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RFC 7988
Title: Ingress Replication Tunnels in Multicast VPN
Author: E. Rosen, Ed.,
K. Subramanian,
Z. Zhang
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: October 2016
Mailbox: erosen@juniper.net,
karthik@sproute.com,
zzhang@juniper.net
Pages: 23
Characters: 55979
Updates: RFC 6513, RFC 6514
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-bess-ir-05.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7988
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7988
RFCs 6513, 6514, and other RFCs describe procedures by which a Service
Provider may offer Multicast VPN (MVPN) service to its customers.
These procedures create point-to-multipoint (P2MP) or
multipoint-to-multipoint (MP2MP) trees across the Service Provider's
backbone. One type of P2MP tree that may be used is known as an
"Ingress Replication (IR) tunnel". In an IR tunnel, a parent node
need not be directly connected to its child nodes. When a parent node
has to send a multicast data packet to its n child nodes, it does not
use Layer 2 multicast, IP multicast, or MPLS multicast to do so.
Rather, it makes n individual copies, and then unicasts each copy,
through an IP or MPLS unicast tunnel, to exactly one child node.
While the prior MVPN specifications allow the use of IR tunnels, those
specifications are not always very clear or explicit about how the
MVPN protocol elements and procedures are applied to IR tunnels. This
document updates RFCs 6513 and 6514 by adding additional details that
are specific to the use of IR tunnels.
This document is a product of the BGP Enabled Services Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
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