Internet DRAFT - draft-dreibholz-rserpool-score
draft-dreibholz-rserpool-score
Network Working Group T. Dreibholz
Internet-Draft SimulaMet
Intended status: Informational M. Tuexen
Expires: 29 March 2024 Münster Univ. of App. Sciences
26 September 2023
Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) Bakeoff Scoring
draft-dreibholz-rserpool-score-33
Abstract
This memo describes some of the scoring to be used in the testing of
Reliable Server Pooling protocols ASAP and ENRP at upcoming bakeoffs.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Aggregate Server Access Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1. Pool Element Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Pool User Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.3. ENRP Server Communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Endpoint Handlespace Redundancy Protocol . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Peer Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2. Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.3. Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.4. Takeover . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. Bonus Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Reference Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
6. Testbed Platform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
7. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1. Introduction
This document will be used as a basis for point scoring at upcoming
RSerPool bakeoffs. Its purpose is similar to that described in
RFC1025. It is hoped that a clear definition of where and how to
score points will further the development of RSerPool.
Note that while attending a bakeoff no one else will score your
points for you. We trust that all implementations will faithfully
record their points that are received honestly. Note also that these
scores are NOT to be used for marketing purposes. They are for the
use of the implementations to know how well they are doing. The only
reporting that will be done is a basic summary to the Reliable Server
Pooling Working Group but please note that NO company or
implementation names will be attached.
2. Aggregate Server Access Protocol
The ASAP protocol and useful extensions are described in the follwing
documents:
* [3]
* [5]
* [9]
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* [10]
2.1. Pool Element Communication
These points will be scored for EACH peer implementation that you
successfully communicate with.
* 2 Successful ASAP Registration Request of a PE in a pool using
Round Robin policy and handling of ASAP Registration Response.
* 2 Failing ASAP Registration Request of a PE requesting Least Used
policy in a pool using Round Robin policy and appropriate handling
of ASAP Registration Response (e.g. printing error message, but
not retrying registration).
* 2 Successful re-registration of a PE in a pool using Round Robin
policy.
* 2 Successful ASAP Deregistration Request of the PE from its pool
and handling of ASAP Deregistration Response.
* 2 Successful handling of ASAP Endpoint Keep-Alive without Home bit
set, i.e. answering with ASAP Endpoint Keep-Alive Ack.
* 5 Successful handling of ASAP Endpoint Keep-Alive with Home bit
set: respond with ASAP Endpoint Keep-Alive Ack and use new ENRP
server for re-registration.
* 5 Successful connection to and registration at an ENRP server
announcing itself via multicast ASAP Announces.
* 1 Successful registration into pool using Least Used policy.
* 1 Successful registration into pool using Weighted Round Robin
policy.
* 1 Successful registration into pool using Random policy.
* 1 Successful registration into pool using Weighted Random policy.
2.2. Pool User Communication
These points will be scored for EACH peer implementation that you
successfully communicate with.
* 5 Successful ASAP Handle Resolution in a pool using Round Robin
policy, correct handling of ASAP Handle Resolution Response.
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* 2 Successful failure reporting using ASAP Endpoint Unreachable.
* 5 Successful connection to and handle resolution at ENRP server
announcing itself via multicast ASAP Announces.
* 1 Successful handle resolution in a pool using Least Used policy.
* 1 Successful handle resolution in a pool using Weighted Round
Robin policy.
* 1 Successful handle resolution in a pool using Random policy.
* 1 Successful handle resolution in a pool using Weighted Random
policy.
2.3. ENRP Server Communication
These points will be scored for EACH peer implementation that you
successfully communicate with.
* 2 Successful handling of an ASAP Registration Request into a pool
using Round Robin policy (ENRP server answers with successful ASAP
Registration Response).
* 2 Rejecting registration of a PE requesting Round Robin policy
into a pool using Least Used policy.
* 5 Rejecting registration of a PE with all addresses *not* being
part of the ASAP association.
* 5 Successful registration of a PE with some addresses *not* being
part of the ASAP association. The invalid addresses may *not* go
into the handlespace.
* 5 Successful handling of ASAP Endpoint Unreachable messages. The
ENRP server must remove the given PE after MAX-BAD-PE-REPORTS=3
unreachability reports.
* 2 Sending regular ASAP Endpoint Keep-Alives to its PEs.
* 2 Removing PE not answering to ASAP Endpoint Keep-Alive.
3. Endpoint Handlespace Redundancy Protocol
The ENRP protocol and useful extensions are described in the follwing
documents:
* [4]
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* [5]
* [11]
3.1. Peer Management
These points will be scored for EACH peer implementation that you
successfully communicate with.
* 2 Sending ENRP Presence to a new ENRP server.
* 2 Sending ENRP Presences in the interval given by PEER-HEARTBEAT-
CYCLE.
* 5 Requesting peer list from new ENRP server using ENRP Peer List
Request, handling ENRP Peer List Response and adding entries to
its own peer list.
* 2 Handling ENRP Peer List Request and replying with own peer list
in ENRP Peer List Response.
* 5 Requesting handlespace from new ENRP server using ENRP Handle
Table Request, handling ENRP Handle Table Response (without M-bit
set) and inserting entries into its own handlespace copy.
* 5 Requesting handlespace from new ENRP server using ENRP Handle
Table Request, handling ENRP Handle Table Response with M-bit set,
requesting more entries and inserting entries into its own
handlespace copy.
* 2 Handling ENRP Handle Table Request and replying own handlespace
in ENRP Handle Table Response (without M-bit).
* 10 Handling ENRP Handle Table Request and replying own handlespace
in ENRP Handle Table Response with M-bit set, remembering point to
continue from, responding next block of handlespace entries upon
following ENRP Handle Table Request, etc. until transfer of
handlespace data is complete.
* 5 Successful addition of new ENRP server announcing itself via
multicast ENRP Presence (including association establishment as
well as download of peer list and handlespace).
3.2. Update
These points will be scored for EACH peer implementation that you
successfully communicate with.
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* 2 Handling an ENRP Handle Update adding a PE.
* 2 Handling an ENRP Handle Update updating a PE. The changes must
be entered into the local handlespace copy.
* 2 Handling an ENRP Handle Update removing a PE.
3.3. Synchronization
These points will be scored for EACH peer implementation that you
successfully communicate with.
* 5 Successful detection of different handlespace checksums upon
reception of ENRP Presence (due to additional PE), request of
Handle Table with W-bit set, integration of missing PE into local
handlespace copy and reporting the correct checksum in own ENRP
Presence.
* 5 Successful detection of different handlespace checksums upon
reception of ENRP Presence (due to out-of-date PE), request of
Handle Table with W-bit set, removal of PE from local handlespace
copy and reporting the correct checksum in own ENRP Presence.
* 10 Successful detection of different handlespace checksums upon
reception of ENRP Presence (due to multiple new and out-of-date PE
identities; size of PE identities is larger than maximum ENRP
message size), request of Handle Table with W-bit set, handling of
ENRP Handle Table Responses with M-bit set, removal of out-of-date
PEs, integration of new PEs into the local handlespace copy and
reporting correct checksum in own ENRP Presence.
3.4. Takeover
These points will be scored for EACH peer implementation that you
successfully communicate with. The setup contains your ENRP server
plus a set of peers running another implementation.
* 5 Successfully detecting the failure of a remote peer and
initiating a takeover procedure.
* 5 Acknowledging another peer's takeover and aborting own takeover
procedure.
* 10 Correctly handling a remote peer's Takeover Server message,
including ownership change for the remote peer's PEs.
* 10 Successfully taking over a dead peer, including ownership
change and informing the PEs taken over.
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4. Bonus Points
You can also earn Bonus Points:
* 20 points for the ENRP server handling the largest number of PEs.
* 20 points for the ENRP server achieving the highest handle
resolution throughput for a pool containing 100 (should this be
larger?) PEs.
Please note that the whole period of the bakeoff is relevant.
5. Reference Implementation
The RSerPool reference implementation RSPLIB can be found at [14].
It supports the functionalities defined by [2], [3], [4], [5] and [7]
as well as the options [9], [11] and [10]. The MIB module is defined
in [8]. An introduction to this implementation is provided in [12].
6. Testbed Platform
A large-scale and realistic Internet testbed platform with support
for the multi-homing feature of the underlying SCTP protocol is
NorNet. A description of NorNet is provided in [13], some further
information can be found on the project website [15].
7. Security Considerations
This document does only describe test scenarios and therefore does
not introduce any new security issues.
For security considerations of the RSerPool protocols see [1], [2],
[3], [4], [5]. [7] and in particular [6].
8. IANA Considerations
This document introduces no additional considerations for IANA.
9. References
9.1. Normative References
[1] Tuexen, M., Xie, Q., Stewart, R., Shore, M., Ong, L.,
Loughney, J., and M. Stillman, "Requirements for Reliable
Server Pooling", RFC 3237, DOI 10.17487/RFC3237, January
2002, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3237>.
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[2] Lei, P., Ong, L., Tuexen, M., and T. Dreibholz, "An
Overview of Reliable Server Pooling Protocols", RFC 5351,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5351, September 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5351>.
[3] Stewart, R., Xie, Q., Stillman, M., and M. Tuexen,
"Aggregate Server Access Protocol (ASAP)", RFC 5352,
DOI 10.17487/RFC5352, September 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5352>.
[4] Xie, Q., Stewart, R., Stillman, M., Tuexen, M., and A.
Silverton, "Endpoint Handlespace Redundancy Protocol
(ENRP)", RFC 5353, DOI 10.17487/RFC5353, September 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5353>.
[5] Stewart, R., Xie, Q., Stillman, M., and M. Tuexen,
"Aggregate Server Access Protocol (ASAP) and Endpoint
Handlespace Redundancy Protocol (ENRP) Parameters",
RFC 5354, DOI 10.17487/RFC5354, September 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5354>.
[6] Stillman, M., Ed., Gopal, R., Guttman, E., Sengodan, S.,
and M. Holdrege, "Threats Introduced by Reliable Server
Pooling (RSerPool) and Requirements for Security in
Response to Threats", RFC 5355, DOI 10.17487/RFC5355,
September 2008, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5355>.
[7] Dreibholz, T. and M. Tuexen, "Reliable Server Pooling
Policies", RFC 5356, DOI 10.17487/RFC5356, September 2008,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5356>.
[8] Dreibholz, T. and J. Mulik, "Reliable Server Pooling MIB
Module Definition", RFC 5525, DOI 10.17487/RFC5525, April
2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5525>.
[9] Dreibholz, T., "Handle Resolution Option for ASAP", Work
in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-dreibholz-rserpool-
asap-hropt-29, 6 September 2021,
<https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-dreibholz-rserpool-
asap-hropt-29.txt>.
[10] Dreibholz, T. and X. Zhou, "Definition of a Delay
Measurement Infrastructure and Delay-Sensitive Least-Used
Policy for Reliable Server Pooling", Work in Progress,
Internet-Draft, draft-dreibholz-rserpool-delay-28, 6
September 2021, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-
dreibholz-rserpool-delay-28.txt>.
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[11] Dreibholz, T. and X. Zhou, "Takeover Suggestion Flag for
the ENRP Handle Update Message", Work in Progress,
Internet-Draft, draft-dreibholz-rserpool-enrp-takeover-26,
6 September 2021, <https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-
dreibholz-rserpool-enrp-takeover-26.txt>.
9.2. Informative References
[12] Dreibholz, T., "Reliable Server Pooling – Evaluation,
Optimization and Extension of a Novel IETF Architecture",
7 March 2007, <https://duepublico.uni-duisburg-
essen.de/servlets/DerivateServlet/Derivate-16326/
Dre2006_final.pdf>.
[13] Dreibholz, T. and E. G. Gran, "Design and Implementation
of the NorNet Core Research Testbed for Multi-Homed
Systems", Proceedings of the 3nd International Workshop on
Protocols and Applications with Multi-Homing
Support (PAMS) Pages 1094-1100, ISBN 978-0-7695-4952-1,
DOI 10.1109/WAINA.2013.71, 27 March 2013,
<https://www.simula.no/file/
threfereedinproceedingsreference2012-12-207643198512pdf/
download>.
[14] Dreibholz, T., "Thomas Dreibholz's RSerPool Page", 2022,
<https://www.nntb.no/~dreibh/rserpool/>.
[15] Dreibholz, T., "NorNet – A Real-World, Large-Scale Multi-
Homing Testbed", 2022, <https://www.nntb.no/>.
Authors' Addresses
Thomas Dreibholz
Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering
Pilestredet 52
0167 Oslo
Norway
Email: dreibh@simula.no
URI: https://www.simula.no/people/dreibh
Michael Tuexen
Münster University of Applied Sciences
Stegerwaldstraße 39
48565 Steinfurt
Germany
Email: tuexen@fh-muenster.de
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