Networking Working Group N. Shen Internet-Draft L. Ginsberg Intended status: Standards Track Cisco Systems Expires: June 21, 2019 S. Thyamagundalu December 18, 2018 IS-IS Routing for Spine-Leaf Topology draft-ietf-lsr-isis-spine-leaf-ext-00 Abstract This document describes a mechanism for routers and switches in a Spine-Leaf type topology to have non-reciprocal Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) routing relationships between the leafs and spines. The leaf nodes do not need to have the topology information of other nodes and exact prefixes in the network. This extension also has application in the Internet of Things (IoT). Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. 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Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 1] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Motivations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Spine-Leaf (SL) Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1. Topology Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2. Applicability Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.3. Spine-Leaf TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.3.1. Spine-Leaf Sub-TLVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3.1.1. Leaf-Set Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.3.1.2. Info-Req Sub-TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3.2. Advertising IPv4/IPv6 Reachability . . . . . . . . . 8 3.3.3. Advertising Connection to RF-Leaf Node . . . . . . . 8 3.4. Mechanism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.4.1. Pure CLOS Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.5. Implementation and Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5.1. CSNP PDU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5.2. Overload Bit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5.3. Spine Node Hostname . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5.4. IS-IS Reverse Metric . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3.5.5. Spine-Leaf Traffic Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5.6. Other End-to-End Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5.7. Address Family and Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 3.5.8. Migration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1. Introduction The IS-IS routing protocol defined by [ISO10589] has been widely deployed in provider networks, data centers and enterprise campus environments. In the data center and enterprise switching networks, a Spine-Leaf topology is commonly used. This document describes a mechanism where IS-IS routing can be optimized for a Spine-Leaf topology. In a Spine-Leaf topology, normally a leaf node connects to a number of spine nodes. Data traffic going from one leaf node to another leaf node needs to pass through one of the spine nodes. Also, the Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 2] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 decision to choose one of the spine nodes is usually part of equal cost multi-path (ECMP) load sharing. The spine nodes can be considered as gateway devices to reach destinations on other leaf nodes. In this type of topology, the spine nodes have to know the topology and routing information of the entire network, but the leaf nodes only need to know how to reach the gateway devices to which are the spine nodes they are uplinked. This document describes the IS-IS Spine-Leaf extension that allows the spine nodes to have all the topology and routing information, while keeping the leaf nodes free of topology information other than the default gateway routing information. The leaf nodes do not even need to run a Shortest Path First (SPF) calculation since they have no topology information. 1.1. Requirements Language The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119]. 2. Motivations o The leaf nodes in a Spine-Leaf topology do not require complete topology and routing information of the entire domain since their forwarding decision is to use ECMP with spine nodes as default gateways o The spine nodes in a Spine-Leaf topology are richly connected to leaf nodes, which introduces significant flooding duplication if they flood all Link State PDUs (LSPs) to all the leaf nodes. It saves both spine and leaf nodes' CPU and link bandwidth resources if flooding is blocked to leaf nodes. For small Top of the Rack (ToR) leaf switches in data centers, it is meaningful to prevent full topology routing information and massive database flooding through those devices. o When a spine node advertises a topology change, every leaf node connected to it will flood the update to all the other spine nodes, and those spine nodes will further flood them to all the leaf nodes, causing a O(n^2) flooding storm which is largely redundant. o Similar to some of the overlay technologies which are popular in data centers, the edge devices (leaf nodes) may not need to contain all the routing and forwarding information on the device's control and forwarding planes. "Conversational Learning" can be utilized to get the specific routing and forwarding information in Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 3] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 the case of pure CLOS topology and in the events of link and node down. o Small devices and appliances of Internet of Things (IoT) can be considered as leafs in the routing topology sense. They have CPU and memory constrains in design, and those IoT devices do not have to know the exact network topology and prefixes as long as there are ways to reach the cloud servers or other devices. 3. Spine-Leaf (SL) Extension 3.1. Topology Examples +--------+ +--------+ +--------+ | | | | | | | Spine1 +----+ Spine2 +- ......... -+ SpineN | | | | | | | +-+-+-+-++ ++-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-++ +------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | +-----|-|-|------+ | | | | | | | | | +--|-|-|--------+-|-|-----------------+ | | | | | | | | | +---+ | | | | | | | | | | | | +--|-|-------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | | | +------+ +----+ | | | | | | | | | +--------------|----------+ | | | | | | | | | +-------------+ | | | | | | | | +----|--|----------------|--|--------+ | | | | | | +------|--|--------------+ | | | | | | | | +------+ | | | | | | | | ++--+--++ +-+-+--++ ++-+--+-+ ++-+--+-+ | Leaf1 | | Leaf2 | ........ | LeafX | | LeafY | +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ Figure 1: A Spine-Leaf Topology Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 4] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 +---------+ +--------+ | Spine1 | | Spine2 | +-+-+-+-+-+ +-+-+-+-++ | | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------|-|-|-|-+ | | +------------+ | | | | | +--------+ +-+ | | | | | | | +----------------------------+ | | | | | | | +------------------+ | +----+ | | | | | +-------+ | | | | | | | | | | +-+---+-+ +--+--+-+ +-+--+--+ +--+--+-+ | Leaf1 | | Leaf2 | | Leaf3 | | Leaf4 | +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ Figure 2: A CLOS Topology 3.2. Applicability Statement This extension assumes the network is a Spine-Leaf topology, and it should not be applied in an arbitrary network setup. The spine nodes can be viewed as the aggregation layer of the network, and the leaf nodes as the access layer of the network. The leaf nodes use a load sharing algorithm with spine nodes as nexthops in routing and forwarding. This extension works when the spine nodes are inter-connected, and it works with a pure CLOS or Fat Tree topology based network where the spines are NOT horizontally interconnected. Although the example diagram in Figure 1 shows a fully meshed Spine- Leaf topology, this extension also works in the case where they are partially meshed. For instance, leaf1 through leaf10 may be fully meshed with spine1 through spine5 while leaf11 through leaf20 is fully meshed with spine4 through spine8, and all the spines are inter-connected in a redundant fashion. This extension can also work in multi-level spine-leaf topology. The lower level spine node can be a 'leaf' node to the upper level spine node. A spine-leaf 'Tier' can be exchanged with IS-IS hello packets to allow tier X to be connected with tier X+1 using this extension. Normally tier-0 will be the TOR routers and switches if provisioned. This extension also works with normal IS-IS routing in a topology with more than two layers of spine and leaf. For instance, in example diagrams Figure 1 and Figure 2, there can be another Core layer of routers/switches on top of the aggregation layer. From an IS-IS routing point of view, the Core nodes are not affected by this Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 5] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 extension and will have the complete topology and routing information just like the spine nodes. To make the network even more scalable, the Core layer can operate as a level-2 IS-IS sub-domain while the Spine and Leaf layers operate as stays at the level-1 IS-IS domain. This extension assumes the link between the spine and leaf nodes are point-to-point, or point-to-point over LAN [RFC5309]. The links connecting among the spine nodes or the links between the leaf nodes can be any type. 3.3. Spine-Leaf TLV This extension introduces a new TLV, the Spine-Leaf TLV, which may be advertised in IS-IS Hello (IIH) PDUs, LSPs, or in Circuit Scoped Link State PDUs (CS-LSP) [RFC7356]. It is used by both spine and leaf nodes in this Spine-Leaf mechanism. 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Type | Length | SL Flag | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | .. Optional Sub-TLVs +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-.... The fields of this TLV are defined as follows: Type: 1 octet Suggested value 150 (to be assigned by IANA) Length: 1 octet (2 + length of sub-TLVs). SL Flags: 16 bits 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Tier | Reserved |T|R|L| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Tier: A value from 0 to 15. It represents the spine-leaf tier level. The value 15 is reserved to indicate the tier level is unknown. This value is only valid when the 'T' bit (see below) is set. If the 'T' bit is clear, this value MUST be set to zero on transmission, and it MUST be ignored on receipt. Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 6] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 L bit (0x01): Only leaf node sets this bit. If the L bit is set in the SL flag, the node indicates it is in 'Leaf- Mode'. R bit (0x02): Only Spine node sets this bit. If the R bit is set, the node indicates to the leaf neighbor that it can be used as the default route gateway. T bit (0x04): If set, the value in the "Tier" field (see above) is valid. Optional Sub-TLV: Not defined in this document, for future extension sub-TLVs MAY be included when the TLV is in a CS-LSP. sub-TLVs MUST NOT be included when the TLV is in an IIH 3.3.1. Spine-Leaf Sub-TLVs If the data center topology is a pure CLOS or Fat Tree, there are no link connections among the spine nodes. If we also assume there is not another Core layer on top of the aggregation layer, then the traffic from one leaf node to another may have a problem if there is a link outage between a spine node and a leaf node. For instance, in the diagram of Figure 2, if Leaf1 sends data traffic to Leaf3 through Spine1 node, and the Spine1-Leaf3 link is down, the data traffic will be dropped on the Spine1 node. To address this issue spine and leaf nodes may send/request specific reachability information via the sub-TLVs defined below. Two Spine-Leaf sub-TLVs are defined. The Leaf-Set sub-TLV and the Info-Req sub-TLV. 3.3.1.1. Leaf-Set Sub-TLV This sub-TLV is used by spine nodes to optionally advertise Leaf neighbors to other Leaf nodes. The fields of this sub-TLV are defined as follows: Type: 1 octet Suggested value 1 (to be assigned by IANA) Length: 1 octet MUST be a multiple of 6 octets. Leaf-Set: A list of IS-IS System-ID of the leaf node neighbors of this spine node. Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 7] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 3.3.1.2. Info-Req Sub-TLV This sub-TLV is used by leaf nodes to request the advertisement of more specific prefix information from a selected spine node. The list of leaf nodes in this sub-TLV reflects the current set of leaf- nodes for which not all spine node neighbors have indicated the presence of connectivity in the Leaf-Set sub-TLV (See Section 3.3.1.1). The fields of this sub-TLV are defined as follows: Type: 1 octet Suggested value 2 (to be assigned by IANA) Length: 1 octet. It MUST be a multiple of 6 octets. Info-Req: List of IS-IS System-IDs of leaf nodes for which connectivity information is being requested. 3.3.2. Advertising IPv4/IPv6 Reachability In cases where connectivity between a leaf node and a spine node is down, the leaf node MAY request reachability information from a spine node as described in Section 3.3.1.2. The spine node utilizes TLVs 135 [RFC5305] and TLVs 236 [RFC5308] to advertise this information. These TLVs MAY be included either in IIHs or CS-LSPs [RFC7356] sent from the spine to the requesting leaf node. Sending such information in IIHs has limited scale - all reachability information MUST fit within a single IIH. It is therefore recommended that CS-LSPs be used. 3.3.3. Advertising Connection to RF-Leaf Node For links between Spine and Leaf Nodes on which the Spine Node has set the R-bit and the Leaf node has set the L-bit in their respective Spine-Leaf TLVs, spine nodes may advertise the link with a bit in the "link-attribute" sub-TLV [RFC5029] to express this link is not used for LSP flooding. This information can be used by nodes computing a flooding topology e.g., [DYNAMIC-FLOODING], to exclude the RF-Leaf nodes from the computed flooding topology. 3.4. Mechanism Leaf nodes in a spine-leaf application using this extension are provisioned with two attributes: 1)Tier level of 0. This indicates the node is a Leaf Node. The value 0 is advertised in the Tier field of Spine-Leaf TLV defined above. Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 8] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 2)Flooding reduction enabled/disabled. If flooding reduction is enabled the L-bit is set to one in the Spine-Leaf TLV defined above A spine node does not need explicit configuration. Spine nodes can dynamically discover their tier level by computing the number of hops to a leaf node. Until a spine node determines its tier level it MUST advertise level 15 (unknown tier level) in the Spine-Leaf TLV defined above. Each tier level can also be statically provisioned on the node. When a spine node receives an IIH which includes the Spine-Leaf TLV with Tier level 0 and 'L' bit set, it labels the point-to-point interface and adjacency to be a 'Reduced Flooding Leaf-Peer (RF- Leaf)'. IIHs sent by a spine node on a link to an RF-Leaf include the Spine-Leaf TLV with the 'R' bit set in the flags field. The 'R' bit indicates to the RF-Leaf neighbor that the spine node can be used as a default routing nexthop. There is no change to the IS-IS adjacency bring-up mechanism for Spine-Leaf peers. A spine node blocks LSP flooding to RF-Leaf adjacencies, except for the LSP PDUs in which the IS-IS System-ID matches the System-ID of the RF-Leaf neighbor. This exception is needed since when the leaf node reboots, the spine node needs to forward to the leaf node non- purged LSPs from the RF-Leaf's previous incarnation. Leaf nodes will perform IS-IS LSP flooding as normal over all of its IS-IS adjacencies, but in the case of RF-Leafs only self-originated LSPs will exist in its LSP database. Spine nodes will receive all the LSP PDUs in the network, including all the spine nodes and leaf nodes. It will perform Shortest Path First (SPF) as a normal IS-IS node does. There is no change to the route calculation and forwarding on the spine nodes. The LSPs of a node only floods north bound towards the upper layer spine nodes. The default route is generated with loadsharing also towards the upper layer spine nodes. RF-Leaf nodes do not have any LSP in the network except for its own. Therefore there is no need to perform SPF calculation on the RF-Leaf node. It only needs to download the default route with the nexthops of those Spine Neighbors which have the 'R' bit set in the Spine-Leaf TLV in IIH PDUs. IS-IS can perform equal cost or unequal cost load sharing while using the spine nodes as nexthops. The aggregated metric of the outbound interface and the 'Reverse Metric' [REVERSE-METRIC] can be used for this purpose. Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 9] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 3.4.1. Pure CLOS Topology In a data center where the topology is pure CLOS or Fat Tree, there is no interconnection among the spine nodes, and there is not another Core layer above the aggregation layer with reachability to the leaf nodes. When flooding reduction to RF-Leafs is in use, if the link between a spine and a leaf goes down, there is then a possibility of black holing the data traffic in the network. As in the diagram Figure 2, if the link Spine1-Leaf3 goes down, there needs to be a way for Leaf1, Leaf2 and Leaf4 to avoid the Spine1 if the destination of data traffic is to Leaf3 node. In the above example, the Spine1 and Spine2 are provisioned to advertise the Leaf-Set sub-TLV of the Spine-Leaf TLV. Originally both Spines will advertise Leaf1 through Leaf4 as their Leaf-Set. When the Spine1-Leaf3 link is down, Spine1 will only have Leaf1, Leaf2 and Leaf4 in its Leaf-Set. This allows the other leaf nodes to know that Spine1 has lost connectivity to the leaf node of Leaf3. Each RF-Leaf node can select another spine node to request for some prefix information associated with the lost leaf node. In this diagram of Figure 2, there are only two spine nodes (Spine-Leaf topology can have more than two spine nodes in general). Each RF- Leaf node can independently select a spine node for the leaf information. The RF-Leaf nodes will include the Info-Req sub-TLV in the Spine-Leaf TLV in hellos sent to the selected spine node, Spine2 in this case. The spine node, upon receiving the request from one or more leaf nodes, will find the IPv6/IPv4 prefixes advertised by the leaf nodes listed in the Info-Req sub-TLV. The spine node will use the mechanism defined in Section 3.3.2 to advertise these prefixes to the RF-Leaf node. For instance, it will include the IPv4 loopback prefix of leaf3 based on the policy configured or administrative tag attached to the prefixes. When the leaf nodes receive the more specific prefixes, they will install the advertised prefixes towards the other spine nodes (Spine2 in this example). For instance in the data center overlay scenario, when any IP destination or MAC destination uses the leaf3's loopback as the tunnel nexthop, the overlay tunnel from leaf nodes will only select Spine2 as the gateway to reach leaf3 as long as the Spine1-Leaf3 link is still down. In cases where multiple links or nodes fail at the same time, the RF- leaf node may need to send the Info-Req to multiple upper layer spine Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 10] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 nodes in order to obtain reachability information for all the partially connected nodes. This negative routing is more useful between tier 0 and tier 1 spine- leaf levels in a multi-level spine-leaf topology when the reduced flooding extension is in use. Nodes in tiers 1 or greater may have much richer topology information and alternative paths. 3.5. Implementation and Operation 3.5.1. CSNP PDU In Spine-Leaf extension, Complete Sequence Number PDU (CSNP) does not need to be transmitted over the Spine-Leaf link to an RF-Leaf. Some IS-IS implementations send periodic CSNPs after the initial adjacency bring-up over a point-to-point interface. There is no need for this optimization here since the RF-Leaf does not need to receive any other LSPs from the network, and the only LSPs transmitted across the Spine-Leaf link is the leaf node LSP. Also in the graceful restart case[RFC5306], for the same reason, there is no need to send the CSNPs over the Spine-Leaf interface to an RF-Leaf. Spine nodes only need to set the SRMflag on the LSPs belonging to the RF-Leaf. 3.5.2. Overload Bit The leaf node SHOULD set the 'overload' bit on its LSP PDU, since if the spine nodes were to forward traffic not meant for the local node, the leaf node does not have the topology information to prevent a routing/forwarding loop. 3.5.3. Spine Node Hostname This extension creates a non-reciprocal relationship between the spine node and leaf node. The spine node will receive leaf's LSP and will know the leaf's hostname, but the leaf does not have spine's LSP. This extension allows the Dynamic Hostname TLV [RFC5301] to be optionally included in spine's IIH PDU when sending to a 'Leaf-Peer'. This is useful in troubleshooting cases. 3.5.4. IS-IS Reverse Metric This metric is part of the aggregated metric for leaf's default route installation with load sharing among the spine nodes. When a spine node is in 'overload' condition, it should use the IS-IS Reverse Metric TLV in IIH [REVERSE-METRIC] to set this metric to maximum to discourage the leaf using it as part of the loadsharing. Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 11] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 In some cases, certain spine nodes may have less bandwidth in link provisioning or in real-time condition, and it can use this metric to signal to the leaf nodes dynamically. In other cases, such as when the spine node loses a link to a particular leaf node, although it can redirect the traffic to other spine nodes to reach that destination leaf node, but it MAY want to increase this metric value if the inter-spine connection becomes over utilized, or the latency becomes an issue. In the leaf-leaf link as a backup gateway use case, the 'Reverse Metric' SHOULD always be set to very high value. 3.5.5. Spine-Leaf Traffic Engineering Besides using the IS-IS Reverse Metric by the spine nodes to affect the traffic pattern for leaf default gateway towards multiple spine nodes, the IPv6/IPv4 Info-Advertise sub-TLVs can be selectively used by traffic engineering controllers to move data traffic around the data center fabric to alleviate congestion and to reduce the latency of a certain class of traffic pairs. By injecting more specific leaf node prefixes, it will allow the spine nodes to attract more traffic on some underutilized links. 3.5.6. Other End-to-End Services Losing the topology information will have an impact on some of the end-to-end network services, for instance, MPLS TE or end-to-end segment routing. Some other mechanisms such as those described in PCE [RFC4655] based solution may be used. In this Spine-Leaf extension, the role of the leaf node is not too much different from the multi-level IS-IS routing while the level-1 IS-IS nodes only have the default route information towards the node which has the Attach Bit (ATT) set, and the level-2 backbone does not have any topology information of the level-1 areas. The exact mechanism to enable certain end-to-end network services in Spine-Leaf network is outside the scope of this document. 3.5.7. Address Family and Topology IPv6 Address families[RFC5308], Multi-Topology (MT)[RFC5120] and Multi-Instance (MI)[RFC8202] information is carried over the IIH PDU. Since the goal is to simplify the operation of IS-IS network, for the simplicity of this extension, the Spine-Leaf mechanism is applied the same way to all the address families, MTs and MIs. Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 12] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 3.5.8. Migration For this extension to be deployed in existing networks, a simple migration scheme is needed. To support any leaf node in the network, all the involved spine nodes have to be upgraded first. So the first step is to migrate all the involved spine nodes to support this extension, then the leaf nodes can be enabled with 'Leaf-Mode' one by one. No flag day is needed for the extension migration. 4. IANA Considerations A new TLV codepoint is defined in this document and needs to be assigned by IANA from the "IS-IS TLV Codepoints" registry. It is referred to as the Spine-Leaf TLV and the suggested value is 150. This TLV is only to be optionally inserted either in the IIH PDU or in the Circuit Flooding Scoped LSP PDU. IANA is also requested to maintain the SL-flag bit values in this TLV, and 0x01, 0x02 and 0x04 bits are defined in this document. Value Name IIH LSP SNP Purge CS-LSP ----- --------------------- --- --- --- ----- ------- 150 Spine-Leaf y y n n y This extension also proposes to have the Dynamic Hostname TLV, already assigned as code 137, to be allowed in IIH PDU. Value Name IIH LSP SNP Purge ----- --------------------- --- --- --- ----- 137 Dynamic Name y y n y Two new sub-TLVs are defined in this document and needs to be added assigned by IANA from the "IS-IS TLV Codepoints". They are referred to in this document as the Leaf-Set sub-TLV and the Info-Req sub-TLV. It is suggested to have the values 1 and 2 respectively. This document also requests that IANA allocate from the registry of link-attribute bit values for sub-TLV 19 of TLV 22 (Extended IS reachability TLV). This new bit is referred to as the "Connect to RF-Leaf Node" bit. Value Name Reference ----- ----- ---------- 0x3 Connect to RF-Leaf Node This document Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 13] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 5. Security Considerations Security concerns for IS-IS are addressed in [ISO10589], [RFC5304], [RFC5310], and [RFC7602]. This extension does not raise additional security issues. 6. Acknowledgments The authors would like to thank Tony Przygienda for his discussion and contributions. The authors also would like to thank Acee Lindem, Russ White, Christian Hopps and Aijun Wang for their review and comments of this document. 7. References 7.1. Normative References [ISO10589] ISO "International Organization for Standardization", "Intermediate system to Intermediate system intra-domain routeing information exchange protocol for use in conjunction with the protocol for providing the connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473), ISO/IEC 10589:2002, Second Edition.", Nov 2002. [REVERSE-METRIC] Shen, N., Amante, S., and M. Abrahamsson, "IS-IS Routing with Reverse Metric", draft-ietf-isis-reverse-metric-07 (work in progress), 2017. [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, . [RFC5029] Vasseur, JP. and S. Previdi, "Definition of an IS-IS Link Attribute Sub-TLV", RFC 5029, DOI 10.17487/RFC5029, September 2007, . [RFC5120] Przygienda, T., Shen, N., and N. Sheth, "M-ISIS: Multi Topology (MT) Routing in Intermediate System to Intermediate Systems (IS-ISs)", RFC 5120, DOI 10.17487/RFC5120, February 2008, . [RFC5301] McPherson, D. and N. Shen, "Dynamic Hostname Exchange Mechanism for IS-IS", RFC 5301, DOI 10.17487/RFC5301, October 2008, . Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 14] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 [RFC5304] Li, T. and R. Atkinson, "IS-IS Cryptographic Authentication", RFC 5304, DOI 10.17487/RFC5304, October 2008, . [RFC5305] Li, T. and H. Smit, "IS-IS Extensions for Traffic Engineering", RFC 5305, DOI 10.17487/RFC5305, October 2008, . [RFC5306] Shand, M. and L. Ginsberg, "Restart Signaling for IS-IS", RFC 5306, DOI 10.17487/RFC5306, October 2008, . [RFC5308] Hopps, C., "Routing IPv6 with IS-IS", RFC 5308, DOI 10.17487/RFC5308, October 2008, . [RFC5310] Bhatia, M., Manral, V., Li, T., Atkinson, R., White, R., and M. Fanto, "IS-IS Generic Cryptographic Authentication", RFC 5310, DOI 10.17487/RFC5310, February 2009, . [RFC7356] Ginsberg, L., Previdi, S., and Y. Yang, "IS-IS Flooding Scope Link State PDUs (LSPs)", RFC 7356, DOI 10.17487/RFC7356, September 2014, . [RFC7602] Chunduri, U., Lu, W., Tian, A., and N. Shen, "IS-IS Extended Sequence Number TLV", RFC 7602, DOI 10.17487/RFC7602, July 2015, . [RFC8202] Ginsberg, L., Previdi, S., and W. Henderickx, "IS-IS Multi-Instance", RFC 8202, DOI 10.17487/RFC8202, June 2017, . 7.2. Informative References [DYNAMIC-FLOODING] Li, T., "Dynamic Flooding on Dense Graphs", draft-li- dynamic-flooding (work in progress), 2018. [RFC4655] Farrel, A., Vasseur, J., and J. Ash, "A Path Computation Element (PCE)-Based Architecture", RFC 4655, DOI 10.17487/RFC4655, August 2006, . Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 15] Internet-Draft IS-IS SL Extension December 2018 [RFC5309] Shen, N., Ed. and A. Zinin, Ed., "Point-to-Point Operation over LAN in Link State Routing Protocols", RFC 5309, DOI 10.17487/RFC5309, October 2008, . Authors' Addresses Naiming Shen Cisco Systems 560 McCarthy Blvd. Milpitas, CA 95035 US Email: naiming@cisco.com Les Ginsberg Cisco Systems 821 Alder Drive Milpitas, CA 95035 US Email: ginsberg@cisco.com Sanjay Thyamagundalu Email: tsanjay@gmail.com Shen, et al. Expires June 21, 2019 [Page 16]