BESS Working Group E. Rosen
Internet-Draft Juniper Networks, Inc.
Updates: 6514 (if approved) T. Morin
Intended status: Standards Track Orange
Expires: February 7, 2016 August 6, 2015
Registry and Extensions for
P-Multicast Service Interface Tunnel Attribute Flags
draft-ietf-bess-pta-flags-01.txt
Abstract
RFC6514 defines the "P-Multicast Service Interface Tunnel (PMSI
Tunnel) attribute". This attribute contains an octet of "flags".
Only one flag is defined in that RFC, but there is now a need to
define additional flags. Since the RFC did not create a registry for
the assignment of flag bits, this document updates the RFC by
creating a registry for that purpose. This document also defines a
new BGP Extended Community, "Additional PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags",
that can be used to carry additional flags for the PMSI Tunnel
attribute.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Extending the PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags Field . . . . . . . 2
3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
5. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. Introduction
[RFC6514] defines the "P-Multicast Service Interface Tunnel (PMSI
Tunnel) attribute". This attribute contains an octet of "flags".
Only one flag is defined in that RFC, but there is now a need to
define additional flags. Since the RFC did not create a registry for
the assignment of flag bits, this document creates a registry for
that purpose. In addition, there may be a need to define more than
eight flags. Therefore this document defines a new BGP Extended
Community, "Additional PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags", that can be used
to carry additional flags for the PMSI Tunnel attribute. A registry
is also created for this extended community, allowing IANA to
allocate bits from the extended community's six-octet value field.
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
2. Extending the PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags Field
[RFC6514] defines only a single octet in the PMSI Tunnel attribute to
use for bit flags. This allows eight flags, which is unlikely to be
sufficient for all future applications.
This document defines a new Transitive Opaque Extended Community,
"Additional PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags". It also defines a new bit
flag in the PMSI Tunnel Attribute flags field, called the "Extension"
flag.
The "Additional PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags" Extended Community MUST
NOT be added to a BGP UPDATE message unless that message is also
carrying a PMSI Tunnel attribute. Further, when an "Additional PMSI
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Tunnel Attribute Flags" Extended Community is added to a BGP UPDATE
message, the "Extension" flag of the PMSI Tunnel attribute flags
field MUST be set. If at any time the "Additional PMSI Tunnel
Attribute Flags" Extended Community is removed from the UPDATE
message, the "Extension" flag in the PMSI Tunnel attribute MUST be
cleared.
If a BGP speaker receives an UPDATE message that contains an
"Additional PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags" Extended Community, but that
UPDATE message does not contain a PMSI Tunnel attribute, or the
"Extension" flag of the PMSI Tunnel attribute is not set, the
Extended Community SHOULD be removed and SHOULD NOT be redistributed.
The BGP UPDATE message MUST be processed (and if necessary,
redistributed) as if the Extended Community had not been present.
If a BGP speaker receives an UPDATE message that contains a PMSI
Tunnel attribute and does not contain an "Additional PMSI Tunnel
Attribute Flags" Extended Community, but the Extension flag of the
PMSI Tunnel attribute is set, the "treat-as-withdraw" procedure of
[ERRORS] MUST be applied.
3. IANA Considerations
IANA is requested to create a new registry called "P-Multicast
Service Interface Tunnel (PMSI Tunnel) Attribute Flags" in the
"Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Parameters" registry.
Per [RFC6514] section 5, a PMSI Tunnel Attribute contains a "Flags"
octet. The Flags field is a single octet, with bits numbered, left-
to-right, from 0 to 7. IANA is requested to initialize the registry
as follows:
Bit Position Description Reference
(left to right)
0 unassigned
1 Extension This document
2 unassigned
3 unassigned
4 unassigned
5 unassigned
6 unassigned
7 Leaf Information Required (LIR) RFC6514
PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags
The registration procedure for this registry is Standards Action.
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IANA is also requested to assign a codepoint from the "Transitive
Opaque Extended Community Sub-Types" registry for "Additional PMSI
Tunnel Attribute Flags".
IANA is further requested to establish a registry for the bit flags
carried in the Additional PMSI Tunnel Attribute Flags extended
community. The bits shall be numbered 0-47, with 0 being the most
significant bit and 47 being the least significant bit. The
registration policy for this registry shall be "Standards Action".
Initially, bits 0-47 are unassigned. This registry belongs with the
BGP Extended Communities registries.
4. Security Considerations
No security considerations are raised by this document.
5. Normative References
[ERRORS] Chen, E., Scudder, J., Mohapatra, P., and K. Patel,
"Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages",
internet-draft draft-ietf-idr-error-handling-19, April
2015.
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.
[RFC6514] Aggarwal, R., Rosen, E., Morin, T., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP
Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP
VPNs", RFC 6514, DOI 10.17487/RFC6514, February 2012,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6514>.
Authors' Addresses
Eric C. Rosen
Juniper Networks, Inc.
10 Technology Park Drive
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
United States
Email: erosen@juniper.net
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Thomas Morin
Orange
2, avenue Pierre-Marzin
22307 Lannion Cedex
France
Email: thomas.morin@orange.com
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