BGP Enabled ServiceS (bess)

Document Date Status IPR AD/Shepherd
Active Internet-Drafts (20 hits)
31 pages 2026-03-16
I-D Exists
WG Document
Reviews: genart Early rtgdir Early bgpdir Early
Mar 2026
Stephane Litkowski
33 pages
draft-ietf-bess-bgp-multicast-controller-17
Controller-based BGP Multicast Signaling
2026-03-16
I-D Exists
WG Document
Reviews: genart Early rtgdir Early bgpdir Early
Mar 2026 		1
16 pages
draft-ietf-bess-ebgp-dmz-10
BGP link bandwidth extended community use cases
2026-04-08
New
I-D Exists
WG Document
Jeffrey Haas
17 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ac-aware-bundling-06
AC-Aware Bundling Service Interface in EVPN
2026-03-17
I-D Exists
WG Document
Reviews: genart Early rtgdir Early 		3
21 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-bfd-13
EVPN Network Layer Fault Management
2026-03-27
I-D Exists
WG Document : Proposed Standard
Reviews: genart Early rtgdir Early
Mar 2026
Matthew Bocci
17 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-dpath-04
Domain Path (D-PATH) for Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Interconnect Networks
2026-03-02
I-D Exists
WG Document
Review: bgpdir Early
Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang
11 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-geneve-09
EVPN control plane for Geneve
2025-11-08
I-D Exists
WG Consensus: Waiting for Write-Up : Experimental
Review: rtgdir Early
Matthew Bocci
21 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ip-aliasing-04
EVPN Support for L3 Fast Convergence and Aliasing/Backup Path
2026-03-02
I-D Exists
WG Document
14 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-l2gw-proto-06
EVPN Multi-Homing Mechanism for Layer-2 Gateway Protocols
2025-10-17
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I-D Exists
WG Document
Review: rtgdir Early
Mar 2026 		1
19 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-l3mh-proto-00
EVPN multi-homing support for L3 services
2026-02-23
I-D Exists
WG Document
21 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-modes-interop-03
EVPN Interoperability Modes
2026-03-16
I-D Exists
WG Document 		2
39 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-mvpn-seamless-interop-10
Seamless Multicast Interoperability between EVPN and MVPN PEs
2025-10-19
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I-D Exists
WG Consensus: Waiting for Write-Up
Reviews: opsdir Early rtgdir Early genart Early rtgdir Early secdir Early
Mankamana Prasad Mishra
16 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-per-mcast-flow-df-election-13
Per multicast flow Designated Forwarder Election for EVPN
2026-03-02
I-D Exists
WG Document
Reviews: genart Early rtgdir Early 		2
Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang
22 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-umr-mobility-00
Applications and Procedures for Unknown MAC Route in EVPN
2025-11-25
I-D Exists
WG Document 		1
19 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpws-gateway-01
Ethernet VPN Virtual Private Wire Services Gateway Solution
2026-03-02
I-D Exists
WG Document : Proposed Standard
18 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpws-seamless-03
EVPN-VPWS Seamless Integration with L2VPN VPWS
2025-10-20
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I-D Exists
WG Document
15 pages
draft-ietf-bess-extended-evpn-optimized-ir-08
Extended Procedures for EVPN Optimized Ingress Replication
2025-10-19
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I-D Exists
WG Document
Reviews: genart Early rtgdir Early 		1
22 pages
draft-ietf-bess-mup-safi-00
BGP Extensions for the Mobile User Plane (MUP) SAFI
2025-11-25
I-D Exists
WG Document
Review: bgpdir Early 		4
77 pages
draft-ietf-bess-rfc7432bis-14
BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
2026-03-02
I-D Exists
WG Document
Reviews: genart Early rtgdir Early
Mar 2026
Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang
54 pages
draft-ietf-bess-v4-v6-pe-all-safi-03
IPv4-Only and IPv6-Only PE Design DESIGN ALL SAFI
2025-10-20
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I-D Exists
WG Document 		3
Active with the IESG Internet-Drafts (5 hits)
32 pages
draft-ietf-bess-bgp-sdwan-usage-30
BGP Usage for SD-WAN Overlay Networks
2026-04-07
New
In Last Call (ends 2026-04-22)
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Informational
Reviews: rtgdir IETF Last Call secdir secdir IETF Last Call intdir secdir genart IETF Last Call secdir IETF Last Call rtgdir Early opsdir IETF Last Call secdir IETF Last Call
Dec 2025
Action Holder: Gunter Van de Velde 		Gunter Van de Velde
Matthew Bocci
39 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-ipvpn-interworking-18
Interconnecting EVPN and IPVPN Domains
2026-03-10
RFC Ed Queue : EDIT
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
Reviews: rtgdir opsdir IETF Last Call secdir IETF Last Call 		Gunter Van de Velde
Stephane Litkowski
25 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-unequal-lb-35
Weighted Multi-Path Procedures for EVPN Multi-Homing
2026-03-15
RFC Ed Queue : MISSREF
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
Reviews: secdir IETF Last Call genart Early rtgdir Early
Dec 2025 		Gunter Van de Velde
Stephane Litkowski
26 pages
draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-evpn-sr-p2mp-18
Multicast and Ethernet VPN with Segment Routing P2MP and Ingress Replication
2026-01-21
RFC Ed Queue : EDIT 79
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
Reviews: intdir secdir Early genart Early rtgdir Early intdir Early 		Gunter Van de Velde
Stephane Litkowski
21 pages
draft-ietf-bess-vpls-multihoming-07
BGP based Multi-homing in Virtual Private LAN Service
2026-03-02
AD Evaluation
Submitted to IESG for Publication : Proposed Standard
Reviews: rtgdir IETF Last Call opsdir IETF Last Call genart IETF Last Call
Dec 2025
Action Holder: Gunter Van de Velde 		2 Gunter Van de Velde
Matthew Bocci
Expired Internet-Drafts (16 hits)
16 pages
draft-ietf-bess-end-system-requirements-00
Requirements for Extending BGP/MPLS VPNs to End-Systems
2014-11-11
Expired
Parked WG Document
Reviews: rtgdir Early rtgdir Early
22 pages 2025-06-09
Expired
WG Document
Dec 2026 		2
16 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-virtual-hub-00
Virtual Hub-and-Spoke in BGP EVPNs
2020-01-26
Expired
WG Document
28 pages
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-yang-07
Yang Data Model for EVPN
2019-03-11
Expired
WG Document
Dec 2026
49 pages
draft-ietf-bess-l2vpn-yang-10
YANG Data Model for MPLS-based L2VPN
2019-07-02
Expired
WG Document : Proposed Standard
Dec 2026
22 pages
draft-ietf-bess-l3vpn-yang-05
Yang Data Model for BGP/MPLS L3 VPNs
2021-04-13
Expired
WG Document
Dec 2026
12 pages
draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-pe-ce-01
BGP as an MVPN PE-CE Protocol
2015-10-05
Expired
Parked WG Document : Proposed Standard 		1
41 pages
draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-yang-05
Yang Data Model for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
2021-02-20
Expired
WG Document
Dec 2026
30 pages
draft-ietf-bess-rfc8317bis-00
Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Support in Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Provider Backbone Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)
2025-10-01
Expired
WG Document 		3
38 pages 2024-11-07
Expired
WG Document 		1
41 pages
draft-ietf-bess-service-chaining-06
Service Function Chaining using Virtual Networks with BGP VPNs
2018-12-04
Expired
Parked WG Document : Proposed Standard 		2
Stephane Litkowski
25 pages
draft-ietf-bess-virtual-pe-00
BGP/MPLS VPN Virtual PE
2014-11-12
Expired
Parked WG Document : Informational
Review: rtgdir Early
Martin Vigoureux
7 pages 2016-08-03
Expired
Waiting for Implementation : Informational
Martin Vigoureux
11 pages
draft-ietf-bess-weighted-hrw-02
Weighted HRW and its applications
2025-07-07
Expired
WG Document 		1
14 pages 2014-09-30
Expired
Parked WG Document : Proposed Standard 		1
31 pages
draft-ietf-l3vpn-end-system-06
BGP-Signaled End-System IP/VPNs
2016-12-15
Expired
Parked WG Document : Proposed Standard
Reviews: genart IETF Last Call secdir IETF Last Call 		Alvaro Retana
Thomas Morin
RFCs (51 hits)
10 pages
RFC 7441
Encoding Multipoint LDP (mLDP) Forwarding Equivalence Classes (FECs) in the NLRI of BGP MCAST-VPN Routes
2015-01
Proposed Standard RFC 		Adrian Farrel
21 pages
RFC 7543
Covering Prefixes Outbound Route Filter for BGP-4 Errata
2015-05
Proposed Standard RFC 		1 Alvaro Retana
34 pages
RFC 7582
Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN): Using Bidirectional P-Tunnels
2015-07
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8534, rfc9573 		Alvaro Retana
8 pages
RFC 7611
BGP ACCEPT_OWN Community Attribute
2015-08
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
22 pages
RFC 7716
Global Table Multicast with BGP Multicast VPN (BGP-MVPN) Procedures
2015-12
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
11 pages
RFC 7734
Support for Shortest Path Bridging MAC Mode over Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
2016-01
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
8 pages
RFC 7740
Simulating Partial Mesh of Multipoint-to-Multipoint (MP2MP) Provider Tunnels with Ingress Replication
2016-01
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
15 pages
RFC 7814
Virtual Subnet: A BGP/MPLS IP VPN-Based Subnet Extension Solution
2016-03
Informational RFC 		Alvaro Retana
18 pages
RFC 7899
Multicast VPN State Damping
2016-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
65 pages
RFC 7900
Extranet Multicast in BGP/IP MPLS VPNs
2016-06
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc8534 		Alvaro Retana
7 pages
RFC 7902
Registry and Extensions for P-Multicast Service Interface Tunnel Attribute Flags
2016-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
23 pages
RFC 7988
Ingress Replication Tunnels in Multicast VPN
2016-10
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
17 pages
RFC 8214
Virtual Private Wire Service Support in Ethernet VPN Errata
2017-08
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
23 pages
RFC 8317
Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Support in Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Provider Backbone Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)
2018-01
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
33 pages
RFC 8365
A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Errata
2018-03
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc9746 		Alvaro Retana
31 pages
RFC 8388
Usage and Applicability of BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
2018-05
Informational RFC 		Alvaro Retana
9 pages
RFC 8395
Extensions to BGP-Signaled Pseudowires to Support Flow-Aware Transport Labels
2018-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		2 Alvaro Retana
20 pages
RFC 8502
L2L3 VPN Multicast MIB
2018-12
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
57 pages
RFC 8503
BGP/MPLS Layer 3 VPN Multicast Management Information Base
2018-12
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
21 pages
RFC 8534
Explicit Tracking with Wildcard Routes in Multicast VPN
2019-02
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
16 pages
RFC 8560
Seamless Integration of Ethernet VPN (EVPN) with Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) and Their Provider Backbone Bridge (PBB) Equivalents
2019-05
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
32 pages
RFC 8584
Framework for Ethernet VPN Designated Forwarder Election Extensibility Errata
2019-04
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc9722, rfc9785 		Martin Vigoureux
9 pages
RFC 8614
Updated Processing of Control Flags for BGP Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
2019-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
12 pages
RFC 8950
Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) with an IPv6 Next Hop
2020-11
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
24 pages
RFC 9014
Interconnect Solution for Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Overlay Networks Errata
2021-05
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
59 pages
RFC 9015
BGP Control Plane for the Network Service Header in Service Function Chaining
2021-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
22 pages
RFC 9026
Multicast VPN Fast Upstream Failover
2021-04
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
10 pages
RFC 9047
Propagation of ARP/ND Flags in an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN)
2021-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
16 pages
RFC 9062
Framework and Requirements for Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) Errata
2021-06
Informational RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
6 pages
RFC 9081
Interoperation between Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN) and Multicast Source Directory Protocol (MSDP) Source-Active Routes
2021-07
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
12 pages
RFC 9125
Gateway Auto-Discovery and Route Advertisement for Site Interconnection Using Segment Routing
2021-08
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
30 pages
RFC 9135
Integrated Routing and Bridging in Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Errata
2021-10
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
31 pages
RFC 9136
IP Prefix Advertisement in Ethernet VPN (EVPN) Errata
2021-10
Proposed Standard RFC 		Alvaro Retana
22 pages
RFC 9161
Operational Aspects of Proxy ARP/ND in Ethernet Virtual Private Networks
2022-01
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
30 pages
RFC 9251
Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Proxies for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
2022-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
29 pages
RFC 9252
BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6) Errata
2022-07
Proposed Standard RFC
Updated by rfc9819 		Martin Vigoureux
17 pages
RFC 9489
Label Switched Path (LSP) Ping Mechanisms for EVPN and Provider Backbone Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)
2023-11
Proposed Standard RFC 		Andrew Alston
11 pages
RFC 9541
Flush Mechanism for Customer MAC Addresses Based on Service Instance Identifier (I-SID) in Provider Backbone Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)
2024-03
Proposed Standard RFC 		Andrew Alston
19 pages
RFC 9572
Updates to EVPN Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (BUM) Procedures
2024-05
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
14 pages
RFC 9573
MVPN/EVPN Tunnel Aggregation with Common Labels Errata
2024-05
Proposed Standard RFC 		Andrew Alston
28 pages
RFC 9574
Optimized Ingress Replication Solution for Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs)
2024-05
Proposed Standard RFC 		Martin Vigoureux
63 pages
RFC 9625
EVPN Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM) Forwarding
2024-08
Proposed Standard RFC 		Andrew Alston
25 pages
RFC 9721
Extended Mobility Procedures for Ethernet VPN Integrated Routing and Bridging (EVPN-IRB)
2025-04
Proposed Standard RFC 		Gunter Van de Velde
14 pages
RFC 9722
Fast Recovery for EVPN Designated Forwarder Election
2025-05
Proposed Standard RFC 		Gunter Van de Velde
15 pages
RFC 9744
EVPN Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) Flexible Cross-Connect (FXC) Service
2025-03
Proposed Standard RFC 		Gunter Van de Velde
17 pages
RFC 9746
BGP EVPN Multihoming Extensions for Split-Horizon Filtering
2025-03
Proposed Standard RFC 		Gunter Van de Velde
20 pages
RFC 9784
Virtual Ethernet Segments for EVPN and Provider Backbone Bridge EVPN
2025-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		Gunter Van de Velde
17 pages
RFC 9785
Preference-Based EVPN Designated Forwarder (DF) Election
2025-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		Andrew Alston
12 pages
RFC 9786
EVPN Port-Active Redundancy Mode
2025-06
Proposed Standard RFC 		Gunter Van de Velde
13 pages
RFC 9819
Argument Signaling for BGP Services in Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
2025-07
Proposed Standard RFC 		Gunter Van de Velde
31 pages
RFC 9856
Multicast Source Redundancy in EVPNs
2025-09
Proposed Standard RFC 		Gunter Van de Velde
Related Internet-Drafts and RFCs (27 hits)
12 pages
draft-ietf-pim-evpn-multicast-yang-05
Yang Data Model for EVPN multicast
2026-02-24
I-D Exists
WG Document
27 pages
draft-kaliraj-bess-bgp-mpls-namespaces-02
BGP Signaled MPLS Namespaces
2026-02-23
I-D Exists 		3
12 pages 2025-10-14
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I-D Exists
18 pages
draft-liu-bess-srv6-evpn-validation-04
Data Plane Failure Detection Mechanisms for EVPN over SRv6
2026-02-05
I-D Exists
13 pages 2026-01-24
I-D Exists
9 pages
draft-lz-bess-srv6-service-capability-07
SRv6-based BGP Service Capability
2025-12-09
I-D Exists
25 pages
draft-ma-bess-bgp-mobile-core-extensions-00
BGP Extensions for Service Routing of Mobile Core Networks
2025-12-28
I-D Exists
33 pages
draft-rabadan-bess-evpn-inter-domain-opt-b-08
EVPN Inter-Domain Option-B Solution
2026-03-02
I-D Exists
33 pages 2026-03-02
I-D Exists
20 pages
draft-rabnic-bess-evpn-mcast-eeg-06
EVPN Multicast Forwarding for EVPN to EVPN Gateways
2025-10-20
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I-D Exists
8 pages
draft-rabsaj-bess-evpn-vxlan-ir-bum-00
Ingress Replication BUM flag in VXLAN
2025-10-20
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I-D Exists
10 pages
draft-rbickhart-evpn-ip-mac-proxy-adv-05
Proxy MAC-IP Advertisement in EVPNs
2026-02-23
I-D Exists
23 pages 2026-03-01
I-D Exists
Call For Adoption By WG Issued 		4
Zhaohui (Jeffrey) Zhang
26 pages 2026-03-01
I-D Exists
13 pages 2025-12-29
I-D Exists
9 pages
draft-saum-grow-bmp-afi-safi-evpn-04
EVPN-Specific BMP RIB Statistics Extensions
2025-12-01
I-D Exists
32 pages 2026-01-27
I-D Exists
12 pages
draft-saumthimma-evpn-ip-binding-sync-07
Secure IP Binding Synchronization via BGP EVPN
2026-01-27
I-D Exists
8 pages 2026-01-27
I-D Exists
11 pages
draft-smm-bess-alt-label-00
Signaling Alternative Labels for BGP Prefixes
2025-10-20
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I-D Exists
4 pages
draft-tantsura-bess-evpn-route-type-exp-use-00
Reservation of EVPN Route Types for Experimental Use
2026-03-19
I-D Exists
14 pages
draft-xie-bess-evpn-extension-evn6-03
EVPN Route Types and Procedures for EVN6
2026-02-28
I-D Exists
6 pages
draft-zl-bess-evpn-srv6-oam-00
OAM for EVPN over SRv6
2025-10-20
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I-D Exists
8 pages
draft-zzhang-bess-dynamic-overlay-lb-01
Dynamic Overlay Load Balancing
2025-10-20
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I-D Exists 		1
6 pages
draft-zzhang-bess-evpn-mh-fast-notification-00
EVPN Fast Notification and Handling for Multihoming
2026-03-02
I-D Exists
6 pages 2025-10-20
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62 pages
draft-zzhang-bess-rfc6514bis-01
BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
2025-11-18
I-D Exists
Call For Adoption By WG Issued 		1
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