Inder,

The idea behind the STP address swapping is to allow a federating NSA to re-advertise child NSA’s as its own resources.  This allows a federating NSA to hide the complexity of child Networks and present all resources as part of a single federating Network.

Guy

From: Inder Monga [mailto:imonga@es.net]
Sent: 13 April 2011 14:51
To: Guy Roberts
Cc: nsi-wg@ogf.org; 'Jerry Sobieski'
Subject: Re: [Nsi-wg] usage of STPs

Guy

Just for discussion today - URN has been a representation of STPs that has had a lot of support on the mailing list. We should talk about that option as well.

The federating NSA and swapping is a new idea - I am not sure that has been discussed before. Please elaborate on what the need for that is?

Inder

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Guy Roberts
April 13, 2011 2:20 AM

Hi Jerry,

Based on our discussion yesterday I will try and summarize the current thinking on STPs:

STP is a tuple which is formed as: Network_Id:Local_id

where:

Network_id is an string (unformatted - no syntax specified) which
identifies a group of resources available to a single service.  Each
Network has an associated NSA, i.e. there is a 1:1 relationship
between and NSA instance and a Network.  A single stage lookup is
required to find the address of the NSA from the Network_id.

Local_id is a string (unformatted - no syntax specified) which
identifies a local resource (or endpoint).


A federating NSA has the option (not compulsory) of swapping the
Network and Local parts of the STP.  Both parts must be swapped (not
just the network part) this removes the need for Local_id to be
globally unique.  (this is like MLPS label swapping)

Does this align with your view?

Guy

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