A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 7024 Title: Virtual Hub-and-Spoke in BGP/MPLS VPNs Author: H. Jeng, J. Uttaro, L. Jalil, B. Decraene, Y. Rekhter, R. Aggarwal Status: Standards Track Stream: IETF Date: October 2013 Mailbox: hj2387@att.com, ju1738@att.com, luay.jalil@verizon.com, bruno.decraene@orange.com, yakov@juniper.net, raggarwa_1@yahoo.com Pages: 25 Characters: 62926 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-l3vpn-virtual-hub-08.txt URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7024.txt With BGP/MPLS Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), providing any-to-any connectivity among sites of a given VPN would require each Provider Edge (PE) router connected to one or more of these sites to hold all the routes of that VPN. The approach described in this document allows the VPN service provider to reduce the number of PE routers that have to maintain all these routes by requiring only a subset of these routers to maintain all these routes. Furthermore, when PE routers use ingress replication to carry the multicast traffic of VPN customers, the approach described in this document may, under certain circumstances, reduce bandwidth inefficiency associated with ingress replication and redistribute the replication load among PE routers. This document is a product of the Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks Working Group of the IETF. This is now a Proposed Standard. STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. To subscribe or unsubscribe, see http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search.php For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for unlimited distribution. The RFC Editor Team Association Management Solutions, LLC