Network Working Group                                    David Meyer
                                                         (Editor)
INTERNET DRAFT                                           Bill Fenner
                                                         (Editor)
Category
Standards Track

April, 2003

               Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
                     <draft-ietf-msdp-spec-15.txt>



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   Abstract

   The Multicast Source Discovery Protocol, MSDP, describes a mechanism
   to connect multiple PIM-SM domains together. Each PIM-SM domain uses
   its own independent Rendezvous Point (RP) and does not have to depend
   on RPs in other domains. This draft is intended to document existing
   MSDP implementations in the field.


   Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003).  All Rights Reserved.


1.  Introduction

   The Multicast Source Discovery Protocol, MSDP, describes a mechanism
   to connect multiple PIM-SM domains together. Each PIM-SM domain uses
   its own independent RP(s) and does not have to depend on RPs in other
   domains. Advantages of this approach include:

   o No Third-party resource dependencies on RP

     PIM-SM domains can rely on their own RPs only.

   o Receiver only Domains

     Domains with only receivers get data without globally
     advertising group membership.

   Note that MSDP may be used with protocols other than PIM-SM, but such
   usage is not specified in this memo.


   The keywords MUST, MUST NOT, MAY, OPTIONAL, REQUIRED, RECOMMENDED,
   SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT are to be interpreted as defined
   in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].


2. Overview

   MSDP-speaking routers in a PIM-SM [RFC2362] domain have a MSDP
   peering relationship with MSDP peers in another domain. The peering
   relationship is made up of a TCP connection in which control
   information is exchanged. Each domain has one or more connections to
   this virtual topology.

   The purpose of this topology is to allow domains to discover
   multicast sources from other domains. If the multicast sources are of
   interest to a domain which has receivers, the normal source-tree
   building mechanism in PIM-SM will be used to deliver multicast data
   over an inter-domain distribution tree.


3. Procedure

   When an RP in a PIM-SM domain first learns of a new sender, e.g. via
   PIM register messages, it constructs a "Source-Active" (SA) message
   and sends it to its MSDP peers. All RPs, which intend to originate
   or receive SA messages, must establish MSDP peering with other RPs,
   either directly or via an intermediate MSDP peer. The SA message
   contains the following fields:

    o Source address of the data source.
    o Group address the data source sends to.
    o IP address of the RP.

   Note that an RP that isn't a DR on a shared network SHOULD NOT
   originate SA's for directly connected sources on that shared network;
   it should only originate in response to receiving Register messages
   from the DR.

   Each MSDP peer receives and forwards the message away from the RP
   address in a "peer-RPF flooding" fashion. The notion of peer-RPF
   flooding is with respect to forwarding SA messages. The Multicast RPF
   Routing Information Base (MRIB) is examined to determine which peer
   towards the originating RP of the SA message is selected. Such a peer
   is called an "RPF peer". See section 13 for the details of peer-RPF
   forwarding.

   If the MSDP peer receives the SA from a non-RPF peer towards the
   originating RP, it will drop the message. Otherwise, it forwards the
   message to all its MSDP peers (except the one from which it received
   the SA message).

   When an MSDP peer which is also an RP for its own domain receives a
   new SA message, it determines if there are any group members within
   the domain interested in any group described by an (S,G) entry within
   the SA message.  That is, the RP checks for a (*,G) entry with a non-
   empty outgoing interface list; this implies that some system in the
   domain is interested in the group. In this case, the RP triggers a
   (S,G) join event towards the data source as if a Join/Prune message
   was received addressed to the RP itself. This sets up a branch of the
   source-tree to this domain. Subsequent data packets arrive at the RP
   via this tree branch, and are forwarded down the shared-tree inside
   the domain. If leaf routers choose to join the source-tree they have
   the option to do so according to existing PIM-SM conventions.
   Finally, if an RP in a domain receives a PIM Join message for a new
   group G, the RP SHOULD trigger a (S,G) join event for each active
   (S,G) for that group in its SA cache.

   This procedure has been affectionately named flood-and-join because
   if any RP is not interested in the group, they can ignore the SA
   message. Otherwise, they join a distribution tree.


4. Caching

   A MSDP speaker MUST cache SA messages. Caching allows pacing of MSDP
   messages as well as reducing join latency for new receivers of a
   group G at an originating RP which has existing MSDP (S,G) state. In
   addition, caching greatly aids in diagnosis and debugging of various
   problems.

   An MSDP speaker must provide a mechanism to reduce the forwarding of
   new SA's. The SA-cache is used to reduce storms and performs this
   by not forwarding SA's unless they are in the cache or are new SA
   packets that the MSDP speaker will cache for the first time. The
   SA-cache also reduces storms by advertising from the cache at a
   period of no more than twice per SA-Advertisement-Timer interval and
   not less than 1 time per SA Advertisment period.


5. Timers

   The main timers for MSDP are: SA-Advertisement-Timer, SA Cache Entry
   timer, Peer Hold Timer, KeepAlive timer, and ConnectRetry timer.
   Each is considered below.


5.1. SA-Advertisement-Timer


   RPs which originate SA messages do so periodically as long as there
   is data being sent by the source. There is one SA-Advertisement-Timer
   covering the sources that an RP may advertise. [SA-Advertisement-
   Period] MUST be 60 seconds. An RP MUST not send more than one
   periodic SA message for a given (S,G) within an SA Advertisement
   interval. Originating periodic SA messages is required to keep
   announcements alive in caches. Finally, an originating RP SHOULD
   trigger the transmission of an SA message as soon as it receives data
   from an internal source for the first time. This initial SA message
   may be in addition to the periodic sa-message forwarded in that first
   60 seconds for that S,G.


5.2. SA-Advertisement-Timer Processing


   An RP MUST spread the generation of periodic SA messages (i.e.
   messages advertising the active sources for which it is the RP) over
   its reporting interval (i.e. SA-Advertisement-Period). An RP starts
   the SA-Advertisement-Timer when the MSDP process is configured. When
   the timer expires, an RP resets the timer to [SA-Advertisement-
   Period] seconds, and begins the advertisement of its active sources.
   Active sources are advertised in the following manner: An RP packs
   its active sources into an SA message until the largest MSDP packet
   that can be sent is built or there are no more sources, and then
   sends the message. This process is repeated periodically within the
   SA-Advertisement-Period in such a way that all of the RP's sources
   are advertised. Note that since MSDP is a periodic protocol, an
   implemenation SHOULD send all cached SA messages when a connection is
   established. Finally, the timer is deleted when the MSDP process is
   deconfigured.


5.3. SA Cache Timeout (SA-State Timer)

   Each entry in an SA Cache has an associated SA-State Timer.  A
   (S,G)-SA-State-Timer is started when an (S,G)-SA message is initially
   received by an MSDP peer. The timer is reset to [SG-State-Period] if
   another (S,G)-SA message is received before the (S,G)-SA-State Timer
   expires. [SG-State-Period] MUST NOT be less than
   [SA-Advertisement-Period] + [SA-Hold-Down-Period].

5.4. Peer Hold Timer

   The Hold Timer is initialized to [HoldTime-Period] when the peer's
   transport connection is established, and is reset to [HoldTime-
   Period]  when any MSDP message is received.  Finally, the timer is
   deleted when the peer's transport connection is closed.
   [HoldTime-Period] MUST be at least three seconds. The recommended
   value for [HoldTime-Period] is 75 seconds.

5.5. KeepAlive Timer

   Once an MSDP transport connection is established, each side of the
   connection sends a KeepAlive message and sets a KeepAlive timer. If
   the KeepAlive timer expires, the local system sends a KeepAlive
   message and restarts its KeepAlive timer.

   The KeepAlive timer is set to [KeepAlive-Period] when the peer comes
   up. The timer is reset to [KeepAlive-Period] each time an MSDP
   message is sent to the peer, and reset when the timer expires.

   Finally, the KeepAlive timer is deleted when the peer's transport
   connection is closed.

   [KeepAlive-Period] MUST be less than [HoldTime-Period], and MUST be
   at least one second. The recommended value for [KeepAlive-Period] is
   60 seconds.


5.6. ConnectRetry Timer

   The ConnectRetry timer is used by the MSDP peer with the lower IP
   address to transition from INACTIVE to CONNECTING states. There is
   one timer per peer, and the [ConnectRetry-Period] SHOULD be set to 30
   seconds.  The timer is initialized to [ConnectRetry-Period] when an
   MSDP speaker attempts to actively open a TCP connection to its peer
   (see section 15, event E2, action A2 ). When the timer expires, the
   peer retries the connection and the timer is reset to [ConnectRetry-
   Period]. It is deleted if either the connection transitions into
   ESTABLISHED state or the peer is deconfigured.


6. Intermediate MSDP Peers

   Intermediate MSDP speakers do not originate periodic SA messages on
   behalf of sources in other domains. In general, an RP MUST only
   originate an SA for a source which would register to it, and ONLY RPs
   may originate SA messages.

7. SA Filtering and Policy

   As the number of (S,G) pairs increases in the Internet, an RP may
   want to filter which sources it describes in SA messages. Also,
   filtering may be used as a matter of policy which at the same time
   can reduce state. MSDP peers in transit domains should not filter
   SA messages or the flood-and-join model can not guarantee that
   sources will be known throughout the Internet (i.e., SA filtering
   by transit domains may cause undesired lack of connectivity). In
   general, policy should be expressed using MBGP [RFC2283]. This
   will cause MSDP messages to flow in the desired direction and
   peer-RPF fail otherwise. An exception occurs at an administrative
   scope [RFC2365] boundary. In particular, a SA message for a (S,G)
   MUST NOT be sent to peers which are on the other side of an
   administrative scope boundary for G.


8. Encapsulated Data Packets

   The RP MAY encapsulate multicast data from the source. An interested
   RP may decapsulate the packet, which SHOULD be forwarded as if a PIM
   register encapsulated packet was received. That is, if packets are
   already arriving over the interface toward the source, then the
   packet is dropped. Otherwise, if the outgoing interface list is non-
   null, the packet is forwarded appropriately. Note that when doing
   data encapsulation, an implementation MUST bound the time during
   which packets are encapsulated.

   This allows for small bursts to be received before the multicast tree
   is built back toward the source's domain. For example, an
   implementation SHOULD encapsulate at least the first packet to
   provide service to bursty sources.

9. Other Scenarios

   MSDP is not limited to deployment across different routing domains.
   It can be used within a routing domain when it is desired to deploy
   multiple RPs for the same group ranges such as with Anycast RP's.
   As long as all RPs have a interconnected MSDP topology, each can
   learn about active sources as well as RPs in other domains.


10. MSDP Peer-RPF Forwarding

   The MSDP Peer-RPF Forwarding rules are used for forwarding SA
   messages throughout an MSDP enabled internet. Unlike the RPF check
   used when forwarding data packets, which generally compares the
   packet's source address against the interface upon which the packet
   was received, the Peer-RPF check compares the RP address carried in
   the SA message against the MSDP peer from which the message was
   received.


10.1. Definitions

   The following definitions are used in the description of the Peer-RPF
   Forwarding Rules:


10.1.1. Multicast RPF Routing Information Base (MRIB)

   The MRIB is the multicast topology table. It is typically derived
   from the unicast routing table or from other routing protocols such
   as multi-protocol BGP [RFC2283].


10.1.2. Peer-RPF Route

   The Peer-RPF route is the route that the MRIB chooses for a given
   address. The Peer-RPF route for a SA's originating RP is used to
   select the peer from which the SA is accepted.

10.2. Peer-RPF Forwarding Rules

           An SA message originated by R and received by X from N is
           accepted if N is the peer-RPF neighbor for X, and is discarded
           otherwise.

                   MPP(R,N)                 MP(N,X)
           R ---------....-------> N ------------------> X
                   SA(S,G,R)                SA(S,G,R)

           MP(N,X) is an MSDP peering between N and X.  MPP(R,N) is
           an MSDP peering path (zero or more MSDP peers) between
           R and N, e.g. MPP(R,N) = MP(R, A) + MP(A, B) + MP(B,
           N). SA(S,G,R) is an SA message for source S on group G
           originated by an RP R.

           The peer-RPF neighbor N is chosen deterministically, using the
           first of the following rules that matches. In particular,
           N is the RPF neighbor of X with respect to R if

           (i).    N == R (X has an MSDP peering with R).

           (ii).   N is the eBGP NEXT_HOP of the Peer-RPF route
                   for R.

           (iii).  The Peer-RPF route for R is learned through a
                   distance-vector or path-vector routing protocol
                   (e.g. BGP, RIP, DVMRP) and N is the neighbor that
                   advertised the Peer-RPF route for R (e.g. N is the
                   iBGP advertiser of the route for R), or N is the
                   IGP next hop for R if the route for R is learned
                   via a link-state protocol (e.g. OSPF or ISIS).

           (iv).   N resides in the closest AS in the best path towards
                   R. If multiple MSDP peers reside in the closest AS,
                   the peer with the highest IP address is the rpf-peer.

           (v).    N is configured as the static RPF-peer for R.

   MSDP peers, which are NOT in state ESTABLISHED (ie down peers), are
   not eligible for peer RPF consideration.


10.3. MSDP mesh-group semantics

   An MSDP mesh-group is a operational mechanism for reducing SA
   flooding, typically in an intra-domain setting. In particular, when
   some subset of a domain's MSDP speakers are fully meshed, they can be
   configured into a mesh-group.

   Note that mesh-groups assume that a member doesn't have to forward an
   SA to other members of the mesh-group because the originator will
   forward to all members. To be able for the originator to forward to
   all members (and to have each member also be a potential originator),
   the mesh-group must be a full mesh of MSDP peering among all members.

   The semantics of the mesh-group are as follows:

   (i).    If a member R of a mesh-group M receives a SA message from an
           MSDP peer that is also a member of mesh-group M, R accepts the
           SA message and forwards it to all of its peers that are not
           part of mesh-group M. R MUST NOT forward the SA message to
           other members of mesh-group M.

   (ii).   If a member R of a mesh-group M receives an SA message from an
           MSDP peer that is not a member of mesh-group M, and the SA
           message passes the peer-RPF check, then R forwards the SA
           message to all members of mesh-group M and to any other
           msdp peers.


11.  MSDP Connection State Machine

   MSDP uses TCP as its transport protocol. In a peering relationship,
   one MSDP peer listens for new TCP connections on the well-known port
   639. The other side makes an active connect to this port. The peer
   with the higher IP address will listen. This connection establishment
   algorithm avoids call collision. Therefore, there is no need for a
   call collision procedure. It should be noted, however, that the
   disadvantage of this approach is that the startup time depends
   completely upon the active side and its connect retry timer; the
   passive side cannot cause the connection to be established.

   An MSDP peer starts in the DISABLED state. MSDP peers establish
   peering sessions according to the following state machine:






                  --------------->+----------+
                 /                | DISABLED |<----------
                |          ------>+----------+           \
                |         /            |E1->A1            |
                |        |             |                  |
                |        |             V                  |E7->A7
                |        |        +----------+ E3->A3 +--------+
                |        |        | INACTIVE |------->| LISTEN |
                |        |        +----------+        +--------+
                |        |     E2->A2|    ^               |E5->A5
                |        |           |    |               |
                |        |E7->A6     V    |E6             |
                |         \      +------------+           |
                |          ------| CONNECTING |           |
                |                +------------+           |
       E7->A8   |                      |E4->A4            |
       E8->A8   |                      |                  |
       E9->A8   |                      V                  |
                 \              +-------------+          /
                  --------------| ESTABLISHED |<---------
                                +-------------+
                                   |       ^
                                   |       |
                             E10->A9\______/
11.1. Events


       E1) Enable MSDP peering with P
       E2) Own IP address < P's IP address
       E3) Own IP address > P's IP address
       E4) TCP established (active side)
       E5) TCP established (passive side)
       E6) ConnectRetry timer expired
       E7) Disable MSDP peering with P
           (e.g. when one's own address is changed)
       E8) Hold Timer expired
       E9) MSDP TLV format error detected
      E10) Any other error detected


11.2. Actions

       A1) Allocate resources for peering with P
           Compare one's own and peer's IP addresses
       A2) TCP active OPEN
           Set ConnectRetry timer to [ConnectRetry-Period]
       A3) TCP passive OPEN (listen)
       A4) Delete ConnectRetry timer
           Send KeepAlive TLV
           Set KeepAlive timer to [KeepAlive-Period]
           Set Hold Timer to [HoldTime-Period]
       A5) Send KeepAlive TLV
           Set KeepAlive timer to [KeepAlive-Period]
           Set Hold Timer to [HoldTime-Period]
       A6) Abort TCP active OPEN attempt
           Release resources allocated for peering with P
       A7) Abort TCP passive OPEN attempt
           Release resources allocated for peering with P
       A8) Close the TCP connection
           Release resources allocated for peering with P
       A9) Drop the packet

11.3. Peer-specific Events

   The following peer-specific events can occur in the ESTABLISHED
   state, they do not cause a state transition. Appropriate actions are
   listed for each event.


      *) KeepAlive timer expired:
         -> Send KeepAlive TLV
         -> Set KeepAlive timer to [KeepAlive-Period]
      *) KeepAlive TLV received:
         -> Set Hold Timer to [HoldTime-Period]
      *) Source-Active TLV received:
         -> Set Hold Timer to [HoldTime-Period]
         -> Run Peer-RPF Forwarding algorithm
         -> Set KeepAlive timer to [KeepAlive-Period] for those peers
            the Source-Active TLV is forwarded to
         -> Send information to PIM-SM
         -> Store information in cache


11.4. Peer-independent Events

   There are also a number of events that affect more than one peering
   session, but still require actions to be performed on a per-peer
   basis.

      *) SA-Advertisement-Timer expired:
         -> Start periodic transmission of Source-Active TLV(s)
         -> Set KeepAlive timer to [KeepAlive-Period] each time a
            Source-Active TLV is sent
      *) MSDP learns of a new active internal source (e.g. PIM-SM
         register received for a new source):
         -> Send Source-Active TLV
         -> Set KeepAlive timer to [KeepAlive-Period]
      *) SG-State-Timer expired (one timer per cache entry):
         -> Implementation specific, typically mark the cache entry for
            deletion


12. Packet Formats

   MSDP messages will be encoded in TLV format. If an implementation
   receives a TLV that has length that is longer than expected, the TLV
   SHOULD be accepted. Any additional data SHOULD be ignored and the
   MSDP session should not be reset.


12.1. MSDP TLV format:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |    Type       |           Length              |  Value ....   |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Type (8 bits)
    Describes the format of the Value field.

   Length (16 bits)
    Length of Type, Length, and Value fields in octets.
    Minimum length required is 4 octets, except for
    Keepalive messages.  The maximum TLV length is 9192.

   Value (variable length)
    Format is based on the Type value. See below. The length of
    the value field is Length field minus 3. All reserved fields
    in the Value field MUST be transmitted as zeros and ignored on
    receipt.


12.2. Defined TLVs

   The following TLV Types are defined:


   Code                                  Type
   ===========================================================
    1                  IPv4 Source-Active
    2                  IPv4 Source-Active Request
    3                  IPv4 Source-Active Response
    4                  KeepAlive
    5                  Reserved (Previously: Notification)

   Each TLV is described below.

   In addition, the following TLV Types are assigned but not described
   in this memo:

   Code                                  Type
   ===========================================================
    6                  MSDP traceroute in progress
    7                  MSDP traceroute reply


12.2.1. IPv4 Source-Active TLV

   The maximum size SA message that can be sent is 9192 octets. The 9192
   octet size does not include the TCP, IP, layer-2 headers.

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       1       |           x + y               |  Entry Count  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                          RP Address                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                           Reserved            |  Sprefix Len  | \
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  \
   |                         Group Address                         |   ) z
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+  /
   |                         Source Address                        | /
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   Type
    IPv4 Source-Active TLV is type 1.

   Length x
    Is the length of the control information in the message. x is
    8 octets (for the first two 32-bit quantities) plus 12 times
    Entry Count octets.

   Length y
    If 0, then there is no data encapsulated. Otherwise an IPv4
    packet follows and y is the value of the total length field
    in the header of the encapsulated IP packet. If there are
    multiple (S,G) entries in an SA message, only the last entry
    may have encapsulated data and it must reflect the source and
    destination addresses in the header of the encapsulated IP
    packet.

   Entry Count
    Is the count of z entries (note above) which follow the RP
    address field. This is so multiple (S,G)s from the same domain
    can be encoded efficiently for the same RP address.  An
    SA message containing encapsulated data typically has an
    entry count of 1 (i.e. only contains a single entry, for
    the (S,G) representing the encapsulated packet).

   RP Address
    The address of the RP in the domain the source has become
    active in.

   Reserved
    The Reserved field MUST be transmitted as zeros and MUST be
    ignored by a receiver.

   Sprefix Len
    The route prefix length associated with source address.
    This field MUST be transmitted as 32 (/32).

   Group Address
    The group address the active source has sent data to.

   Source Address
    The IP address of the active source.

   Multiple (S,G) entries MAY appear in the same SA and can be batched
   for efficiency at the expense of data latency. This would typically
   occur on intermediate forwarding of SA messages.


12.2.2. KeepAlive TLV


   A KeepAlive TLV is sent to an MSDP peer if and only if there were no
   MSDP messages sent to the peer within [KeepAlive-Period] seconds.
   This message is necessary to keep the MSDP connection alive.

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       4       |             3                 |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The length of the message is 3 octets which encompasses the one octet
   Type field and the two octet Length field.


13. MSDP Error Handling

   If an MSDP message is received with a TLV format error, the session
   SHOULD be reset with that peer.  MSDP messages with other errors, such
   as unrecognized type code, received from MSDP peers, SHOULD be silently
   discarded and the session SHOULD not be reset.


14. SA Data Encapsulation

   As discussed earlier, TCP encapsulation of data in SA messages MAY be
   supported for backwards compatibility with legacy MSDP peers.


15. Security Considerations

   An MSDP implementation MAY use IPsec [RFC2401] or MD5 to secure control
   messages. In particular, the TCP connection between MSDP peers MAY
   be secured using IPsec or MD5. Implementations MUST be capable of
   working with peers which do not provide IPsec or MD5 security.


16. Acknowledgments

   The editors would like to thank the original authors, Dino Farinacci,
   Yakov Rehkter, Peter Lothberg, Hank Kilmer, and Jermey Hall for their
   orginal contribution to the MSDP specification. In addition, Bill
   Nickless, John Meylor, Liming Wei, Manoj Leelanivas, Mark Turner,
   John Zwiebel, Cristina Radulescu-Banu, Brian Edwards, Selina
   Priestley, IJsbrand Wijnands, Tom Pusateri, Kristofer Warell, Henning
   Eriksson, Thomas Eriksson, Dave Thaler, and Ravi Shekhar provided
   useful and productive design feedback and comments. Mike McBride,
   Leonard Giuliano, Swapna Yelamanchi, Toerless Eckert and Ishan Wu
   contributed to the final version of the draft.


17. Editors' Address:

   David Meyer
   Email: dmm@maoz.com

   Bill Fenner
   AT&T Labs -- Research
   75 Willow Road
   Menlo Park, CA 94025
   Email: fenner@research.att.com


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   [RFC2119]   S. Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
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   [RFC2283]   Bates, T., Chandra, R., Katz, D., and Y. Rekhter.,
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               2365, July, 1998.

   [RFC2401]   Kent, S. and  R. Atkinson, "Security Architecture for
               the Internet Protocol", RFC 2401, November 1998.

   [RFC2784]   Farinacci, D., et al., "Generic Routing Encapsulation
               (GRE)", RFC 2784, March 2000.



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