Network Working Group                             Gargi Nalawade
Internet Draft                                 Arjun Sreekantiah
Expires: January 2005 Cisco Systems



                                MDT SAFI
                   draft-nalawade-idr-mdt-safi-01.txt




. Status of this Memo

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. Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001).  All Rights Reserved.

. Abstract

   There is a need for transporting Multicast Tunnel attributes within
   and across Autonomous Systems. This draft defines a new Address-
   Family that can be used to do the distribution.

. Introduction

   Two end-points of a Multicast Tunnel need to know the end-point
   information and its binding to a network address and the Multicast
   Tunnel used for the respective VRF at the remote PE. Normally, Tunnel



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   endpoint addresses can be statically configured. But in case of a
   large network with large number of VPNs where there may be a need for
   a large number of endpoints and a large number of VRFs, the amount of
   information that needs to be exchanged and maintained between PEs for
   Multicast Tunnels for VPNs, is quite large. It therefore needs a
   mechanism that can maintain and support Multicast Tunnel based VPNs
   in a flexible, scalable manner. Also, in inter-AS and inter- provider
   scenarios, this mechanism needs to be supported across autonomous
   systems and provider domains.

. The MDT SAFI

   A new Subsequent-Address Family called the MDT SAFI is being defined.
   The NLRI for this SAFI, will contain the address of the nexthop which
   will be used by the multicast source PE to send the PIM Join for the
   default MDT address to.

   The NLRI format is 8-byte-RD:IPv4-address followed by the MDT group
   address.  i.e. The MP_REACH attribute for this SAFI will contain one
   or more tuples of the following form :



          +------------------------------+
          |                               |
          |  RD:IPv4-address (12 octets)  |
          |                               |
          +-------------------------------+
          |  MDT Group-address (4 octets) |
          +-------------------------------+





   where :

   Route-Distinguisher : is the RD of the VRF to which this MDT
   attribute belongs.

   MDT Group Address : is the Group-address of the MDT-Group that a VRF
   is associated to. This can be variable length. But for

   IPV4 addresses - this will be 4 octets.

. The Connector Attribute

   An Optional Transitive Connector attribute is being defined to link a



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   BGP AFI/SAFI with another AFI/SAFI, so that the prefix of one
   AFI/SAFI could derive an information entity that is dependant on the
   NLRI advertised through another AFI/SAFI. An example of this is as
   illustrated in [MT-DISC] where the original NEXTHOP attribute
   advertised by a PE router is preserved across one or more domains,
   so that the PE router at the other end can deduce the originator PE.

   The attribute contains one or more tuples of the form :



          +------------------------------+
          |                              |
          |  Type (2 octets)             |
          +------------------------------+
          |                              |
          |  Length (2 octets)           |
          +------------------------------+
          |                              |
          |  Value (Variable)            |
          |                              |
          +------------------------------+



   where :

   Type : is the Type of the data contained in this TLV.

   Length : is the Length of the Value portion in the TLV.

   Value : is a variable length field defined by the AFI/SAFI carried in
   this tuple, which would be used by the AFI/SAFI in this tuple.

   When the Type is 1, the length contains the number 4 and the value in
   the TLV will contain the IPv4 address of the PE sourcing the CE-
   learnt VPNv4 prefixes, and this attribute will accompany the VPNv4
   prefix advertisement. The usage of this attribute for the Type-code 1
   is described in [MT-DISC].

. Capability Advertisement

   A BGP speaker that wishes to exchange the MDT SAFI, MUST use the
   MP_EXT Capability Code as defined in [BGP-MP], to advertise the
   corresponding (AFI, SAFI) pair.

   A BGP speaker MAY participate in the distribution of MDT information.




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. Operation

   A BGP Speaker that receives the Capability for the MDT SAFI, MAY
   advertise the MDT SAFI prefixes to that peer. The prefixes in the MDT
   SAFI are populated by the PEs that advertise their CE-learnt
   prefixes.

. Security Considerations

   This extension to BGP does not change the underlying security issues.

. Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank  IJsbrand Wijnands for his contr-
   ibution towards the Connector Attribute needed for the IPv4-MDT SAFI
   as described in [MT-DISC]. The authors would also like to thank Shyam
   Suri, Ruchi Kapoor, Shyam Suri, Yiqun Cai, Dan Tappan, Jennifer Li,
   Yi Chou, Arjen Boers for their comments and contrib- utions. We would
   also like to thank Bhavani Parise for his review and comments.

. Normative References

   [BGP-4]  Rekhter, Y. and T. Li (editors), "A Border Gateway Protocol
   4 (BGP-4)", Internet Draft draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-17.txt, January 2002.

   [BGP-CAP] Chandra, R., Scudder, J., "Capabilities Advertisement with
   BGP-4", draft-ietf-idr-rfc2842bis-02.txt, April 2002.

   [BGP-SSA] Kapoor R., Nalawade G., ôBGPv4 SAFI-Specific Attributeö,
   draft-nalawade-kapoor-bgp-ssa-00.txt, June 2003.

   [MULTI-BGP] Bates et al, Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4, draft-
   ietf-idr-rfc2858bis-02.txt, work in progress.

   [MT-DISC] Wijnands, I., Nalawade, G., Multicast Tunnel discovery and
   RPF connector, wijnands-mt-discovery-00.txt, work in progress.

. Author's Addresses

   Gargi Nalawade
   170 Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA, 95134
   E-mail: gargi@cisco.com

   Arjun Sreekantiah
   170 Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA, 95134
   E-mail: asreekan@cisco.com



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   This memo is filed as <draft-nalawade-idr-mdt-safi-01.txt>, and
   expires January 2005.













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