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opsawg                                                      F. Brockners
Internet-Draft                                                     Cisco
Intended status: Best Current Practice                  S. Bhandari, Ed.
Expires: December 26, 2021                                   Thoughtspot
                                                              D. Bernier
                                                             Bell Canada
                                                         T. Mizrahi, Ed.
                                                                  Huawei
                                                           June 24, 2021


                         In-situ OAM Deployment
               draft-brockners-opsawg-ioam-deployment-03

Abstract

   In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) records
   operational and telemetry information in the packet while the packet
   traverses a path between two points in the network.  This document
   provides a framework for IOAM deployment and provides best current
   practices.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  IOAM Deployment: Domains And Nodes  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  Types of IOAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.1.  Per-hop Tracing IOAM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.2.  Proof of Transit IOAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.3.  Edge to Edge IOAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.4.  Direct Export IOAM  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   5.  IOAM Encapsulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     5.1.  IPv6  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.2.  NSH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.3.  GRE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.4.  Geneve  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     5.5.  Segment Routing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     5.6.  Segment Routing for IPv6  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     5.7.  VXLAN-GPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   6.  IOAM Data Export  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   7.  IOAM Deployment Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     7.1.  IOAM Namespaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     7.2.  IOAM Layering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     7.3.  IOAM Trace Option Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
     7.4.  Traffic-sets That IOAM Is Applied To  . . . . . . . . . .  16
     7.5.  IOAM Loopback Mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     7.6.  IOAM Active Mode  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     7.7.  Brown Field Deployments: IOAM Unaware Nodes . . . . . . .  17
   8.  IOAM Manageability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
   9.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  18
   11. Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
   12. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     12.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     12.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23

1.  Introduction

   "In-situ" Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM) records
   OAM information within the packet while the packet traverses a
   particular network domain.  The term "in-situ" refers to the fact
   that the OAM data is added to the data packets rather than is being



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   sent within packets specifically dedicated to OAM.  IOAM is to
   complement mechanisms such as Ping, Traceroute, or other active
   probing mechanisms.  In terms of "active" or "passive" OAM, "in-situ"
   OAM can be considered a hybrid OAM type.  "In-situ" mechanisms do not
   require extra packets to be sent.  IOAM adds information to the
   already available data packets and therefore cannot be considered
   passive.  In terms of the classification given in [RFC7799] IOAM
   could be portrayed as Hybrid Type 1.  IOAM mechanisms can be
   leveraged where mechanisms using e.g.  ICMP do not apply or do not
   offer the desired results, such as proving that a certain traffic
   flow takes a pre-defined path, SLA verification for the live data
   traffic, detailed statistics on traffic distribution paths in
   networks that distribute traffic across multiple paths, or scenarios
   in which probe traffic is potentially handled differently from
   regular data traffic by the network devices.

2.  Conventions

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

   Abbreviations used in this document:

   E2E        Edge to Edge

   Geneve:    Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation
              [I-D.ietf-nvo3-geneve]

   GRE        Generic Routing Encapsulation

   IOAM:      In-situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance

   MTU:       Maximum Transmit Unit

   NSH:       Network Service Header [RFC8300]

   OAM:       Operations, Administration, and Maintenance

   POT:       Proof of Transit

   SFC:       Service Function Chain

   SID:       Segment Identifier

   SR:        Segment Routing



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   VXLAN-GPE: Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network, Generic Protocol
              Extension [I-D.ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe]

3.  IOAM Deployment: Domains And Nodes

   IOAM is a network domain specific feature, with "network domain"
   being a set of network devices or entities within a single
   administration.  IOAM is not targeted for a deployment on the global
   Internet.  The part of the network which employs IOAM is referred to
   as the "IOAM-Domain".  For example, an IOAM-domain can include an
   enterprise campus using physical connections between devices or an
   overlay network using virtual connections / tunnels for connectivity
   between said devices.  An IOAM-domain is defined by its perimeter or
   edge.  The operator of an IOAM-domain is expected to put provisions
   in place to ensure that packets which contain IOAM data fields do not
   leak beyond the edge of an IOAM domain, e.g. using for example packet
   filtering methods.  The operator should consider the potential
   operational impact of IOAM to mechanisms such as ECMP processing
   (e.g. load-balancing schemes based on packet length could be impacted
   by the increased packet size due to IOAM), path MTU (i.e. ensure that
   the MTU of all links within a domain is sufficiently large to support
   the increased packet size due to IOAM) and ICMP message handling.

   An IOAM-Domain consists of "IOAM encapsulating nodes", "IOAM
   decapsulating nodes" and "IOAM transit nodes".  The role of a node
   (i.e.  encapsulating, transit, decapsulating) is defined within an
   IOAM-Namespace (see below).  A node can have different roles in
   different IOAM-Namespaces.

   An "IOAM encapsulating node" incorporates one or more IOAM-Option-
   Types into packets that IOAM is enabled for.  If IOAM is enabled for
   a selected subset of the traffic, the IOAM encapsulating node is
   responsible for applying the IOAM functionality to the selected
   subset.

   An "IOAM transit node" updates one or more of the IOAM-Data-Fields.
   If both the Pre-allocated and the Incremental Trace Option-Types are
   present in the packet, each IOAM transit node will update at most one
   of these Option-Types.  A transit node does not add new IOAM-Option-
   Types to a packet, and does not change the IOAM-Data-Fields of an
   IOAM Edge-to-Edge Option-Type.

   An "IOAM decapsulating node" removes IOAM-Option-Type(s) from
   packets.

   The role of an IOAM-encapsulating, IOAM-transit or IOAM-decapsulating
   node is always performed within a specific IOAM-Namespace.  This
   means that an IOAM node which is e.g. an IOAM-decapsulating node for



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   IOAM-Namespace "A" but not for IOAM-Namespace "B" will only remove
   the IOAM-Option-Types for IOAM-Namespace "A" from the packet.  An
   IOAM decapsulating node situated at the edge of an IOAM domain
   removes all IOAM-Option-Types and associated encapsulation headers
   for all IOAM-Namespaces from the packet.

   IOAM-Namespaces allow for a namespace-specific definition and
   interpretation of IOAM-Data-Fields.  An interface-id could for
   example point to a physical interface (e.g., to understand which
   physical interface of an aggregated link is used when receiving or
   transmitting a packet) whereas in another case it could refer to a
   logical interface (e.g., in case of tunnels).  Please refer to
   Section 7.1 for a discussion of IOAM-Namespaces.

            Export of      Export of      Export of     Export of
            IOAM data      IOAM data      IOAM data     IOAM data
            (optional)     (optional)     (optional)     (optional)
                ^              ^              ^              ^
                |              |              |              |
                |              |              |              |
   User     +---+----+     +---+----+     +---+----+     +---+----+
   packets  |Encapsu-|     | Transit|     | Transit|     |Decapsu-|
   -------->|lating  |====>| Node   |====>| Node   |====>|lating  |-->
            |Node    |     | A      |     | B      |     |Node    |
            +--------+     +--------+     +--------+     +--------+


                       Figure 1: Roles of IOAM nodes

   IOAM nodes which add or remove the IOAM-Data-Fields can also update
   the IOAM-Data-Fields at the same time.  Or in other words, IOAM
   encapsulating or decapsulating nodes can also serve as IOAM transit
   nodes at the same time.  Note that not every node in an IOAM domain
   needs to be an IOAM transit node.  For example, a deployment might
   require that packets traverse a set of firewalls which support IOAM.
   In that case, only the set of firewall nodes would be IOAM transit
   nodes rather than all nodes.

4.  Types of IOAM

   IOAM supports different modes of operation, which are differentiated
   by the type of IOAM data fields being carried in the packet, the data
   being collected, the type of nodes which collect or update data as
   well as whether and how nodes export IOAM information.

   o  Per-hop tracing: OAM information about each IOAM node a packet
      traverses is collected and stored within the user data packet as




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      the packet progresses through the IOAM domain.  Potential uses of
      IOAM per-hop tracing include:

      *  Optimization: Understand the different paths different packets
         traverse between a source and a sink in a network that uses
         load balancing such as Equal Cost Load Balancing (ECMP).  This
         information could be used to tune the algorithm for ECMP for
         optimized network resource usage.

      *  Operations/Troubleshooting: Understand which path a particular
         packet or set of packets take as well as what amount of jitter
         and delay different nodes in the path contribute to the overall
         end-to-end delay and jitter.

   o  Proof-of-transit: Information that a verifier node can use to
      verify whether a packet has traversed all nodes that is supposed
      to traverse is stored within the user data packet.  Proof-of-
      transit could for example be used to verify that a packet indeed
      passes through all services of a service function chain (e.g.
      verify whether a packet indeed traversed the set of firewalls that
      it is expected to traverse), or whether a packet indeed took the
      expected path.

   o  Edge-to-edge: OAM information which is specific to the edges of an
      IOAM domain is collected and stored within the user data packet.
      Edge-to-Edge OAM could be used to gather operational information
      about a particular network domain, such as the delay and jitter
      incurred by that network domain or the traffic matrix of the
      network domain.

   o  Direct export: OAM information about each IOAM node a packet
      traverses is collected and immediately exported to a collector.
      Direct export could be used in situations where per-hop tracing
      information is desired, but gathering the information within the
      packet - as with per-hop tracing - is not feasible.  Rather than
      automatically correlating the per-hop tracing information, as done
      with per-hop tracing, direct export requires a collector to
      correlate the information from the individual nodes.  In addition,
      all nodes enabled for direct export need to be capable to export
      the IOAM information to the collector.

4.1.  Per-hop Tracing IOAM

   "IOAM tracing data" is expected to be collected at every IOAM transit
   node that a packet traverses to ensure visibility into the entire
   path a packet takes within an IOAM-Domain.  I.e., in a typical
   deployment all nodes in an IOAM-Domain would participate in IOAM and
   thus be IOAM transit nodes, IOAM encapsulating or IOAM decapsulating



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   nodes.  If not all nodes within a domain are IOAM capable, IOAM
   tracing information (i.e., node data, see below) will only be
   collected on those nodes which are IOAM capable.  Nodes which are not
   IOAM capable will forward the packet without any changes to the IOAM-
   Data-Fields.  The maximum number of hops and the minimum path MTU of
   the IOAM domain is assumed to be known.

   IOAM offers two different trace Option-Types, the "incremental"
   Option-Type as well as the "pre-allocated" Option-Type.  For a
   discussion which of the two option types is the most suitable for an
   implementation and/or deployment, see Section 7.3.

   Every node data entry holds information for a particular IOAM transit
   node that is traversed by a packet.  The IOAM decapsulating node
   removes the IOAM-Option-Type(s) and processes and/or exports the
   associated data.  All IOAM-Data-Fields are defined in the context of
   an IOAM-Namespace.

   IOAM tracing can collect the following types of information:

   o  Identification of the IOAM node.  An IOAM node identifier can
      match to a device identifier or a particular control point or
      subsystem within a device.

   o  Identification of the interface that a packet was received on,
      i.e. ingress interface.

   o  Identification of the interface that a packet was sent out on,
      i.e. egress interface.

   o  Time of day when the packet was processed by the node as well as
      the transit delay.  Different definitions of processing time are
      feasible and expected, though it is important that all devices of
      an in-situ OAM domain follow the same definition.

   o  Generic data: Format-free information where syntax and semantic of
      the information is defined by the operator in a specific
      deployment.  For a specific IOAM-Namespace, all IOAM nodes should
      interpret the generic data the same way.  Examples for generic
      IOAM data include geo-location information (location of the node
      at the time the packet was processed), buffer queue fill level or
      cache fill level at the time the packet was processed, or even a
      battery charge level.

   o  Information to detect whether IOAM trace data was added at every
      hop or whether certain hops in the domain weren't IOAM transit
      nodes.




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   o  Data that relates to how the packet traversed a node (transit
      delay, buffer occupancy in case the packet was buffered, queue
      depth in case the packet was queued)

   The Option-Types of incremental tracing and pre-allocated tracing are
   defined in [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].

4.2.  Proof of Transit IOAM

   IOAM Proof of Transit Option-Type is to support path or service
   function chain [RFC7665] verification use cases.  Proof-of-transit
   uses methods like nested hashing or nested encryption of the IOAM
   data or mechanisms such as Shamir's Secret Sharing Schema (SSSS).

   The IOAM Proof of Transit Option-Type consist of a fixed size "IOAM
   proof of transit option header" and "IOAM proof of transit option
   data fields".  For details see [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].

4.3.  Edge to Edge IOAM

   The IOAM Edge-to-Edge Option-Type is to carry data that is added by
   the IOAM encapsulating node and interpreted by IOAM decapsulating
   node.  The IOAM transit nodes may process the data but must not
   modify it.

   The IOAM Edge-to-Edge Option-Type consist of a fixed size "IOAM Edge-
   to-Edge Option-Type header" and "IOAM Edge-to-Edge Option-Type data
   fields".  For details see [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].

4.4.  Direct Export IOAM

   Direct Export is an IOAM mode of operation within which IOAM data to
   be directly exported to a collector rather than being collected
   within the data packets.  The IOAM Direct Export Option-Type consist
   of a fixed size "IOAM direct export option header".  Direct Export
   for IOAM is defined in [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-direct-export].

5.  IOAM Encapsulations

   IOAM data fields and associated data types for in-situ OAM are
   defined in [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data].  The in-situ OAM data field can
   be transported by a variety of transport protocols, including NSH,
   Segment Routing, Geneve, IPv6, etc.








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5.1.  IPv6

   IOAM encapsulation for IPv6 is defined in
   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-ipv6-options].  IOAM deployment considerations
   for IPv6 networks are found in
   [I-D.ioametal-ippm-6man-ioam-ipv6-deployment].

5.2.  NSH

   IOAM encapsulation for NSH is defined in [I-D.ietf-sfc-ioam-nsh].

5.3.  GRE

   IOAM encapsulation for GRE is outlined as part of the "EtherType
   Protocol Identification of In-situ OAM Data" in
   [I-D.weis-ippm-ioam-eth], though no example protocol header stacks
   are provided in the document.  When used with GRE, the IOAM-Option-
   Types (the below diagram uses "IOAM" as shorthand for IOAM-Option-
   Types) are sequenced in behind the GRE header that follows the
   "outer" IP header.  Figure 2 shows two example protocol header stacks
   that use GRE along with IOAM.

           Example 1                     Example 2

      |      ...       |            |       ...      |
      +----------------+            +----------------+
      | TCP/UDP header |            |    IP, ...     |
      +----------------+            +----------------+
      |    IP header   |            |   Eth. header  |
      +----------------+            +----------------+
      |      IOAM      |            |      IOAM      |
      +----------------+            +----------------+
      |    GRE header  |            |    GRE header  |
      +----------------+            +----------------+
      |    IP header   |            |    IP header   |
      +----------------+            +----------------+
      |     Layer 2    |            |     Layer 2    |
      +----------------+            +----------------+
      |     Layer 1    |            |     Layer 1    |
      +----------------+            +----------------+


                     Figure 2: GRE with IOAM examples








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5.4.  Geneve

   IOAM encapsulation for Geneve is defined in
   [I-D.brockners-ippm-ioam-geneve].

5.5.  Segment Routing

   IOAM encapsulation for Segment Routing is defined in
   [I-D.gandhi-spring-ioam-sr-mpls].

5.6.  Segment Routing for IPv6

   IOAM encapsulation for Segment Routing over IPv6 is defined in
   [I-D.ali-spring-ioam-srv6].

5.7.  VXLAN-GPE

   IOAM encapsulation for VXLAN-GPE is defined in
   [I-D.brockners-ippm-ioam-vxlan-gpe].

6.  IOAM Data Export

   IOAM nodes collect information for packets traversing a domain that
   supports IOAM.  IOAM decapsulating nodes as well as IOAM transit
   nodes can choose to retrieve IOAM information from the packet,
   process the information further and export the information using
   e.g., IPFIX.

   Raw data export of IOAM data using IPFIX is discussed in
   [I-D.spiegel-ippm-ioam-rawexport].  "Raw export of IOAM data" refers
   to a mode of operation where a node exports the IOAM data as it is
   received in the packet.  The exporting node neither interprets,
   aggregates nor reformats the IOAM data before it is exported.  Raw
   export of IOAM data is to support an operational model where the
   processing and interpretation of IOAM data is decoupled from the
   operation of encapsulating/updating/decapsulating IOAM data, which is
   also referred to as IOAM data-plane operation.  The figure below
   shows the separation of concerns for IOAM export: Exporting IOAM data
   is performed by the "IOAM node" which performs IOAM data-plane
   operation, whereas the interpretation of IOAM data is performed by
   one or several IOAM data processing systems.  The separation of
   concerns is to off-load interpretation, aggregation and formatting of
   IOAM data from the node which performs data-plane operations.  In
   other words, a node which is focused on data-plane operations, i.e.
   forwarding of packets and handling IOAM data will not be tasked to
   also interpret the IOAM data, but can leave this task to another
   system or a set of systems.  For scalability reasons, a single IOAM
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   systems.  Similarly, there several monitoring systems or analytics
   systems can be used to further process the data received from the
   IOAM preprocessing systems.  Figure 3 shows an overview of IOAM
   export, including IOAM data processing systems and monitoring/
   analytics systems.

                                 +--------------+
                                +-------------+ |
                                | Monitoring/ | |
                                | Analytics   | |
                                | system(s)   |-+
                                +-------------+
                                       ^
                                       |  Processed/interpreted/
                                       |  aggregated IOAM data
                                       |
                                 +--------------+
                                +-------------+ |
                                | IOAM data   | |
                                | processing  | |
                                | system(s)   |-+
                                +-------------+
                                       ^
                                       |  Raw export of
                                       |  IOAM data
                                       |
                +--------------+-------+------+--------------+
                |              |              |              |
                |              |              |              |
   User     +---+----+     +---+----+     +---+----+     +---+----+
   packets  |Encapsu-|     | Transit|     | Transit|     |Decapsu-|
   -------->|lating  |====>| Node   |====>| Node   |====>|lating  |-->
            |Node    |     | A      |     | B      |     |Node    |
            +--------+     +--------+     +--------+     +--------+


                 Figure 3: IOAM framework with data export

7.  IOAM Deployment Considerations

   This section discusses several aspects of an IOAM deployment,
   including IOAM Namespaces, IOAM Layering, traffic-sets that IOAM is
   applied to and IOAM loopback mode.








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7.1.  IOAM Namespaces

   IOAM-Namespaces add further context to IOAM-Option-Types and
   associated IOAM-Data-Fields.  IOAM-Namespaces support several
   different uses:

   o  IOAM-Namespaces can be used by an operator to distinguish
      different operational domains.  Devices at domain edges can filter
      on Namespace-IDs to provide for proper IOAM-Domain isolation.

   o  IOAM-Namespaces provide additional context for IOAM-Data-Fields
      and thus ensure that IOAM-Data-Fields are unique and can be
      interpreted properly by management stations or network
      controllers.  While, for example, the node identifier field does
      not need to be unique in a deployment (e.g. an operator may wish
      to use different node identifiers for different IOAM layers, even
      within the same device; or node identifiers might not be unique
      for other organizational reasons, such as after a merger of two
      formerly separated organizations), the combination of node_id and
      Namespace-ID should always be unique.  Similarly, IOAM-Namespaces
      can be used to define how certain IOAM-Data-Fields are
      interpreted: IOAM offers three different timestamp format options.
      The Namespace-ID can be used to determine the timestamp format.
      IOAM-Data-Fields (e.g. buffer occupancy) which do not have a unit
      associated are to be interpreted within the context of a IOAM-
      Namespace.

   o  IOAM-Namespaces can be used to identify different sets of devices
      (e.g., different types of devices) in a deployment: If an operator
      desires to insert different IOAM-Data-Fields based on the device,
      the devices could be grouped into multiple IOAM-Namespaces.  This
      could be due to the fact that the IOAM feature set differs between
      different sets of devices, or it could be for reasons of optimized
      space usage in the packet header.  It could also stem from
      hardware or operational limitations on the size of the trace data
      that can be added and processed, preventing collection of a full
      trace for a flow.

      *  Assigning different IOAM Namespace-IDs to different sets of
         nodes or network partitions and using the Namespace-ID as a
         selector at the IOAM encapsulating node, a full trace for a
         flow could be collected and constructed via partial traces in
         different packets of the same flow.  Example: An operator could
         choose to group the devices of a domain into two IOAM-
         Namespaces, in a way that at average, only every second hop
         would be recorded by any device.  To retrieve a full view of
         the deployment, the captured IOAM-Data-Fields of the two IOAM-
         Namespaces need to be correlated.



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      *  Assigning different IOAM Namespace-IDs to different sets of
         nodes or network partitions and using a separate instance of an
         IOAM-Option-Type for each Namespace-ID, a full trace for a flow
         could be collected and constructed via partial traces from each
         IOAM-Option-Type in each of the packets in the flow.  Example:
         An operator could choose to group the devices of a domain into
         two IOAM-Namespaces, in a way that each IOAM-Namespace is
         represented by one of two IOAM-Option-Types in the packet.
         Each node would record data only for the IOAM-Namespace that it
         belongs to, ignoring the other IOAM-Option-Type with a IOAM-
         Namespace to which it doesn't belong.  To retrieve a full view
         of the deployment, the captured IOAM-Data-Fields of the two
         IOAM-Namespaces need to be correlated.

7.2.  IOAM Layering

   If several encapsulation protocols (e.g., in case of tunneling) are
   stacked on top of each other, IOAM-Data-Fields could be present in
   different protocol fields at different layers.  Layering allows
   operators to instrument the protocol layer they want to measure.  The
   behavior follows the ships-in-the-night model, i.e. IOAM-Data-Fields
   in one layer are independent from IOAM-Data-Fields in another layer.
   Or in other words: Even though the term "layering" often implies some
   form of hierarchy and relationship, in IOAM, layers are independent
   from each other and don't assume any relationship among them.  The
   different layers could, but do not have to share the same IOAM
   encapsulation mechanisms.  Similarly, the sematics of the IOAM-Data-
   Fields, can, do not have to be associated to across different layers.
   For example, a node which inserts node-id information into two
   different layers could use "node-id=10" for one layer and "node-
   id=1000" for the second layer.

   Figure 4 shows an example of IOAM layering.  The figure shows a
   Geneve tunnel carried over IPv6 which starts at node A and ends at
   node D.  IOAM information is encapsulated in IPv6 as well as in
   Geneve.  At the IPv6 layer, node A is IOAM encapsulating node (into
   IPv6), node D is the IOAM decapsulating node and node B and node C
   are IOAM transit nodes.  At the Geneve layer, node A is IOAM
   encapsulating node (into Geneve) and node D is IOAM decapsulating
   node (from Geneve).  The use of IOAM at both layers as shown in the
   example here could be used to reveal which nodes of an underlay (here
   the IPv6 network) are traversed by tunneled packet in an overlay
   (here the Geneve network) - which assumes that the IOAM information
   encapsulated by nodes A and D into Geneve and IPv6 is associated to
   each other.






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            +---+----+                                   +---+----+
   User     |Geneve  |                                   |Geneve  |
   packets  |Encapsu-|                                   |Decapsu-|
   -------->|lating  |==================================>|lating  |-->
            |  Node  |                                   |  Node  |
            |   A    |                                   |   D    |
            +--------+                                   +--------+
                ^                                            ^
                |                                            |
                v                                            v
            +--------+     +--------+     +--------+     +--------+
            |IPv6    |     | IPv6   |     | IPv6   |     |IPv6    |
            |Encapsu-|     | Transit|     | Transit|     |Decapsu-|
            |lating  |====>|  Node  |====>|  Node  |====>|lating  |
            |  Node  |     |        |     |        |     |  Node  |
            |   A    |     |   B    |     |   C    |     |   D    |
            +--------+     +--------+     +--------+     +--------+


                      Figure 4: IOAM layering example

7.3.  IOAM Trace Option Types

   IOAM offers two different IOAM Option-Types for tracing:
   "Incremental" Trace-Option-Type and "Pre-allocated" Trace-Option-
   Type.  "Incremental" refers to a mode of operation where the packet
   is expanded at every IOAM node that addes IOAM-Data-Fields.  "Pre-
   Allocated" describes a mode of operation where the IOAM encapsulating
   node allocates room for all IOAM-Data-Fields in the entire IOAM
   domain.  More specifically:

   Pre-allocated Trace-Option:  This trace option is defined as a
      container of node data fields with pre-allocated space for each
      node to populate its information.  This option is useful for
      implementations where it is efficient to allocate the space once
      and index into the array to populate the data during transit
      (e.g., software forwarders often fall into this class).

   Incremental Trace-Option:  This trace option is defined as a
      container of node data fields where each node allocates and pushes
      its node data immediately following the option header.

   A deployment can choose to configure and support one or both of the
   IOAM Trace-Option-Types.  The operator decides by means of
   configuration which Trace-Option-Type(s) will be used for a
   particular domain.  Deployments can mix devices which include either
   the Incremental Trace-Option-Type or the Pre-allocated Trace-Option-
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   associated different types of IOAM implementations exist in a
   deployment.  As a result, both Option-Types can be present in a
   packet.  IOAM decapsulating nodes remove both types of Trace-Option-
   Types from the packet.

   The two different Option-Types cater to different packet forwarding
   infrastructures and are to allow an optimized implementation of IOAM
   tracing:

   Pre-allocated Trace-Option:  For some implementations of packet
      forwarders it is efficient to allocate the space for the maximum
      number of nodes that IOAM Trace Data-Fields should be collected
      from and insert/update information in the packet at flexible
      locations, based on a pointer retrieved from a field in the
      packet.  The IOAM encapsulating node allocates an array of the
      size of the maximum number of nodes that IOAM Trace Data-Fields
      should be collected from.  IOAM transit nodes index into the array
      to populate the data during transit.  Software forwarders often
      fall into this class of packet forwarder implementations.  The
      maximum number of nodes that IOAM information could be collected
      from is configured by the operator on the IOAM encapsulating node.
      The operator has to ensure that the packet with the pre-allocated
      array that carries the IOAM Data-Fields does not exceed the MTU of
      any of the links in the IOAM domain.

   Incremental Trace-Option:  Looking up a pointer contained in the
      packet and inserting/updating information at a flexible location
      in the packet as a result of the pointer lookup is costly for some
      forwarding infrastructures.  Hardware-based packet forwarding
      infrastructures often fall into this category.  Consequently,
      hardware-based packet forwarders could choose to support the
      incremental IOAM-Trace-Option-Type.  The incremental IOAM-Trace-
      Option-Type eliminates the need for the IOAM transit nodes to read
      the full array in the Trace-Option-Type and allows packets to grow
      to the size of the MTU of the IOAM domain.  IOAM transit nodes
      will expand the packet and insert the IOAM-Data-Fields as long as
      there is space available in the packet, i.e. as long as the size
      of the packet stays within the bounds of the MTU of any of the
      links in the IOAM domain.  There is no need for the operator to
      configure the IOAM encapsulation node with the maximum number of
      nodes that IOAM information could be collected from.  The operator
      has to ensure that the minimum MTU of any of the links in the IOAM
      domain is known to all IOAM transit nodes.








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7.4.  Traffic-sets That IOAM Is Applied To

   IOAM can be deployed on all or only on subsets of the live user
   traffic,e.g. per interface, based on an access control list or flow
   specification defining a specific set of traffic, etc.

7.5.  IOAM Loopback Mode

   IOAM Loopback is used to trigger each transit device along the path
   of a packet to send a copy of the data packet back to the source.
   Loopback allows an IOAM encapsulating node to trace the path to a
   given destination, and to receive per-hop data about both the forward
   and the return path.  Loopback is enabled by the encapsulating node
   setting the loopback flag.  Looped-back packets use the source
   address of the original packet as destination address and the address
   of the node which performs the loopback operation as source address.
   Nodes which loop back a packet clear the loopback flag before sending
   the copy back towards the source.  Loopack applies to IOAM
   deployments where the encapsulating node is either a host or the
   start of a tunnel: For details on IOAM loopback, please refer to
   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-flags].

7.6.  IOAM Active Mode

   The IOAM active mode flag indicates that a packet is an active OAM
   packet as opposed to regular user data traffic.  Active mode is
   expected to be used for active measurement using IOAM.  Example use-
   cases include:

   o  Endpoint detailed active measurement: Synthetic probe packets are
      sent between the source and destination, traversing the IOAM
      domain.  These probe packets include a Trace Option-Type (i.e.,
      either incremental or pre-allocated).  Since the probe packets are
      sent between the endpoints, these packets are treated as data
      packets by the IOAM domain, and do not require special treatment
      at the IOAM layer.The encapsulating node can choose to set the
      Active flag, providing an explicit indication that these probe
      packets are meant for telemetry collection.

   o  IOAM active measurement using probe packets: Probe packets are
      generated and transmitted by the IOAM encapsulating node, and are
      expected to be terminated by the decapsulating node.  Probe
      packets include a Trace Option-Type (i.e., either incremental or
      pre-allocated) which has its Active flag set, indicating that the
      decapsulating node must terminate them.

   o  IOAM active measurement using replicated data packets: Probe
      packets are created by the encapsulating node by selecting some or



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      all of the en route data packets and replicating them.  A selected
      data packet that is replicated, and its (possibly truncated) copy
      is forwarded with one or more IOAM option, while the original
      packet is forwarded normally, without IOAM options.  To the extent
      possible, the original data packet and its replica are forwarded
      through the same path.  The replica includes a Trace Option-Type
      that has its Active flag set, indicating that the decapsulating
      node should terminate it.

   For details on IOAM active mode, please refer to
   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-flags].

7.7.  Brown Field Deployments: IOAM Unaware Nodes

   A network can consist of a mix of IOAM aware and IOAM unaware nodes.
   The encapsulation of IOAM-Data-Fields into different protocols (see
   also Section 5) are defined such that data packets that include IOAM-
   Data-Fields do not get dropped by IOAM unaware nodes.  For example,
   packets which contain the IOAM-Trace-Option-Types in IPv6 Hop by Hop
   extension headers are defined with bits to indicate "00 - skip over
   this option and continue processing the header".  This will ensure
   that when a node that is IOAM unaware receives a packet with IOAM-
   Data-Fields included, does not drop the packet.

   Deployments which leverage the IOAM-Trace-Option-Type(s) could
   benefit from the ability to detect the presence of IOAM unaware
   nodes, i.e. nodes which forward the packet but do not update/add
   IOAM-Data-Fields in IOAM-Trace-Option-Type(s).  The node data that is
   defined as part of the IOAM-Trace-Option-Type(s) includes a Hop_Lim
   field associated to the node identifier to detect missed nodes, i.e.
   "holes" in the trace.  Monitoring/Analytics system(s) could utilize
   this information to account for the presence of IOAM unaware nodes in
   the network.

8.  IOAM Manageability

   The YANG model for configuring IOAM in network nodes which support
   IOAM is defined in [I-D.zhou-ippm-ioam-yang].

   A deployment can leverage IOAM profiles is to limit the scope of IOAM
   features, allowing simpler implementation, verification, and
   interoperability testing in the context of specific use cases that do
   not require the full functionality of IOAM.  An IOAM profile defines
   a use case or a set of use cases for IOAM, and an associated set of
   rules that restrict the scope and features of the IOAM specification,
   thereby limiting it to a subset of the full functionality.  IOAM
   profiles are defined in [I-D.mizrahi-ippm-ioam-profile].




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9.  IANA Considerations

   This document does not request any IANA actions.

10.  Security Considerations

   As discussed in [RFC7276], a successful attack on an OAM protocol in
   general, and specifically on IOAM, can prevent the detection of
   failures or anomalies, or create a false illusion of nonexistent
   ones.

   The Proof of Transit Option-Type (Section Section 4.2) is used for
   verifying the path of data packets.  The security considerations of
   POT are further discussed in [I-D.ietf-sfc-proof-of-transit].

   Security considerations related to the use of IOAM flags, in
   particular the loopback flag are found in [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-flags].

   IOAM data can be subject to eavesdropping.  Although the
   confidentiality of the user data is not at risk in this context, the
   IOAM data elements can be used for network reconnaissance, allowing
   attackers to collect information about network paths, performance,
   queue states, buffer occupancy and other information.  Recon is an
   improbable security threat in an IOAM deployment that is within a
   confined physical domain.  However, in deployments that are not
   confined to a single LAN, but span multiple inter-connected sites
   (for example, using an overlay network), the inter-site links can be
   secured (e.g., by IPsec) in order to avoid external eavesdropping.
   Another possible mitigation approach is to use the "direct exporting"
   mode [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-direct-export].  In this case the IOAM
   related trace information would not be available in the customer data
   packets, but would trigger exporting of (secured) packet-related IOAM
   information at every node.  IOAM data export and securing IOAM data
   export is outside the scope of this document.

   IOAM can be used as a means for implementing Denial of Service (DoS)
   attacks, or for amplifying them.  For example, a malicious attacker
   can add an IOAM header to packets or modify an IOAM header in en
   route packets in order to consume the resources of network devices
   that take part in IOAM or collectors that analyze the IOAM data.
   Another example is a packet length attack, in which an attacker
   pushes headers associated with IOAM Option-Types into data packets,
   causing these packets to be increased beyond the MTU size, resulting
   in fragmentation or in packet drops.  Such DoS attacks can be
   mitigated by deploying IOAM in confined administrative domains, and
   by defining performance limits on IOAM encapsulation and IOAM
   exporting.  By limiting the rate and/or percentage of packets that




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   are subject to IOAM encpasulation and the rate of exported traffic,
   it is possible to cofine the impact of such attacks.

   Since IOAM options may include timestamps, if network devices use
   synchronization protocols then any attack on the time protocol
   [RFC7384] can compromise the integrity of the timestamp-related data
   fields.  Synchronization attacks can be mitigated by combining a
   secured time distribution scheme, e.g., [RFC8915], and by using
   redundant clock sources [RFC5905] and/or redundant network paths for
   the time distribution protocol [RFC8039].

   At the management plane, attacks may be implemented by misconfiguring
   or by maliciously configuring IOAM-enabled nodes in a way that
   enables other attacks.  Thus, IOAM configuration should be secured in
   a way that authenticates authorized users and verifies the integrity
   of configuration procedures.

   Notably, IOAM is expected to be deployed in specific network domains,
   thus confining the potential attack vectors to within the network
   domain.  Indeed, in order to limit the scope of threats to within the
   current network domain the network operator is expected to enforce
   policies that prevent IOAM traffic from leaking outside of the IOAM
   domain, and prevent IOAM data from outside the domain to be processed
   and used within the domain.  Note that the Immediate Export mode
   (reference to be added in a future revision) can mitigate the
   potential threat of IOAM data leaking through data packets.

11.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Tal Mizrahi, Eric Vyncke, Nalini
   Elkins, Srihari Raghavan, Ranganathan T S, Barak Gafni, Karthik Babu
   Harichandra Babu, Akshaya Nadahalli, LJ Wobker, Erik Nordmark,
   Vengada Prasad Govindan, Andrew Yourtchenko, Aviv Kfir, Tianran Zhou,
   Zhenbin (Robin), Joe Clarke, Al Morton, Tom Herbet, Haoyu song, and
   Mickey Spiegel for the comments and advice on IOAM.

12.  References

12.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.



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12.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ali-spring-ioam-srv6]
              Ali, Z., Gandhi, R., Filsfils, C., Brockners, F., Nainar,
              N., Pignataro, C., Li, C., Chen, M., and G. Dawra,
              "Segment Routing Header encapsulation for In-situ OAM
              Data", draft-ali-spring-ioam-srv6-03 (work in progress),
              November 2020.

   [I-D.brockners-ippm-ioam-geneve]
              Brockners, F., Bhandari, S., Govindan, V. P., Pignataro,
              C., Nainar, N. K., Gredler, H., Leddy, J., Youell, S.,
              Mizrahi, T., Lapukhov, P., Gafni, B., Kfir, A., and M.
              Spiegel, "Geneve encapsulation for In-situ OAM Data",
              draft-brockners-ippm-ioam-geneve-05 (work in progress),
              November 2020.

   [I-D.brockners-ippm-ioam-vxlan-gpe]
              Brockners, F., Bhandari, S., Govindan, V. P., Pignataro,
              C., Gredler, H., Leddy, J., Youell, S., Mizrahi, T., Kfir,
              A., Gafni, B., Lapukhov, P., and M. Spiegel, "VXLAN-GPE
              Encapsulation for In-situ OAM Data", draft-brockners-ippm-
              ioam-vxlan-gpe-03 (work in progress), November 2019.

   [I-D.gandhi-spring-ioam-sr-mpls]
              Gandhi, R., Ali, Z., Filsfils, C., Brockners, F., Wen, B.,
              and V. Kozak, "Segment Routing with MPLS Data Plane
              Encapsulation for In-situ OAM Data", draft-gandhi-spring-
              ioam-sr-mpls-02 (work in progress), August 2019.

   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-data]
              Brockners, F., Bhandari, S., and T. Mizrahi, "Data Fields
              for In-situ OAM", draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-data-12 (work in
              progress), February 2021.

   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-direct-export]
              Song, H., Gafni, B., Zhou, T., Li, Z., Brockners, F.,
              Bhandari, S., Sivakolundu, R., and T. Mizrahi, "In-situ
              OAM Direct Exporting", draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-direct-
              export-03 (work in progress), February 2021.

   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-flags]
              Mizrahi, T., Brockners, F., Bhandari, S., Sivakolundu, R.,
              Pignataro, C., Kfir, A., Gafni, B., Spiegel, M., and J.
              Lemon, "In-situ OAM Flags", draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-flags-04
              (work in progress), February 2021.





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   [I-D.ietf-ippm-ioam-ipv6-options]
              Bhandari, S., Brockners, F., Pignataro, C., Gredler, H.,
              Leddy, J., Youell, S., Mizrahi, T., Kfir, A., Gafni, B.,
              Lapukhov, P., Spiegel, M., Krishnan, S., Asati, R., and M.
              Smith, "In-situ OAM IPv6 Options", draft-ietf-ippm-ioam-
              ipv6-options-05 (work in progress), February 2021.

   [I-D.ietf-nvo3-geneve]
              Gross, J., Ganga, I., and T. Sridhar, "Geneve: Generic
              Network Virtualization Encapsulation", draft-ietf-
              nvo3-geneve-16 (work in progress), March 2020.

   [I-D.ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe]
              (Editor), F. M., (editor), L. K., and U. E. (editor),
              "Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN (VXLAN-GPE)", draft-
              ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-11 (work in progress), March 2021.

   [I-D.ietf-sfc-ioam-nsh]
              Brockners, F. and S. Bhandari, "Network Service Header
              (NSH) Encapsulation for In-situ OAM (IOAM) Data", draft-
              ietf-sfc-ioam-nsh-05 (work in progress), December 2020.

   [I-D.ietf-sfc-proof-of-transit]
              Brockners, F., Bhandari, S., Mizrahi, T., Dara, S., and S.
              Youell, "Proof of Transit", draft-ietf-sfc-proof-of-
              transit-08 (work in progress), November 2020.

   [I-D.ioametal-ippm-6man-ioam-ipv6-deployment]
              Bhandari, S., Brockners, F., Mizrahi, T., Kfir, A., Gafni,
              B., Spiegel, M., Krishnan, S., and M. Smith, "Deployment
              Considerations for In-situ OAM with IPv6 Options", draft-
              ioametal-ippm-6man-ioam-ipv6-deployment-03 (work in
              progress), March 2020.

   [I-D.mizrahi-ippm-ioam-profile]
              Mizrahi, T., Brockners, F., Bhandari, S., Sivakolundu, R.,
              Pignataro, C., Kfir, A., Gafni, B., Spiegel, M., Zhou, T.,
              and J. Lemon, "In Situ OAM Profiles", draft-mizrahi-ippm-
              ioam-profile-04 (work in progress), February 2021.

   [I-D.spiegel-ippm-ioam-rawexport]
              Spiegel, M., Brockners, F., Bhandari, S., and R.
              Sivakolundu, "In-situ OAM raw data export with IPFIX",
              draft-spiegel-ippm-ioam-rawexport-04 (work in progress),
              November 2020.






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   [I-D.weis-ippm-ioam-eth]
              Weis, B., Brockners, F., Hill, C., Bhandari, S., Govindan,
              V. P., Pignataro, C., Gredler, H., Leddy, J., Youell, S.,
              Mizrahi, T., Kfir, A., Gafni, B., Lapukhov, P., and M.
              Spiegel, "EtherType Protocol Identification of In-situ OAM
              Data", draft-weis-ippm-ioam-eth-04 (work in progress), May
              2020.

   [I-D.zhou-ippm-ioam-yang]
              Zhou, T., Guichard, J., Brockners, F., and S. Raghavan, "A
              YANG Data Model for In-Situ OAM", draft-zhou-ippm-ioam-
              yang-08 (work in progress), July 2020.

   [RFC5905]  Mills, D., Martin, J., Ed., Burbank, J., and W. Kasch,
              "Network Time Protocol Version 4: Protocol and Algorithms
              Specification", RFC 5905, DOI 10.17487/RFC5905, June 2010,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5905>.

   [RFC7276]  Mizrahi, T., Sprecher, N., Bellagamba, E., and Y.
              Weingarten, "An Overview of Operations, Administration,
              and Maintenance (OAM) Tools", RFC 7276,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7276, June 2014,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7276>.

   [RFC7384]  Mizrahi, T., "Security Requirements of Time Protocols in
              Packet Switched Networks", RFC 7384, DOI 10.17487/RFC7384,
              October 2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7384>.

   [RFC7665]  Halpern, J., Ed. and C. Pignataro, Ed., "Service Function
              Chaining (SFC) Architecture", RFC 7665,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7665, October 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7665>.

   [RFC7799]  Morton, A., "Active and Passive Metrics and Methods (with
              Hybrid Types In-Between)", RFC 7799, DOI 10.17487/RFC7799,
              May 2016, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7799>.

   [RFC8039]  Shpiner, A., Tse, R., Schelp, C., and T. Mizrahi,
              "Multipath Time Synchronization", RFC 8039,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8039, December 2016,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8039>.

   [RFC8300]  Quinn, P., Ed., Elzur, U., Ed., and C. Pignataro, Ed.,
              "Network Service Header (NSH)", RFC 8300,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8300, January 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8300>.





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   [RFC8915]  Franke, D., Sibold, D., Teichel, K., Dansarie, M., and R.
              Sundblad, "Network Time Security for the Network Time
              Protocol", RFC 8915, DOI 10.17487/RFC8915, September 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8915>.

Authors' Addresses

   Frank Brockners
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   Hansaallee 249, 3rd Floor
   DUESSELDORF, NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN  40549
   Germany

   Email: fbrockne@cisco.com


   Shwetha Bhandari (editor)
   Thoughtspot
   3rd Floor, Indiqube Orion, 24th Main Rd, Garden Layout, HSR Layout
   Bangalore, KARNATAKA 560 102
   India

   Email: shwetha.bhandari@thoughtspot.com


   Daniel Bernier
   Bell Canada
   Canada

   Email: daniel.bernier@bell.ca


   Tal Mizrahi (editor)
   Huawei
   8-2 Matam
   Haifa  3190501
   Israel

   Email: tal.mizrahi.phd@gmail.com












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