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draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-aware-bundling







BESS Working Group                                            A. Sajassi
Internet-Draft                                                 M. Mishra
Intended status: Standards Track                               S. Thoria
Expires: 18 May 2024                                       Cisco Systems
                                                              J. Rabadan
                                                                   Nokia
                                                                J. Drake
                                                        Juniper Networks
                                                        15 November 2023


              AC-Aware Bundling Service Interface in EVPN
               draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-aware-bundling-04

Abstract

   An EVPN (Ethernet VPNs) provides an extensible and flexible
   multihoming VPN solution over an MPLS/IP network for intra-subnet
   connectivity among Tenant Systems and End Devices that can be
   physical or virtual.

   EVPN multihoming with Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) is one of
   the common deployment scenarios.  Some deployments requires the
   capability to have multiple subnets designated with multiple VLAN IDs
   in the single broadcast domain.

   EVPN technology defines three different types of service interface
   which serve different requirements but none of them address the
   requirement of supporting multiple subnets within a single broadcast
   domain.  In this document, we define a new service interface type to
   support multiple subnets in the single broadcast domain.  Service
   interface proposed in this document will be applicable to multihoming
   cases only.

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] and
   RFC 8174 [RFC8174].

Status of This Memo

   This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the
   provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.






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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     1.1.  Problem With Unicast MAC Route  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     1.2.  Problem With Multicast Route Synchronization  . . . . . .   6
     1.3.  Potential Security Concern Caused By Misconfiguration . .   6
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   3.  Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   4.  Solution Description  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     4.1.  Control Plane Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       4.1.1.  MAC/IP Address Advertisement  . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
         4.1.1.1.  Local Unicast MAC Learning  . . . . . . . . . . .   8
         4.1.1.2.  Remote Unicast MAC Learning . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       4.1.2.  Multicast Route Advertisement . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
         4.1.2.1.  Local Multicast State . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
         4.1.2.2.  Remote Multicast State  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     4.2.  Data Plane Operation  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       4.2.1.  Unicast Forwarding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       4.2.2.  Multicast Forwarding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   5.  Mis-configuration Across Multihoming PEs  . . . . . . . . . .  10
   6.  BGP Encoding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     6.1.  Attachment Circuit ID Extended Community  . . . . . . . .  10



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     6.2.  Ethernet-tag Field vs AC ID Extended Community  . . . . .  11
   7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   8.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   9.  Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   10. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     10.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     10.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   Appendix A.  Contributors for This Document . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

1.  Introduction

   EVPN based All-Active multihoming is becoming the basic building
   block for providing redundancy in next generation data center
   deployments as well as service provider access/aggregation network.
   For EVPN IRB mode, there are deployments which expect to be able to
   support multiple subnets within a single broadcast domain.  Each
   subnet would be differentiated by VLAN.  Thus, a single IRB interface
   can still serve multiple subnets.

   Motivation behind such deployments are

   1.  Manageability: The support to have multiple subnets using a
       single broadcast domain requires only one broadcast domain and
       one IRB for "N" subnets compare to the "N" broadcast domain and
       "N" IRB interface to manage.

   2.  Simplicity: It avoids extra configuration by configuring VLAN
       Range with single BD and IRB as compared to individual VLAN, BD,
       and IRB interface per subnet.

   [RFC7432] defines three types of service interface.  None of them
   provide flexibility to achieve multiple subnets within a single
   broadcast domain.  The different types of service interface from
   [RFC7432] are:

   1.  VLAN-Based Service Interface: With this service interface, an
       EVPN instance consists of only a single broadcast domain (e.g., a
       single VLAN).  Therefore, there is a one-to-one mapping between a
       VID on this interface and a MAC-VRF.

   2.  VLAN Bundle Service Interface: With this service interface, an
       EVPN instance corresponds to multiple broadcast domains (e.g.,
       multiple VLANs); however, only a single bridge table is
       maintained per MAC-VRF, which means multiple VLANs share the same
       bridge table.  The MPLS-encapsulated frames MUST remain tagged
       with the originating VID.  Tag translation is NOT permitted.  The
       Ethernet Tag ID in all EVPN routes MUST be set to 0.



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   3.  VLAN-Aware Bundle Service Interface: With this service interface,
       an EVPN instance consists of multiple broadcast domains (e.g.,
       multiple VLANs) with each VLAN having its own bridge table --
       i.e., multiple bridge tables (one per VLAN) are maintained by a
       single MAC-VRF corresponding to the EVPN instance.

   From the definition, it seems like VLAN Bundle Service Interface does
   provide flexibility to support multiple subnets within a single
   broadcast domain.  However, the requirement is to have multiple
   subnets from same ES on multihoming All-Active mode; that would not
   work.  For example, lets take the case from Figure 1 where PE1 learns
   MAC of H1 on VLAN 1 (subnet S1).  PE1 originates EVPN MAC route, as
   per [RFC7432], where the Ethernet Tag would be set to 0.  Incoming
   packets from the IRB interface, at PE2, are untagged packets.  PE2
   does not have any associated AC information from EVPN MAC routes
   advertised by PE1.  PE2 can not forward traffic that is destined to
   H1.

   This document specifies an extension to existing service interface
   types defined in [RFC7432] and defines AC-aware Bundling service
   interface.  AC-aware Bundling service interface would provide a
   mechanism to have multiple subnets in the single broadcast domain.
   This extension is applicable only for multihomed EVPN PEs.




























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                                      H3
                                      |
                                  +---+---+
                                  |  PE3  | EVI-1
                                  +---+---+
                                      |
              +-----------------------+--------------------+
              |                                            |
              |                  IP MPLS core              |
              |                                            |
              +------+------------------------------+------+
                     |                              |
      +--------------+----+                    +----+--------------+
      |        PE1        |                    |        PE2        |
      |                   |                    |                   |
      |      +-----+      |                    |      +-----+      |
      |      | IRB |      |                    |      | IRB |      |
      |   +--+-----+--+   |                    |   +--+-----+--+   |
      |   |  BD & EVI |   |                    |   |  BD & EVI |   |
      |   +--+--+--+--+   |                    |   +-----------+   |
      |   |S1|S2|S3|S4|   |                    |   |S1|S2|S3|S4|   |
      +---+--+-X+--+--+---+                    +---+--+--+X-+--+---+
                  X                                    X
                     X                              X
                        X                        X  ESI-100
                           X                  X     EVI-1
                              X            X        BD-1
                                 X      X
                                    XX
                                 +------+
                                 |  CE  |
                                 +-+--+-+
                                   |  |
                                  H1  H2
                               MAC-1  MAC-2
                              VLAN-1  VLAN-2
                              (S,G)   (S,G)

                                  Figure 1

   EVPN topology with multihoming and non multihoming PE.

   Figure 1 shows sample EVPN topology where PE1 and PE2 are multihomed
   PEs.  PE3 is remote PE participating in the same EVPN instance (EVI-
   1).  It illustrates four subnets S1, S2, S3, and S4 where numerical
   value provides associated VLAN information.





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1.1.  Problem With Unicast MAC Route

   In Figure 1, BD-1 has multiple subnets where each subnet is
   distinguished by VLAN 1, 2,3 and 4.  PE1 learns MAC address MAC-1
   from AC associated with subnet S1.  PE1 uses MAC route to advertise
   MAC-1 presence to PE PEs.  As per [RFC7432] MAC route advertisement
   from PE1 does not carry any context providing information about MAC
   address association with AC.  When PE2 receives the MAC route with
   MAC-2, it can not determine the AC associated with this MAC.

   Since PE2 could not bind MAC-1 with the correct AC when it receives
   data traffic destined for MAC-1, it does not know the destination AC
   since multiple bridge ports have the same ESI assignment.

1.2.  Problem With Multicast Route Synchronization

   [RFC9251] defines mechanism to synchronize multicast routes between
   multihome PEs.  In the above case, if the receiver behind S1 sends
   IGMP membership request, CE could hash it to either of the PEs.  When
   a multicast route is originated, it does not contain any AC
   information.  Once it reaches peer PE, it does not have any
   information about which subnet this IGMP membership request belongs.
   Similarly to the unicast traffic problem, the incoming multicast
   traffic from IRB cannot be forwarded to the proper AC.

1.3.  Potential Security Concern Caused By Misconfiguration

   In the case of a single subnet per broadcast domain, there is a
   potential case of security issue.  For example, PE1 has BD1
   configured with VLAN-1 and multihome PE PE2 has BD1 configured with
   VLAN-2.  Each of the IGMP membership requests on PE1 would be
   synchronized to PE2 and PE2 would process multicast routes and start
   forwarding multicast traffic on VLAN-2, which was not intended.
   Again, a similar issue can potentially be seen with unicast traffic.

2.  Terminology

   *  AC: Attachment circuit.

   *  ARP: Address Resolution Protocol.

   *  BD: broadcast domain.  As per [RFC7432], an EVI consists of a
      single or multiple BDs.  In case of VLAN-bundle and VLAN-based
      service models (see [RFC7432]), a BD is equivalent to an EVI.  In
      the case of the VLAN-aware bundle service model, an EVI contains
      multiple BDs.  Also, in this document, BD and subnet are
      equivalent terms.




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   *  BD Route Target: refers to the broadcast domain assigned to Route
      Target [RFC4364].  In the case of the VLAN-aware bundle service
      model, all the BD instances in the MAC-VRF share the same Route
      Target.

   *  BT: Bridge Table.  The instantiation of a BD in a MAC-VRF, as per
      [RFC7432].

   *  Ethernet A-D route: Ethernet Auto-Discovery (A-D) route, as per
      [RFC7432].

   *  EVI: EVPN Instance spanning the NVE/PE devices that are
      participating on that EVPN, as per [RFC7432].

   *  EVPN: Ethernet Virtual Private Networks, as per [RFC7432].

   *  IRB: Integrated Routing and Bridging interface.  It connects an
      IP-VRF to a BD (or subnet).

   *  MAC-VRF: A Virtual Routing and Forwarding Table for Media Access
      Control (MAC) addresses on an NVE/PE, as per [RFC7432].  A MAC-VRF
      is also an instantiation of an EVI in an NVE/PE.

   *  ND: Neighbor Discovery Protocol.

   *  PE: Provider edge device hosting EVPN instance

   *  RD: BGP Route Distinguisher.

   *  RT-2: EVPN route type 2, i.e., MAC/IP advertisement route, as
      defined in [RFC7432].

   *  RT-5: EVPN route type 5, i.e., IP Prefix route.  As defined in
      Section 3 of [RFC9136].

   *  SN: Subnet.

   *  TS: Tenant System.

   *  VLAN: The usage of VLAN refers to the 802.1Q or 802.1AD tag.

   *  (S, G): Multicast membership request

   *  This document also assumes familiarity with the terminology of
      [RFC7432],[RFC8365], [RFC7365].






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3.  Requirements

   1.  A new service interface represents an attachment-circuit where
       multiple VLANs are configured.  Each of these VLANs is
       represented by a different AC ID (Identifier) under a single
       broadcast domain.

   2.  Service interface MUST be applicable to multihomed PEs only.

   3.  Service interface MUST have an Ethernet-Segment identifier
       assignment.

   4.  New service interface handling procedures MUST be backward
       compatible with implementation procedures defined in [RFC7432].

   5.  New service interface MUST support EVPN multicast routes defined
       in [RFC9251] too.

4.  Solution Description

4.1.  Control Plane Operation

4.1.1.  MAC/IP Address Advertisement

4.1.1.1.  Local Unicast MAC Learning

   Section 9.1 of [RFC7432] describes different mechanism to learn
   Unicast MAC address locally.  At those PEs where AC aware bundling is
   supported, the MAC address is learned along with VLAN associated with
   AC.

   MAC/IP advertisement route construction follows the mechanism defined
   in section 9.2.1 of [RFC7432].  An attachment circuit ID Extended
   Community (Section 6.1) MUST be attached to EVPN Route Type RT-2.

4.1.1.2.  Remote Unicast MAC Learning

   Presence of attachment circuit ID Extended Community (Section 6.1)
   MUST be ignored by non multihoming PEs.  Remote PE (non-multihomed
   PE) MUST process MAC route as defined in [RFC7432].

   Multihoming PE MUST process attachment circuit ID Extended Community
   (Section 6.1) to associate the remote MAC address with the
   appropriate AC.







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   From Figure 1, PE2 receives MAC route for MAC-1.  It MUST get an
   attachment circuit ID from attachment circuit ID Extended Community
   (Section 6.1) in RT-2 and associate MAC address with the specific
   subnet.

4.1.2.  Multicast Route Advertisement

4.1.2.1.  Local Multicast State

   When a local multihomed PE in a given broadcast domain receives IGMP
   membership request on local AC, Tt MUST synchronize multicast state
   by originating multicast route defined in [RFC9251].  When Service
   interface is AC aware it MUST attach attachment circuit ID Extended
   Community (Section 6.1) along with the multicast route.  For example
   in Figure 1 when H2 sends IGMP membership requests for (S, G), and CE
   hashed it to one of the PEs.  Lets say PE1 received an IGMP
   membership request.  PE1 MUST originate multicast route to
   synchronize multicast state with PE2.  Multicast route MUST contain
   attachment circuit ID Extended Community (Section 6.1) along with
   multicast route.

   PE1 MUST originate multicast route updates for any subsequent IGMP
   membership requests under same or different subnet attaching adequate
   Attachment Circuit ID Extended Community (Section 6.1).

4.1.2.2.  Remote Multicast State

   If multihomed PE receives a remote multicast route on the broadcast
   domain for a given ES, route MUST be programmed to the correct
   subnet.  Subnet information MUST be extracted from attachment circuit
   ID Extended Community.  That value maps to the VLAN of a local AC
   where the multicast route is associated with.

4.2.  Data Plane Operation

4.2.1.  Unicast Forwarding

   Packet received from CE MUST follow the same procedure as defined in
   Section 13.1 of [RFC7432].

   Unknown Unicast packets from a Remote PE MUST follow the procedure as
   per Section 13.2.1 of [RFC7432].

   Known unicast Received on a remote PE MUST follow the procedure as
   per [RFC7432] section 13.2.2.  In Figure 1, if PE3 receives a known
   unicast packet for destination MAC MAC-1, it MUST follow the
   procedure defined in Section 13.2.2 of [RFC7432].




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   If destination MAC lookup is performed on a known unicast packet,
   destination MAC lookup MUST provide VLAN and local AC information.
   For example, if PE2 receives a unicast packet that is destined to
   MAC-1 (packet might be coming from IRB or remote PE with EVPN
   tunnel), destination MAC lookup on PE2 MUST provide an outgoing port
   along with associated VLAN value.

4.2.2.  Multicast Forwarding

   Multicast traffic from CE and remote PE MUST follow the procedure
   defined in [RFC7432].

   Multicast traffic received from IRB interface or EVPN tunnel, route
   lookup would be performed based on IGMP snooping state and traffic
   would be forwarded to the appropriate AC.

5.  Mis-configuration Across Multihoming PEs

   If there is misconfiguration of VLAN or VLAN range across multihoming
   PEs, the same MAC address would be learned with different VLANs per
   broadcast domain.  In this case, an Error message MUST be thrown for
   the operator to make configuration changes.  Furthermore, the errored
   MAC route MUST be ignored.

6.  BGP Encoding

   This document defines one new BGP Extended Community for EVPN.

6.1.  Attachment Circuit ID Extended Community

   A new BGP Extended Community called attachment circuit ID Extended
   Community is introduced.  This new extended community is a transitive
   extended community with the Type field of 0x06 (EVPN) and the Sub-
   Type of 0x0E.  It is advertised along with EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement
   Route (Route Type 2) per [RFC7432] for AC-Aware Bundling Service
   Interface.  It may also be advertised along with EVPN Multicast Route
   (Route Type 7 and 8) as per [RFC9251].  Generically speaking, the new
   extended community MUST be attached to any routes that require
   specific VLAN identification.

   The attachment circuit ID Extended Community is encoded as an 8-octet
   value as follows:









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       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=0x06     | Sub-Type=0x0E |      Reserved (16 bits)       |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |               attachment circuit ID (32 bits)                 |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   attachment circuit ID Extended Community

   The attachment circuit ID plays the role of normalized VID.  It is
   defined as per [I-D.ietf-bess-evpn-vpws-fxc].

6.2.  Ethernet-tag Field vs AC ID Extended Community

   The current proposal is entirely backward compatible with [RFC7432]
   VLAN-aware bundling mode since the Ethernet-tag field remains intact.
   However, it has its own drawbacks.  For instance with multicast, the
   same (S,G) may be used over different subnets.  In that case, the
   same route MUST carry multiple AC ID Extended Community; one per
   attachment circuit ID / VLAN.  It may happen that the number of VLAN
   is fairly large.  Multiple routes with different RD may be required
   to carry such amount of Extended Community.  This approach adds
   complexity to the overall solution and implementation.

   To remedy that situation, the attachment circuit ID MAY be set to
   0xFFFF_FFFF.  That value tells peer PE that the attachment circuit ID
   is carried as part of the Ethernet Tag field of the associated route.
   Since the key of the EVPN route is unique, multiple AC ID Extended
   Community per route is no longer required.  There is a drawback.  It
   poses a backward interoperability issue with PE expecting a zero
   Ethernet-TAG ID.

7.  Security Considerations

   The same Security Considerations described in [RFC7432] are valid for
   this document.

8.  IANA Considerations

   IANA has allocated the following codepoints in the "EVPN Extended
   Community Sub-Types" subregistry under the "Border Gateway Protocol
   (BGP) Extended Communities" registry.








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         +================+=========================+===========+
         | Sub-Type Value | Name                    | Reference |
         +================+=========================+===========+
         | 0x0E           | EVPN attachment circuit | This      |
         |                | Extended Community      | document  |
         +----------------+-------------------------+-----------+

                Table 1: EVPN Extended Community Sub-Types
                     Subregistry Allocated Codepoints

9.  Acknowledgement

   We would like to thank Luc Andre Burdet, Tapraj Singh , Mei Zhang for
   providing valuable comments.

10.  References

10.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

10.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-bess-evpn-vpws-fxc]
              Sajassi, A., Brissette, P., Uttaro, J., Drake, J.,
              Boutros, S., and J. Rabadan, "EVPN VPWS Flexible Cross-
              Connect Service", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-
              ietf-bess-evpn-vpws-fxc-08, 24 October 2022,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-
              evpn-vpws-fxc-08>.

   [RFC4364]  Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
              Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, DOI 10.17487/RFC4364, February
              2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4364>.

   [RFC7365]  Lasserre, M., Balus, F., Morin, T., Bitar, N., and Y.
              Rekhter, "Framework for Data Center (DC) Network
              Virtualization", RFC 7365, DOI 10.17487/RFC7365, October
              2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7365>.





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   [RFC7432]  Sajassi, A., Ed., Aggarwal, R., Bitar, N., Isaac, A.,
              Uttaro, J., Drake, J., and W. Henderickx, "BGP MPLS-Based
              Ethernet VPN", RFC 7432, DOI 10.17487/RFC7432, February
              2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7432>.

   [RFC8365]  Sajassi, A., Ed., Drake, J., Ed., Bitar, N., Shekhar, R.,
              Uttaro, J., and W. Henderickx, "A Network Virtualization
              Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)", RFC 8365,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8365, March 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8365>.

   [RFC9136]  Rabadan, J., Ed., Henderickx, W., Drake, J., Lin, W., and
              A. Sajassi, "IP Prefix Advertisement in Ethernet VPN
              (EVPN)", RFC 9136, DOI 10.17487/RFC9136, October 2021,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9136>.

   [RFC9251]  Sajassi, A., Thoria, S., Mishra, M., Patel, K., Drake, J.,
              and W. Lin, "Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and
              Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Proxies for Ethernet
              VPN (EVPN)", RFC 9251, DOI 10.17487/RFC9251, June 2022,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9251>.

Appendix A.  Contributors for This Document

   In addition to the authors listed on the front page, the following
   co-authors have also contributed to this document:

   Patrice Brissette
   Cisco Systems

Authors' Addresses

   Ali Sajassi
   Cisco Systems
   Email: sajassi@cisco.com


   Mankamana Mishra
   Cisco Systems
   Email: mankamis@cisco.com


   Samir Thoria
   Cisco Systems
   Email: sthoria@cisco.com






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   Jorge Rabadan
   Nokia
   Email: jorge.rabadan@nokia.com


   John Drake
   Juniper Networks
   Email: jdrake@juniper.net











































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