Draft Title: PBB-EVPN
Draft Name: draft-ietf-l2vpn-pbb-evpn-09
(1) What type of RFC is being requested (BCP, Proposed Standard, Internet Standard,
Informational, Experimental, or Historic)? Why is this the proper type of RFC? Is this
type of RFC indicated in the title page header?
Standards Track.
This is the proper type of RFC as this is a key EVPN draft - providing enhanced
scaling by combining PBB and EVPN. The type of RFC is indicated in the title page
header.
(2) The IESG approval announcement includes a Document Announcement Write-Up.
Please provide such a Document Announcement Write-Up. Recent examples can be
found in the "Action" announcements for approved documents. The approval
announcement contains the following sections:
Technical Summary:
This document discusses how Ethernet Provider Backbone Bridging (PBB)
can be combined with Ethernet VPN (EVPN) in order to reduce the
number of BGP MAC advertisement routes by aggregating Customer/Client
MAC (C-MAC) addresses via Provider Backbone MAC address (B-MAC),
provide client MAC address mobility using C-MAC aggregation, confine
the scope of C-MAC learning to only active flows, offer per site
policies and avoid C-MAC address flushing on topology changes. The
combined solution is referred to as PBB-EVPN.
Working Group Summary:
This document was an L2VPN Working Group document, and w reviewed
in the working group through multiple iterations of the draft.
The document passed WG last call in the L2VPN WG but is being advanced
as AD Sponsored because that WG has closed.
Document Quality:
The document is of roughly average length (22 pages).
It is well structured, but needs to be read in the context of the base EVPN
RFC (draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11- should be an RFC soon), and requires
knowledge of Ethernet bridging (including PBB).
The document has been through multiple revisions and is now sufficiently
stable to progress to RFC, and more importantly to be used as a reference
for creating interoperable implementations (in fact PBB EVPN has already
been implemented by multiple vendors with more implementations in
progress).
Personnel:
Document Shepherd: Giles Heron (giheron@cisco.com)
Area Director: Adrian Farrel (adrian@olddog.co.uk)
(3) Briefly describe the review of this document that was performed by the Document
Shepherd. If this version of the document is not ready for publication, please explain
why the document is being forwarded to the IESG.
The Document Shepherd did a thorough review of the text of version -07 of the draft,
leading to the authors issuing version -08 with a large number of fixes. The
Document Shepherd then reviewed version -08 of the draft, following which the
authors issued version -09 with more fixes. The shepherd also did a scan through
the mail archives and previous IETF meeting minutes to review debates on the draft.
(4) Does the document Shepherd have any concerns about the depth or breadth of the
reviews that have been performed?
No.
(5) Do portions of the document need review from a particular or from broader
perspective, e.g., security, operational complexity, AAA, DNS, DHCP, XML, or
internationalization? If so, describe the review that took place.
No. From a security perspective the solution inherits the characteristics of the
base EVPN draft (draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11)
(6) Describe any specific concerns or issues that the Document Shepherd has with this
document that the Responsible Area Director and/or the IESG should be aware of?
For example, perhaps he or she is uncomfortable with certain parts of the document,
or has concerns whether there really is a need for it. In any event, if the WG has
discussed those issues and has indicated that it still wishes to advance the document,
detail those concerns here.
No specific concerns.
(7) Has each author confirmed that any and all appropriate IPR disclosures required
for full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 have already been
filed. If not, explain why?
Yes.
(8) Has an IPR disclosure been filed that references this document? If so, summarize
any WG discussion and conclusion regarding the IPR disclosures.
No IPR has been filed against this draft. However IPR was previously filed by
Juniper, Cisco and Alcatel-Lucent (ID #1751, 1910, 2362 and 2363) against the base
EVPN spec (draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11).
(9) How solid is the WG consensus behind this document? Does it represent the
strong concurrence of a few individuals, with others being silent, or does the WG as a
whole understand and agree with it?
The L2VPN WG consensus was previously noted as solid. 17 individuals
supported the draft during WG LC, with nobody giving a differing opinion.
There was much more discussion/debate around the base EVPN draft
(draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11) than around this draft.
(10) Has anyone threatened an appeal or otherwise indicated extreme discontent? If
so, please summarise the areas of conflict in separate email messages to the
Responsible Area Director. (It should be in a separate email because this
questionnaire is publicly available.)
No.
(11) Identify any ID nits the Document Shepherd has found in this document. (See
http://www.ietf.org/tools/idnits/ and the Internet-Drafts Checklist). Boilerplate checks
are not enough; this check needs to be thorough.
No nits.
(12) Describe how the document meets any required formal review criteria, such as
the MIB Doctor, media type, and URI type reviews.
No formal review required.
(13) Have all references within this document been identified as either normative or
informative?
Yes. The Document Shepherd checked all this as part of the document review.
(14) Are there normative references to documents that are not ready for advancement
or are otherwise in an unclear state? If such normative references exist, what is the
plan for their completion?
No - there is only one normative reference (to the base EVPN spec -
draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11, which is already with the IESG).
(15) Are there downward normative references references (see RFC 3967)? If so, list
these downward references to support the Area Director in the Last Call procedure.
No - we would anticipate the base EVPN spec (draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11) will be
published before this doc (since it has been with the IESG for over 4 months).
(16) Will publication of this document change the status of any existing RFCs? Are
those RFCs listed on the title page header, listed in the abstract, and discussed in the
introduction? If the RFCs are not listed in the Abstract and Introduction, explain why,
and point to the part of the document where the relationship of this document to the
other RFCs is discussed. If this information is not in the document, explain why the
WG considers it unnecessary.
No - no impact on status of existing RFCs.
(17) Describe the Document Shepherd's review of the IANA considerations section,
especially with regard to its consistency with the body of the document. Confirm that all
protocol extensions that the document makes are associated with the appropriate
reservations in IANA registries. Confirm that any referenced IANA registries have been
clearly identified. Confirm that newly created IANA registries include a detailed
specification of the initial contents for the registry, that allocations procedures for future
registrations are defined, and a reasonable name for the new registry has been
suggested (see RFC 5226).
There are no IANA considerations beyond those noted in the base EVPN spec
(draft-ietf-l2vpn-evpn-11).
(18) List any new IANA registries that require Expert Review for future allocations.
Provide any public guidance that the IESG would find useful in selecting the IANA
Experts for these new registries.
No new registries.
(19) Describe reviews and automated checks performed by the Document Shepherd to
validate sections of the document written in a formal language, such as XML code,
BNF rules, MIB definitions, etc.
No sections written in a formal language.