Subject: Re: [Teas-ns-dt] Various terms for transport portion of a network slicing

From: Uma Chunduri <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2021 12:10:32 -0800

Thought late to the discussion here

+1 for the points raised by Med Below and to the name ( I know, it's
possible that the name won't be changed).

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Uma C.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 12:42 AM <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi Reza, all,
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> Thank you.
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> I do personally prefer « connectivity slice ».
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> Unless I’m mistaken, the current draft’s focus is the connectivity
> component of a slice (whatsoever a slice means). So, **renaming** the
> abstract notion while **maintaining the same scope and attributes
> definitions ** do not help clarity.
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> So, are there any attributes that will be captured in the
> “favorite-ietf-slice-name” and which do not belong to connectivity?
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> Cheers,
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> Med
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> *De :* Teas [mailto:[email-masked]] *De la part de* Rokui, Reza
> (Nokia - CA/Ottawa)
> *Envoyé :* mardi 29 septembre 2020 20:42
> *À :* Lou Berger <[email-masked]>; TEAS WG <[email-masked]>; Vishnu
> Pavan Beeram <[email-masked]>; BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A <[email-masked]>;
> [email-masked]
> *Cc :* Rokui, Reza (Nokia - CA/Ottawa) <[email-masked]>
> *Objet :* [Teas] Various terms for transport portion of a network slicing
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> Hi Lou, Pavan, Deborah and all,
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> As per TEAS WG chairs request during the last week’s meeting on network
> slicing, the co-authors of the definition draft had a few meeting and
> compiled all the potential terms with their pros and cons in the following
> table.
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> We feel that we captured all the terms suggested by TEAS and NSDT members
> in mailing lists and during the various meetings. Please let us know if any
> terms is missing.
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> In summary, the co-authors of the draft believe the term *“IETF Network
> Slice”* is a golden middle where IETF provides the exact context of any
> Network slice.
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> Cheers,
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> Reza (on behalf of all co-authors)
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> Various options for transport connectivity term from IETF point of view
> (without any specific order)
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> Term
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> Suggested by
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> Pros
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> Cons
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> 1
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> *IETF Network Slice*
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> TEAS chairs
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> o It clearly elaborates the scope of technologies addressed with in the
> IETF leveraging the industry-wide term 'network slice.
> o It is golden middle, where “IETF” provides the exact context to “Network
> Slice”
> o Acceptable to TEAS WG chairs
> o Acceptable to draft co-authors
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> labeling a piece of work with SDO name is not a good idea and IETF has
> always worked towards wider use, generic solutions, so the name may be
> restrictive.
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> 2
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> *Transport Slice*
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> Draft Authors and NSDT
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> o ‘Transport network’ is an abstraction of connectivity between the
> (network) end-points which is technology agnostic.  Well covered by RFC5921.
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> o Aligned with other SDO (i.e. MEF)
> See Figure 17 of following white paper
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> https://wiki.mef.net/display/CESG/Slicing+for+Shared+5G+Fronthaul+and+Backhaul+-+White+Paper
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> As per recent WG adoption poll, it is not accepted
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> 3
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> *Transport network slice*
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> Draft Authors and some IETF members
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> ‘Transport network’ is an abstraction of connectivity between the
> (network)end-points which is technology agnostic.  Well covered by RFC5921.
>
> As per recent WG adoption poll, it is not accepted
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> 4
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> *Connectivity Slice*
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> Draft Authors
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> o Since the transport slice is a set of distinct connections, term
> "Connectivity Slice" is selected
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> o Aligned with other SDO (i.e. 3GPP)
> See Figure 4.9.3.1 of TR 28.801 and
> http://www.3gpp.org/NEWS-EVENTS/3GPP-NEWS/1951-SA5_5G
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> As per TEAS WG chair, connectivity has different meaning at IETF
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> 5
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> *Connectivity Network Slice*
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> Luis
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> The term Network becomes now narrow downed to the reference to
> connectivity, which is subject of IETF
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> As per TEAS WG chair, connectivity has different meaning at IETF
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> 6
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> *Connection Slice*
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> Luis
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> o The term associates the concept of slice to the connection enabling the
> data transmission among end-points participating of a communication
> o Note – here we could then follow a similar approach to how the VPNs are
> classified as L2 or L3; I mean L3/L2/(L1?) Connection Slice; if we classify
> the Connection Slices in that manner, such classification of the Connection
> Slice types will also help to describe recursiveness or hierarchical
> (multi-layer) slicing
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> o A connection can be established at different levels, including protocols
> above Layer 3
> o Connection slice can make the people understand that there is a single
> connection represent a slice (i.e., 1:1) while actually could not be the
> case (i.e., 1 slice being formed by N connections)
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> 7
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> *Slice Network*
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> Stewart
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> Stewart is coming with some background that a slice is combination of
> storage, compute and communications (or network). Slice network means an
> existing network is sliced to serve a particular user-case.
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> According to Lou, it has entirely different meaning.
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> 8
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> *Virtual Slice Network (VSN)*
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> Luis
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> o Variant on top of Stewart’s suggestion to link with the evolution of the
> concept of legacy VPNs
> o The term reminds the idea of logical network per customer focusing on
> connectivity
> o As before, it could be possible to follow a similar approach to how the
> VPNs are classified as L2 or L3; I mean L3/L2/(L1?) VSN; also here, such
> classification of the VSNs can also help to describe recursiveness or
> hierarchical (multi-layer) slicing in transport
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> o There is no specific reference to transport or connectivity, apart of
> the generic idea of network (which we now is also an overloaded term)
> o Differently from a VPN, which basically is a single instance including a
> number of locations, a VSN could refer to a set of individual VSNs (e.g.,
> one per network segment). So can be probably confusing. Thus probably it
> would be needed to add additional terms such as sub-VSN, or VSN-segment,
> VSN-part, VSN-sub-slice, or alike
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> 9
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> *TE Network slice *
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> Some TEAS members
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> Aligns with same  rationale used for naming ACTN.
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> Since not all transport networks are TE enabled, the realization of
> connectivity might be in a non-TE network. So, this term seems not
> appropriate
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> 10
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> *Carrier network slice*
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> Webex/Stewart
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> In a generic use of term 'carrier' a carrier slice network carries
> use-case specific network traffic.
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> it may be confusing because it is associated with the infrastructure of
> telecommunication service providers, i.e., FNO/MNO. Recently, some network
> operators  deploy COTS servers in their infrastructure for MEC usages, and
> some readers may expect control of compute and storage  resources is in
> scope
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> 11
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> *Network slice*
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> Some IETF members
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> An adoption of industry-wide term. While each SDO may look at it
> differently based on its own set of capabilities, for an end user it is a
> network slice in a specific technology domain.
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> o Since multiple connections are part of a single "Network Slice", it is
> not a good idea to call each of these connections "Network slice".
> o There is a lack of 'harmonized' definition of network slice. For end
> customers, message may be confusing on which SDO they should ask for what
> part. It may lead to duplication of orchestration or APIs, depending upon
> who is controlling end to end network slice  - is it 3GPP operator, MVNO,
> ISP, service-integrator, OTT etc...
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> 12
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> *Data transmission network slice (DTNS)*
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> Shunsuke
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> Since the transport slice is a set of distinct connections, providing the
> data transmission, this term might be suitable.
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> 13
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> *Transmission Network  Slice*
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> Reza
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> Since the transport slice provides the data transmission across transport
> network, this term might be suitable.
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> 14
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> *Transmission Slice*
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> Reza
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> Same as "Transmission Network Slice"
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