[bess] RFC 7740 on Simulating Partial Mesh of Multipoint-to-Multipoint (MP2MP) Provider Tunnels with Ingress Replication

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        RFC 7740

        Title:      Simulating Partial Mesh of Multipoint-to-Multipoint 
                    (MP2MP) Provider Tunnels with Ingress Replication 
        Author:     Z. Zhang, Y. Rekhter, A. Dolganow
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       January 2016
        Mailbox:    zzhang@juniper.net, 
                    andrew.dolganow@alcatel-lucent.com
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 18252
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-bidir-ingress-replication-04.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7740

        DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7740

RFC 6513 ("Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs") describes a method to
support bidirectional customer multicast flows using a partial mesh
of Multipoint-to-Multipoint (MP2MP) tunnels.  This document specifies
how a partial mesh of MP2MP tunnels can be simulated using Ingress
Replication.  This solution enables a service provider to use Ingress
Replication to offer transparent bidirectional multicast service to
its VPN customers.

This document is a product of the BGP Enabled Services Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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