A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 7524 Title: Inter-Area Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Segmented Label Switched Paths (LSPs) Author: Y. Rekhter, E. Rosen, R. Aggarwal, T. Morin, I. Grosclaude, N. Leymann, S. Saad Status: Standards Track Stream: IETF Date: May 2015 Mailbox: yakov@juniper.net, erosen@juniper.net, raggarwa_1@yahoo.com, thomas.morin@orange.com, irene.grosclaude@orange.com, n.leymann@telekom.de, samirsaad1@outlook.com Pages: 42 Characters: 105804 Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None I-D Tag: draft-ietf-mpls-seamless-mcast-17.txt URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7524 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7524 This document describes procedures for building inter-area point-to-multipoint (P2MP) segmented service label switched paths (LSPs) by partitioning such LSPs into intra-area segments and using BGP as the inter-area routing and Label Distribution Protocol (LDP). Within each IGP area, the intra-area segments are either carried over intra-area P2MP LSPs, using P2MP LSP hierarchy, or instantiated using ingress replication. The intra-area P2MP LSPs may be signaled using P2MP RSVP-TE or P2MP multipoint LDP (mLDP). If ingress replication is used within an IGP area, then (multipoint-to-point) LDP LSPs or (point-to-point) RSVP-TE LSPs may be used in the IGP area. The applications/services that use such inter-area service LSPs may be BGP Multicast VPN, Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) multicast, or global table multicast over MPLS. This document is a product of the Multiprotocol Label Switching 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 Official Internet Protocol Standards (https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards) 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 https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce https://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist For searching the RFC series, see https://www.rfc-editor.org/search For downloading RFCs, see https://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