BMP Extension for Path Marking TLV
draft-cppy-grow-bmp-path-marking-tlv-01

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Network Working Group                                         C. Cardona
Internet-Draft                                                P. Lucente
Intended status: Standards Track                                     NTT
Expires: May 3, 2020                                         P. Francois
                                                                    INSA
                                                                   Y. Gu
                                                                  Huawei
                                                                 T. Graf
                                                                Swisscom
                                                        October 31, 2019

                   BMP Extension for Path Marking TLV
                draft-cppy-grow-bmp-path-marking-tlv-01

Abstract

   The BGP Monitoring Protocol (BMP) provides an interface for obtaining
   BGP Path information.  BGP Path Information is conveyed within BMP
   Route Monitoring (RM) messages.  This document proposes an extension
   to BMP to convey the status of a BGP path after being processed by
   the BGP best-path selection algorithm.  This extension makes use of
   the TLV mechanims described in draft-lucente-bmp-tlv
   [I-D.lucente-bmp-tlv].

Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 RFC 2119 [RFC2119] RFC 8174 [RFC8174] when, and only when, they
   appear in all capitals, as shown here.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Path Marking TLV for the RM Message . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Path Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.2.  Reason String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   4.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.1.  Path Marking TLV  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.2.  Path Marking TLV Reason String  . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   6.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

1.  Introduction

   For a given prefix, multiple paths with different path status, e.g.,
   the "best-path", "back-up path" and so on, may co-exist in the BGP
   RIB after being processed by the local policy and the BGP decision
   process.  The path status information is currently not carried in the
   BGP Update Message RFC4271 [RFC4271] or in the BMP Update Message
   RFC7854 [RFC7854].

   External systems can use the path status for various applications.
   The path status is commonly checked by operators when performing
   troubleshooting.  Having such status stored in a centralized system
   can enable the development of tools facilitating this process.
   Optimisation systems can include the path status in their process,
   and also use the status as a validation source (since it can compare
   the calculated state to the actual outcome of the network, such as
   primary and backup path).  As a final example, path status

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