MPLS Working Group                                                L. Jin
Internet-Draft
Intended status: Standards Track                               F. Jounay
Expires: August 26, 2013                                  France Telecom
                                                               M. Bhatia
                                                          Alcatel-Lucent
                                                       February 22, 2013


   Extensions to Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering
   (RSVP-TE) for Hub and Spoke Multipoint Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
                   draft-jjb-mpls-rsvp-te-hsmp-lsp-03

Abstract

   In Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
   environment, the RSVP-TE based Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) LSP allows
   traffic to transmit from root to leaf node, but there is no co-routed
   reverse path for traffic from leaf to root node.  There are
   applications that require bi-directional, co-routed and guaranteed
   communication from a root node to several leaf nodes in a hub-and-
   spoke fashion.  This draft defines such a Hub and Spoke Multipoint
   LSP (HSMP LSP) and defines protocol extensions to P2MP RSVP-TE to
   setup such LSPs.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Application  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.1.  Time Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
     1.2.  Virtual Private Multicast Service  . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Comparing Hub-Spoke MP LSP with P2MP and Unidirectional
       Reverse LSP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     2.1.  Number of Path and Resv State Blocks . . . . . . . . . . .  4
     2.2.  Hardware Programming and Label Utilization . . . . . . . .  5
     2.3.  RSVP Control Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  6
   3.  Setting up a Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP with RSVP-TE . . . .  6
     3.1.  Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP and Path Messages . . . . . .  6
     3.2.  Procedures for Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP  . . . . . . .  6
     3.3.  Symmetric Bandwidth Allocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.4.  Asymmetric bandwidth allocation  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
       3.4.1.  Packet Format  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
       3.4.2.  UPSTREAM_FLOWSPEC processing . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       3.4.3.  UPSTREAM_TSPEC and UPSTREAM_ADSPEC processing  . . . .  9
   4.  Setting up the Hub Spoke Multipoint  LSP . . . . . . . . . . .  9
   5.  Grafting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
   6.  Pruning  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   7.  Refresh Reduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   8.  Fast Reroute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
   9.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   10. Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   11. IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     12.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     12.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
   Appendix 1.  Appendix: Alternate Mechanism to set up a reverse
                LSP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14









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   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 [RFC2119].

   When used in lower case, these words convey their typical use in
   common language, and are not to be interpreted as described in
   RFC2119 [RFC2119].


1.  Application

   The proposed technique targets one-to-many applications that require
   reverse co-routed one-to-one traffic flow (thus many one-to-one in
   the reverse direction).

   There are a few applications that could use such kind of Resource
   Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) based Hub and
   Spoke Multipoint LSPs.

1.1.  Time Synchronization

   [IEEE1588] over MPLS is defined in [I-D.ietf-tictoc-1588overmpls].
   It is required that the LSP used to transport PTP event message
   between a Master Clock and a Slave Clock and the LSP between the same
   Slave Clock and Master Clock must be co-routed.  By using RSVP-TE
   based Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) technology to transmit PTP Sync
   messages will get guaranteed bandwidth and greatly improve the
   bandwidth usage.  In this case, the root of HSMP LSP could be Master
   Clock, or connects Master Clock directly or indirectly, as long as
   the root receives PTP event message, the leaf of HSMP LSP could be
   Slave Clock, or connects Slave Clock directly or indirectly, as long
   as the leaf receives PTP event message.  Current RSVP-TE based Point-
   to-Multipoint LSP mechanism only provides unidirectional path from
   the root to the leaf nodes, and could not provide a co-routed reverse
   path from leaf to root node.

   This draft attempts to solve this problem.  RSVP-TE based Hub and
   Spoke P2MP LSP described in this draft provides a co-routed reverse
   path from the leaf to the root based on current unidirectional Point-
   to-Multipoint LSP.  The bandwidth from leaf to root will be the total
   bandwidth consumed by all leaves to root.

1.2.  Virtual Private Multicast Service

   Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Pseudowires (PW) described in
   [I-D.ietf-pwe3-p2mp-pw] requires reverse direction of the VPMS PW
   i.e., from leaf to root node.  The P2MP PW multiplexed to RSVP-TE
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   introducing independent reverse paths from each leaf to the root.  In
   that case, the operational cost will be reduced for maintaining only
   one HSMP LSP, instead of P2MP LSP and n (number of leaf nodes) P2P
   reverse LSPs.


2.  Comparing Hub-Spoke MP LSP with P2MP and Unidirectional Reverse LSP

   An HSMP LSP (Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP) provides a Point-to-
   Multipoint reachability from the root node to the leaf nodes and a
   unicast reachability from all the leaf nodes back to the root node.
   An obvious question that comes up is that how is this better than
   setting up a P2MP LSP from a root node and Unidirectional reverse
   LSPs back from the leaves to the root node.  This section compares
   the two mechanisms and demonstrates how establishing one HSMP LSP is
   better than establishing a P2MP LSP with reverse LSPs from the leaves
   back to the root.

   Consider the topology as shown in Figure 1.  Router A wants to
   establish a Point-to-Multipoint connectivity to Routers E, F, G and H
   and also wants a Unicast path back from these routers to itself.
   There are two ways to accomplish this.  In the first, we set up a
   HSMP LSP between A, E, F, G and H. In the second, we set up a P2MP
   LSP between A, E, F, G and H and establish regular LSPs back from
   these routers to A.

                                   A
                                   |
                                   B
                                  / \
                                 C   D
                                / \ / \
                               E  F G H

                                 Figure 1

2.1.  Number of Path and Resv State Blocks

   When an RSVP-capable router receives an initial Path message, it
   creates a path state block (PSB) for that particular session.  Each
   PSB consists of parameters derived from the received Path message
   such as SESSION, SENDER_TEMPLATE, SENDER_TSPEC, RSVP_HOP objects, and
   the outgoing interface provided by the IGP routing.  Similarly, as a
   Resv message travels upstream toward the sender, it creates a
   reservation state block (RSB) in each RSVP-capable node along the way
   which stores information derived from the objects in the received
   Resv message, such as SESSION, RSVP_HOP, FLOWSPEC, FILTERSPEC, STYLE,
   etc objects.  The PSB and the RSB need to be periodically refreshed



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   by the Path and the Resv messages.

   In case of HSMP LSP, the number of PSBs and the RSBs is the same as
   that for establishing a single P2MP LSP and is a function of how the
   P2MP LSP is signaled.  It is equal to the number of S2L sub-LSPs of
   the P2MP LSP if each S2L sub-lsp is signaled independently.  It is
   one, if an aggregated mode is used where multiple sub-lsps of the
   P2MP LSP are signaled togethar.

   In the second case routers need to maintain this state for the P2MP
   LSP and all the Unidirectional LSPs that go via it.

   Lets look at the state that branch node B needs to maintain.  In case
   of HSMP LSP it is the same as a P2MP LSP.  In the other approach it
   needs to maintain state for the following LSPs:

   1.  P2MP LSP from A and E, F, G and H

   2.  Reverse LSP ECBA

   3.  Reverse LSP FCBA

   4.  Reverse LSP GDBA

   5.  Reverse LSP HDBA

   We can thus clearly see that the amount of state that routers need to
   maintain in the second approach is much more than the HSMP LSP.  It
   becomes all the more pronounced when the P2MP LSP is signalled using
   the aggregated approach described in [RFC4875] where a single Path
   and Resv message is used to signal the entire P2MP LSP.  In such
   cases the amount of state that such branch nodes need to maintain
   increase linearly with the leaf nodes that get added to the P2MP LSP.

2.2.  Hardware Programming and Label Utilization

   In the HSMP LSP the LSR B advertises the same (upstream) label to C
   and D, thus consumes only one label and needs to only program one
   entry in the ILM table.

   In the second approach, LSR B needs to advertise two different labels
   to LSRs C and D and will thus consume 2 ILM entries in HW.

   We can clearly see that the number of labels consumed in the second
   approach will increase linearly with the amount of branching that
   happens on that LSR.  It will further aggravate as the number of P2MP
   LSPs increase.




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2.3.  RSVP Control Traffic

   In the second approach, LSR B will have RSVP control traffic for the
   P2MP LSP and all the Unidirectional reverse LSPs that pass through
   it.  In case of HSMP LSR B will only have the RSVP traffic for the
   P2MP LSP.


3.  Setting up a Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP with RSVP-TE

   The Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP comprises of one downstream
   unidirectional P2MP LSP from ingress LSR to each of egress LSR, and a
   co-routed upstream path from each of egress LSR to ingress LSR.

   [RFC3473] describes a point-to-point bidirectional LSP mechanism for
   the GMPLS architecture, where a bidirectional LSP setup is indicated
   by the presence of an Upstream_Label object in the Path message.  The
   Upstream_Label object has the same format as the generalized label,
   and uses Class-Number 35 (of form 0bbbbbbb) and the C-Type of the
   label being used.  Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP describe in this
   draft will use similar mechanism, and reuse the Upstream_Label object
   defined in [RFC3473].  Note: the downstream label assignment is still
   applied, and upstream direction is based on the h&s topology (hub =
   upstream, spoke= downstream), rather on forwarding direction.

3.1.  Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP and Path Messages

   [RFC4875] allows a P2MP LSP to be signaled using one or more Path
   messages .  Each Path message may signal one or more source to leaf
   (S2L) sub-LSPs.  This document assumes that a unique Path message is
   being used to signal each individual sub-LSP of the HSMP LSP.  Later
   versions of this document can describe mechanisms to use a single
   Path message to describe each component sub LSP of the HSMP LSP.

3.2.  Procedures for Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP

   The process of establishing a Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP follows
   the establishment of a unidirectional P2MP LSP define in [RFC4875]
   with some additions.  To support Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSPs an
   Upstream_Label object is added to the Path message.  The
   Upstream_Label object MUST indicate a label that is valid for
   forwarding at the time the Path message is sent.  When a Path message
   containing an Upstream_Label object is received, the receiver first
   verifies that the upstream label is acceptable.  If the label is not
   acceptable, the receiver MUST issue a PathErr message with a "Routing
   problem/Unacceptable label value" indication.

   The generated PathErr message MAY include an Acceptable Label Set



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   defined in [RFC3473] section 4.1.

   The transit node must also allocate one label for the co-routed
   upstream path before propagating the Path message to all downstream
   nodes.  If a transit node is unable to allocate a label or internal
   resources, then it MUST issue a PathErr message with a "Routing
   problem/MPLS label allocation failure" indication.  With regards to
   the co-routed return path from the leafs to the root, the forwarding
   table on transit node will have one incoming labels allocated for all
   of the outgoing interfaces, and one outgoing label received from
   Upstream_Label object in Path message sent by upstream node.  That
   means the traffic from different egress LSRs will be merged at each
   transit node, and will be sent together to upstream node, see section
   3.3 for more detail of bandwidth guarantee in this case.

   The Path messages sending downstream with same [P2MP ID, Tunnel ID,
   Extended Tunnel ID] tuple as part of the SESSION object and the
   [Tunnel Sender Address, LSP ID] tuple as part of the SENDER_TEMPLATE
   object, but may different [Sub-Group Originator ID, Sub-Group ID]
   MUST use same allocated label value for Upstream_Label object.

   Leaf nodes process Path messages as usual, with the exception that
   the upstream label should be used to transport data traffic
   associated with the Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP upstream towards the
   root node.

   When a Hub and Spoke Multipoint LSP is removed, both upstream and
   downstream labels are invalidated and it is no longer valid to send
   data using the associated labels.

3.3.  Symmetric Bandwidth Allocation

   The bandwidth allocation for upstream path from leaf to root could be
   same as the downstream path from root to leaf node [RFC3473], and the
   bandwidth will be guarantee only when there is no traffic merging
   happened on transit node.  If there are cases where leaf nodes send
   traffic to root node at the same time which may cause traffic to be
   merged on one physical link at transit node, then traffic overload
   may happen on these links.

3.4.  Asymmetric bandwidth allocation

   There are several casse to require asymmetric bandwidth allocation
   for HSMP LSP.  For example, when HSMP LSP is used in VPLS
   application, each leaf node may send reverse traffic to root node at
   the same time.  The reverse path bandwidth allocation MUST fulfill
   the traffic requirement, with the assumption that traffic from all
   leaf nodes will be merged at each link.  Some applications may not



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   require bandwidth guarantee for the upstream path from leaf to root
   (only use reverse path for signaling), then it is not necessary to
   allocate bandwidth for the upstream path.

   The mechanism of allocating asymmetric bandwidth for point-to-point
   link is described in[RFC6387], and this draft will have some
   extension to support asymmetric bandwidth allocation for HSMP LSP.

   Each S2L sub-LSP should have its own traffic bandwidth requirement
   for the reverse path of HSMP LSP, and the S2L sub-LSP should carry
   the bandwidth information.

   Note that, the upstream path share the same bandwidth reservation
   style with the downstream path.  Asymmetric bandwidth reservation
   style is for further study.

3.4.1.  Packet Format

   The sender descriptor in path message is modified as follows to add
   bandwidth information to each S2L sub-LSPs.

       <sender descriptor> ::= <SENDER_TEMPLATE> <SENDER_TSPEC>
                                   [ <ADSPEC> ]
                                   [ <RECORD_ROUTE> ]
                                   [ <SUGGESTED_LABEL> ]
                                   [ <RECOVERY_LABEL> ]
                                   <UPSTREAM_LABEL>
                                   <UPSTREAM_FLOWSPEC>

   S2L sub-LSP descriptor list in path message should have the following
   format.

   <S2L sub-LSP descriptor list> ::= <S2L sub-LSP descriptor>
                                          [ <S2L sub-LSP descriptor list> ]

   <S2L sub-LSP descriptor> ::= <S2L_SUB_LSP>
                                     [ <P2MP SECONDARY_EXPLICIT_ROUTE> ]
                                     <UPSTREAM_FLOWSPEC>

   FF flow descriptor in resv message is modified as follows to add
   bandwidth information to each S2L sub-LSPs.










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   <FF flow descriptor> ::= [ <FLOWSPEC> ]
                                  [ <UPSTREAM_TSPEC>] [ <UPSTREAM_ADSPEC> ]
                                  <FILTER_SPEC> <LABEL>
                                  [ <RECORD_ROUTE> ]
                                  [ <S2L sub-LSP flow descriptor list> ]

   <S2L sub-LSP flow descriptor list> ::=
                                  <S2L sub-LSP flow descriptor>
                                  [ <S2L sub-LSP flow descriptor list> ]

   <S2L sub-LSP flow descriptor> ::= <S2L_SUB_LSP>
                                           [ <P2MP_SECONDARY_RECORD_ROUTE> ]
                                           [ <UPSTREAM_TSPEC>] [ <UPSTREAM_ADSPEC> ]

3.4.2.  UPSTREAM_FLOWSPEC processing

   The Path message of an asymmetric bandwidth HSMP LSP MUST contain an
   UPSTREAM_FLOWSPEC object defined in[RFC6387].  Nodes processing a
   Path message containing an UPSTREAM_FLOWSPEC object MUST allocate the
   upstream bandwidth with the sum of bandwidth of all S2L sub-LSP
   traversing this node.  A node that is unable to allocate the internal
   resources based on the contents of the UPSTREAM_FLOWSPEC object MUST
   issue a PathErr message with a "Routing problem/MPLS label allocation
   failure" indication.

3.4.3.  UPSTREAM_TSPEC and UPSTREAM_ADSPEC processing

   The process of UPSTREAM_TSPEC and UPSTREAM_ADSPEC Object is same as
   defined in[RFC6387].

   When an UPSTREAM_TSPEC object is received by the root node, the root
   MAY determine that the original reservation is insufficient to
   satisfy the traffic flow.  In this case, the root MAY require the LSP
   to be re-routed, and in extreme cases might result in the LSP being
   torn down when sufficient resources are not available.


4.  Setting up the Hub Spoke Multipoint  LSP

   The Following is an example of establishing a HSMP LSP using the
   procedures described in the previous sections.










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                         Receiver
                            |
                            |
                            PE2   PE3 --- Receiver
                            |     |
                            P1 -- P3
                            /
                Source --- PE1
                            \
                            P2 -- PE5 --- Receiver
                            |
                            PE4 --- Receiver

                        Figure 2

   The mechanism is explained using Figure 1.  PE1 is a root LER (head
   end) node.  PE2, PE3, PE4 and PE5 are the leaf LER nodes.  P1 and P2
   are branch LSR nodes and P3 is a plain LSR node.

   1.  PE1 learns that PE2, PE3, PE4 and PE5 are interested in joining a
       HSMP tree with a P2MP ID of P2MP ID1.  We assume that PE1 learns
       of the egress LERs at different points in time.

   2.  PE1 computes the P2P path by control plane to reach PE3 and sends
       a Path message with ERO [PE1, P1, P3, PE3].  It also provides an
       Upstream Label UL1 in the Upstream_Label object that P1 should
       use when forwarding packets to PE1.

   3.  The Path message traverses hop-by-hop and finally reaches PE3.
       Assume that the Path message from P1 to P3 uses upstream label of
       UL3, in which case P1 must program the ILM to swap UL3 with UL1.
       The Path message from P3 to PE3 uses upstream label UL4, and thus
       P3 programs the ILM to swap UL4 with UL3.

   4.  PE3 responds with a Resv message that contains label L4, that P3
       should use when forwarding packets to PE3.  Similarly, the Resv
       from P3 to P1 contains label L3, that P1 should use when
       forwarding packets to P3.

   5.  Similarly when setting up the component sub-LSP from PE1 to PE2,
       PE1 will use the same Upstream label UL1 as it knows that this
       sub-LSP belongs to the same HSMP LSP because of the same P2MP
       session object that both sub-LSPs carry.

   6.  The Path message, thus for this component sub-LSP goes with ERO
       [PE1, P1, PE2] along with the Upstream label UL1 that P1 should
       use when forwarding packets to PE1.




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   7.  P1 forwards the Path message with a new Upstream label UL2.
       Finally, PE2 sends a Resv message containing label L2, that P1
       should use when forwarding packets to PE2.  P1 also understands
       that the Resv messages from PE2 and PE3 refer to the same HSMP
       LSP, because of the P2MP Session Object carried in each. [

   8.  P1 sends a separate Resv message to PE1 corresponding to each of
       the sub-LSPs, but uses the same label L1 since the two sub LSPs
       belong to the same HSMP LSP.

   9.  The other component sub LSPs are set up in a similar way as
       described above.


5.  Grafting

   The operation of adding leaf LER(s) to an existing HSMP LSP is termed
   grafting.  This operation allows leaf nodes to join a HSMP LSP at
   different points in time.

   The leaf LER(s) can be added by signaling only the impacted component
   sub- LSPs in a new Path message.  Hence, the existing component sub-
   LSPs do not have to be re-signaled.

                        Receiver
                           |
                           |
                           PE2   PE3 --- Receiver
                           |     |
                           P1 -- P3 -- P6 -- PE6 --- Receiver
                           /
               Root --- PE1
                           \
                           P2 -- PE5 --- Receiver
                           |
                           PE4 --- Receiver

                        Figure 3

   Assume PE1 needs to set up another sub-LSP from PE1 to PE6.  Being a
   part of the same HSMP LSP, PE1 MUST advertise the same Upstream Label
   to P1 in its Path message.  P1 advertises the same Upstream Label to
   P3.  P3 when sending the Path message to P6 would advertise a fresh
   Upstream label and similarly P6 would use a new upstream label when
   forwarding the Path message to PE6.

   PE6 sends a Resv message with a label back to P6.  P6, would send a
   new label back to P3.  P3 because of this new component sub-LSP (PE1-



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   PE6) is now a branch LSR node that performs MPLS multicast
   replication.


6.  Pruning

   The operation of removing egress LER nodes from an existing HSMP LSP
   is termed as pruning.  This operation allows leaf nodes to be removed
   from a HSMP LSP at different points in time.  This section describes
   the mechanisms to perform pruning.

   Assume that the LER PE6 wants to be removed from the HSMP LSP.  Since
   we used a unique Path message for each component sub LSP, the
   teardown will rely on generating a PathTear message for the
   corresponding Path message.  PE6 will send a Path Tear message with
   the SESSION and SENDER_TEMPLATE objects corresponding to the HSMP LSP
   and the [Sub-Group Originator ID, Sub-Group ID] tuple corresponding
   to the Path message.  P3 upon receiving the PathTear message would
   prune the MPLS multicast replication list and will become a normal
   RSVP LSR node.

   In the P2MP and HSMP context the PathTear is used for a specific
   component sub LSP teardown.  This does not necessarily mean the whole
   path's breakdown from upstream; hence the LSRs MUST retain the
   Upstream label until all the component sub LSPs of the HSMP LSP are
   torn down.

   When a HSMP LSP is removed by the root, a PathTear message MUST be
   generated for each Path message used to signal the HS Multipoint LSP.


7.  Refresh Reduction

   The refresh reduction procedures described in [RFC2961] are equally
   applicable to HS Multipoint LSPs described in this document.  Refresh
   reduction applies to individual messages and the state they install/
   maintain, and that continues to be the case for HS Multipoint LSPs.


8.  Fast Reroute

   [RFC4090] extensions can be used to perform fast reroute for the
   mechanism described in this document when applied within packet
   networks.

   This is still TBD.





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9.  Acknowledgements

   We would like to thank Dimitri Papadimitriou, Yuji Kamite, Sebastien
   Jobert for their comments and feedback on the document.


10.  Security Considerations

   The same security considerations apply as for the RSVP-TE P2MP LSP
   specification, as described in [RFC4875].


11.  IANA Considerations

   No requests for IANA at this point of time.


12.  References

12.1.  Normative References

   [IEEE1588]
              "IEEE Standard for a Precision Clock Synchronization
              Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems",
              2008.

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC3473]  Berger, L., "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching
              (GMPLS) Signaling Resource ReserVation Protocol-Traffic
              Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions", RFC 3473, January 2003.

   [RFC4875]  Aggarwal, R., Papadimitriou, D., and S. Yasukawa,
              "Extensions to Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic
              Engineering (RSVP-TE) for Point-to-Multipoint TE Label
              Switched Paths (LSPs)", RFC 4875, May 2007.

   [RFC6387]  Takacs, A., Berger, L., Caviglia, D., Fedyk, D., and J.
              Meuric, "GMPLS Asymmetric Bandwidth Bidirectional Label
              Switched Paths (LSPs)", RFC 6387, September 2011.

12.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-l2vpn-vpms-frmwk-requirements]
              Kamite, Y., JOUNAY, F., Niven-Jenkins, B., Brungard, D.,
              and L. Jin, "Framework and Requirements for Virtual
              Private Multicast Service (VPMS)",



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              draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpms-frmwk-requirements-05 (work in
              progress), October 2012.

   [I-D.ietf-pwe3-p2mp-pw]
              Sivabalan, S., Boutros, S., and L. Martini, "Signaling
              Root-Initiated Point-to-Multipoint Pseudowire using LDP",
              draft-ietf-pwe3-p2mp-pw-04 (work in progress), March 2012.

   [I-D.ietf-tictoc-1588overmpls]
              Davari, S., Oren, A., Bhatia, M., Roberts, P., and L.
              Montini, "Transporting Timing messages over MPLS
              Networks", draft-ietf-tictoc-1588overmpls-03 (work in
              progress), October 2012.

   [RFC2961]  Berger, L., Gan, D., Swallow, G., Pan, P., Tommasi, F.,
              and S. Molendini, "RSVP Refresh Overhead Reduction
              Extensions", RFC 2961, April 2001.

   [RFC4090]  Pan, P., Swallow, G., and A. Atlas, "Fast Reroute
              Extensions to RSVP-TE for LSP Tunnels", RFC 4090,
              May 2005.

   [RFC4672]  De Cnodder, S., Jonnala, N., and M. Chiba, "RADIUS Dynamic
              Authorization Client MIB", RFC 4672, September 2006.


1.  Appendix: Alternate Mechanism to set up a reverse LSP

   We had considered another approach where the leaves could set up a
   unidirectional LSP by reversing the RRO that they recieve in the S2L
   sub-LSP Path message and use that as the ERO in their Path message.
   This approach was rejected because this would have entailed setting
   up another reverse LSP which leads to more state being maintained on
   all the intermediate routers.  The reader is suggested to go through
   Section 2 which discusses this in detail.


Authors' Addresses

   Lizhong Jin
   Independent
   Shanghai  201203
   China

   Email: lizho.jin@gmail.com






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   Frederic Jounay
   France Telecom
   2, avenue Pierre-Marzin
   22307 Lannion Cedex, FRANCE

   Email: frederic.jounay@orange.ch


   Manav Bhatia
   Alcatel-Lucent
   Bangalore,
   India

   Email: manav.bhatia@alcatel-lucent.com





































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