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 : Virtual Hub-and-Spoke in BGP/MPLS VPNs Author(s) : Huajin Jeng James Uttaro Luay Jalil Bruno Decraene Yakov Rekhter Rahul Aggarwal Filename : draft-ietf-l3vpn-virtual-hub-08.txt Pages : 26 Date : 2013-07-01 Abstract: With BGP/MPLS VPNs, providing any-to-any connectivity among sites of a given Virtual Private Network would require each Provider Edge router that has one or more of these sites connected to it to hold all the routes of that Virtual Private Network. The approach described in this document allows the VPN service provider to reduce the number of Provider Edge routers that have to maintain all these routes by requiring only a subset of these routers to maintain all these routes. Furthermore, when Provider Edge routers use ingress replication to carry multicast traffic of VPN customers, the approach described in this document may under certain circumstances allow to reduce bandwidth inefficiency associated with ingress replication, and to redistribute the replication load among Provider Edge routers. The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-l3vpn-virtual-hub There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-l3vpn-virtual-hub-08 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-l3vpn-virtual-hub-08 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