Network Working Group B. Cheng Internet-Draft D. Wiggins Intended status: Standards Track Lincoln Laboratory Expires: November 2, 2018 L. Berger LabN Consulting, L.L.C. May 1, 2018 DLEP DiffServ Aware Credit Window Extension draft-ietf-manet-dlep-da-credit-extension-05 Abstract This document defines an extension to the DLEP protocol that enables a DiffServ aware credit-window scheme for destination-specific and shared flow control. 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. 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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1. Key Words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Extension Usage and Identification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Management Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 5.1. Extension Type Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 6.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Appendix A. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1. Introduction The Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP) is defined in [RFC8175]. It provides the exchange of link related control information between DLEP peers. DLEP peers are comprised of a modem and a router. DLEP defines a base set of mechanisms as well as support for possible extensions. This document defines one such extension. The base DLEP specification does not include any flow control capability. There are various flow control techniques theoretically possible with DLEP. For example, a credit-window scheme for destination-specific flow control which provides aggregate flow control for both modem and routers has been proposed in [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-window]. This document defines a DLEP extension which provides a flow control mechanism for traffic sent from a router to a modem. Flow control is provided using one or more logical "Credit Windows", each of which will typically be supported by an associated virtual or physical queue. Traffic sent by a router will use traffic flow classification information provided by the modem to identify which traffic is associated with each credit window. (For general background on traffic classification see [RFC2475] Section 2.3.) Credit windows may be shared or dedicated on a per flow basis. The extension is structured to allow for reuse of the defined credit window based flow control with different traffic classification techniques. This document uses the traffic classification and credit window control mechanisms defined in [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control] to provided credit window based flow control based on on DLEP destination and DiffServ [RFC2475] DSCPs (differentiated services codepoints). The defined mechanism allows for credit windows to be shared across traffic sent to multiple DLEP destinations and DSCPs, Cheng, et al. Expires November 2, 2018 [Page 2] Internet-Draft DLEP DA Credit Extension May 2018 or used exclusively for traffic sent to a particular destination and/ or DSCP. The extension also supports the "wildcard" matching of any DSCP. The extension defined in this document is referred to as "DiffServ Aware Credit Window" or, more simply, the "DA Credit" extension. The reader should be familiar with both the traffic classification and credit window control mechanisms defined in [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control]. This document defines a new DLEP Extension Type Value in Section 2 which is used to indicate support for the extension. 1.1. Key Words 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 BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here. 2. Extension Usage and Identification The extension defined in this document is composed of the mechanisms and processing defined in [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control]. To indicate that the DiffServ Aware Credit Window Extension is to be used, an implementation MUST include the DiffServ Aware Credit Window Type Value in the Extensions Supported Data Item. The Extensions Supported Data Item is sent and processed according to [RFC8175]. Any implementation that indicates use of the DiffServ Aware Credit Window Extension MUST support all Messages, Data Items, the DiffServ Traffic Classification Sub Data Item, and all related processing defined in [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control]. The DiffServ Aware Credit Window Extension Type Value is TBA1, see Section 5. 3. Management Considerations This section provides several network management guidelines to implementations supporting the DiffServ Aware Credit Window Extension. The use of the extension defined in this document SHOULD be configurable on both modems and routers. Modems SHOULD support the configuration of DSCP to credit window (queue) mapping. Cheng, et al. Expires November 2, 2018 [Page 3] Internet-Draft DLEP DA Credit Extension May 2018 Modems MAY support the configuration of the number of credit windows (queues) to advertise to a router. Routers may have limits on the number of queues that they can support and, perhaps, even limits in supported credit window combinations, e.g., if per destination queues can even be supported at all. When modem-provided credit window information exceeds the capabilities of a router, the router MAY use a subset of the provided credit windows. Alternatively, a router MAY reset the session and indicate that the extension is not supported. In either case, the mismatch of capabilities SHOULD be reported to the user via normal network management mechanisms, e.g., user interface or error logging. 4. Security Considerations This document defines a DLEP extension that uses base DLEP mechanisms and the credit window control and flow mechanisms defined in [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control]. The use of those mechanisms, and the introduction of a new extension, do not inherently introduce any additional threats above those documented in [RFC8175]. The approach taken to Security in that document applies equally to the mechanism defined in this document. 5. IANA Considerations This document requests one assignment by IANA. All assignments are to registries defined by [RFC8175]. 5.1. Extension Type Value This document requests 1 new assignment to the DLEP Extensions Registry named "Extension Type Values" in the range with the "Specification Required" policy. The requested value is as follows: +------+------------------------------+ | Code | Description | +------+------------------------------+ | TBA1 | DiffServ Aware Credit Window | +------+------------------------------+ Table 1: Requested Extension Type Value 6. References Cheng, et al. Expires November 2, 2018 [Page 4] Internet-Draft DLEP DA Credit Extension May 2018 6.1. Normative References [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-flow-control] IETF, "DLEP Credit-Based Flow Control Messages and Data Items", April 2018. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, . [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May 2017, . [RFC8175] Ratliff, S., Jury, S., Satterwhite, D., Taylor, R., and B. Berry, "Dynamic Link Exchange Protocol (DLEP)", RFC 8175, DOI 10.17487/RFC8175, June 2017, . 6.2. Informative References [I-D.ietf-manet-credit-window] Ratliff, S., "Credit Windowing extension for DLEP", draft- ietf-manet-credit-window-07 (work in progress), November 2016. [RFC2475] Blake, S., Black, D., Carlson, M., Davies, E., Wang, Z., and W. Weiss, "An Architecture for Differentiated Services", RFC 2475, DOI 10.17487/RFC2475, December 1998, . Appendix A. Acknowledgments The sub data item format was inspired by Rick Taylor's "Data Item Containers". He also proposed the separation of credit windows from traffic classification at IETF98. Many useful comments were received from contributors to the MANET working group. Authors' Addresses Bow-Nan Cheng Lincoln Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology 244 Wood Street Lexington, MA 02421-6426 Email: bcheng@ll.mit.edu Cheng, et al. Expires November 2, 2018 [Page 5] Internet-Draft DLEP DA Credit Extension May 2018 David Wiggins Lincoln Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology 244 Wood Street Lexington, MA 02421-6426 Email: David.Wiggins@ll.mit.edu Lou Berger LabN Consulting, L.L.C. Email: lberger@labn.net Cheng, et al. Expires November 2, 2018 [Page 6]