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Internet Engineering Task Force                                    T. Li
Internet-Draft                                           Arista Networks
Intended status: Standards Track                             L. Ginsberg
Expires: December 7, 2019                                       P. Wells
                                                           Cisco Systems
                                                            June 5, 2019

                           Hierarchical IS-IS
                 draft-li-lsr-isis-hierarchical-isis-01

Abstract

   The IS-IS routing protocol was originally defined with a two level
   hierarchical structure.  This was adequate for the networks at the
   time.  As we continue to expand the scale of our networks, it is
   apparent that additional hierarchy would be a welcome degree of
   flexibility in network design.

   This document defines IS-IS Levels 3 through 8.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  PDU changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Circuit Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.2.  PDU Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Additional PDUs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1.  Level n LAN IS to IS hello PDU (Ln-LAN-HELLO-PDU) . . . .   4
     3.2.  Level n Point-to-point IS to IS hello PDU (Ln-P2P-HELLO-
           PDU)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   4.  IS-IS Area Identifier TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  New Flooding Scopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.  Inheritance of TLVs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   7.  Relationship between levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   8.  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   9.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     9.1.  PDU Type  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     9.2.  New PDUs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     9.3.  New TLVs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     9.4.  New Flooding Scopes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   11. Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9

1.  Introduction

   The IS-IS routing protocol IS-IS [ISO10589] currently supports a two
   level hierarchy of abstraction.  The fundamental unit of abstraction
   is the 'area', which is a (hopefully) connected set of systems
   running IS-IS at the same level.  Level 1, the lowest level, is
   abstracted by routers that participate in both Level 1 and Level 2.

   Practical considerations, such as the size of an area's link state
   database, cause network designers to restrict the number of routers
   in any given area.  Concurrently, the dominance of scale-out
   architectures based around small routers has created a situation
   where the scalability limits of the protocol are going to become
   critical in the foreseeable future.

   The goal of this document is to enable additional hierarchy within
   IS-IS.  Each additional level of hierarchy has a multiplicative
   effect on scale, so the addition of six levels should be a