The IESG has received a request from the BGP Enabled Services WG (bess) to consider the following document: - 'Global Table Multicast with BGP-MVPN Procedures' <draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-global-table-mcast-02.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2015-08-18. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract RFC6513, RFC6514, and other RFCs describe protocols and procedures which a Service Provider (SP) may deploy in order offer Multicast Virtual Private Network (Multicast VPN or MVPN) service to its customers. Some of these procedures use BGP to distribute VPN- specific multicast routing information across a backbone network. With a small number of relatively minor modifications, the very same BGP procedures can also be used to distribute multicast routing information that is not specific to any VPN. Multicast that is outside the context of a VPN is known as "Global Table Multicast", or sometimes simply as "Internet multicast". In this document, we describe the modifications that are needed to use the MVPN BGP procedures for Global Table Multicast. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-global-table-mcast/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-global-table-mcast/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
