BIER Source Protection
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BIER WG                                                         Z. Zhang
Internet-Draft                                                 G. Mirsky
Intended status: Informational                                  Q. Xiong
Expires: January 14, 2021                                ZTE Corporation
                                                                  Y. Liu
                                                            China Mobile
                                                           July 13, 2020

                         BIER Source Protection
                 draft-zhang-bier-source-protection-01

Abstract

   This document describes the multicast source protection functions in
   Bit Index Explicit Replication BIER domain.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  The Source Protection analysis  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Node failure monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.2.  Monitoring of the Working Path for a Failure  . . . . . .   4
   3.  BFD and Ping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.1.  BIER Ping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2.  BIER BFD  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   5.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

1.  Introduction

   Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER) [RFC8279] is an architecture
   that provides multicast forwarding through a "BIER domain" without
   requiring intermediate routers to maintain any multicast related per-
   flow state.  BIER also does not require any explicit tree-building
   protocol for its operation.  A multicast data packet enters a BIER
   domain at a "Bit-Forwarding Ingress Router" (BFIR), and leaves the
   BIER domain at one or more "Bit-Forwarding Egress Routers" (BFERs).

   Source Protection is not specific to the BIER environment.  Source
   Protection means that to protect the multicast source node, two or
   more ingress routers, in BIER environment, ingress routers are BFIRs,
   may be used to connect the multicast source node.  Generally, only
   one ingress router (BFIR) is selected to forward flows from multicast
   source node to egress routers, in BIER environment, egress routers
   are BFERs.  The selected BFIR may be chosen based on local policies,
   BFERs that receiving the same multicast flow may elect to use the
   same or different BFIR.  The BFIR and the path in use are referred to
   as working while all alternative available BFIRs and paths that can
   be used to receive the same multicast flow are referred to as
   protection.

   For a BFER, when either the working BFIR or the working path fails,
   the BFER can select one of protecting BFIRs to get the multicast
   flow.  The shorter the detection time is, the faster the flow
   recovers.

   This document discusses the functions that can be used in failure
   detection for multicast source protection.

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2.  The Source Protection analysis

   According to BIER architecture [RFC8279], BIER overlay protocols,
   which include MVPN [RFC8556], MLD [I-D.ietf-bier-mld], PIM