BGP Enabled ServiceS (bess)

WG Name BGP Enabled ServiceS
Acronym bess
Area Routing Area (rtg)
State Active
Charter charter-ietf-bess-01 Approved
Status update Show Changed 2020-03-03
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Personnel Chairs Matthew Bocci, Stephane Litkowski, Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang
Area Director Gunter Van de Velde
Secretary Mankamana Prasad Mishra
Liaison Contact Martin Vigoureux
Mailing list Address bess@ietf.org
To subscribe https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/bess
Archive https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/bess/
Chat Room address https://zulip.ietf.org/#narrow/stream/bess

Charter for Working Group

BGP is established as a protocol for provisioning and operating Layer-3
(routed) Virtual Private Networks (L3VPNs). It is also used in certain
Layer-2 Virtual Private Networks (L2VPNs).

The BGP Enabled Services (BESS) working group is responsible for
defining, specifying, and extending network services based on BGP. In
particular, the working group will work on the following services:

  • BGP/MPLS IP VPN solutions (based on RFC4364 and RFC4659) for
    supporting provider-provisioned L3VPNs including methods for enabling
    multicast over BGP/MPLS VPNs.

  • BGP-enabled L2VPNs (as described in RFC 4664) that operate over IP or
    MPLS packet switched network tunnels. All types of L2VPN are in scope
    provided they utilize BGP for discovery, signaling, or for some other
    purposes related to the VPN. But L2VPN solutions that operate over
    pseudowires or use LDP and that do not utilize BGP will be addressed
    by the PALS working group. Any contention in placement of the work
    between these working groups will be resolved by the chairs.

  • BGP-enabled VPN solutions for use in the data center networking.
    This work includes consideration of VPN scaling issues and
    mechanisms applicable to such environments.

  • Extensions to BGP-enabled VPN solutions for the construction of
    virtual topologies in support of services such as Service Function
    Chaining.

The working group may also suggest new services to be supported by BGP
and these may be added to the working group charter subject to
rechartering.

The working group may work on:

  • Mechanisms to support BGP-enabled services in the presence of multi-
    homing of Customer Edge (CE) devices to multiple Provider Edge (PE)
    devices to provide load-balancing and resilience.

  • Auto-discovery of sites that participate in the BGP-enabled service.

  • Data models for modeling, managing, and operating BGP-based services
    using SMI or YANG.

  • OAM or resiliency mechanisms operating over BGP-enabled services. But
    native data plane OAM mechanisms may be worked on only in conjunction
    with the working groups responsible for the relevant data planes.

  • Extensions to BGP and extensions to YANG models for BGP. All such
    work must be reviewed by the IDR WG, but the decision to request
    publication of such work remains with the BESS WG.

The working group will also coordinate with other working groups where
appropriate. For example, with the MPLS working group for issues
related to the MPLS architecture, and the NVO3 working group for
coordination of protocols to support data center VPNs.

The BESS working group will not define new data plane or forwarding
plane encapsulations.

Milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Dec 2020 Submit a Yang or SMI datamodel for RFC4364 to IESG as PS draft-ietf-bess-l3vpn-yang
Dec 2020 Submit a YANG datamodel for L2VPN to IESG as PS draft-ietf-bess-l2vpn-yang
Dec 2020 Submit a YANG datamodel for mVPN to IESG as PS draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-yang
Dec 2020 Submit a Yang or SMI datamodel for E-VPN to IESG as PS draft-ietf-bess-evpn-yang
Dec 2015 Submit E-VPN OAM to IESG as PS

Done milestones

Date Milestone Associated documents
Done Submit specification for BGP NSH controlplane to IESG as PS rfc9015 (was draft-ietf-bess-nsh-bgp-control-plane)
Done Submit specifications for VPLS multi-homing to IESG as PS draft-ietf-bess-vpls-multihoming
Done Submit specifications for SPB-M/E-VPN interoperability to IESG as PS
Done Submit specifications for PBB/E-VPN interoperability to IESG as PS
Done Submit specification of a multicast VPN MIB to IESG as PS
Done Submit specification for the use of E-VPN for datacenter overlays to IESG as PS
Done Submit specification for extranet support in multicast VPNs to IESG as PS
Done Submit specifications for E-VPN to IESG as PS
Done Submit specification for multicast VPN bidir P-tunnels to IESG as PS
Done Submit specification of the BGP ACCEPT_OWN Community Attribute to IESG as PS