Network Working Group X. Xu
Internet-Draft Huawei
Intended status: Standards Track S. Sivabalan
Expires: February 5, 2015 Cisco
R. Raszuk
Individual
U. Chunduri
Ericsson
V. Lopezalvarez
Telefonica
August 4, 2014
Advertising Encapsulation Capability Using IS-IS
draft-xu-isis-encapsulation-cap-00
Abstract
In a particular network environment where MPLS-SPRING-enabled routers
are partially deployed, it needs to transport MPLS traffic through an
IP-based tunnel between two MPLS-SPRING-enabled routers so as to
traverse non-MPLS routers. The ingress of the IP-based tunnel must
know which encapsulation type is supported by the egress of that IP-
based tunnel.This document describes how to advertise the
encapsulation capability of MPLS-SPRING-enabled routers using IS-IS.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
3. Advertising Encapsulation Capability . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
4. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
6. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. Introduction
[I-D.xu-spring-islands-connection-over-ip] describes a particular
network environment where MPLS-SPRING-enabled routers are partially
deployed and therefore it needs to transport MPLS traffic through an
IP-based tunnel between two MPLS-SPRING-enabled routers so as to
traverse non-MPLS routers. The ingress of the IP-based tunnel (i.e.,
tunnel encapsulator) must know which encapsulation type is supported
by the egress of the IP-based tunnel (i.e., tunnel decapsulator).This
document describes how to advertise the encapsulation capability of
MPLS-SPRING-enabled routers using IS-IS.
1.1. Requirements Language
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 [RFC2119].
2. Terminology
This memo makes use of the terms defined in [RFC4971] and
[I-D.xu-spring-islands-connection-over-ip].
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3. Advertising Encapsulation Capability
MPLS-SPRING-enabled routers need to advertise the encapsulation
type(s) they support by using a new sub-TLV of the IS-IS Router
CAPABILITY TLV [RFC4971], referred to as Encapsulation Capability
sub-TLV. The Encapsulation Capability sub-TLV could not appear more
than once wihin a given IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV. The scope of
the advertisement depends on the application but it is recommended
that it SHOULD be domain-wide. The Type code of the Encapsualtion
Cability sub-TLV is TBD, the Length value is vairalbe, and the Value
field contains one or more Encapsulation Type sub-TLVs with each
indicating a particular encapsulation format that the advertising
router supports.
This document defines the following types of Encapsulation Type sub-
TLV:
1. MPLS-in-IP [RFC4023] : Type code=TBD1; Length=0
2. MPLS-in-GRE [RFC4023]: Type code=TBD2; Length=0
3. MPLS-in-L2TPv3 [RFC3931]: Type code=TBD3; Length=0
4. MPLS-in-UDP [I-D.ietf-mpls-in-udp]: Type code=TBD4; Length=0
4. Acknowledgements
TBD.
5. IANA Considerations
This memo includes a request to IANA for allocating the type codes
for Encapsulation Capability sub-TLV and Encapsulation Type sub-TLVs.
6. Security Considerations
This document does not introduce any new security risk.
7. References
7.1. Normative References
[I-D.xu-spring-islands-connection-over-ip]
Xu, X. and S. Sivabalan, "Connecting SPRING Islands over
IP Networks", draft-xu-spring-islands-connection-over-
ip-00 (work in progress), February 2014.
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[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC4971] Vasseur, JP., Shen, N., and R. Aggarwal, "Intermediate
System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) Extensions for
Advertising Router Information", RFC 4971, July 2007.
7.2. Informative References
[I-D.ietf-mpls-in-udp]
Xu, X., Sheth, N., Yong, L., Pignataro, C., and F.
Yongbing, "Encapsulating MPLS in UDP", draft-ietf-mpls-in-
udp-05 (work in progress), January 2014.
[RFC3931] Lau, J., Townsley, M., and I. Goyret, "Layer Two Tunneling
Protocol - Version 3 (L2TPv3)", RFC 3931, March 2005.
[RFC4023] Worster, T., Rekhter, Y., and E. Rosen, "Encapsulating
MPLS in IP or Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)", RFC
4023, March 2005.
Authors' Addresses
Xiaohu Xu
Huawei
Email: xuxiaohu@huawei.com
Siva Sivabalan
Cisco
Email: msiva@cisco.com
Robert Raszuk
Individual
Email: robert@raszuk.net
Uma Chunduri
Ericsson
Email: uma.chunduri@ericsson.com
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Victor Lopezalvarez
Telefonica
Email: victor.lopezalvarez@telefonica.com
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