Technical Summary
The MVPN specifications allow a single Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP)
tunnel to carry traffic of multiple VPNs. The EVPN specifications
allow a single P2MP tunnel to carry traffic of multiple Broadcast
Domains (BDs). These features require the ingress router of the P2MP
tunnel to allocate an upstream-assigned MPLS label for each VPN or
for each BD. A packet sent on a P2MP tunnel then carries the label
that is mapped to its VPN or BD (in some cases, a distinct upstream-
assigned label is needed for each flow.) Since each ingress router
allocates labels independently, with no coordination among the
ingress routers, the egress routers may need to keep track of a large
number of labels. The number of labels may need to be as large (or
larger) than the product of the number of ingress routers times the
number of VPNs or BDs. However, the number of labels can be greatly
reduced if the association between a label and a VPN or BD is made by
provisioning, so that all ingress routers assign the same label to a
particular VPN or BD. New procedures are needed in order to take
advantage of such provisioned labels. These new procedures also
apply to Multipoint-to-Multipoint (MP2MP) tunnels. This document
updates RFCs 6514, 7432 and 7582 by specifying the necessary
procedures.
Working Group Summary
Was there anything in the WG process that is worth noting?
For example, was there controversy about particular points
or were there decisions where the consensus was
particularly rough?
No issues were found in the working group on this draft and it didn't generate any controversy.
Document Quality
Are there existing implementations of the protocol? Have a
significant number of vendors indicated their plan to
implement the specification? Are there any reviewers that
merit special mention as having done a thorough review,
e.g., one that resulted in important changes or a
conclusion that the document had no substantive issues? If
there was a MIB Doctor, Media Type, or other Expert Review,
what was its course (briefly)? In the case of a Media Type
Review, on what date was the request posted?
There are reported implementations of this draft.
Personnel
The Document Shepherd for this document is Stephane Litkowski. The
Responsible Area Director is Andrew Alston.