BGP Extensions for BIER
draft-ietf-bier-idr-extensions-02
| Document | Type | Expired Internet-Draft (bier WG) | |
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| Authors | Xiaohu Xu , Mach Chen , Keyur Patel , IJsbrand Wijnands , Tony Przygienda | ||
| Last updated | 2017-07-21 (Latest revision 2017-01-17) | ||
| Stream | Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
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https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-bier-idr-extensions-02.txt
Abstract
Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) is a new multicast forwarding architecture which doesn't require an explicit tree-building protocol and doesn't require intermediate routers to maintain any multicast state. BIER is applicable in a multi-tenant data center network environment for efficient delivery of Broadcast, Unknown-unicast and Multicast (BUM) traffic while eliminating the need for maintaining a huge amount of multicast state in the underlay. This document describes BGP extensions for advertising the BIER-specific information. These extensions are applicable in those multi-tenant data centers where BGP instead of IGP is deployed as an underlay for network reachability advertisement. These extensions may also be applicable in other scenarios.
Authors
Xiaohu Xu
Mach Chen
Keyur Patel
IJsbrand Wijnands
Tony Przygienda
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