS attribute associated with the BGP-LS-SPF NLRI. If the Sequence-Number TLV is not received then the corresponding Link NLRI is considered as malformed and MUST be handled as 'Treat-as- withdraw'. An implementation MAY log an error for further analysis.¶
[I-D.ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf] describes the mechanisms of using the BGP-LS-SPF Node, Link, and Prefix NLRI for shortest path computation. With the introduction of VTN, the same mechanism is used for the shortest path computation of each VTN. The path computation for a VTN is based on the topology attributes and the constraints specified with the MT-ID and/or Algorithm ID associated with the VTN. When multiple VTNs are associated with the same topology, the result of the shortest path computation based on that topology could be shared by these VTNs.¶
This document introduces no additional security vulnerabilities to BGP SPF.¶
The mechanism proposed in this document is subject to the same vulnerabilities as any other protocol that relies on BGP SPF.¶
This document request no IANA actions.¶
The authors would like to thank Haibo Wang for the review and discussion of this document.¶