Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Proxies for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-igmp-mld-proxy-21
Technical Summary
This draft enables in an EVPN network: flooding reduction of IGMP messages,
distributed anycast multicast proxy and selective multicast (forward multicast only to PEs that have interest).
Working Group Summary
The draft has been updated multiple times due to a good amount of discussions.
An important change on the encoding has been introduced late in the process
but this change has been agreed and has a consensus in the WG.
Document Quality
There are implementations of the specification.
Personnel
Stephane Litkowski is the document shepherd.
Martin Vigoureux is the responsible AD