NMRG LM. Contreras Internet-Draft Telefonica Intended status: Informational July 13, 2020 Expires: January 14, 2021 Interconnection Intents draft-contreras-nmrg-interconnection-intents-00 Abstract This memo introduces the use case of the usage of intents for expressing advance interconnection features, further than traditional IP peering. Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on January 14, 2021. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2020 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (https://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Contreras Expires January 14, 2021 [Page 1] Internet-Draft Interconnection Intents July 2020 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Evolution of Network interconnection . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 3. Interconnection intents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Interconnection intent structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1. Introduction The success of Internet-based services has been built on top of the global reachability of content accessed by the end-users, which is facilitated by the interconnection of individual networks owned by distinct service providers constituting independent administrative domains. Such interconnection services have been initially based simply on delivery of IP traffic between the interconnected parties leveraging on BGP. This peer model enables full connectivity. However, the traditional interconnection model shows some limitations. New capabilities based on network programmability and virtualization are producing service situations where a connectivity only approach is not sufficient. The availability of computing capabilities internal to the networks, or attached to them, enable new scenarios where those capabilities can be consumed through the advertising or exposing of these execution environments from the perspective of the raw infrastructure (i.e., compute, storage and associated networking). In addition or complementary to that, even service function could be advertised in order to make them available for interconnection. All these scenarios present clear evolutions of the interconnection model which can not be simply expressed through existing mechanisms, or at least, cannot be expressed in a simple (and comprehensive) way with such existing mechanisms. Here is where an advanced interconnection intent can assist on declaring the goal of the interconnection transcending pure IP traffic exchange and including more advance capabilities as the ones mentioned before. 2. Evolution of Network interconnection It becomes clear the trend to increasingly rely on multi-domain scenarios for the provision of services. For instance, the access today to an on-demand OTT video on Internet implies the interaction Contreras Expires January 14, 2021 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Interconnection Intents July 2020 of more than one single administrative domain. Thus, end-to-end service delivery over multi providers or domains will become the norm. Complex network services leveraging on virtualization solutions and leveraging on different infrastructure environments pertaining to distinct administrative domains, that is, operated and managed by distinct providers, can be easily foreseen. It is then necessary to explore mechanisms for interconnecting that multiple domain environments in a common, portable way independently of the owner of such infrastructure. 3. Interconnection intents The interconnection intent should provide enough abstractions to express a variety of interconnection options. The purpose of the interconnection intent can be multiple: o to enable multi-domain network service programming, by soliciting interconnection of service functions in different domains o to enable multi-domain deployment of virtualized network functions, by advertising the availability of compute and storage resources in different domains o to enable IP traffic interchange as in traditional peering o to facilitate whatever combination of all of them 4. Interconnection intent structure To be done. 5. Security Considerations To be done. 6. IANA Considerations This draft does not include any IANA considerations Acknowledgments This work has been partly funded by the European Commission through the H2020 project 5GROWTH (Grant Agreement no. 856709). Contreras Expires January 14, 2021 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Interconnection Intents July 2020 Author's Address Luis M. Contreras Telefonica Ronda de la Comunicacion, s/n Sur-3 building, 3rd floor Madrid 28050 Spain Email: luismiguel.contrerasmurillo@telefonica.com URI: http://lmcontreras.com/ Contreras Expires January 14, 2021 [Page 4]