BESS Working Group                                             G. Mishra
Internet-Draft                                              Verizon Inc.
Intended status: Best Current Practice                         M. Mishra
Expires: September 23, 2021                                Cisco Systems
                                                             J. Tantsura
                                                                 L. Wang
                                                  Juniper Networks, Inc.
                                                                 Q. Yang
                                                         Arista Networks
                                                              A. Simpson
                                                                   Nokia
                                                                 S. Chen
                                                     Huawei Technologies
                                                          March 22, 2021


                 IPv4 NLRI with IPv6 Next Hop Use Cases
         draft-mishra-bess-deployment-guide-ipv4nlri-ipv6nh-00

Abstract

   As Enterprises and Service Providers upgrade their brown field or
   green field MPLS/SR core to an IPv6 transport, Multiprotocol BGP (MP-
   BGP)now plays an important role in the transition of the core as well
   as edge from IPv4 to IPv6.  Operators can now continue to support
   legacy IPv4, VPN-IPv4, and Multicast VPN-IPv4 customers.

   This document describes the critical use case and OPEX savings of
   being able to leverage the MP-BGP capability exchange usage as a pure
   transport, allowing both IPv4 and IPv6 to be carried over the same
   BGP TCP session.  By doing so, allows for the elimination of Dual
   Stacking on the PE-CE connections.  Thus making the eBGP peering
   IPv6-ONLY to now carry both IPv4 and IPv6 Network Layer Reachability
   Information (NLRI).

   This document now provides a solution for IXPs (Internet Exchange
   points) that are facing IPv4 address depletion at these peering
   points to use BGP-MP capability exchange defined in [RFC8950] to
   carry IPv4 (Network Layer Reachability Information) NLRI in an IPv6
   next hop using the [RFC5565] softwire mesh framework.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   3.  eBGP PE-CE IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI over IPv6 Next Hop Peer Use
       Case Interop Testing  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   4.  RFC 8950 updates to RFC 5549  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  Operational Improvements with Single IPv6 transport peer  . .   7
   6.  Operational Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   7.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   8.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   9.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   10. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     10.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
     10.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Appendix A.  IPv4 NLRI IPv6 Next Hop Vendor Testing . . . . . . .  10
     A.1.  Router and Switch Vendors Support and Quality Assurance
           Engineering Lab Results.  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     A.2.  Router and Switch Vendors Interoperability Lab Results. .  11
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11






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1.  Introduction

   As Enterprises and Service Providers upgrade their brown field or
   green field MPLS/SR core to an IPv6 transport such as MPLS LDPv6, SR-
   MPLSv6 or SRv6, Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) now plays an important
   role in the transition of the core from IPv4 to IPv6.  Operators can
   now continue to support legacy IPv4 address family and Sub-Address-
   Family VPN-IPv4, and Multicast VPN IPv4 customers.

   IXPs (Internet Exchange points) are also facing IPv4 address
   depletion at their peering points, which are large Layer 2 transit
   backbones that service providers peer and exchange IPv4 and IPv6
   (Network Layer Reachability Information) NLRI.  Today these transit
   exchange points are dual stacked.  One proposal to solve this issue
   is to use [RFC8950] to carry IPv4 (Network Layer Reachability
   Information) NLRI in an IPv6 next hop and eliminate the IPv4 peering
   completely using the concept of [RFC8950] softwire mesh framework.
   So now with the MP-BGP reach capability exchanged over IPv4 AFI over
   IPv6 next hop peer we can now advertise IPv4(Network Layer
   Reachability Information) NLRI over IPv6 peering using the [RFC5565]
   softwire mesh framework.

   Multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) specifies that the set of usable next-hop
   address families is determined by the Address Family Identifier (AFI)
   and the Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI).  Historically
   the AFI/SAFI definitions for the IPv4 address family only have
   provisions for advertising a Next Hop address that belongs to the
   IPv4 protocol when advertising IPv4 or VPN-IPv4 Network Layer
   Reachability Information (NLRI).  [RFC8950] specifies the extensions
   necessary to allow advertising IPv4 NLRI or VPN-IPv4 NLRI with a Next
   Hop address that belongs to the IPv6 protocol.  This comprises an
   extension of the AFI/SAFI definitions to allow the address of the
   Next Hop for IPv4 NLRI or VPN-IPv4 NLRI to also belong to the IPv6
   Protocol.  [RFC8950] defines the encoding of the Next Hop to
   determine which of the protocols the address actually belongs to, and
   a new BGP Capability allowing MP-BGP Peers to dynamically discover
   whether they can exchange IPv4 NLRI and VPN-IPv4 NLRI with an IPv6
   Next Hop.

   With this new MP-BGP capability exchange allows the BGP peering
   session to act as a pure transport to allow the session to carry
   Address Family Identifier (AFI) and the Subsequent Address Family
   Identifier (SAFI) for both IPv4 and IPv6.

   Furthermore, a number of these existing AFI/SAFIs allow the Next Hop
   to belong to either the IPv4 Network Layer Protocol or the IPv6
   Network Layer Protocol, and specify the encoding of the Next Hop
   information to determine which of the protocols the address actually



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   belongs to.  For example, [RFC4684] allows the Next Hop address to be
   either IPv4 or IPv6 and states that the Next Hop field address shall
   be interpreted as an IPv4 address whenever the length of Next Hop
   address is 4 octets, and as an IPv6 address whenever the length of
   the Next Hop address is 16 octets.

   The current specification for carrying IPv4 Network Layer
   Reachability Information (NLRI) of a given address family via a Next
   Hop of a different address family is now defined in [RFC8950], and
   specifies the extensions necessary to do so.  This comprises an
   extension of the AFI/SAFI definitions to allow the address of the
   Next Hop for IPv4 NLRI or VPN-IPv4 NLRI to belong to either the IPv4
   or the IPv6 protocol, the encoding of the Next Hop information to
   determine which of the protocols the address actually belongs to, and
   a new BGP Capability allowing MP-BGP peers to dynamically discover
   whether they can exchange IPv4 NLRI and VPN- IPv4 NLRI with an IPv6
   Next Hop.

   With the new extensions defined in [RFC8950] supporting Network Layer
   Reachability Information (NLRI) and next hop address family mismatch,
   the BGP peer session can now be treated as a pure transport and carry
   both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI at the PE-CE edge over a single IPv6 TCP
   session.  This allows for the elimination of dual stack from the PE-
   CE peering point, and now allow the peering to be IPv6-ONLY.  The
   elimination of IPv4 on the PE-CE peering points translates into OPEX
   expenditure savings of point-to-point infrastructure links as well as
   /31 address space savings and administration and network management
   of both IPv4 and IPv6 BGP peers.  This reduction decreases the number
   of PE-CE BGP peers by fifty percent, which is a tremendous cost
   savings for all Enterprises and Service Providers.

   While the savings exists at the PE-CE edge, on the core side PE to
   Route Reflector peering carrying <AFI/SAFI> IPv4 <1/1>, VPN-IPV4
   <1/128>, and Multicasat VPN <1/129>, the cost savings nets to a break
   even to be the same as with an IPV4 Core carrying IPv6 NLRI IPV6
   <2/1>, VPN-IPV6 <2/128>, and Multicasat VPN <2/129>.

   This document also provides a possible solution for IXPs (Internet
   Exchange points) that are facing IPv4 address depletion at these
   peering points to use BGP-MP capability exchange defined in [RFC8950]
   to carry IPv4 (Network Layer Reachability Information) NLRI in an
   IPv6 next hop using the [RFC5565] softwire mesh framework concept of
   IPv6 NLRI edge over an IPv6 core.








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2.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  eBGP PE-CE IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI over IPv6 Next Hop Peer Use Case
    Interop Testing

   Today the IPv4 NLRI and IPv6 NLRI are carried over separate BGP
   sessions based on the address family of the NLRI being transported.

   The goal of this document is to provide operators interoperability
   test results from external BGP PE-CE edge peering between vendors
   Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Nokia and Huawei.  The purpose of this
   document is to prove test data to operators to show that all the
   features and functionality of carrying IPv4 NLRI over a separate IPv4
   peer that exists today is not only viable but recommended to be
   carried over a single IPv6 peer along with IPv6 NLRI, with no loss of
   features and functionality using [RFC8950] IPv6 next hop encoding.

   The test results published from this document is to provide concrete
   evidence that this is now the Best Practice for Edge peering.  The
   defacto standard for operators to now use a single IPv6 peer to carry
   both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI.

   With the use case defined in this document, IPv6 NLRI Unicast SAFI
   along with now the IPv4 NLRI Unicast SAFI, can now being carried by
   the sinlge transport style IPv6 next hop peer.

   This document describes the use case of advertising with IPv4 NLRI
   over IPv6 Next hop with MP_REACH_NLRI with:

   o  AFI = 1

   o  SAFI = 1

   o  Length of Next Hop Address = 16 or 32

   o  Next Hop Address = IPv6 address of next hop (potentially followed
      by the link-local IPv6 address of the next hop).  This field is to
      be constructed as per Section 3 of [RFC2545].

   The BGP speaker receiving the advertisement MUST use the Length of
   Next Hop Address field to determine which network-layer protocol the
   next hop address belongs to.



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   Note that this method of using the Length of the Next Hop Address
   field to determine which network-layer protocol the next hop address
   belongs to (out of the set of protocols allowed by the AFI/SAFI
   definition) is the same as used in [RFC4684] and [RFC6074].

4.  RFC 8950 updates to RFC 5549

   This section describes the updates to [RFC8950] next hop encoding
   from [RFC5549].  In [RFC5549] when AFI/SAFI 1/128 is used, the next-
   hop address is encoded as an IPv6 address with a length of 16 or 32
   bytes.  To accommodate all existing implementations and bring
   consistency with VPNv4oIPv4 and VPNv6oIPv6, this document modifies
   how the next-hop address is encoded.  The next-hop address is now
   encoded as a VPN-IPv6 address with a length of 24 or 48 bytes
   [RFC8950] (see Sections 3 and 6.2).  This change addresses Erratum ID
   5253 (Err5253).  As all known and deployed implementations are
   interoperable today and use the new proposed encoding, the change
   does not break existing interoperability.

   [RFC5549] next hop encoding of MP_REACH_NLRI with:

   o  NLRI= NLRI as per current AFI/SAFI definition

   Advertising with [RFC4760] MP_REACH_NLRI with:

   o  AFI = 1

   o  SAFI = 128 or 129

   o  Length of Next Hop Address = 16 or 32

   o  NLRI= NLRI as per current AFI/SAFI definition

   [RFC8950] next hop encoding of MP_REACH_NLRI with:

   o  NLRI= NLRI as per current AFI/SAFI definition

   Advertising with [RFC4760] MP_REACH_NLRI with:

   o  AFI = 1

   o  SAFI = 128 or 129

   o  Length of Next Hop Address = 24 or 48

   o  Next Hop Address = VPN-IPv6 address of next hop with an 8-octet RD
      set to zero (potentially followed by the link-local VPN-IPv6
      address of the next hop with an 8-octet RD is set to zero).



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   o  NLRI= NLRI as per current AFI/SAFI definition

5.  Operational Improvements with Single IPv6 transport peer

   As Enterprises and Service Providers migrate their IPv4 core to an
   MPLS LDPv6 or SRv6 transport, they must continue to be able to
   support legacy IPv4 customers.  With the new extensions defined in
   [RFC4760], supporting Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI)
   and next hop address family mismatch, the BGP peer session can now be
   treated as a pure transport and carry both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI at the
   PE-CE edge.  This paves the way to now eliminate dual stacking on all
   PE-CE peering points to customers making the peering IPv6 only.  With
   this change all IPv4 and IPv6 Network Layer Reachability Information
   (NLRI) will now be carried over a single BGP session.  This also
   solves the dual stack issue with IXP (Internet Exchange Points)
   having to maintain separate peering for both IPv4 and IPv6.  From an
   operations perspective the PE-CE edge peering will be drastically
   simplified with the elimination of IPv4 peers yielding a reduction of
   peers by 50 percent.  From an operations perspective prior to
   elimination of IPv4 peers an audit is recommended to identify and
   IPv4 and IPv6 peering incongruencies that may exist and to rectify
   prior to elimination of the IPv4 peers.  No operational impacts or
   issues are expected with this change.

6.  Operational Considerations

   With a sinlge IPv6 Peer carrying both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI there are
   some operational considerations in terms of what changes and what
   does not change.

   What does not change with a single IPv6 transport peer carrying IPv4
   NLRI and IPv6 NLRI below:

   Routing Policy configuration is still separate for IPv4 and IPv6
   configured by capability as previously

   Layer 1, Layer 2 issues such as 1 way fiber or fiber cut will impact
   both IPv4 and IPv6 as previously.

   If the interface is admin down the IPv6 peer would go down and IPv4
   NLRI and IPv6 NLRI would be withdrawn as previously.

   What does change with a single IPv6 transport peer carrying IPv4 NLRI
   and IPv6 NLRI below:

   Physical interface is no longer dual stacked.  Any change in IPv6
   address or DAD state will impact both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI exchange




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   Single BFD session for both IPv4 and IPv6 NLRI fate sharing as the
   session is now tied to the transport which now is only IPv6 address
   family

   Both IPv4 and IPv6 peer now exists under the IPv4 address family
   configuration

   Fate sharing of IPv4 and IPv6 address family from a logical
   perspective now carried over a single IPv6 peer

7.  IANA Considerations

   There are not any IANA considerations.

8.  Security Considerations

   The extensions defined in this document allow BGP to propagate
   reachability information about IPv6 routes over an MPLS IPv4 core
   network.  As such, no new security issues are raised beyond those
   that already exist in BGP-4 and use of MP-BGP for IPv6.  The security
   features of BGP and corresponding security policy defined in the ISP
   domain are applicable.  For the inter-AS distribution of IPv6 routes
   according to case (a) of Section 4 of this document, no new security
   issues are raised beyond those that already exist in the use of eBGP
   for IPv6 [RFC2545].

9.  Acknowledgments

10.  References

10.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC2545]  Marques, P. and F. Dupont, "Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol
              Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing", RFC 2545,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2545, March 1999,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2545>.

   [RFC4291]  Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
              Architecture", RFC 4291, DOI 10.17487/RFC4291, February
              2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4291>.






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   [RFC4364]  Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
              Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, DOI 10.17487/RFC4364, February
              2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4364>.

   [RFC4760]  Bates, T., Chandra, R., Katz, D., and Y. Rekhter,
              "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4", RFC 4760,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4760, January 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4760>.

   [RFC5492]  Scudder, J. and R. Chandra, "Capabilities Advertisement
              with BGP-4", RFC 5492, DOI 10.17487/RFC5492, February
              2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5492>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

   [RFC8277]  Rosen, E., "Using BGP to Bind MPLS Labels to Address
              Prefixes", RFC 8277, DOI 10.17487/RFC8277, October 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8277>.

10.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-idr-dynamic-cap]
              Ramachandra, S. and E. Chen, "Dynamic Capability for BGP-
              4", draft-ietf-idr-dynamic-cap-14 (work in progress),
              December 2011.

   [RFC4659]  De Clercq, J., Ooms, D., Carugi, M., and F. Le Faucheur,
              "BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for
              IPv6 VPN", RFC 4659, DOI 10.17487/RFC4659, September 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4659>.

   [RFC4684]  Marques, P., Bonica, R., Fang, L., Martini, L., Raszuk,
              R., Patel, K., and J. Guichard, "Constrained Route
              Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol
              Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual
              Private Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4684, DOI 10.17487/RFC4684,
              November 2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4684>.

   [RFC4798]  De Clercq, J., Ooms, D., Prevost, S., and F. Le Faucheur,
              "Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6
              Provider Edge Routers (6PE)", RFC 4798,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4798, February 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4798>.






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   [RFC4925]  Li, X., Ed., Dawkins, S., Ed., Ward, D., Ed., and A.
              Durand, Ed., "Softwire Problem Statement", RFC 4925,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4925, July 2007,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4925>.

   [RFC5549]  Le Faucheur, F. and E. Rosen, "Advertising IPv4 Network
              Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop",
              RFC 5549, DOI 10.17487/RFC5549, May 2009,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5549>.

   [RFC5565]  Wu, J., Cui, Y., Metz, C., and E. Rosen, "Softwire Mesh
              Framework", RFC 5565, DOI 10.17487/RFC5565, June 2009,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5565>.

   [RFC6074]  Rosen, E., Davie, B., Radoaca, V., and W. Luo,
              "Provisioning, Auto-Discovery, and Signaling in Layer 2
              Virtual Private Networks (L2VPNs)", RFC 6074,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC6074, January 2011,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6074>.

   [RFC6513]  Rosen, E., Ed. and R. Aggarwal, Ed., "Multicast in MPLS/
              BGP IP VPNs", RFC 6513, DOI 10.17487/RFC6513, February
              2012, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6513>.

   [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,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6514>.

   [RFC8126]  Cotton, M., Leiba, B., and T. Narten, "Guidelines for
              Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26,
              RFC 8126, DOI 10.17487/RFC8126, June 2017,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8126>.

   [RFC8950]  Litkowski, S., Agrawal, S., Ananthamurthy, K., and K.
              Patel, "Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability
              Information (NLRI) with an IPv6 Next Hop", RFC 8950,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8950, November 2020,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8950>.

Appendix A.  IPv4 NLRI IPv6 Next Hop Vendor Testing

   IPv4 NLRI with IPv6 Next Hop encoding is supported for all BGP peers
   both iBGP and eBGP.

   This section details the vendor support QA testing of RFC 8950 Next
   Hop Encoding for "PE-CE eBGP" using GUA (Global Unicast Address),
   Link Local (LL) peering.  This drafts goal is to first ensure that QA



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   testing of all features and functionality works with "eBGP PE-CE" use
   case single peer carrying both IPv4 NLRI and IPv6 NLRI and that the
   routing policy features are all still fully functionality do not
   change.

A.1.  Router and Switch Vendors Support and Quality Assurance
      Engineering Lab Results.

        +-----------+----------------+---------------+-----------+
        | Vendor    | PE-CE eBGP GUI | PE-CE eBGP LL | QA Tested |
        +-----------+----------------+---------------+-----------+
        | Cisco     |      ***       |               |           |
        | Juniper   |      ***       |               |           |
        | Nokia/ALU |      ***       |               |           |
        | Arista    |      ***       |               |           |
        | Huawei    |      ***       |               |           |
        +-----------+----------------+---------------+-----------+

                          Table 1: Vendor Support

A.2.  Router and Switch Vendors Interoperability Lab Results.

   This section details the vendor interoperability testing and support
   of RFC5549 that all features and functionality works with "eBGP PE-
   CE" use case with having a single peer carrying both IPv4 NLRI and
   IPv6 NLRI and that the routing policy features are fully tested for
   quality assurance.

       +-----------+-------+---------+-----------+--------+--------+
       | Vendor    | Cisco | Juniper | Nokia/ALU | Arista | Huawei |
       +-----------+-------+---------+-----------+--------+--------+
       | Cisco     |  N/A  |         |           |        |        |
       | Juniper   |       |   N/A   |           |        |        |
       | Nokia/ALU |       |         |    N/A    |        |        |
       | Arista    |       |         |           |  N/A   |        |
       | Huawei    |       |         |           |        |  N/A   |
       +-----------+-------+---------+-----------+--------+--------+

                          Table 2: Vendor Interop

Authors' Addresses

   Gyan Mishra
   Verizon Inc.

   Email: gyan.s.mishra@verizon.com





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   Mankamana Mishra
   Cisco Systems
   821 Alder Drive,
   MILPITAS  CALIFORNIA 95035


   Email: mankamis@cisco.com


   Jeff Tantsura
   Juniper Networks, Inc.

   Email: jefftant.ietf@gmail.com


   Lili Wang
   Juniper Networks, Inc.
   10 Technology Park Drive,
   Westford  MA 01886
   US

   Email: liliw@juniper.net


   Qing Yang
   Arista Networks

   Email: qyang@arista.com


   Adam Simpson
   Nokia

   Email: adam.1.simpson@nokia.com


   Shuanglong Chen
   Huawei Technologies

   Email: chenshuanglong@huawei.com











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