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INTERNET-DRAFT                                         Avik Bhattacharya
                                                       Apratim Mukherjee
Intended Status: Proposed Standard                                  Ixia
Expires: July 17, 2015                                  January 13, 2015


Provisioning, Auto-Discovery, and Signaling in L2VPNs for IPv6 Remote PE
          draft-abhattacharya-l2vpn-signaling-ipv6-remotepe-00


Abstract

   L2VPN Signaling specification defines the semantic structure of the
   endpoint identifiers required by each model.  It discusses the
   distribution of these identifiers by the discovery process,
   especially when discovery is based on the Border Gateway Protocol
   (BGP).  This document updates the end point encoding for BGP-Based
   Auto-Discovery and suggests a format for NLRI encoding for IPv6 PE
   Address.


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Table of Contents

   1  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     1.1  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   2  BGP NLRI format for the IPv6 PE Address . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3  Discussion on Route Distinguisher(RD) and Route Target(RT)  . .  5
   4  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   5  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   6  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     6.1  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
     6.2  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6




































 


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1  Introduction

   RFC 6074 specifies a number of L2VPN provisioning models, and further
   specifies the semantic structure of the endpoint identifiers required
   by each model.  It discusses the distribution of these identifiers by
   the discovery process, especially when discovery is based on the
   Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).  It then specifies how the endpoint
   identifiers are carried in the two signaling protocols that are used
   to set up PWs, the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP), and the Layer 2
   Tunneling Protocol version 3 (L2TPv3).  This draft updates the
   section 3.2.2.1 of RFC 6074 (BGP-Based Auto-Discovery) and suggests a
   format for NLRI encoding for IPv6 PE Address.

1.1  Terminology

   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 NLRI format for the IPv6 PE Address

   RFC 6074 Section 3.2.2.1 defines the BGP advertisement for a
   particular VSI at a given PE will contain:

      o  an NLRI of AFI = L2VPN, SAFI = VPLS, encoded as RD:PE_addr

      o  a BGP next hop equal to the loopback address of the PE

      o  an Extended Community Attribute containing the VPLS-id

      o  an Extended Community Attribute containing one or more RTs.

   The format for the NLRI encoding defined in RFC 6074 Section 3.2.2.1
   is:

           +------------------------------------+                       
           |  Length (2 octets)                 |                       
           +------------------------------------+                       
           |  Route Distinguisher (8 octets)    |                       
           +------------------------------------+                       
           |  PE_addr (4 octets)                |                       
           +------------------------------------+


   In this format the size of the PE_addr is defined as 4 octets which
   can carry only IPv4 addresses. In a situation where the route is
   originating from a BGP end point running on an IPv6 address, the
 


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   PE_addr in the NLRI needs to carry that IPv6 address. The updated
   format for the NLRI encoding is:


           +------------------------------------+                       
           |  Length (2 octets)                 |                       
           +------------------------------------+                       
           |  Route Distinguisher (8 octets)    |                       
           +------------------------------------+                       
           |  PE_addr (4 or 16 octets)          |                       
           +------------------------------------+


   The length field MUST contain the sum of the length of the Length
   field(2), the length of the Route Distiguisher(8) and the length of
   the 4 or 16 octet PE_addr field.

   The type of the PE_addr can be derived by the receiving node by
   subtracting the fixed length of the Route Distinguisher and the
   Length field from the value of the received Length.

   This PE_addr should be used to initiate adjacency of the underlying
   signaling protocol if it supports IPv6 endpoints.(such as LDPv6)

3  Discussion on Route Distinguisher(RD) and Route Target(RT)

   Note that RD and RT can be in format AS 2byte + 4 byte Assigned
   Number or IP 4 byte + 2 byte Assigned Number. Just like RD or RT
   cannot carry 4 byte AS numbers , they also cannot utilize 16 byte
   IPv6 Address. Updates to RD and RT to operate in a pure IPv6
   environment is outside the scope of this document.


4  Security Considerations

   There is no additional security impact in addition to what is
   mentioned in RFC6074.


5  IANA Considerations

   No new IANA considerations are introduced in this specifications.






 


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6  References

6.1  Normative References

   [RFC6074]  E. Rosen, B. Davie, "Provisioning, Auto-Discovery, and
              Signaling in Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (L2VPNs)",
              BCP 74, RFC 6074, January 2011,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6074>.



6.2  Informative References

   [RFC4364]  E. Rosen, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)",
              BCP 78, RFC 4364, February 2006,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4364>.


Authors' Addresses


              Avik Bhattacharya
              Ixia
              Infinity Building, Tower 2, Floor -4
              Sector 5, Saltlike,
              Kolkata, West Bengal, India - 700091.

              EMail: abhattacharya@ixiacom.com

              Apratim Mukherjee
              Ixia
              Infinity Building, Tower 2, Floor -4
              Sector 5, Saltlike,
              Kolkata, West Bengal, India - 700091.

              EMail: amukherjee@ixiacom.com















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