Re: Segment Routing

[Ca By <cb.list6 () gmail com>]

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 2:39 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:

> On 22/May/18 10:51, James Bensley wrote:
>
> > I'm also interested in the uses cases.
> >
> > As a "typical" service provider (whatever that means) who doesn't have
> > any SR specific requirements such as service chaining, the only
> > reason/feature SR has which currently makes me want to deploy it is
> > TI-FLA (to improve our (r)LFA coverage) - but this is only for failure
> > scenarios so under normal working conditions as far as I know, there
> > is no benefit available to us right now.
>
> +1.
>
> I was excited about SR because I thought it would finally enable native
> MPLSv6 forwarding. But alas...
>
> I've heard of "quiet" tests going on within some operator networks, but
> if you look around, SR is being pushed by the vendors, and none of them
> can give me a concrete example of a deployment in the wild worth talking
> about.
>
> Of course, always open to correction...


Well look at how many authors are on this rfc, that means it is super good
right? More authors, more brains

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-6man-segment-routing-header-07


Actually it is just an embarasssing marketing technique. Sad!


> Mark.