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Network Working Group                              J.L. Le Roux (Editor)
                                                          France Telecom
IETF Internet Draft                                J.P. Vasseur (Editor)
                                                       Cisco System Inc.
Proposed Status: Standard Track                          Seisho Yasukawa
Expires: April 2007                                                  NTT
                                                        Martin Vigoureux
                                                                 Alcatel




                                                            October 2006


      IGP Routing extensions for discovery of P2MP TE LSP Leaf LSRs

                draft-leroux-mpls-p2mp-te-autoleaf-02.txt


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Abstract

   In various situations, such as TV broadcasting with several regional
   sources, it is required to setup a series of Point-To-MultiPoint
   (P2MP) Traffic Engineering Label Switched Paths (TE LSPs) between a
   set of head-end Label Switching Routers (LSRs) and a group of leaf
   LSRs referred to as a Leaf Group. Setting up such a series of P2MP TE
   LSPs requires for the set of head-end LSRs to be aware of all leaf
   LSRs, which may lead to the cumbersome configuration of a potentially

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   large number of leaf LSRs on each head-end LSRs. Furthermore leaf
   LSRs may want to dynamically join or leave a Leaf Group without
   requiring manual configuration on the head-end LSRs. This document
   specifies IGP routing extensions for IS-IS and OSPF so as to provide
   an automatic discovery of the set of leaf LSRs members of a Leaf
   Group, in order to automate the creation and modification of a series
   of P2MP TE-LSPs.

Conventions used in this document

   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 RFC-2119.

Table of Contents

   1.      Note........................................................3
   2.      Terminology.................................................3
   3.      Introduction................................................3
   4.      Leaf Group..................................................4
   4.1.    Description.................................................4
   4.2.    Required Information........................................4
   5.      LEAF-GROUP TLV formats......................................4
   5.1.    OSPF LEAF-GROUP TLV format..................................4
   5.2.    IS-IS LEAF-GROUP TLV format.................................6
   6.      Elements of procedure.......................................7
   6.1.    OSPF........................................................7
   6.2.    IS-IS.......................................................8
   7.      Backward compatibility......................................9
   8.      IANA Considerations.........................................9
   8.1.    OSPF........................................................9
   8.2.    IS-IS.......................................................9
   9.      Security Considerations....................................10
   10.     References.................................................10
   10.1.   Normative references.......................................10
   10.2.   Informative References.....................................11
   11.     Authors' Address...........................................11
   12.     Intellectual Property Statement............................12















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1. Note

   This document defines the concept of “Auto-leaf” along with the
   required IS-IS and OSPF extensions that may be described in separate
   documents at a later stage.

2. Terminology

   This document uses terminologies defined in [RFC3031], [RFC3209],
   [RFC4461], and [RSVP-P2MP-TE].

3. Introduction

   [RSVP-P2MP-TE] defines RSVP-TE extensions for setting up P2MP TE
   LSPs, with one head-end LSR and a set of one or more leaf LSRs
   (leaves).

   In various situations, such as for instance TV broadcasting with
   several non collocated sources, it is required to setup a series of
   P2MP TE LSPs between a set of head-end LSRs and a common group of
   leaf LSRs, that is a series of P2MP TE-LSPs with distinct head-end
   LSRs and the same group of leaf LSRs. Such a group of leaf LSRs is
   referred to as a "P2MP Leaf Group". The setup of such a P2MP LSP
   series requires for each head-end LSRs to be aware of all leaf LSRs
   in the P2MP Leaf Group. It is not uncommon for a P2MP Leaf Group to
   contain a significant number of leaf LSRs, and there may be a
   potentially large number of head-end LSRs. In such situations, this
   requires cumbersome configuration of all leaf LSRs on each head-end
   LSRs, prone to misconfiguration.

   Furthermore, Leaf LSRs may desire to dynamically join or leave a P2MP
   Leaf Group.

   Hence an automatic mechanism allowing head-end LSRs to discover the
   leaf LSRs willing to join or leave a Leaf Group would undoubtedly
   ease the configuration task.

   This document specifies IGP (OSPF and IS-IS) extensions so as to
   automatically discover the leaf LSRs of a Leaf Group. Note that the
   mechanisms needed for the dynamic creation of P2MP TE LSPs and
   dynamic Leaf addition/removal (grafting/pruning), are implementation
   specific and outside the scope of this document. An implementation
   should take special care of implementing the appropriate dampening
   mechanisms to avoid any unacceptable impact on the IGP scalability.

   Routing extensions have been defined in [OSPF-CAP] and [ISIS-CAP] in
   order to advertise router capabilities. This document specifies IGP
   (OSPF and ISIS) Leaf Group TLVs allowing an LSR to advertise its
   desire to join/leave one or more Leaf Group(s), to be carried in the
   OSPF Router Information LSA [OSPF-CAP] and IS-IS Router Capability
   TLV [ISIS-CAP]. This allows the automatic creation and modification
   of a series of P2MP TE LSPs without manual intervention.

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4. Leaf Group

4.1. Description

   A Leaf Group is defined as a group of LSRs, which are leaves of a
   series of one or more P2MP TE LSPs. Routing extensions are specified
   in this document allowing for dynamic discovery of the Leaf Group
   members. Procedures are also specified for a member to join or leave
   a Leaf group.

   An LSR may belong to multiple Leaf Groups.

4.2. Required Information

   This document specifies a LEAF-GROUP TLV that indicates the set of
   Leaf Group(s) an LSR belongs to. For each Leaf Group membership
   announced by an LSR, the LEAF-GROUP TLV is used to advertise a Leaf
   Group number identifying the Leaf group the LSR belongs to.

5. LEAF-GROUP TLV formats

5.1. OSPF LEAF-GROUP TLV format

   The format of the OSPF LEAF-GROUP TLV is the same as the TLV format
   used by the Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF [OSPF-TE]. That
   is, the TLV is composed of 2 octets for the type, 2 octets specifying
   the TLV length and a value field.  The TLV is zero padded to four-
   octet alignment; padding is not included in the length field (so a
   three octet value would have a length of three, but the total size of
   the TLV would be eight octets).

   The OSPF LEAF-GROUP TLV is used to advertise the desire of an LSR to
   join/leave a set of one or more Leaf Group(s).

   The OSPF IPv4 LEAF-GROUP TLV (advertised in an OSPFv2 Router
   Information LSA defined in [OSPF-CAP]) has the following format:

      TYPE: To be assigned by IANA (Suggested Value: 5)
      LENGTH: Variable (>=8, multiple of 4)
      VALUE:
    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                   Leaf LSR IPv4 address                       |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                       Leaf Group Number 1                     |
   //                                                               //
    |                       Leaf Group Number N                     |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

               Figure 1 - IPv4 LEAF-GROUP TLV format

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   The OSPF IPv6 LEAF-GROUP TLV (advertised in an OSPFv3 Router
   Information LSA defined in [OSPF-CAP]) has the following format:

      TYPE: To be assigned by IANA (Suggested Value: 6)
      LENGTH: Variable (>= 20, multiple of 4)
      VALUE:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    |                   Leaf LSR IPv6 address                       |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                       Leaf Group Number 1                     |
   //                                                               //
    |                       Leaf Group Number N                     |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

               Figure 2 - IPv6 LEAF-GROUP TLV format

   The LEAF-GROUP TLV contains:

      - A Leaf-LSR address: an IPv4 or IPv6 IP address to be used as S2L
        sub-LSP destination address (defined in [RSVP-P2MP-TE]).
      - A set of one or more Leaf Group number(s), encoded with 32 bit
         integers that identify the Leaf Group(s) the LSR belongs to.
























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5.2. IS-IS LEAF-GROUP TLV format

   The IS-IS LEAF-GROUP TLV is composed of 1 octet for the type, 1 octet
   specifying the TLV length and a value field.  The format of the LEAF-
   GROUP TLV is identical to the TLV format used by the Traffic
   Engineering Extensions for IS-IS [RFC3784].

   The ISIS LEAF-GROUP TLV is used to advertise the desire of an LSR to
   join/leave a set of one or more Leaf Groups.

   The ISIS IPv4 LEAF-GROUP TLV (advertised in an IS-IS Router
   Capability TLV defined in [ISIS-CAP]) has the following format:

   TYPE: To be assigned by IANA (Suggested Value: 5)
   LENGTH: Variable (>=8, multiple of 4)
   VALUE:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                   Leaf LSR IPv4 address                       |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                       Leaf Group Number 1                     |
   //                                                               //
    |                       Leaf Group Number N                     |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

               Figure 3 - IPv4 LEAF-GROUP TLV format


   The ISIS IPv6 LEAF-GROUP TLV (advertised in an IS-IS router
   information LSA defined in [ISIS-CAP]) has the following format:

   TYPE: To be assigned by IANA (Suggested Value: 6)
   LENGTH: Variable
   VALUE:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                                                               |
    |                                                               |
    |                   Leaf LSR IPv6 address                       |
    |                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                       Leaf Group Number 1                     |
   //                                                               //
    |                       Leaf Group Number N                     |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+


               Figure 4 - IPv6 LEAF-GROUP TLV format

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   The P2MP-LEAF-GROUP TLV comprises:
      - A Leaf-LSR address: an IPv4 or IPv6 IP address to be used as S2L
        sub-LSP destination address (defined in [RSVP-P2MP-TE]).
      - A set of one or more Leaf Group number(s), encoded with 32
        bit integers that identifies the Leaf Group(s) the LSR
        belongs to.


6. Elements of procedure

6.1. OSPF

   The LEAF-GROUP TLV is carried within an OSPFv2 Router Information LSA
   (Opaque type of 4 and Opaque ID of 0) or OSPFv3 Router information
   LSA (function code of 12) that are defined in [OSPF-CAP].  As such,
   elements of procedure are inherited from those defined in [OSPF-CAP].

   The LEAF-GROUP TLV is OPTIONAL. An OSPF Router Information LSA may
   comprise zero one or more LEAF-GROUP TLVs. Several TLVs are used when
   distinct destination addresses have to be used for distinct Leaf
   Groups.

   In OSPFv2 the flooding scope is controlled by the opaque LSA type (as
   defined in [RFC2370]) and in OSPFv3 by the S1/S2 bits (as defined in
   [OSPFv3]).

   The LEAF-GROUP TLV flooding scope will be determined according to the
   location of the head-end LSR(s) for the P2MP TE LSP related to the
   LEAF GROUP and the location of the Leaf LSR originating the LEAF-
   GROUP TLV:

   - If the head-end LSR(s) and leaf LSR originating the P2MP-LEAF-
      GROUP TLV are located within the same area, the LEAF-GROUP TLV
      MUST be generated within an OSPFV2 type 10 Router Information LSA
      or an OSPFV3 Router Information LSA with the S1 bit set and the S2
      bit cleared.

   - If the head-end LSR(s) and leaf LSRs originating the LEAF-GROUP
      TLV are located within distinct areas the LEAF-GROUP TLV MUST be
      generated within an OSPFV2 type 11 Router Information LSA or an
      OSPFV3 Router Information LSA with the S1 bit cleared and the S2
      bit set.

   A router MUST originate a new OSPF Router Information LSA whenever
   the content of the advertised LEAF-GROUP TLV changes or whenever
   required by the regular OSPF procedure (LSA refresh (every
   LSRefreshTime)). If an LSR desires to join or leave a particular Leaf
   group, it MUST originate a new OSPF Router Information LSA containing
   the updated LEAF-GROUP TLV. In the case of a join a new entry will be
   added to the LEAF-GROUP TLV; conversely, if the LSR leaves a Leaf
   Group the corresponding entry will be removed from the LEAF-GROUP

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   TLV. Note that both operations can be performed in the context of a
   single refresh. An implementation SHOULD be able to detect any change
   to a previously received LEAF-GROUP TLV from a specific LSR.

   A P2MP LSP is likely to aggregate a large number of multicast
   channels and hence the number of Leaf Groups an LSR belongs to is
   expected to be very small, typically less than 10. Otherwise, in the
   case of a large number of Leaf Groups care should be given to the
   relevance of using an IGP-based discovery mechanism.

   Moreover, as spelt out in [RFC4461], the dynamics of the P2MP LSP is
   likely to be relatively small. A working figure for an established
   P2MP TE LSP is less than 10% churn per day; that is, a relatively
   slow rate of churn. Nevertheless appropriate rate limiting and
   dampening mechanisms SHOULD be implemented so as to avoid any
   unacceptable impact on IGP scalability. The dampening and rate
   limiting algorithms in use are outside of the scope of this document.


6.2. IS-IS

   The LEAF-GROUP TLV is carried within the IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV
   that is defined in [ISIS-CAP]. As such, elements of procedure are
   inherited from those defined in [ISIS-CAP].

   The LEAF-GROUP TLV is OPTIONAL. An IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV may
   comprise zero one or more LEAF-GROUP TLVs. Several TVLs are used when
   distinct destination addresses have to be used for distinct Leaf
   Groups.

   The LEAF-GROUP TLV flooding scope will depend on the head-end
   LSR(s) and generating LSR location:

   - If the head-end LSR(s) and generating LSR are located within a
      single IS-IS area/level, the LEAF-GROUP TLV MUST not be leaked
      across IS-IS level/area and the S flag of the Router CAPABILITY
      TLV MUST be cleared.

   - If the head-end LSR(s) and generating LSR are located within
      distinct IS-IS area/level, the LEAF-GROUP TLV MUST be leaked
      across IS-IS level/area and the S flag of the Router CAPABILITY
      TLV MUST be set.

   An IS-IS router MUST originate a new IS-IS LSP whenever the content
   of the advertised LEAF-GROUP TLV changes or whenever required by the
   regular IS-IS procedure (LSP refresh). If an LSR desires to join or
   leave a particular Leaf Group, it MUST originate a new IS-IS LSP
   containing the updated LEAF-GROUP TLV. In the case of a join a new
   entry will be added to the LEAF-GROUP TLV; conversely, if the LSR
   leaves a Leaf Group the corresponding entry will be removed from the
   LEAF-GROUP TLV. Note that both operations can be performed in the
   context of a single refresh. An implementation SHOULD be able to

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   detect any change to a previously received LEAF-GROUP TLV from a
   specific LSR.

   A P2MP LSP is likely to aggregate a large number of multicast
   channels and hence the number of Leaf groups an LSR belongs to is
   expected to be very small, typically less than 10. Otherwise, in the
   case of a large number of Leaf Groups care should be given to the
   relevance of using an IGP-based discovery mechanism.

   Moreover, as spelt out in [RFC4461], the dynamics of the P2MP LSP is
   likely to be relatively small. A working figure for an established
   P2MP TE LSP is less than 10% churn per day; that is, a relatively
   slow rate of churn. Nevertheless appropriate rate limiting and
   dampening mechanisms SHOULD be implemented so as to avoid any
   unacceptable impact on IGP scalability. The dampening and rate
   limiting algorithms in use are outside of the scope of this document.


7. Backward compatibility

   The LEAF-GROUP TLVs defined in this document do not introduce any
   interoperability issue.
   For OSPF, a router not supporting the LEAF-GROUP TLV MUST just
   silently ignore the TLV as specified in [OSPF-CAP].
   For IS-IS a router not supporting the LEAF-GROUP TLV MUST just
   silently ignore the TLV as specified in [IS-IS-CAP].

8. IANA Considerations

8.1. OSPF

   IANA is in charge of the assignment of TLV code points for the Router
   Information LSA defined in [OSPF-CAP].

   IANA will assign a new codepoint for the LEAF-GROUP TLVs defined in
   this document and carried within the Router Information LSA.

      IPv4 LEAF-GROUP TLV (suggested value=5)

      IPv6 LEAF-GROUP TLV (suggested value=6)

8.2. IS-IS

   IANA is in charge of the assignment of TLV code points for the IS-IS
   Router CAPABILITY TLV defined in [ISIS-CAP].

   IANA will assign a new codepoint for the LEAF-GROUP TLVs defined in
   this document and carried within the IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV.

      IPv4 LEAF-GROUP TLV (suggested value=5)

      IPv6 LEAF-GROUP TLV (suggested value=6)

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9. Security Considerations

   This document specifies the content of the LEAF GROUP TLV in IS-IS
   and OSPF, to be used for automating the setup of P2MP TE-LSPs. As
   this TLV is not used for SPF computation or normal routing, the
   extensions specified here have no direct effect on IP routing.
   Tampering with this TLV may have an effect on the configuration of
   P2MP TE-LSP. Mechanisms defined to secure IS-IS Link State PDUs
   [ISIS-HMAC], OSPF LSAs [OSPF-SIG], and their TLVs, can be used to
   secure this TLV as well. DoS attacks that would consist of
   advertising a considerable number of Leaf Groups would not lead to
   the generation of the corresponding P2MP TE LSPs since this would
   also require for other LSRs acting as head-end to be also configured
   with matching Leaf Groups.


10. References

10.1. Normative references


   [RFC3667] Bradner, S., "IETF Rights in Contributions", BCP 78, RFC
   3667, February 2004.

   [BCP79] Bradner, S., "Intellectual Property Rights in IETF
   Technology", RFC 3979, March 2005.

   [OSPF-v2] Moy, J., "OSPF Version 2", RFC 2328, April 1998.

   [OSPF-v3] Coltun, R., Ferguson, D., and J. Moy, "OSPF for IPv6",
   RFC 2740, December 1999.

   [RFC2370] Coltun, R., "The OSPF Opaque LSA Option", RFC 2370,
   July 1998.

   [IS-IS] "Intermediate System to Intermediate System Intra-Domain
   Routing Exchange Protocol " ISO 10589.

   [IS-IS-IP] Callon, R., "Use of OSI IS-IS for routing in TCP/IP and
   dual environments", RFC 1195, December 1990.

   [OSPF-TE] Katz, D., Yeung, D., Kompella, K., "Traffic Engineering
   Extensions to OSPF Version 2", RFC 3630, September 2003.

   [IS-IS-TE] Li, T., Smit, H., "IS-IS extensions for Traffic
   Engineering", RFC 3784, June 2004.

   [OSPF-CAP] Lindem, A., Shen, N., Aggarwal, R., Shaffer, S., Vasseur,
   J.P., "Extensions to OSPF for advertising Optional Router
   Capabilities", draft-ietf-ospf-cap, work in progress.

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   [IS-IS-CAP] Vasseur, J.P. et al., "IS-IS extensions for advertising
   router information", draft-ietf-isis-caps, work in progress.

   [RSVP-P2MP-TE] Aggarwal, Papadimitriou, Yasukawa, et. al. "Extensions
   to RSVP-TE for point-to-multipoint TE LSPs", draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-te-
   p2mp, work in progress.

10.2. Informative References

   [RFC4461] Yasukawa, S., et. al., "Signaling Requirements for Point to
   Multipoint Traffic Engineered MPLS LSPs", RFC4461, April 2006.


11. Authors' Addresses

   Jean-Louis Le Roux (Editor)
   France Telecom
   2, avenue Pierre-Marzin
   22307 Lannion Cedex
   FRANCE
   Email: jeanlouis.leroux@francetelecom.com

   JP Vasseur (Editor)
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   1414 Massachusetts Avenue
   Boxborough , MA - 01719
   USA
   Email: jpv@cisco.com

   Seisho Yasukawa
   NTT Corporation
   9-11, Midori-Cho 3-Chome
   Musashino-Shi, Tokyo 180-8585,
   Japan

   Martin Vigoureux
   Alcatel
   Route de Nozay, 91461 Marcoussis cedex, France
   Phone: +33 (0)1 69 63 18 52
   Email: martin.vigoureux@alcatel.fr












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12. Intellectual Property Statement

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