L3VPN Working Group K. Patel Internet-Draft R. Raszuk Intended status: Standards Track Cisco Systems Expires: December 15, 2011 M. Djernaes Juniper Networks J. Dong M. Chen Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. June 13, 2011 IPv6 Extensions for Route Target Distribution draft-ietf-idr-bgp-ipv6-rt-constrain-00.txt Abstract The current route target distribution specification described in RFC4684 defines Route Target NLRIs of maxiumum length of 12 bytes. The IPv6 specific Route Target extended community is defined in RFC5701 as length of 20 bytes. Since the current specification only supports prefixes of maximum length of 12 bytes, the lack of an IPv6 specific Route Target reachability information may be a problem when an operator wants to use this application in a pure IPv6 environment. This document defines an extension that allows BGP to exchange longer length IPv6 Route Target prefixes. 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Expires December 15, 2011 [Page 1] Internet-Draft IPv6 Extensions for RT Distribution June 2011 This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Patel, et al. Expires December 15, 2011 [Page 2] Internet-Draft IPv6 Extensions for RT Distribution June 2011 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. BGP IPV6 Constrained Route Target Capability . . . . . . . . . 4 3. IPV6 Constrained Route Target NLRI Advertisements . . . . . . . 4 4. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Patel, et al. Expires December 15, 2011 [Page 3] Internet-Draft IPv6 Extensions for RT Distribution June 2011 1. Introduction The current constrained route distribution specification defined in [RFC4684] supports prefixes with a fixed maximum length of 12 bytes. The prefix length needs to be extended to support the IPv6 specific Route Target extended community defined in [RFC5701] which is 20 bytes in length. This document defines an extension to the current constrained route distribution specification that allows BGP speakers to distribute longer length Route Target prefixes. A new BGP capability known as BGP IPv6 Constrained Route Target capabiltiy is defined as part of extension that allows an exchange of longer length Route Target prefixes. BGP speakers that do not exchange this capability MUST use Route Target NLRIs of maximum length of 12 bytes. In this way, the current extension would preserve the backward compatibility with [RFC4684]. 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. BGP IPV6 Constrained Route Target Capability The "BGP IPV6 Constrained Route Target Capability" is a new BGP capability [RFC5492]. The Capability code for this capability is specified in the IANA Considersations section of this document. The Capability length field of this capability is zero. By advertising this capability to a peer, a BGP speaker conveys to the peer that the speaker support the longer length Route Target prefixes and the related procedures described in this document. 3. IPV6 Constrained Route Target NLRI Advertisements Route Target membership NLRI is advertised in BGP UPDATE messages using the MP_REACH_NLRI and MP_UNREACH_NLRI attributes as defined in [RFC4760]. The NLRI field in the MP_REACH_NLRI and MP_UNREACH_NLRI is a prefix of 0 to 24 octets, encoded as defined in Section 4 of [RFC4760] for all the constrain route distribution. This prefix is structured as follows: Patel, et al. Expires December 15, 2011 [Page 4] Internet-Draft IPv6 Extensions for RT Distribution June 2011 +-------------------------------+ | origin as (4 octets) | +-------------------------------+ | route target (8 or 20 octets)| ~ ~ | | +-------------------------------+ Except for the default route target, which is encoded as a zero- length prefix, the minimum prefix length is 32 bits. Route targets can then be expressed as prefixes, where, for instance, a prefix would encompass all route target extended communities assigned by a given Global Administrator [RFC4360] and [RFC5701]. Alternatively, route target prefixes could be aggregated however if done so, then only the Local Administrator field of the Route Target can be aggregated. Route Target Type and the Global Administrator Route Target fields MUST not be aggregated. The default route target can be used to indicate to a peer the willingness to receive all VPN route advertisements such as, for instance, the case of a route reflector speaking to one of its PE router clients. 4. Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank Pedro Marques, John Scudder, Alton Lo and Zhengqiang Li for discussions and review. 5. IANA Considerations This document defined the IPV6 Constrained Route Target Capability for BGP. The Capability code needs to be assigned by the IANA. 6. Security Considerations This extension to [RFC4684] does not change the underlying security issues inherent in the existing BGP and [RFC4684]. 7. References Patel, et al. Expires December 15, 2011 [Page 5] Internet-Draft IPv6 Extensions for RT Distribution June 2011 7.1. Normative References [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. [RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Li, T., and S. Hares, "A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006. [RFC4360] Sangli, S., Tappan, D., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP Extended Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, February 2006. [RFC4684] Marques, P., Bonica, R., Fang, L., Martini, L., Raszuk, R., Patel, K., and J. Guichard, "Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4684, November 2006. [RFC5492] Scudder, J. and R. Chandra, "Capabilities Advertisement with BGP-4", RFC 5492, February 2009. [RFC5701] Rekhter, Y., "IPv6 Address Specific BGP Extended Community Attribute", RFC 5701, November 2009. 7.2. Informative References [RFC4760] Bates, T., Chandra, R., Katz, D., and Y. Rekhter, "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4", RFC 4760, January 2007. Authors' Addresses Keyur Patel Cisco Systems 170 W. Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134 USA Email: keyupate@cisco.com Patel, et al. Expires December 15, 2011 [Page 6] Internet-Draft IPv6 Extensions for RT Distribution June 2011 Robert Raszuk Cisco Systems 170 W. Tasman Drive San Jose, CA 95134 USA Email: raszuk@cisco.com Martine Djernaes Juniper Networks 1194 N. Mathilda Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Email: mdjernaes@juniper.net Jie Dong Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei Building, No.3 Xinxi Rd. Hai-Dian District, Beijing 100085 P.R. China Email: jie.dong@huawei.com Mach(Guoyi) Chen Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Huawei Building, No.3 Xinxi Rd. Hai-Dian District, Beijing 100085 P.R. China Email: mach.chen@huawei.com Patel, et al. Expires December 15, 2011 [Page 7]