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Issues in Provisioning Internet-wide VPN Services. Christian JACQUENET christian.jacquenet@francetelecom.com. Agenda. Context and motivation Issues and requirements Next steps. Context and Motivation. Emerging triple-play services Some of the applications are QoS-demanding
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Issues in Provisioning Internet-wide VPN Services Christian JACQUENET christian.jacquenet@francetelecom.com IETF 64 Ops Area Meeting – 07/11/05
Agenda • Context and motivation • Issues and requirements • Next steps IETF 64 Ops Area Meeting – 07/11/05
Context and Motivation • Emerging triple-play services • Some of the applications are QoS-demanding • TV broadcasting, VoIP • Some others require traffic isolation • Videoconferencing, corporate-centric traffic, signaling traffic • Most combine such requirements • Such services are deployed at the scale of the Internet • Hence raising issues in provisioning (inter-domain) VPN resources with the required level of quality IETF 64 Ops Area Meeting – 07/11/05
Towards Automation? • From service subscription to deployment • Hopefully reducing the cost of operation • Dynamic provisioning of network resources • Yielding interconnection design issues, e.g.: • Identification of the participating devices • Establishment and activation of VRF instances, MP-(e)BGP peering relationships • Dynamic enforcement of a set of VPN-specific policies • (Uni- and multi-cast) Routing, forwarding, traffic engineering, QoS and security policies IETF 64 Ops Area Meeting – 07/11/05
Contractual Commitments • Provisioning of QoS-based VPN services implies contractual agreements • Between participating service providers • Based upon a common understanding of what QoS means • Hopefully yielding standardized SLS templates • SLS contents to be negotiated between service providers • Need for exchanging QoS information between domains • To address customers' requirements accordingly IETF 64 Ops Area Meeting – 07/11/05
Elaborating on QoS Requirements • Concepts of SLA/SLS/TCS have been promoted through the DiffServ effort • But contents are left to service providers • Hence raising issues when attempting to use SLS specifications as a contractual means to enforce VPN-related QoS policies in an inter-domain environment • Service providers need to agree on (a set of) well-defined QoS parameters • Not to mention the associated yet necessarily consistent metrology • QoS policies may dramatically differ from one domain to another IETF 64 Ops Area Meeting – 07/11/05
Elaborating on Security • Need for a trust model • To securely deliver the VPN service • To secure VPN route announcements between domains • Check also the sidr BoF session • To provide access to the VPN facility to the entitled users • Wherever they may be (even in motion) IETF 64 Ops Area Meeting – 07/11/05
Proposed Approach • Post a requirements draft • Detail issues in provisioning QoS-based inter-domain VPN services • As a complementary document to RFC 4031 • Document is being circulated on the mavs ("Multi-AS VPN Services", mavs@ietf.org) mailing list • Check also www.ipsphereforum.org • Solicit IETF to host a BoF session on this topic • Hopefully to be held in Dallas (03/06) • To further discuss issues and whether they should be addressed by the IETF or not IETF 64 Ops Area Meeting – 07/11/05