MPLS/SRv6 Service Interworking Option BC

Introduction specifies SRv6/MPLS transport interworking procedures, and specifies SRv6/MPLS transport and service interworking procedures. For service interworking, the latter draft defines two styles, similar to VPN Inter-AS Option A and Option B . Specifically, for Option B style interworking, an InterWorking (IW) node does the following: For service routes received from MPLS domain, re-advertise to SRv6 domain with an SRv6 SID (whose bits may be transposed in NLRI and in the Prefix SID attribute) and with nexthop set to itself. The SID maps to the <service label, nexthop> tuple as received from the MPLS domain. For service traffic from SRv6 domain, the incoming SID maps to <base tunnel to nexthop, service label> forwarding state in the MPLS domain. For service routes received from SRv6 domain, re-advertise to MPLS domain with an MPLS label and with nexthop set to itself. The label maps to the service SID (whose bits may be transposed in NLRI and in the Prefix SID attribute) as received from the SRv6 domain. For service traffic from MPLS domain, the incoming service label maps to corresponding forwarding state in the SRv6 domain. This is a straightforward solution that does not require service instances on the IW node. However, it does require per-service label/SID forwarding state on the IW node, that Inter-AS Option C VPN does not require. For a true Option C style MPLS/SRv6 service interworking, the SRv6 service PEs must support MPLSoverUDP or MPLSoverIP, and as such there is no "service interworking" for Option C - it's just MPLS based services over interworked MPLS/SRv6 transport. This document proposes an Option BC style service interworking that does not require per-service-label/SID state on the IW nodes, and the service PEs can be single plane - MPLS or SRv6 only. The key behind the Option BC style interworking is that the SRv6 Service SID is encoded in two parts of a service route - in the "label" field of the NLRI and the Prefix SID attribute. The SRv6 SID Structure sub-sub-TLV specifies the LOC:FUNCT:ARG encoding scheme of the Service SID, and specifies the which part of the Service SID the "label" field of the NLRI fits into. In most cases, the ARG part is not used, with the exception of EVPN multi-homing support with label-based split-horizon filtering . This is discussed in Section 6.1.1 of and in of this document.

Re-advertising Service Routes from MPLS to SRv6 Domain When the IW node re-advertises a service route from MPLS domain to SRv6 domain, it attaches a Prefix SID attribute but does not change the label field of the NLRI. An SRv6 SID Structure Sub-Sub-TLV is included in the L2/L3 SRv6 Service TLV's SRv6 SID Information sub-TLV, specifying the LOC:FUNCT:ARG encoding scheme and which part of the SID (in the SRv6 SID value field of the SRv6 SID Information sub-TLV) that the label field of the NLRI fits into.

<200, spfx2, PE2> SRv6 IW MPLS PE1 Node PE2 -------------------> ---------------------> Traffic for service prefix spfx2 ]]> A receiving SRv6 PE sends corresponding service traffic using the SRv6 Service SID resulting from superimposing the label value in the NLRI(s) to the SID in SRv6 SID Information sub-TLV. On the IW node, the higher FUNCT bits (referred to as hFUNCT) of the Service SID in the Prefix SID attribute indicate a new End.DBS behavior, where DBS stands for Decapsulate, Binding, and Shifting. The hFUNCT bits also map/bind to a particular MPLS router, which is the BGP protocol nexthop in the service route received from the MPLS domain. Note that the MPLS router could either be an MPLS service PE, or an ASBR implementing Inter-AS Option B. When a service packet arrives from the SRv6 domain, the IW node identifies an MPLS router (that advertised the service route to the IW node) based on the hFUNCT bits. Since the hFUNCT bits identify the End.DBS end behavior, the packet is decapsulated, the incoming SID's certain bits are extracted as MPLS service label, and then the packet is sent to the corresponding MPLS router with the <base tunnel label, service label> label stack. For example, the LOC:FUNCT:ARG encoding of the SRv6 SID that the IW node advertises could be 64:44:20 where the numbers represent the number of bits in each part. The 20-bit ARG part is not used except in the case of EVPN ESI label based split-horizon filtering (). The lower 20 bits of the 44-bit FUNCT part are for the MPLS label received from the MPLS side, X number of bits of the 44-bit FUNCT part are used to identify End.DBS behavior for each MPLS PE/ASBR - only 10 bits are needed for 1k of PEs/ASBRs on MPLS side. The rest of FUNCT space can still be used for other purposes. The IWS only needs to maintain IPv6 1k SIDs in the forwarding path to switch traffic to those 1k MPLS PEs/ASBRs using the End.DBS behavior, no matter how many service labels are advertised from those PEs/ASBRs. If transposition is not to be used, the above procedure can still be used with a small change. The 20-bit label field in the received NLRI is extracted and superimposed to the lower 20-bit of the FUNCT part of the SID value in the SRv6 SID Information Sub-TLV.

Re-advertising Service Routes from SRv6 to MPLS Domain When the IW node re-advertises a service route from SRv6 domain to MPLS domain, the Prefix SID attribute is removed but the label field in the NLRI does not change. The nexthop is set to an address mapped to the SID value in the SRv6 SID Information Sub-TLV of the L2/L3 SRv6 Service TLV in the Prefix SID attribute. If the MPLS domain is IPv6, the address can be the SID value itself.

---------------------> <100, spfx1, PE1, Prefix SID> <100, spfx1, IWNH> <300, IWNH, IWN> SRv6 IW MPLS PE1 Node PE2 <------------------- <--------------------- Traffic for service prefix spfx1 ]]> In addition, the IW node advertises a underlay route for the BGP protocol nexthop in the re-advertised service route. If BGP-LU is used, a per-prefix binding label is advertised and the nexthop is set to the IW node itself. If IGP is used, the per-prefix binding label is advertised as a Prefix SID with both V-flag and L-flag set . When an MPLS PE (or ASBR in case of Inter-AS Option B) receives the service route, it resolves the protocol nexthop via the underlay route. As a result, service traffic is sent with a label stack <underlay tunnel label used to reach the IW node, binding label for the underlay prefix (i.e. nexthop), service label in NLRI>. When the IW node gets service traffic from the MPLS domain, the binding label for the underlay prefix (which is or maps to the SID in the Prefix SID attribute of the service route from the SRv6 domain) leads to the following processing: Pop the next label, which is the service label Find the SRv6 SID that is associated with the binding label (note that the underlay prefix is or maps to the SID in the Prefix SID attribute), and super impose the popped service label to it according to the Transposition offset/length in the SID Structure sub-sub-TLV in the Prefix SID attribute. Send packet after encapsulating it in IPv6 with the resulting SID If transposition is not used, the entire SRv6 SID value is encoded in the SID Information Sub-TLV of the Prefix SID attribute. The above procedure can still be used with a small change - the lower 20 bits of the FUNCT part is extracted and filled into the label field of the NLRI, and the remaining LOC:FUNCT part is treated as if it was signaled with transposition.

IPv4 MPLS Domain As described earlier, if the MPLS domain is IPv4, one IPv4 address is needed on the IW node to map to each distinct SID value received from the SRv6 side, and a corresponding transport route is advertised. If that is a concern, the techniques in can be used. Instead of allocating and advertising those IPv4 addresses, the IW node inserts a Tunnel Encapsulate Attribute with a Composite Tunnel, whose tunnel egress endpoint address is set to a loopback address on the IW node and the binding label is set to one allocated for the SID value. Alternatively, multiple labels in the service NLRI can be used as described in that draft's "Using Multiple NLRI labels" section.

EVPN ESI Label Typically, if there are separate SRv6 and MPLS domains for an EVPN network, multihoming is likely within a domain. In case of multihoming across domains, the following method can be used to achieve label based split-horizon filtering across the domains. When the IW node re-advertises the EVPN Ethernet A-D per ES Route from MPLS domain to SRv6 domain, a Prefix SID attribute is attached, with the SID Structure sub-sub-TLV specifying the transposition length and offset for the ESI label, as specified in Section 6.1.1 of . When SRv6 service traffic arrives at the IW node, if the end behavior for the SID is End.DBS and the ARG part is not 0, the IW node extracts the ARG bits into an ESI label that is imposed before the service label (that is extracted from the FUNCT bits) is imposed. When the IW node re-advertise the EVPN Ethernet A-D per ES Route from SRv6 domain to MPLS domain, the Prefix SID attribute is simply removed but the transposition information is saved locally. When MPLS service traffic arrives at the IW node, if there is another label after the service label, that label is also popped and superimposed to the SRv6 Service SID that is bound to the binding label described in , in addition to that the service label is popped and superimposed to the same SRv6 Service SID.