Rare project developers

[mc36 <>]

so bgp-car needs to be implemented too... at least, most of the procedures 
are there already... :)

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Subject:  CAR/CT merged document
Date:  Mon, 6 Feb 2023 21:27:14 +0000
From:  Susan Hares <>
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Greetings CAR Author Team and CT Author team:

The operators have expressed their wish to the IDR chairs to have a single color/intent-based solution rather than two solutions (CAR or CT).   The operators in China have also 
indicated their need for a solution that handles SRv6.

The IDR chairs feel that a single proposed standard solution that adds 
additional error handling to an adaption of the CAR format within the 
multi-protocol format for AFI/SAFI:

         0                                     1                              
       2                                     3

        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1

      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

      | Address Family ID (AFI))           |       SAFI             |   NH 
length       |

      +---------------------------------------------------------------+

      | Network address of the Next Hop                                       
                    //

      +---------------------------------------------------------------+

      | Reserved (0)   | NLRI count       |   sequence of NLRIS               
        |

       +---------------------------------------------------------------+

NLRI count     This is a count of NRLIs which follow.   This count improves 
some of the error handling scenarios.

      Where each NLRI has:

        0                                     1                               
      2                                     3

        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1

      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

      | NLRI Length     |   Key Length     |     NLRI Type     | Intent type  
   |

      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

      | Intent length |     Intent (variable)                                 
                  //

       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

      | Prefix Length |     IP Prefix (variable)                              
               //

       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

        Followed by optional TLVs encoded as below:

      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

      |         Type           |       Length         |       Value 
(variable)                   //

      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

NLRI count -

Intent TLVs will be defined the working group.   Intents may be:

1)Color

2)RD     which is unique RD for intent.

VPN Routing Distinguishers are included in the normal location in VPNs.     
This also means that VPN SAFIs will identify the Prefix.

A requirement of this merged solution will be the full support for SRv6.

Our email conversations with the operators have indicated that this solution is acceptable as a proposed standard solution.   Since the operators have indicated the support for this 
technical solution and a desire for a single solution, we are going to start a design team for    proposed standard    draft for Color/intent based on this solution.

We would like a senior editor from the CAR author team and a senior editor from the CT author team to create this initial draft based on the above description.   The editors will be 
expected to do the following things:

1.Discuss the merge on a Design-Team mail list,

2.Put the document in the IDR WG github,

3.Keep track of issues on the IDR WG github,

4.Create the merged draft by IETF-116,

5.Provide a progress report at IETF-116, and

6.Participate in an interim after IETF-116.

Please propose one or more senior editors from your team.   The IDR chairs 
will select from your candidates one senior author from the CAR team and one 
senior author from the CT team.

I have requested help from the IDR chairs (Jeff and Keyur) and the Spring Chairs (Bruno and Joel) to provide ongoing review for this document.   I will remain the shepherd for the 
process.

Cheers, Sue

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