A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks Working Group of the IETF. Title : MVPN: Using Bidirectional P-Tunnels Author(s) : Eric C. Rosen IJsbrand Wijnands Yiqun Cai Arjen Boers Filename : draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-bidir-04.txt Pages : 21 Date : 2013-01-07 Abstract: The RFCs providing multicast support for BGP/MPLS IP VPNs allow customer multicast data to be travel across a service provider's backbone network through a set multicast tunnels. These tunnels are advertised by BGP in a BGP attribute known as the "Provider Multicast Service Interface (PMSI) Tunnel Attribute". Encodings have been defined that allow the PMSI Tunnel Attribute to specify bidirectional (multipoint-to-multipoint) multicast distribution trees. However, the prior RFCs do not provide all the necessary details for using bidirectional tunnels to support multicast VPNs. These details are provided in the current document. This document also specifies the procedures for assigning customer multicast flows to specific bidirectional tunnels in the provider backbone. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-bidir There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-bidir-04 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-l3vpn-mvpn-bidir-04 Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt