BGP Link-State Shortest Path First (SPF) Routing
draft-ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf-51

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
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Subject: Protocol Action: 'BGP Link-State Shortest Path First (SPF) Routing' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf-51.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'BGP Link-State Shortest Path First (SPF) Routing'
  (draft-ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf-51.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Link State Vector Routing Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Gunter Van de Velde, Jim Guichard and John
Scudder.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lsvr-bgp-spf/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   Many Massively Scaled Data Centers (MSDCs) have converged on
   simplified L3 routing.  Furthermore, requirements for operational
   simplicity has led many of these MSDCs to converge on BGP as their
   single routing protocol for both their fabric routing and their Data
   Center Interconnect (DCI) routing.  This document describes
   extensions to BGP to use BGP Link-State distribution and the Shortest
   Path First (SPF) algorithm.  In doing this, it allows BGP to be
   efficiently used as both the underlay protocol and the overlay
   protocol in MSDCs.

Working Group Summary

   This document has gone through multiple WG and directorate reviews and several WGLCs. Broad consensus to advance the document.

Document Quality

   Implementations of the protocol have been documented during the WG process. More details provided in the shepherd writeup.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Ketan Talaulikar. The
   Responsible Area Director is Jim Guichard.

RFC Editor Note