draft-hzh-fantel-wan-tunnel
Fast Notification for tunnel-based lossless RDMA transmission in WAN
With the rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs), many
emerging AI services require lossless transmission of RDMA traffic
over tunnels in Wide Area Network(WAN). Existing network mechanisms
were not designed for the responsiveness and scale required by these
dynamic services. WAN should support the real-time, lightweight
network notification to enhance the responsiveness for traffic
engineering, congestion mitigation, and failure protection.
This document analyzes typical scenarios where RDMA traffic need to
be tunneled across WAN, and proposes fast network notification
solutions based on ICMPv6 or UDP.