RE: Advancing the Protocol and Morin Drafts

"NAPIERALA, MARIA H, ATTLABS" <mnapierala@att.com> Fri, 10 October 2008 13:22 UTC

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Subject: RE: Advancing the Protocol and Morin Drafts
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:22:16 -0400
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From: "NAPIERALA, MARIA H, ATTLABS" <mnapierala@att.com>
To: Thomas Morin <thomas.morin@orange-ftgroup.com>, "RAMACHANDRAN, PRASANNA, ATTOPS" <prasanna@att.com>
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Thomas,

>  --> PE scalability is certainly a requirement common to all operators
>      interested in mVPN. It isn't new, and is already explicitly
>      expressed in RFC4834. Your statement, based on a large 
>deployment,
>      confirms that current solutions based on draft-rosen are not
>      satisfying. This is 100% in line with the analysis in
>      draft-morin-l3vpn-mvpn-considerations which concludes that mVPN
>      routing with the PIM LAN procedures is not the most efficient 
>      architecture for PE scalability.
>
This is not about PE-PE PIM scaling. This is about CE-PE PIM scaling. 

>The solution you suggest: "a solution such as PIM-BiDir [...]"
>
>  -> this statement is technically quite vague, but the helpful
>  interpretation provided by Ice indicates that you favor the 
>  MS-PMSI approach 

It is not vague. It is asking for PIM-Bidir support in MVPN context.
This is nothing to do with favoring MS-PMSI approach. MS-PMSI is just
one of possible approaches to support Bidir.
>
Maria

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: l3vpn-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:l3vpn-bounces@ietf.org] 
>On Behalf
>> Of Marshall Eubanks
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:04 AM
>> To: l3vpn@ietf.org
>> Cc: Ross Callon
>> Subject: Advancing the Protocol and Morin Drafts 
>> 
>> This email starts a 3 week call for input, to expire October 
>23, 2008,  
>> for the following steps:
>> 
>> 1.) To accept draft-morin-l3vpn-mvpn-considerations-03 as a working
>> group document;  and
>> 
>> 2.) To turn this document into a requirements draft, with 
>mandatory to
>> implement features for an interoperable implementation. The authors
>> have indicated that they are willing to do this.
>> 
>> Our intention is, if this approach is accepted, to then begin WG last
>> call to submit to the IESG for publication:
>> 
>> draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast
>> draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-bgp
>> 
>> We expect that these two documents will be submitted more or 
>less as is
>> (i.e., certainly with any new bug fixes or other necessary 
>corrections  
>> and
>> improvements, but without specific mandatory to implement feature
>> description in those drafts).
>> 
>> Please respond to the list with your recommendations for these two
>> courses of action.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Marshall & Danny
>> 
>
>