RFC 6514: BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs

This document describes the BGP encodings and procedures for exchanging the information elements required by Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs, as specified in…

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Outgoing relationships (21 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 4271: A Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)
Normative reference — RFC 4364: BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Normative reference — RFC 4760: Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4
Normative reference — RFC 4601: Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification (Revised)
Normative reference — RFC 6513: Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Normative reference — RFC 4360: BGP Extended Communities Attribute
Normative reference — RFC 1997: BGP Communities Attribute
Normative reference — RFC 4659: BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for IPv6 VPN
Informative reference — RFC 5925: The TCP Authentication Option
Informative reference — RFC 4875: Extensions to Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) for Point-to-Multipoint TE Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
Informative reference — RFC 4607: Source-Specific Multicast for IP
Informative reference — RFC 4272: BGP Security Vulnerabilities Analysis
Informative reference — RFC 5331: MPLS Upstream Label Assignment and Context-Specific Label Space
Informative reference — RFC 6388: Label Distribution Protocol Extensions for Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths
Informative reference — RFC 5015: Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-PIM)
Informative reference — RFC 3618: Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
Informative reference — RFC 4684: Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Informative reference — RFC 2439: BGP Route Flap Damping
Informative reference — RFC 4111: Security Framework for Provider-Provisioned Virtual Private Networks (PPVPNs)
Informative reference — RFC 4610: Anycast-RP Using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM)

Incoming relationships (39 related RFCs)

Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 6625: Wildcards in Multicast VPN Auto-Discovery Routes
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9573: MVPN/EVPN Tunnel Aggregation with Common Labels
Updated by — RFC 7385: IANA Registry for P-Multicast Service Interface (PMSI) Tunnel Type Code Points
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7988: Ingress Replication Tunnels in Multicast VPN
Updated by — RFC 6515: IPv4 and IPv6 Infrastructure Addresses in BGP Updates for Multicast VPN
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7582: Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN): Using Bidirectional P-Tunnels
Updated by — RFC 7900: Extranet Multicast in BGP/IP MPLS VPNs
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7902: Registry and Extensions for P-Multicast Service Interface Tunnel Attribute Flags
Updated by — RFC 8534: Explicit Tracking with Wildcard Routes in Multicast VPN
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 7441: Encoding Multipoint LDP (mLDP) Forwarding Equivalence Classes (FECs) in the NLRI of BGP MCAST-VPN Routes
Updated by — RFC 7899: Multicast VPN State Damping
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 9081: Interoperation between Multicast Virtual Private Network (MVPN) and Multicast Source Directory Protocol (MSDP) Source-Active Routes
Updated by, Normatively referenced by — RFC 10018: Multicast and Ethernet VPN with Segment Routing Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) and Ingress Replication
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6513: Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9182: A YANG Network Data Model for Layer 3 VPNs
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9251: Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Proxies for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9252: BGP Overlay Services Based on Segment Routing over IPv6 (SRv6)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9572: Updates to EVPN Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (BUM) Procedures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7524: Inter-Area Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Segmented Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7716: Global Table Multicast with BGP Multicast VPN (BGP-MVPN) Procedures
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9574: Optimized Ingress Replication Solution for Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 6517: Mandatory Features in a Layer 3 Multicast BGP/MPLS VPN Solution
Normatively referenced by — RFC 8317: Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Support in Ethernet VPN (EVPN) and Provider Backbone Bridging EVPN (PBB-EVPN)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9026: Multicast VPN Fast Upstream Failover
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9624: EVPN Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (BUM) Using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7442: Carrying Protocol Independent Multicast - Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) in Any-Source Multicast (ASM) Mode Trees over Multipoint LDP (mLDP)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9630: Multicast On-Path Telemetry Using In Situ Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (IOAM)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9658: Multipoint LDP Extensions for Multi-Topology Routing
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9856: Multicast Source Redundancy in EVPNs
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7432: BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7606: Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9012: The BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8365: A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8279: Multicast Using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7117: Multicast in Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8950: Advertising IPv4 Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) with an IPv6 Next Hop
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7439: Gap Analysis for Operating IPv6-Only MPLS Networks
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7438: Multipoint LDP (mLDP) In-Band Signaling with Wildcards
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9625: EVPN Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM) Forwarding