BIER Ingress Multicast Flow Overlay using Multicast Listener Discovery Protocols
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Network Working Group                                         P. Pfister
Internet-Draft                                              IJ. Wijnands
Intended status: Standards Track                               S. Venaas
Expires: December 31, 2018                                 Cisco Systems
                                                                 C. Wang

                                                                Z. Zhang
                                                         ZTE Corporation
                                                             M. Stenberg
                                                           June 29, 2018

 BIER Ingress Multicast Flow Overlay using Multicast Listener Discovery
                               Protocols
                         draft-ietf-bier-mld-01

Abstract

   This document specifies the ingress part of a multicast flow overlay
   for BIER networks.  Using existing multicast listener discovery
   protocols, it enables multicast membership information sharing from
   egress routers, acting as listeners, toward ingress routers, acting
   as queriers.  Ingress routers keep per-egress-router state, used to
   construct the BIER bit mask associated with IP multicast packets
   entering the BIER domain.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   3.  Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   4.  Applicability Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   5.  Querier and Listener Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     5.1.  Configuration Parameters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     5.2.  MLDv2 instances.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
       5.2.1.  Sending Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       5.2.2.  Sending Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
       5.2.3.  Receiving Queries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
       5.2.4.  Receiving Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     5.3.  Packet Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   7.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   8.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   9.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     9.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     9.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Appendix A.  BIER Use Case in Data Centers  . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     A.1.  Convention and Terminology  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     A.2.  BIER in data centers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
     A.3.  A BIER MLD solution for Virtual Network information . . .  13
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14

1.  Introduction

   The Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER - [RFC8279]) forwarding
   technique enables IP multicast transport across a BIER domain.  When
   receiving or originating a packet, ingress routers have to construct
   a bit mask indicating which BIER egress routers located within the
   same BIER domain will receive the packet.  A stateless approach would
   consist of forwarding all incoming packets toward all egress routers,