SRv6 NET-PGM extension: Compressed BSID Insertion

Introduction extends the SRv6 Network Programming model with new endpoint and transit behaviors enabling the insertion of an SRH after the outer IPv6 header of the SR domain, called End.B6.Insert and End.B6.Insert.Red. specifies the new flavors to the SR segment endpoint behaviors defined in that enable a compressed encoding of the SRv6 segment list. One of the flavor is the NEXT-C-SID flavor. With the NEXT-C-SID flavor, each C-SID container is a fully formed SRv6 SID with the common Locator-Block for all the C-SIDs in the C-SID container, a Locator-Node and Function that are those of the first C-SID, and an Argument carrying the subsequent C-SIDs. The End.B6.Insert and End.B6.Insert.Red SHOULD support the NEXT-C-SID flavor either individually or in combinations. This document defines the SRH processing of the End.B6.Insert and End.B6.Insert.Red with NEXT-C-SID flavor.

Requirements Language 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 when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.

SRv6 endpoint behaviors This section defines the SRH processing of the End.B6.Insert and End.B6.Insert.Red with NEXT-C-SID flavor.

End.B6.Insert with NEXT-C-SID flavor End.B6.Insert with NEXT-C-SID: Endpoint bound to an SRv6 policy. The "Endpoint bound to an SRv6 Policy" is a variant of the End behavior. When N receives a packet whose IPv6 DA is S and S matching a FIB entry locally instantiated as an End.B6.Insert SID with NEXT-C-SID Flavor, does: max_LE)or(Segments Left > Last Entry+1)){ S10. Send an ICMP Parameter Problem to the Source Address with Code 0 (Erroneous header field encountered) and Pointer set to the Segments Left field, interrupt packet processing, and discard the packet. S11. } S12. Decrement IPv6 Hop Limit by 1. S13. Decrement Segments Left by 1. S14. Update IPv6 DA with Segment List[Segments Left]. S15. Insert a new SRH in between the IPv6 Header and the received SRH containing the list of segments of B. S16. Set the IPv6 DA to the first SID of B. S17. Submit the packet to the egress IPv6 FIB lookup for transmission to the new destination. S18. } ]]> Examples: . case1, uBSID is the non-last SID of the container: Node N receives a packet: IPv6：SA = 2024::1, DA=FC00:2024:uBSID:uSID2:uSID3 :uSID4::uSID5:uSID6:: SRH1:(FC00:2024:uSID7:uSID8::,FC00:2024:uBSID:uSID2 :uSID3:uSID4:uSID5:uSID6::;SL=1) After the End.B6.Insert with NEXT-C-SID Flavor behavior, the packet looks like: IPv6：SA = 2024::1, DA=FC00:2024:uSID20:uSID21:: SRH2:(FC00:2024:uSID2:uSID3:uSID4::uSID5:uSID6::, FC00:2024:uSID20:uSID21::;SL=1) SRH1:(FC00:2024:uSID7:uSID8::, FC00:2024:uBSID:uSID2:uSID3:uSID4:uSID5:uSID6::;SL=1) case2, uBSID is the last SID of the C-SID container: Node N receives a packet: IPv6：SA = 2024::1, DA=FC00:2024:uBSID:: SRH1:(FC00:2024:uSID7:uSID8::, FC00:2024:uSID2:uSID3:uSID4:uSID5:uSID6:uBSID::;SL=1) After the End.B6.Insert with NEXT-C-SID Flavor behavior, the packet looks like: IPv6：SA = 2024::1, DA=FC00:2024:uSID20:uSID21:: SRH2:(FC00:2024:uSID20:uSID21::;SL=0);SRH2 may be omit SRH1:(FC00:2024:uSID7:uSID8::, FC00:2024:uSID2:uSID3:uSID4:uSID5:uSID6:uBSID::;SL=1) case3, uBSID is in the last of the C-SID container of the SRH: Node N receives a packet: IPv6：SA = 2024::1, DA=FC00:2024:uBSID:uSID7:uSID8:: SRH1:(FC00:2024:uBSID:uSID7:uSID8::, FC00:2024:uSID1:uSID2:uSID3:uSID4:uSID5:uSID6::;SL=0) After the End.B6.Insert with NEXT-C-SID Flavor behavior, the packet looks like: IPv6：SA = 2024::1, DA=FC00:2024:uSID20:uSID21:: SRH2:(FC00:2024:uSID7:uSID8::,FC00:2024:uSID20:uSID21::;SL=1) SRH1:(FC00:2024:uBSID:uSID7:uSID8::, FC00:2024:uSID1:uSID2:uSID3:uSID4:uSID5:uSID6::;SL=0) ]]>

End.B6.Insert red with NEXT-C-SID flavor This is an optimization of the End.B6.Insert with NEXT-C-SID flavor behavior. End.B6.Insert.Red with NEXT-C-SID flavor reduces the size of the new SRH by one SID by avoiding the insertion of the first SID in the pushed SRH. In this way, the first SID is only written in the DA and the packet is forwarded according to it. The new SRH is created as described in Section 4.1.1 of .

IANA Considerations The document defines two new SRv6 Endpoint behaviors called End.B6.Insert with NEXT-C-SID flavor and End.B6.Insert.Red with NEXT-C-SID flavor. This document requests the IANA to allocate, within the "SRv6 Endpoint Behaviors" sub-registry belonging to the top-level "Segment-routing with IPv6 dataplane (SRv6) Parameters" registry, the following allocations:

Security Considerations The security requirements and mechanisms described in , and also apply to this document, and this document does not introduce any new security considerations.

Acknowledgements TBD.