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draft-ietf-bess-evpn-igmp-mld-proxy-08
BESS WorkGroup                                                A. Sajassi
Internet-Draft                                                 S. Thoria
Intended status: Standards Track                               M. Mishra
Expires: October 21, 2021                                  Cisco Systems
                                                                K. Patel
                                                                  Arrcus
                                                                J. Drake
                                                                  W. Lin
                                                        Juniper Networks
                                                          April 19, 2021

                      IGMP and MLD Proxy for EVPN
                 draft-ietf-bess-evpn-igmp-mld-proxy-08

Abstract

   Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) solution is becoming
   pervasive in data center (DC) applications for Network Virtualization
   Overlay (NVO) and DC interconnect (DCI) services, and in service
   provider (SP) applications for next generation virtual private LAN
   services.

   This draft describes how to support efficiently endpoints running
   IGMP for the above services over an EVPN network by incorporating
   IGMP proxy procedures on EVPN PEs.

Status of This Memo

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   This Internet-Draft will expire on October 21, 2021.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Specification of Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  IGMP/MLD Proxy  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     4.1.  Proxy Reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       4.1.1.  IGMP/MLD Membership Report Advertisement in BGP . . .   6
       4.1.2.  IGMP/MLD Leave Group Advertisement in BGP . . . . . .   8
     4.2.  Proxy Querier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   5.  Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.1.  PE with only attached hosts/VMs for a given subnet  . . .  10
     5.2.  PE with a mix of attached hosts/VMs and multicast source   11
     5.3.  PE with a mix of attached hosts/VMs, a multicast source
           and a router  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   6.  All-Active Multi-Homing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     6.1.  Local IGMP/MLD Join Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     6.2.  Local IGMP/MLD Leave Group Synchronization  . . . . . . .  12
       6.2.1.  Remote Leave Group Synchronization  . . . . . . . . .  13
       6.2.2.  Common Leave Group Synchronization  . . . . . . . . .  13
     6.3.  Mass Withdraw of Multicast join Sync route in case of
           failure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   7.  Single-Active Multi-Homing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   8.  Selective Multicast Procedures for IR tunnels . . . . . . . .  14
   9.  BGP Encoding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
     9.1.  Selective Multicast Ethernet Tag Route  . . . . . . . . .  15
       9.1.1.  Constructing the Selective Multicast Ethernet Tag
               route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
       9.1.2.  Default Selective Multicast Route . . . . . . . . . .  18
     9.2.  Multicast Join Synch Route  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
       9.2.1.  Constructing the Multicast Join Synch Route . . . . .  21
     9.3.  Multicast Leave Synch Route . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       9.3.1.  Constructing the Multicast Leave Synch Route  . . . .  24

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     9.4.  Multicast Flags Extended Community  . . . . . . . . . . .  26
     9.5.  EVI-RT Extended Community . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
     9.6.  Rewriting of RT ECs and EVI-RT ECs by ASBRs . . . . . . .  29
     9.7.  BGP Error Handling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
   10. IGMP/MLD Immediate Leave  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
   11. IGMP Version 1 Membership Report  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
   12. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
   13. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  30
   14. Acknowledgement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
   15. Contributors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
   16. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
     16.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  31
     16.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  33

1.  Introduction

   Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) solution [RFC7432] is
   becoming pervasive in data center (DC) applications for Network
   Virtualization Overlay (NVO) and DC interconnect (DCI) services, and
   in service provider (SP) applications for next generation virtual
   private LAN services.

   In DC applications, a point of delivery (POD) can consist of a
   collection of servers supported by several top of rack (TOR) and
   Spine switches.  This collection of servers and switches are self
   contained and may have their own control protocol for intra-POD
   communication and orchestration.  However, EVPN is used as standard
   way of inter-POD communication for both intra-DC and inter-DC.  A
   subnet can span across multiple PODs and DCs.  EVPN provides robust
   multi-tenant solution with extensive multi-homing capabilities to
   stretch a subnet (VLAN) across multiple PODs and DCs.  There can be
   many hosts/VMs ( several hundreds) attached to a subnet that is
   stretched across several PODs and DCs.

   These hosts/VMs express their interests in multicast groups on a
   given subnet/VLAN by sending IGMP Membership Reports (Joins) for
   their interested multicast group(s).  Furthermore, an IGMP router
   periodically sends membership queries to find out if there are hosts
   on that subnet that are still interested in receiving multicast
   traffic for that group.  The IGMP/MLD Proxy solution described in
   this draft accomplishes has three objectives:

   1.  Reduce flooding of IGMP messages: just like the ARP/ND
       suppression mechanism in EVPN to reduce the flooding of ARP
       messages over EVPN, it is also desired to have a mechanism to
       reduce the flooding of IGMP messages (both Queries and Reports)
       in EVPN.

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   2.  Distributed anycast multicast proxy: it is desirable for the EVPN
       network to act as a distributed anycast multicast router with
       respect to IGMP/MLD proxy function for all the hosts attached to
       that subnet.

   3.  Selective Multicast: to forward multicast traffic over EVPN
       network such that it only gets forwarded to the PEs that have
       interest in the multicast group(s), multicast traffic will not be
       forwarded to the PEs that have no receivers attached to them for
       that multicast group.  This draft shows how this objective may be
       achieved when Ingress Replication is used to distribute the
       multicast traffic among the PEs.  Procedures for supporting
       selective multicast using P2MP tunnels can be found in
       [I-D.ietf-bess-evpn-bum-procedure-updates]

   The first two objectives are achieved by using IGMP/MLD proxy on the
   PE and the third objective is achieved by setting up a multicast
   tunnel (e.g., ingress replication) only among the PEs that have
   interest in that multicast group(s) based on the trigger from IGMP/
   MLD proxy processes.  The proposed solutions for each of these
   objectives are discussed in the following sections.

2.  Specification of Requirements

   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 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  Terminology

   o  POD: Point of Delivery

   o  ToR: Top of Rack

   o  NV: Network Virtualization

   o  NVO: Network Virtualization Overlay

   o  EVPN: Ethernet Virtual Private Network

   o  IGMP: Internet Group Management Protocol

   o  MLD: Multicast Listener Discovery

   o  EVI: An EVPN instance spanning the Provider Edge (PE) devices
      participating in that EVPN

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   o  MAC-VRF: A Virtual Routing and Forwarding table for Media Access
      Control (MAC) addresses on a PE

   o  IR: Ingress Replication

   o  Ethernet Segment (ES): When a customer site (device or network) is
      connected to one or more PEs via a set of Ethernet links, then
      that set of links is referred to as an 'Ethernet Segment'.

   o  Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI): A unique non-zero identifier
      that identifies an Ethernet Segment is called an 'Ethernet Segment
      Identifier'.

   o  PE: Provider Edge.

   o  BD: Broadcast Domain.  As per [RFC7432], an EVI consists of a
      single or multiple BDs.  In case of VLAN-bundle and VLAN-aware
      bundle service model, an EVI contains multiple BDs.  Also, in this
      document, BD and subnet are equivalent terms.

   o  Ethernet Tag: An Ethernet tag identifies a particular broadcast
      domain, e.g., a VLAN.  An EVPN instance consists of one or more
      broadcast domains.

   o  Single-Active Redundancy Mode: When only a single PE, among all
      the PEs attached to an Ethernet segment, is allowed to forward
      traffic to/from that Ethernet segment for a given VLAN, then the
      Ethernet segment is defined to be operating in Single-Active
      redundancy mode.

   o  All-Active Redundancy Mode: When all PEs attached to an Ethernet
      segment are allowed to forward known unicast traffic to/from that
      Ethernet segment for a given VLAN, then the Ethernet segment is
      defined to be operating in All-Active redundancy mode.

   o  PMSI: P-Multicast Service Interface - a conceptual interface for a
      PE to send customer multicast traffic to all or some PEs in the
      same VPN.

   o  S-PMSI: Selective PMSI - to some of the PEs in the same VPN.

   This document also assumes familiarity with the terminology of
   [RFC7432].  Though most of the place this document uses term IGMP
   Membership Report (Joins), the text applies equally for MLD
   Membership Report too.  Similarly, text for IGMPv2 applies to MLDv1
   and text for IGMPv3 applies to MLDv2.  IGMP / MLD version encoding in
   BGP update is stated in Section 9

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4.  IGMP/MLD Proxy

   The IGMP Proxy mechanism is used to reduce the flooding of IGMP
   messages over an EVPN network similar to ARP proxy used in reducing
   the flooding of ARP messages over EVPN.  It also provides a
   triggering mechanism for the PEs to setup their underlay multicast
   tunnels.  The IGMP Proxy mechanism consists of two components:

   1.  Proxy for IGMP Reports.

   2.  Proxy for IGMP Queries.

4.1.  Proxy Reporting

   When IGMP protocol is used between hosts/VMs and their first hop EVPN
   router (EVPN PE), Proxy-reporting is used by the EVPN PE to summarize
   (when possible) reports received from downstream hosts and propagate
   them in BGP to other PEs that are interested in the information.
   This is done by terminating the IGMP Reports in the first hop PE, and
   translating and exchanging the relevant information among EVPN BGP
   speakers.  The information is again translated back to IGMP message
   at the recipient EVPN speaker.  Thus it helps create an IGMP overlay
   subnet using BGP.  In order to facilitate such an overlay, this
   document also defines a new EVPN route type NLRI, the EVPN Selective
   Multicast Ethernet Tag route, along with its procedures to help
   exchange and register IGMP multicast groups Section 9.

4.1.1.  IGMP/MLD Membership Report Advertisement in BGP

   When a PE wants to advertise an IGMP Membership Report (Join) using
   the BGP EVPN route, it follows the following rules (BGP encoding
   stated in Section 9):

   1.  When the first hop PE receives several IGMP Membership Reports
       (Joins), belonging to the same IGMP version, from different
       attached hosts/VMs for the same (*,G) or (S,G), it only SHOULD
       send a single BGP message corresponding to the very first IGMP
       Membership Request (BGP update as soon as possible) for that
       (*,G) or (S,G).  This is because BGP is a stateful protocol and
       no further transmission of the same report is needed.  If the
       IGMP Membership Request is for (*,G), then multicast group
       address MUST be sent along with the corresponding version flag
       (v2 or v3) set.  In case of IGMPv3, the exclude flag MUST also
       needs to be set to indicate that no source IP address to be
       excluded (include all sources"*").  If the IGMP Join is for
       (S,G), then besides setting multicast group address along with
       the version flag v3, the source IP address and the include/
       exclude flag MUST be set.  It should be noted that when

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       advertising the EVPN route for (S,G), the only valid version flag
       is v3 (v2 flags MUST be set to zero).

   2.  When the first hop PE receives an IGMPv3 Join for (S,G) on a
       given BD, it SHOULD advertise the corresponding EVPN Selective
       Multicast Ethernet Tag (SMET) route regardless of whether the
       source (S) is attached to itself or not in order to facilitate
       the source move in the future.

   3.  When the first hop PE receives an IGMP version-X Join first for
       (*,G) and then later it receives an IGMP version-Y Join for the
       same (*,G), then it MUST re-advertise the same EVPN SMET route
       with flag for version-Y set in addition to any previously-set
       version flag(s).  In other words, the first hop PE MUST NOT
       withdraw the EVPN route before sending the new route because the
       flag field is not part of BGP route key processing.

   4.  When the first hop PE receives an IGMP version-X Join first for
       (*,G) and then later it receives an IGMPv3 Join for the same
       multicast group address but for a specific source address S, then
       the PE MUST advertise a new EVPN SMET route with v3 flag set (and
       v2 reset).  The include/exclude flag also need to be set
       accordingly.  Since source IP address is used as part of BGP
       route key processing it is considered as a new BGP route
       advertisement.

   5.  When a PE receives an EVPN SMET route with more than one version
       flag set, it will generate the corresponding IGMP report for
       (*,G) for each version specified in the flags field.  With
       multiple version flags set, there MUST NOT be source IP address
       in the receive EVPN route.  If there is, then an error SHOULD be
       logged . If the v3 flag is set (in addition to v2), then the
       include/exclude flag MUST indicate "exclude".  If not, then an
       error SHOULD be logged.  The PE MUST generate an IGMP Membership
       Report (Join) for that (*,G) and each IGMP version in the version
       flag.

   6.  When a PE receives a list of EVPN SMET NLRIs in its BGP update
       message, each with a different source IP address and the same
       multicast group address, and the version flag is set to v3, then
       the PE generates an IGMPv3 Membership Report with a record
       corresponding to the list of source IP addresses and the group
       address along with the proper indication of inclusion/exclusion.

   7.  Upon receiving EVPN SMET route(s) and before generating the
       corresponding IGMP Membership Request(s), the PE checks to see
       whether it has any CE multicast router for that BD on any of its
       ES's . The PE provides such a check by listening for PIM Hello

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       messages on that AC (i.e, ES,BD).  If the PE does have the
       router's ACs, then the generated IGMP Membership Request(s) are
       sent to those ACs.  If it doesn't have any of the router's AC,
       then no IGMP Membership Request(s) needs to be generated.  This
       is because sending IGMP Membership Requests to other hosts can
       result in unintentionally preventing a host from joining a
       specific multicast group using IGMPv2 - i.e., if the PE does not
       receive a join from the host it will not forward multicast data
       to it.  Per [RFC4541] , when an IGMPv2 host receives a Membership
       Report for a group address that it intends to join, the host will
       suppress its own membership report for the same group, and if the
       PE does not receive an IGMP Join from host it will not forward
       multicast data to it.  In other words, an IGMPv2 Join MUST NOT be
       sent on an AC that does not lead to a CE multicast router.  This
       message suppression is a requirement for IGMPv2 hosts.  This is
       not a problem for hosts running IGMPv3 because there is no
       suppression of IGMP Membership Reports.

4.1.2.  IGMP/MLD Leave Group Advertisement in BGP

   When a PE wants to withdraw an EVPN SMET route corresponding to an
   IGMPv2 Leave Group (Leave) or IGMPv3 "Leave" equivalent message, it
   follows the following rules:

   1.  When a PE receives an IGMPv2 Leave Group or its "Leave"
       equivalent message for IGMPv3 from its attached host, it checks
       to see if this host is the last host that is interested in this
       multicast group by sending a query for the multicast group.  If
       the host was indeed the last one (i.e. no responses are received
       for the query), then the PE MUST re-advertises EVPN SMET
       Multicast route with the corresponding version flag reset.  If
       this is the last version flag to be reset, then instead of re-
       advertising the EVPN route with all version flags reset, the PE
       MUST withdraw the EVPN route for that (*,G).

   2.  When a PE receives an EVPN SMET route for a given (*,G), it
       compares the received version flags from the route with its per-
       PE stored version flags.  If the PE finds that a version flag
       associated with the (*,G) for the remote PE is reset, then the PE
       MUST generate IGMP Leave for that (*,G) toward its local
       interface (if any) attached to the multicast router for that
       multicast group.  It should be noted that the received EVPN route
       SHOULD at least have one version flag set.  If all version flags
       are reset, it is an error because the PE should have received an
       EVPN route withdraw for the last version flag.  Error MUST be
       considered as BGP error and the PE MUST apply the "treat-as-
       withdraw" procedure of [RFC7606].

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   3.  When a PE receives an EVPN SMET route withdraw, it removes the
       remote PE from its OIF list for that multicast group and if there
       are no more OIF entries for that multicast group (either locally
       or remotely), then the PE MUST stop responding to queries from
       the locally attached router (if any).  If there is a source for
       that multicast group, the PE stops sending multicast traffic for
       that source.

4.2.  Proxy Querier

   As mentioned in the previous sections, each PE MUST have proxy
   querier functionality for the following reasons:

   1.  To enable the collection of EVPN PEs providing L2VPN service to
       act as distributed multicast router with Anycast IP address for
       all attached hosts/VMs in that subnet.

   2.  To enable suppression of IGMP Membership Reports and queries over
       MPLS/IP core.

5.  Operation

   Consider the EVPN network of Figure-1, where there is an EVPN
   instance configured across the PEs shown in this figure (namely PE1,
   PE2, and PE3).  Let's consider that this EVPN instance consists of a
   single bridge domain (single subnet) with all the hosts, sources, and
   the multicast router connected to this subnet.  PE1 only has hosts
   connected to it.  PE2 has a mix of hosts and a multicast source.  PE3
   has a mix of hosts, a multicast source, and a multicast router.
   Furthermore, let's consider that for (S1,G1), R1 is used as the
   multicast router.  The following subsections describe the IGMP proxy
   operation in different PEs with regard to whether the locally
   attached devices for that subnet are:

   o  only hosts/VMs

   o  mix of hosts/VMs and multicast source

   o  mix of hosts/VMs, multicast source, and multicast router

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                              +--------------+
                              |              |
                              |              |
                       +----+ |              | +----+
        H1:(*,G1)v2 ---|    | |              | |    |---- H6(*,G1)v2
        H2:(*,G1)v2 ---| PE1| |   IP/MPLS    | | PE2|---- H7(S2,G2)v3
        H3:(*,G1)v3 ---|    | |   Network    | |    |---- S2
        H4:(S2,G2)v3 --|    | |              | |    |
                       +----+ |              | +----+
                              |              |
                       +----+ |              |
        H5:(S1,G1)v3 --|    | |              |
                 S1 ---| PE3| |              |
                 R1 ---|    | |              |
                       +----+ |              |
                              |              |
                              +--------------+

      Figure 1: EVPN network

5.1.  PE with only attached hosts/VMs for a given subnet

   When PE1 receives an IGMPv2 Join Report from H1, it does not forward
   this join to any of its other ports (for this subnet) because all
   these local ports are associated with the hosts/VMs.  PE1 sends an
   EVPN Multicast Group route corresponding to this join for (*,G1) and
   setting v2 flag.  This EVPN route is received by PE2 and PE3 that are
   the members of the same BD (i.e., same EVI in case of VLAN-based
   service or EVI,VLAN in case of VLAN-aware bundle service).  PE3
   reconstructs the IGMPv2 Join Report from this EVPN BGP route and only
   sends it to the port(s) with multicast routers attached to it (for
   that subnet).  In this example, PE3 sends the reconstructed IGMPv2
   Join Report for (*,G1) only to R1.  Furthermore, even though PE2
   receives the EVPN BGP route, it does not send it to any of its ports
   for that subnet; viz, ports associated with H6 and H7.

   When PE1 receives the second IGMPv2 Join from H2 for the same
   multicast group (*,G1), it only adds that port to its OIF list but it
   doesn't send any EVPN BGP route because there is no change in
   information.  However, when it receives the IGMPv3 Join from H3 for
   the same (*,G1).  Besides adding the corresponding port to its OIF
   list, it re-advertises the previously sent EVPN SMET route with the
   v3 and exclude flag set.

   Finally when PE1 receives the IMGMPv3 Join from H4 for (S2,G2), it
   advertises a new EVPN SMET route corresponding to it.

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5.2.  PE with a mix of attached hosts/VMs and multicast source

   The main difference in this case is that when PE2 receives the IGMPv3
   Join from H7 for (S2,G2), it does advertise it in BGP to support
   source move even though PE2 knows that S2 is attached to its local
   AC.  PE2 adds the port associated with H7 to its OIF list for
   (S2,G2).  The processing for IGMPv2 received from H6 is the same as
   the IGMPv2 Join described in previous section.

5.3.  PE with a mix of attached hosts/VMs, a multicast source and a
      router

   The main difference in this case relative to the previous two
   sections is that IGMP v2/v3 Join messages received locally needs to
   be sent to the port associated with router R1.  Furthermore, the
   Joins received via BGP (SMET) need to be passed to the R1 port but
   filtered for all other ports.

6.  All-Active Multi-Homing

   Because the LAG flow hashing algorithm used by the CE is unknown at
   the PE, in an All-Active redundancy mode it must be assumed that the
   CE can send a given IGMP message to any one of the multi-homed PEs,
   either DF or non-DF; i.e., different IGMP Membership Request messages
   can arrive at different PEs in the redundancy group and furthermore
   their corresponding Leave messages can arrive at PEs that are
   different from the ones that received the Join messages.  Therefore,
   all PEs attached to a given ES must coordinate IGMP Membership
   Request and Leave Group (x,G) state, where x may be either '*' or a
   particular source S, for each BD on that ES.  This allows the DF for
   that [ES,BD] to correctly advertise or withdraw a Selective Multicast
   Ethernet Tag (SMET) route for that (x,G) group in that BD when
   needed.  All-Active multihoming PEs for a given ES MUST support IGMP
   synchronization procedures described in this section if they need to
   perform IGMP proxy for hosts connected to that ES.

6.1.  Local IGMP/MLD Join Synchronization

   When a PE, either DF or non-DF, receives on a given multihomed ES
   operating in All-Active redundancy mode, an IGMP Membership Report
   for (x,G), it determines the BD to which the IGMP Membership Report
   belongs.  If the PE doesn't already have local IGMP Membership
   Request (x,G) state for that BD on that ES, it MUST instantiate local
   IGMP Membership Request (x,G) state and MUST advertise a BGP IGMP
   Join Synch route for that [ES,BD].  Local IGMP IGMP Membership
   Request (x, G) state refers to IGMP Membership Request (x,G) state
   that is created as a result of processing an IGMP Membership Report
   for (x,G).

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   The IGMP Join Synch route MUST carry the ES-Import RT for the ES on
   which the IGMP Membership Report was received.  Thus it MUST only be
   imported by the PEs attached to that ES and not any other PEs.

   When a PE, either DF or non-DF, receives an IGMP Join Synch route it
   installs that route and if it doesn't already have IGMP Membership
   Request(x,G) state for that [ES,BD], it MUST instantiate that IGMP
   Membership Request(x,G) state - i.e., IGMP Membership Request(x,G)
   state is the union of the local IGMP Join (x,G) state and the
   installed IGMP Join Synch route.  If the DF did not already advertise
   (originate) a SMET route for that (x,G) group in that BD, it MUST do
   so now.

   When a PE, either DF or non-DF, deletes its local IGMP Membership
   Request(x, G) state for that [ES,BD], it MUST withdraw its BGP IGMP
   Join Synch route for that [ES,BD].

   When a PE, either DF or non-DF, receives the withdrawal of an IGMP
   Join Synch route from another PE it MUST remove that route.  When a
   PE has no local IGMP Membership Request(x,G) state and it has no
   installed IGMP Join Synch routes, it MUST remove IGMP Membership
   Request(x,G) state for that [ES,BD].  If the DF no longer has IGMP
   Membership Request(x,G) state for that BD on any ES for which it is
   DF, it MUST withdraw its SMET route for that (x,G) group in that BD.

   In other words, a PE advertises an SMET route for that (x,G) group in
   that BD when it has IGMP Membership Request (x,G) state in that BD on
   at least one ES for which it is DF and it withdraws that SMET route
   when it does not have IGMP Membership Request(x,G) state in that BD
   on any ES for which it is DF.

6.2.  Local IGMP/MLD Leave Group Synchronization

   When a PE, either DF or non-DF, receives, on a given multihomed ES
   operating in All-Active redundancy mode, an IGMP Leave Group message
   for (x,G) from the attached CE, it determines the BD to which the
   IGMPv2 Leave Group belongs.  Regardless of whether it has IGMP
   Membership Request (x,G) state for that [ES,BD], it initiates the
   (x,G) leave group synchronization procedure, which consists of the
   following steps:

   1.  It computes the Maximum Response Time, which is the duration of
       (x,G) leave group synchronization procedure.  This is the product
       of two locally configured values, Last Member Query Count and
       Last Member Query Interval (described in Section 3 of [RFC2236]),
       plus a delta corresponding to the time it takes for a BGP
       advertisement to propagate between the PEs attached to the

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       multihomed ES (delta is a consistently configured value on all
       PEs attached to the multihomed ES).

   2.  It starts the Maximum Response Time timer.  Note that the receipt
       of subsequent IGMP Leave Group messages or BGP Leave Synch routes
       for (x,G) do not change the value of a currently running Maximum
       Response Time timer and are ignored by the PE.

   3.  It initiates the Last Member Query procedure described in
       Section 3 of [RFC2236]; viz, it sends a number of Group-Specific
       Query (x,G) messages (Last Member Query Count) at a fixed
       interval (Last Member Query Interval) to the attached CE.

   4.  It advertises an IGMP Leave Synch route for that that [ES,BD].
       This route notifies the other multihomed PEs attached to the
       given multihomed ES that it has initiated an (x,G) leave group
       synchronization procedure; i.e., it carries the ES-Import RT for
       the ES on which the IGMP Leave Group was received.  It also
       contains the Maximum Response Time.

   5.  When the Maximum Response Timer expires, the PE that has
       advertised the IGMP Leave Synch route withdraws it.

6.2.1.  Remote Leave Group Synchronization

   When a PE, either DF or non-DF, receives an IGMP Leave Synch route it
   installs that route and it starts a timer for (x,G) on the specified
   [ES,BD] whose value is set to the Maximum Response Time in the
   received IGMP Leave Synch route.  Note that the receipt of subsequent
   IGMPv2 Leave Group messages or BGP Leave Synch routes for (x,G) do
   not change the value of a currently running Maximum Response Time
   timer and are ignored by the PE.

6.2.2.  Common Leave Group Synchronization

   If a PE attached to the multihomed ES receives an IGMP Membership
   Report for (x,G) before the Maximum Response Time timer expires, it
   advertises a BGP IGMP Join Synch route for that [ES,BD].  If it
   doesn't already have local IGMP Membership Request(x, G) state for
   that [ES, BD], it instantiates local IGMP Membership Request (x,G)
   state.  If the DF is not currently advertising (originating) a SMET
   route for that (x,G) group in that BD, it does so now.

   If a PE attached to the multihomed ES receives an IGMP Join Synch
   route for (x,G) before the Maximum Response Time timer expires, it
   installs that route and if it doesn't already have IGMP Membership
   Request (x,G) state for that BD on that ES, it instantiates that IGMP
   Membership Request (x,G) state.  If the DF has not already advertised

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   (originated) a SMET route for that (x,G) group in that BD, it does so
   now.

   When the Maximum Response Timer expires a PE that has advertised an
   IGMP Leave Synch route, withdraws it.  Any PE attached to the
   multihomed ES, that started the Maximum Response Time and has no
   local IGMP Membership Request (x,G) state and no installed IGMP Join
   Synch routes, it removes IGMP Membership Request (x,G) state for that
   [ES,BD].  If the DF no longer has IGMP Membership Request (x,G) state
   for that BD on any ES for which it is DF, it withdraws its SMET route
   for that (x,G) group in that BD.

6.3.  Mass Withdraw of Multicast join Sync route in case of failure

   A PE which has received an IGMP Membership Request, would have synced
   the IGMP Join by the procedure defined in section 6.1.  If a PE with
   local join state goes down or the PE to CE link goes down, it would
   lead to a mass withdraw of multicast routes.  Remote PEs (PEs where
   these routes were remote IGMP Joins) SHOULD NOT remove the state
   immediately; instead General Query SHOULD be generated to refresh the
   states.  There are several ways to detect failure at a peer, e.g.
   using IGP next hop tracking or ES route withdraw.

7.  Single-Active Multi-Homing

   Note that to facilitate state synchronization after failover, the PEs
   attached to a multihomed ES operating in Single-Active redundancy
   mode SHOULD also coordinate IGMP Join (x,G) state.  In this case all
   IGMP Join messages are received by the DF and distributed to the non-
   DF PEs using the procedures described above.

8.  Selective Multicast Procedures for IR tunnels

   If an ingress PE uses ingress replication, then for a given (x,G)
   group in a given BD:

   1.  It sends (x,G) traffic to the set of PEs not supporting IGMP
       Proxy.  This set consists of any PE that has advertised an
       Inclusive Multicast Tag route for the BD without the "IGMP Proxy
       Support" flag.

   2.  It sends (x,G) traffic to the set of PEs supporting IGMP Proxy
       and having listeners for that (x,G) group in that BD.  This set
       consists of any PE that has advertised an Inclusive Multicast Tag
       route for the BD with the "IGMP Proxy Support" flag and that has
       advertised a SMET route for that (x,G) group in that BD.

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   If an ingress PE's Selective P-Tunnel for a given BD uses P2MP and
   all of the PEs in the BD support that tunnel type and IGMP proxy,
   then for a given (x,G) group in a given BD it sends (x,G) traffic
   using the Selective P-Tunnel for that (x,G) group in that BD.  This
   tunnel includes those PEs that have advertised a SMET route for that
   (x,G) group on that BD (for Selective P-tunnel) but it may include
   other PEs as well (for Aggregate Selective P-tunnel).

9.  BGP Encoding

   This document defines three new BGP EVPN routes to carry IGMP
   Membership Reports.  The route type is known as:

   + 6 - Selective Multicast Ethernet Tag Route

   + 7 - Multicast Join Synch Route

   + 8 - Multicast Leave Synch Route

   The detailed encoding and procedures for this route type are
   described in subsequent sections.

9.1.  Selective Multicast Ethernet Tag Route

   A Selective Multicast Ethernet Tag route type specific EVPN NLRI
   consists of the following:

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                      +---------------------------------------+
                      |  RD (8 octets)                        |
                      +---------------------------------------+
                      |  Ethernet Tag ID (4 octets)           |
                      +---------------------------------------+
                      |  Multicast Source Length (1 octet)    |
                      +---------------------------------------+
                      |  Multicast Source Address (variable)  |
                      +---------------------------------------+
                      |  Multicast Group Length (1 octet)     |
                      +---------------------------------------+
                      |  Multicast Group Address (Variable)   |
                      +---------------------------------------+
                      |  Originator Router Length (1 octet)   |
                      +---------------------------------------+
                      |  Originator Router Address (variable) |
                      +---------------------------------------+
                      |  Flags (1 octet)                      |
                      +---------------------------------------+

   For the purpose of BGP route key processing, all the fields are
   considered to be part of the prefix in the NLRI except for the one-
   octet flag field.  The Flags fields are defined as follows:

                        0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
                       +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
                       | reserved  |IE|v3|v2|v1|
                       +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+

   o  The least significant bit, bit 7 indicates support for IGMP
      version 1.  Since IGMP V1 is being deprecated , sender MUST set it
      as 0 for IGMP and receiver MUST ignore it.

   o  The second least significant bit, bit 6 indicates support for IGMP
      version 2.

   o  The third least significant bit, bit 5 indicates support for IGMP
      version 3.

   o  The fourth least significant bit, bit 4 indicates whether the
      (S,G) information carried within the route-type is of an Include
      Group type (bit value 0) or an Exclude Group type (bit value 1).
      The Exclude Group type bit MUST be ignored if bit 5 is not set.

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   o  This EVPN route type is used to carry tenant IGMP multicast group
      information.  The flag field assists in distributing IGMP
      Membership Report of a given host/VM for a given multicast route.
      The version bits help associate IGMP version of receivers
      participating within the EVPN domain.

   o  The include/exclude bit helps in creating filters for a given
      multicast route.

   o  If route is used for IPv6 (MLD) then bit 7 indicates support for
      MLD version 1.  The second least significant bit, bit 6 indicates
      support for MLD version 2.  Since there is no MLD version 3, in
      case of IPv6 route third least significant bit MUST be 0.  In case
      of IPv6 routes, the fourth least significant bit MUST be ignored
      if bit 6 is not set.

   o  Reserve bit SHOULD be set to 0 by sender.  And receiver SHOULD
      ignore the reserve bit.

9.1.1.  Constructing the Selective Multicast Ethernet Tag route

   This section describes the procedures used to construct the Selective
   Multicast Ethernet Tag (SMET) route.

   The Route Distinguisher (RD) SHOULD be a Type 1 RD [RFC4364] .  The
   value field comprises an IP address of the PE (typically, the
   loopback address) followed by a number unique to the PE.

   The Ethernet Tag ID MUST be set as follows:

   o  EVI is VLAN-Based or VLAN Bundle service - set to 0

   o  EVI is VLAN-Aware Bundle service without translation - set to the
      customer VID for that BD

   o  EVI is VLAN-Aware Bundle service with translation - set to the
      normalized Ethernet Tag ID - e.g., normalized VID

   The Multicast Source Length MUST be set to length of the multicast
   Source address in bits.  If the Multicast Source Address field
   contains an IPv4 address, then the value of the Multicast Source
   Length field is 32.  If the Multicast Source Address field contains
   an IPv6 address, then the value of the Multicast Source Length field
   is 128.  In case of a (*, G) Join, the Multicast Source Length is set
   to 0.

   The Multicast Source Address is the source IP address from the IGMP
   Membership Report.  In case of a (*, G), this field is not used.

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   The Multicast Group Length MUST be set to length of multicast group
   address in bits.  If the Multicast Group Address field contains an
   IPv4 address, then the value of the Multicast Group Length field is
   32.  If the Multicast Group Address field contains an IPv6 address,
   then the value of the Multicast Group Length field is 128.

   The Multicast Group Address is the Group address from the IGMP or MLD
   Membership Report.

   The Originator Router Length is the length of the Originator Router
   Address in bits.

   The Originator Router Address is the IP address of router originating
   this route.  The SMET Originator Router IP address MUST match that of
   the IMET (or S-PMSI AD) route originated for the same EVI by the same
   downstream PE.

   The Flags field indicates the version of IGMP protocol from which the
   Membership Report was received.  It also indicates whether the
   multicast group had the INCLUDE or EXCLUDE bit set.

   Reserve bit MUST be set to 0.  They can be defined in future by other
   document.

   IGMP is used to receive group membership information from hosts/VMs
   by TORs.  Upon receiving the hosts/VMs expression of interest of a
   particular group membership, this information is then forwarded using
   SMET route.  The NLRI also keeps track of receiver's IGMP protocol
   version and any source filtering for a given group membership.  All
   EVPN SMET routes are announced with per- EVI Route Target extended
   communities.

9.1.2.  Default Selective Multicast Route

   If there is multicast router connected behind the EVPN domain, the PE
   MAY originate a default SMET (*,*) to get all multicast traffic in
   domain.

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                              +--------------+
                              |              |
                              |              |
                              |              | +----+
                              |              | |    |---- H1(*,G1)v2
                              |   IP/MPLS    | | PE1|---- H2(S2,G2)v3
                              |   Network    | |    |---- S2
                              |              | |    |
                              |              | +----+
                              |              |
                       +----+ |              |
       +----+          |    | |              |
       |    |    S1 ---| PE2| |              |
       |PIM |----R1 ---|    | |              |
       |ASM |          +----+ |              |
       |    |                 |              |
       +----+                 +--------------+

      Figure 2: Multicast Router behind EVPN domain

   Consider the EVPN network of Figure-2, where there is an EVPN
   instance configured across the PEs.  Lets consider PE2 is connected
   to multicast router R1 and there is a network running PIM ASM behind
   R1.  If there are receivers behind the PIM ASM network, the PIM Join
   would be forwarded to the PIM RP (Rendezvous Point).  If receivers
   behind PIM ASM network are interested in a multicast flow originated
   by multicast source S2 (behind PE1), it is necessary for PE2 to
   receive multicast traffic.  In this case PE2 MUST originate a (*,*)
   SMET route to receive all of the multicast traffic in the EVPN
   domain.

9.2.  Multicast Join Synch Route

   This EVPN route type is used to coordinate IGMP Join (x,G) state for
   a given BD between the PEs attached to a given ES operating in All-
   Active (or Single-Active) redundancy mode and it consists of
   following:

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                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  RD (8 octets)                                   |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                | Ethernet Segment Identifier (10 octets)          |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Ethernet Tag ID  (4 octets)                     |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Multicast Source Length (1 octet)               |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Multicast Source Address (variable)             |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Multicast Group Length (1 octet)                |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Multicast Group Address (Variable)              |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Originator Router Length (1 octet)              |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Originator Router Address (variable)            |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Flags (1 octet)                                 |
                +--------------------------------------------------+

   For the purpose of BGP route key processing, all the fields are
   considered to be part of the prefix in the NLRI except for the one-
   octet Flags field, whose fields are defined as follows:

                            0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
                          +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
                          | reserved  |IE|v3|v2|v1|
                          +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+

   o  The least significant bit, bit 7 indicates support for IGMP
      version 1.

   o  The second least significant bit, bit 6 indicates support for IGMP
      version 2.

   o  The third least significant bit, bit 5 indicates support for IGMP
      version 3.

   o  The fourth least significant bit, bit 4 indicates whether the (S,
      G) information carried within the route-type is of Include Group
      type (bit value 0) or an Exclude Group type (bit value 1).  The
      Exclude Group type bit MUST be ignored if bit 5 is not set.

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   o  Reserve bit MUST be set to 0.  They can be defined in future by
      other document.

   The Flags field assists in distributing IGMP Membership Report of a
   given host/VM for a given multicast route.  The version bits help
   associate IGMP version of receivers participating within the EVPN
   domain.  The include/exclude bit helps in creating filters for a
   given multicast route.

   If route is being prepared for IPv6 (MLD) then bit 7 indicates
   support for MLD version 1.  The second least significant bit, bit 6
   indicates support for MLD version 2.  Since there is no MLD version
   3, in case of IPv6 route third least significant bit MUST be 0.  In
   case of IPv6 route, the fourth least significant bit MUST be ignored
   if bit 6 is not set.

9.2.1.  Constructing the Multicast Join Synch Route

   This section describes the procedures used to construct the IGMP Join
   Synch route.  Support for this route type is optional.  If a PE does
   not support this route, then it MUST NOT indicate that it supports
   'IGMP proxy' in the Multicast Flag extended community for the EVIs
   corresponding to its multi-homed Ethernet Segments (ESs).

   An IGMP Join Synch route MUST carry exactly one ES-Import Route
   Target extended community, the one that corresponds to the ES on
   which the IGMP Join was received.  It MUST also carry exactly one
   EVI-RT EC, the one that corresponds to the EVI on which the IGMP Join
   was received.  See Section 9.5 for details on how to encode and
   construct the EVI-RT EC.

   The Route Distinguisher (RD) SHOULD be a Type 1 RD [RFC4364] .  The
   value field comprises an IP address of the PE (typically, the
   loopback address) followed by a number unique to the PE.

   The Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) MUST be set to the 10-octet
   value defined for the ES.

   The Ethernet Tag ID MUST be set as follows:

   o  EVI is VLAN-Based or VLAN Bundle service - set to 0

   o  EVI is VLAN-Aware Bundle service without translation - set to the
      customer VID for the BD

   o  EVI is VLAN-Aware Bundle service with translation - set to the
      normalized Ethernet Tag ID - e.g., normalized VID

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   The Multicast Source length MUST be set to length of Multicast Source
   address in bits.  If the Multicast Source field contains an IPv4
   address, then the value of the Multicast Source Length field is 32.
   If the Multicast Source field contains an IPv6 address, then the
   value of the Multicast Source Length field is 128.  In case of a
   (*,G) Join, the Multicast Source Length is set to 0.

   The Multicast Source is the Source IP address of the IGMP Membership
   Report.  In case of a (*, G) Join, this field does not exist.

   The Multicast Group length MUST be set to length of multicast group
   address in bits.  If the Multicast Group field contains an IPv4
   address, then the value of the Multicast Group Length field is 32.
   If the Multicast Group field contains an IPv6 address, then the value
   of the Multicast Group Length field is 128.

   The Multicast Group is the Group address of the IGMP Membership
   Report.

   The Originator Router Length is the length of the Originator Router
   address in bits.

   The Originator Router Address is the IP address of Router Originating
   the prefix.

   The Flags field indicates the version of IGMP protocol from which the
   Membership Report was received.  It also indicates whether the
   multicast group had INCLUDE or EXCLUDE bit set.

   Reserve bit MUST be set to 0.  They can be defined in future by other
   document.

9.3.  Multicast Leave Synch Route

   This EVPN route type is used to coordinate IGMP Leave Group (x,G)
   state for a given BD between the PEs attached to a given ES operating
   in All-Active (or Single-Active) redundancy mode and it consists of
   following:

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                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  RD (8 octets)                                   |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                | Ethernet Segment Identifier (10 octets)          |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Ethernet Tag ID  (4 octets)                     |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Multicast Source Length (1 octet)               |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Multicast Source Address (variable)             |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Multicast Group Length (1 octet)                |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Multicast Group Address (Variable)              |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Originator Router Length (1 octet)              |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Originator Router Address (variable)            |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Reserved (4 octet)                              |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Maximum Response Time (1 octet)                 |
                +--------------------------------------------------+
                |  Flags (1 octet)                                 |
                +--------------------------------------------------+

   For the purpose of BGP route key processing, all the fields are
   considered to be part of the prefix in the NLRI except for the
   Reserved, Maximum Response Time and the one-octet Flags field, whose
   fields are defined as follows:

                            0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7
                          +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+
                          | reserved  |IE|v3|v2|v1|
                          +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+

   o  The least significant bit, bit 7 indicates support for IGMP
      version 1.

   o  The second least significant bit, bit 6 indicates support for IGMP
      version 2.

   o  The third least significant bit, bit 5 indicates support for IGMP
      version 3.

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   o  The fourth least significant bit, bit 4 indicates whether the (S,
      G) information carried within the route-type is of Include Group
      type (bit value 0) or an Exclude Group type (bit value 1).  The
      Exclude Group type bit MUST be ignored if bit 5 is not set.

   o  Reserve bit MUST be set to 0.  They can be defined in future by
      other document.

   The Flags field assists in distributing IGMP Membership Report of a
   given host/VM for a given multicast route.  The version bits help
   associate IGMP version of receivers participating within the EVPN
   domain.  The include/exclude bit helps in creating filters for a
   given multicast route.

   If route is being prepared for IPv6 (MLD) then bit 7 indicates
   support for MLD version 1.  The second least significant bit, bit 6
   indicates support for MLD version 2.  Since there is no MLD version
   3, in case of IPv6 route third least significant bit MUST be 0.  In
   case of IPv6 route, the fourth least significant bit MUST be ignored
   if bit 6 is not set.

   Reserve bit in flag MUST be set to 0.  They can be defined in future
   by other document.

9.3.1.  Constructing the Multicast Leave Synch Route

   This section describes the procedures used to construct the IGMP
   Leave Synch route.  Support for this route type is optional.  If a PE
   does not support this route, then it MUST NOT indicate that it
   supports 'IGMP proxy' in Multicast Flag extended community for the
   EVIs corresponding to its multi-homed Ethernet Segments.

   An IGMP Leave Synch route MUST carry exactly one ES-Import Route
   Target extended community, the one that corresponds to the ES on
   which the IGMP Leave was received.  It MUST also carry exactly one
   EVI-RT EC, the one that corresponds to the EVI on which the IGMP
   Leave was received.  See Section 9.5 for details on how to form the
   EVI-RT EC.

   The Route Distinguisher (RD) SHOULD be a Type 1 RD [RFC4364].  The
   value field comprises an IP address of the PE (typically, the
   loopback address) followed by a number unique to the PE.

   The Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) MUST be set to the 10-octet
   value defined for the ES.

   The Ethernet Tag ID MUST be set as follows:

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   o  EVI is VLAN-Based or VLAN Bundle service - set to 0

   o  EVI is VLAN-Aware Bundle service without translation - set to the
      customer VID for the BD

   o  EVI is VLAN-Aware Bundle service with translation - set to the
      normalized Ethernet Tag ID - e.g., normalized VID

   The Multicast Source length MUST be set to length of multicast source
   address in bits.  If the Multicast Source field contains an IPv4
   address, then the value of the Multicast Source Length field is 32.
   If the Multicast Source field contains an IPv6 address, then the
   value of the Multicast Source Length field is 128.  In case of a (*,
   G) Join, the Multicast Source Length is set to 0.

   The Multicast Source is the Source IP address of the IGMP Membership
   Report.  In case of a (*, G) Join, this field does not exist.

   The Multicast Group length MUST be set to length of multicast group
   address in bits.  If the Multicast Group field contains an IPv4
   address, then the value of the Multicast Group Length field is 32.
   If the Multicast Group field contains an IPv6 address, then the value
   of the Multicast Group Length field is 128.

   The Multicast Group is the Group address of the IGMP Membership
   Report.

   The Originator Router Length is the length of the Originator Router
   address in bits.

   The Originator Router Address is the IP address of Router Originating
   the prefix.

   Reserved field is not part of the route key.  The originator MUST set
   the reserved field to Zero , the receiver SHOULD ignore it and if it
   needs to be propagated, it MUST propagate it unchanged

   Maximum Response Time is value to be used while sending query as
   defined in [RFC2236]

   The Flags field indicates the version of IGMP protocol from which the
   Membership Report was received.  It also indicates whether the
   multicast group had INCLUDE or EXCLUDE bit set.

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9.4.  Multicast Flags Extended Community

   The 'Multicast Flags' extended community is a new EVPN extended
   community.  EVPN extended communities are transitive extended
   communities with a Type field value of 6.  IANA will assign a Sub-
   Type from the 'EVPN Extended Community Sub-Types' registry.

   A PE that supports IGMP proxy on a given BD MUST attach this extended
   community to the Inclusive Multicast Ethernet Tag (IMET) route it
   advertises for that BD and it MUST set the IGMP Proxy Support flag to
   1.  Note that an [RFC7432] compliant PE will not advertise this
   extended community so its absence indicates that the advertising PE
   does not support IGMP Proxy.

   The advertisement of this extended community enables more efficient
   multicast tunnel setup from the source PE specially for ingress
   replication - i.e., if an egress PE supports IGMP proxy but doesn't
   have any interest in a given (x,G), it advertises its IGMP proxy
   capability using this extended community but it does not advertise
   any SMET route for that (x,G).  When the source PE (ingress PE)
   receives such advertisements from the egress PE, it does not
   replicate the multicast traffic to that egress PE; however, it does
   replicate the multicast traffic to the egress PEs that don't
   advertise such capability even if they don't have any interests in
   that (x,G).

   A Multicast Flags extended community is encoded as an 8-octet value,
   as follows:

        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=0x09|       Flags (2 Octets)      |M|I|
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                           Reserved=0                          |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The low-order (lease significant) two bits are defined as the "IGMP
   Proxy Support and MLD Proxy Support" bit.  The absence of this
   extended community also means that the PE does not support IGMP
   proxy. where:

   o  Type is 0x06 as registered with IANA for EVPN Extended
      Communities.

   o  Sub-Type : 0x09

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   o  Flags are two Octets value.

      *  Bit 15 (shown as I) defines IGMP Proxy Support.  Value of 1 for
         bit 15 means that PE supports IGMP Proxy.  Value of 0 for bit
         15 means that PE does not supports IGMP Proxy.

      *  Bit 14 (shown as M) defines MLD Proxy Support.  Value of 1 for
         bit 14 means that PE supports MLD Proxy.  Value of 0 for bit 14
         means that PE does not support MLD proxy.

      *  Bit 0 to 13 are reserved for future.  Sender MUST set it 0 and
         receiver MUST ignore it.

   o  Reserved bits are set to 0.  Sender MUST set it to 0 and receiver
      MUST ignore it.

   If a router does not support this specification, it MUST NOT add
   Multicast Flags Extended Community in BGP route.  A router receiving
   BGP update , if M and I both flag are zero (0), the router MUST treat
   this Update as malformed .  Receiver of such update MUST ignore the
   extended community.

9.5.  EVI-RT Extended Community

   In EVPN, every EVI is associated with one or more Route Targets
   (RTs).  These Route Targets serve two functions:

   1.  Distribution control: RTs control the distribution of the routes.
       If a route carries the RT associated with a particular EVI, it
       will be distributed to all the PEs on which that EVI exists.

   2.  EVI identification: Once a route has been received by a
       particular PE, the RT is used to identify the EVI to which it
       applies.

   An IGMP Join Synch or IGMP Leave Synch route is associated with a
   particular combination of ES and EVI.  These routes need to be
   distributed only to PEs that are attached to the associated ES.
   Therefore these routes carry the ES-Import RT for that ES.

   Since an IGMP Join Synch or IGMP Leave Synch route does not need to
   be distributed to all the PEs on which the associated EVI exists,
   these routes cannot carry the RT associated with that EVI.
   Therefore, when such a route arrives at a particular PE, the route's
   RTs cannot be used to identify the EVI to which the route applies.
   Some other means of associating the route with an EVI must be used.

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   This document specifies four new Extended Communities (EC) that can
   be used to identify the EVI with which a route is associated, but
   which do not have any effect on the distribution of the route.  These
   new ECs are known as the "Type 0 EVI-RT EC", the "Type 1 EVI-RT EC",
   the "Type 2 EVI-RT EC", and the "Type 3 EVI-RT EC".

   1.  A Type 0 EVI-RT EC is an EVPN EC (type 6) of sub-type 0xA.

   2.  A Type 1 EVI-RT EC is an EVPN EC (type 6) of sub-type 0xB.

   3.  A Type 2 EVI-RT EC is an EVPN EC (type 6) of sub-type 0xC.

   4.  A Type 3 EVI-RT EC is an EVPN EC (type 6) of sub-type 0xD

   Each IGMP Join Synch or IGMP Leave Synch route MUST carry exactly one
   EVI-RT EC.  The EVI-RT EC carried by a particular route is
   constructed as follows.  Each such route is the result of having
   received an IGMP Join or an IGMP Leave message from a particular BD.
   The route is said to be associated associated with that BD.  For each
   BD, there is a corresponding RT that is used to ensure that routes
   "about" that BD are distributed to all PEs attached to that BD.  So
   suppose a given IGMP Join Synch or Leave Synch route is associated
   with a given BD, say BD1, and suppose that the corresponding RT for
   BD1 is RT1.  Then:

   o  0.  If RT1 is a Transitive Two-Octet AS-specific EC, then the EVI-
      RT EC carried by the route is a Type 0 EVI-RT EC.  The value field
      of the Type 0 EVI-RT EC is identical to the value field of RT1.

   o  1.  If RT1 is a Transitive IPv4-Address-specific EC, then the EVI-
      RT EC carried by the route is a Type 1 EVI-RT EC.  The value field
      of the Type 1 EVI-RT EC is identical to the value field of RT1.

   o  2.  If RT1 is a Transitive Four-Octet-specific EC, then the EVI-RT
      EC carried by the route is a Type 2 EVI-RT EC.  The value field of
      the Type 2 EVI-RT EC is identical to the value field of RT1.

   o  3.  If RT1 is a Transitive IPv6-Address-specific EC, then the EVI-
      RT EC carried by the route is a Type 3 EVI-RT EC.  The value field
      of the Type 3 EVI-RT EC is identical to the value field of RT1.

   An IGMP Join Synch or Leave Synch route MUST carry exactly one EVI-RT
   EC.

   Suppose a PE receives a particular IGMP Join Synch or IGMP Leave
   Synch route, say R1, and suppose that R1 carries an ES-Import RT that
   is one of the PE's Import RTs.  If R1 has no EVI-RT EC, or has more

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   than one EVI-RT EC, the PE MUST apply the "treat-as-withdraw"
   procedure of [RFC7606].

   Note that an EVI-RT EC is not a Route Target Extended Community, is
   not visible to the RT Constrain mechanism [RFC4684] , and is not
   intended to influence the propagation of routes by BGP.

                             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=n   |       RT associated with EVI  |
         +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
         |             RT associated with the EVI  (cont.)             |
         +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Where the value of 'n' is 0x0A, 0x0B, 0x0C, or 0x0D corresponding to
   EVI-RT type 0, 1, 2, or 3 respectively.

9.6.  Rewriting of RT ECs and EVI-RT ECs by ASBRs

   There are certain situations in which an ES is attached to a set of
   PEs that are not all in the same AS, or not all operated by the same
   provider.  In some such situations, the RT that corresponds to a
   particular EVI may be different in each AS.  If a route is propagated
   from AS1 to AS2, an ASBR at the AS1/AS2 border may be provisioned
   with a policy that removes the RTs that are meaningful in AS1 and
   replaces them with the corresponding (i.e., RTs corresponding to the
   same EVIs) RTs that are meaningful in AS2.  This is known as RT-
   rewriting.

   Note that if a given route's RTs are rewritten, and the route carries
   an EVI-RT EC, the EVI-RT EC needs to be rewritten as well.

9.7.  BGP Error Handling

   If a received BGP update contains Flags not in accordance with IGMP/
   MLD version-X expectation, the PE MUST apply the "treat-as-withdraw"
   procedure as per [RFC7606]

   If a received BGP update is malformed such that BGP route keys cannot
   be extracted, then BGP update MUST be considered as invalid.
   Receiving PE MUST apply the "Session reset" procedure of [RFC7606].

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10.  IGMP/MLD Immediate Leave

   IGMP MAY be configured with immediate leave option.  This allows the
   device to remove the group entry from the multicast routing table
   immediately upon receiving a IGMP leave message for (x,G).  In case
   of all active multi-homing while synchronizing the IGMP Leave state
   to redundancy peers, Maximum Response Time MAY be filled in as Zero.
   Implementations SHOULD have identical configuration across multi-
   homed peers.  In case IGMP Leave Synch route is received with Maximum
   Response Time Zero, irrespective of local IGMP configuration it MAY
   be processed as an immediate leave.

11.  IGMP Version 1 Membership Report

   This document does not provide any detail about IGMPv1 processing.
   Multicast working group are in process of deprecating uses of IGMPv1.
   Implementations MUST only use IGMPv2 and above for IPv4 and MLDv1 and
   above for IPv6.  IGMP V1 routes MUST be considered as invalid and the
   PE MUST apply the "treat-as-withdraw" procedure as per [RFC7606]

12.  Security Considerations

   Same security considerations as [RFC7432] ,[RFC2236] ,[RFC3376] ,
   [RFC2710], [RFC3810].

13.  IANA Considerations

   IANA has allocated the following codepoints from the EVPN Extended
   Community sub-types registry.

            0x09    Multicast Flags Extended Community   [this document]
            0x0A    EVI-RT Type 0                        [this document]
            0x0B    EVI-RT Type 1                        [this document]
            0x0C    EVI-RT Type 2                        [this document]

   IANA is requested to allocate a new codepoint from the EVPN Extended
   Community sub-types registry for the following.

                   0x0D    EVI-RT Type 3                        [this document]

   IANA has allocated the following EVPN route types from the EVPN Route
   Type registry.

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                   6 - Selective Multicast Ethernet Tag Route
                   7 - Multicast Join Synch Route
                   8 - Multicast Leave Synch Route

   The Multicast Flags Extended Community contains a 16-bit Flags field.
   The bits are numbered 0-15, from high-order to low-order.

                  The registry should be initialized as follows:
          Bit         Name                             Reference
          ----        --------------                   -------------
          0 - 13       Unassigned
          14           MLD Proxy Support                This document
          15           IGMP Proxy Support               This document

          The registration policy should be "First Come First Served".

14.  Acknowledgement

   The authors would like to thank Stephane Litkowski, Jorge Rabadan,
   Anoop Ghanwani, Jeffrey Haas, Krishna Muddenahally Ananthamurthy,
   Swadesh Agrawal for reviewing and providing valuable comment.

15.  Contributors

   Derek Yeung

   Arrcus

   Email: derek@arrcus.com

16.  References

16.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-bess-evpn-bum-procedure-updates]
              Zhang, Z., Lin, W., Rabadan, J., Patel, K., and A.
              Sajassi, "Updates on EVPN BUM Procedures", draft-ietf-
              bess-evpn-bum-procedure-updates-08 (work in progress),
              November 2019.

   [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>.

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   [RFC2236]  Fenner, W., "Internet Group Management Protocol, Version
              2", RFC 2236, DOI 10.17487/RFC2236, November 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2236>.

   [RFC2710]  Deering, S., Fenner, W., and B. Haberman, "Multicast
              Listener Discovery (MLD) for IPv6", RFC 2710,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2710, October 1999,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2710>.

   [RFC3376]  Cain, B., Deering, S., Kouvelas, I., Fenner, B., and A.
              Thyagarajan, "Internet Group Management Protocol, Version
              3", RFC 3376, DOI 10.17487/RFC3376, October 2002,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3376>.

   [RFC3810]  Vida, R., Ed. and L. Costa, Ed., "Multicast Listener
              Discovery Version 2 (MLDv2) for IPv6", RFC 3810,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC3810, June 2004,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3810>.

   [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>.

   [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, DOI 10.17487/RFC4684,
              November 2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4684>.

   [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>.

   [RFC7606]  Chen, E., Ed., Scudder, J., Ed., Mohapatra, P., and K.
              Patel, "Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages",
              RFC 7606, DOI 10.17487/RFC7606, August 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7606>.

   [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>.

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16.2.  Informative References

   [RFC4541]  Christensen, M., Kimball, K., and F. Solensky,
              "Considerations for Internet Group Management Protocol
              (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Snooping
              Switches", RFC 4541, DOI 10.17487/RFC4541, May 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4541>.

Authors' Addresses

   Ali Sajassi
   Cisco Systems
   821 Alder Drive,
   MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA 95035
   UNITED STATES

   Email: sajassi@cisco.com

   Samir Thoria
   Cisco Systems
   821 Alder Drive,
   MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA 95035
   UNITED STATES

   Email: sthoria@cisco.com

   Mankamana Mishra
   Cisco Systems
   821 Alder Drive,
   MILPITAS, CALIFORNIA 95035
   UNITED STATES

   Email: mankamis@cisco.com

   Keyur PAtel
   Arrcus
   UNITED STATES

   Email: keyur@arrcus.com

   John Drake
   Juniper Networks

   Email: jdrake@juniper.net

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   Wen Lin
   Juniper Networks

   Email: wlin@juniper.net

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