RFC 7716 on Global Table Multicast with BGP Multicast VPN (BGP-MVPN) Procedures

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        RFC 7716

        Title:      Global Table Multicast with BGP 
                    Multicast VPN (BGP-MVPN) Procedures 
        Author:     J. Zhang, L. Giuliano,
                    E. Rosen, Ed.,
                    K. Subramanian, D. Pacella
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       December 2015
        Mailbox:    zzhang@juniper.net, 
                    lenny@juniper.net, 
                    erosen@juniper.net, 
                    kartsubr@cisco.com, 
                    dante.j.pacella@verizonbusiness.com
        Pages:      22
        Characters: 52951
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-bess-mvpn-global-table-mcast-03.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7716

        DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7716

RFCs 6513, 6514, and others describe protocols and procedures that a
Service Provider (SP) may deploy in order to offer Multicast Virtual
Private Network (Multicast VPN or MVPN) service to its customers.
Some of these procedures use BGP to distribute VPN-specific multicast
routing information across a backbone network.  With a small number
of relatively minor modifications, the same BGP procedures can also
be used to distribute multicast routing information that is not
specific to any VPN.  Multicast that is outside the context of a VPN
is known as "Global Table Multicast", or sometimes simply as
"Internet multicast".  In this document, we describe the
modifications that are needed to use the BGP-MVPN procedures for
Global Table Multicast.

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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