RFC 9545: Path Segment Identifier in MPLS-Based Segment Routing Networks
Recent RFCs 2024-02-22
Summary:
A Segment Routing (SR) path is identified by an SR segment list. A
subset of segments from the segment list cannot be leveraged to
distinguish one SR path from another as they may be partially
congruent. SR path identification is a prerequisite for various use
cases such as performance measurement and end-to-end 1+1 path
protection.
In an SR over MPLS (SR-MPLS) data plane, an egress node cannot
determine on which SR path a packet traversed the network from the
label stack because the segment identifiers are removed from the
label stack as the packet transits the network.
This document defines a Path Segment Identifier (PSID) to identify an
SR path on the egress node of the path.