Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-pim-snooping-07.txt

Olivier Dornon <olivier.dornon@alcatel-lucent.com> Fri, 24 October 2014 12:37 UTC

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This version of the draft contains changes based on Eric's and Nabil's 
review.

There are still a number of open topics under discussion, a new version 
addressing these will be submitted soon.

Olivier.

On 10/24/2014 02:32 PM, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>   This draft is a work item of the Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks Working Group of the IETF.
>
>          Title           : Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) over Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
>          Authors         : Olivier Dornon
>                            Jayant Kotalwar
>                            Venu Hemige
>                            Ray Qiu
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-pim-snooping-07.txt
> 	Pages           : 39
> 	Date            : 2014-10-24
>
> Abstract:
>     This document describes the procedures and recommendations for
>     Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) Provider Edges (PEs) to facilitate
>     replication of multicast traffic to only certain ports (behind which
>     there are interested Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) routers
>     and/or Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) hosts) via Protocol
>     Independent Multicast (PIM) snooping and proxying.
>
>     With PIM snooping, PEs passively listen to certain PIM control
>     messages to build control and forwarding states while transparently
>     flooding those messages.  With PIM proxying, Provider Edges (PEs) do
>     not flood PIM Join/Prune messages but only generate their own and
>     send out of certain ports, based on the control states built from
>     downstream Join/Prune messages.  PIM proxying is required when PIM
>     Join suppression is enabled on the Customer Equipment (CE) devices
>     and useful to reduce PIM control traffic in a VPLS domain.
>
>     The document also describes PIM relay, which can be viewed as light-
>     weight proxying, where all downstream Join/Prune messages are simply
>     forwarded out of certain ports but not flooded to avoid triggering
>     PIM Join suppression on CE devices.
>
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-pim-snooping/
>
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-pim-snooping-07
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-pim-snooping-07
>
>
> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission
> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
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>

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