INTERNET-DRAFT                                                 S. Zhuang
Intended status: Proposed Standard                                 Z. Li
                                                     Huawei Technologies
                                                             D. Eastlake
                                                  Futurewei Technologies
                                                                 L. Yong
                                                             Independent
Expires: January 12, 2021                                  July 13, 2020


             BGP Extensions for Enhanced VPN Auto Discovery
          draft-zhuang-bess-enhanced-vpn-auto-discovery-06.txt


Abstract

   A variety of VPN technologies have been widely deployed to bear
   different services.  As new applications develop, a requirement has
   been proposed for auto-discovery of Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks
   (L3VPN) and enhanced auto-discovery requirements for other VPN
   technologies that already have basic auto-discovery mechanisms.

   This document identifies some possible applications of these auto-
   discovery requirements and defines a new BGP NLRI, called the BGP-
   VPN-INSTANCE NLRI, to satisfy the requirement for auto-discovery of
   BGP VPN instances. It also defines a new type of extended community,
   called the Import Route Target, which can be applied to auto-
   discovery mechanisms of multiple VPN technologies.


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Table of Contents

      1. Introduction............................................3
      2. Terminologies...........................................4

      3. Requirements of VPN Auto-Discovery......................5
      3.1 Centralized Traffic Optimization.......................5
      3.2 Label/Segment Allocation for VPN Instance..............5

      4. IRT Extended Community..................................6

      5. BGP Extensions for L3VPN Auto-Discovery.................7
      5.1 BGP-VPN-INSTANCE SAFI..................................7
      5.2 BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI..................................8
      5.2.1 VPN Membership A-D Route.............................8
      5.3  Procedures............................................9

      6. IANA Considerations....................................10
      6.1 BGP Extended Communities..............................10
      6.2 Subsequent Address Family Identifier..................10

      7. Security Considerations................................11

      Contributors..............................................11
      Acknowledgements..........................................11

      Normative References......................................12
      Informative References....................................13

      Authors' Addresses........................................14






















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1. Introduction

   A variety of VPN technologies have been widely deployed to bear
   different services.  As new applications develop, a requirement has
   been proposed for auto-discovery of Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks
   (L3VPN) [RFC4364] and enhanced auto-discovery requirements for other
   VPN technologies which already have basic auto-discovery mechanisms.

   This document identifies some possible applications of these auto-
   discovery requirements and defines a new BGP NLRI [RFC4271], called
   the BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI, to satisfy the requirement of auto-
   discovery of BGP VPN instance. It also defines a new type of extended
   community, called the Import Route Target (IRT), which can be applied
   to auto-discovery mechanisms of multiple VPN technologies.






































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2. Terminologies

   This document uses the terminologies defined in [RFC4026]:

      A-D: Auto-Discovery

      AFI: Address Family Identifier

      ERT: Export Route Target

      IRT: Import Route Target

      LSP: Label Switched Path

      NLRI: Network Layer Reachability Information

      P2MP: Point to Multi-Point

      PE:  Provider Edge

      RD:  Route Distinguisher

      VRF: Virtual Routing and Forwarding

      VPN A-D: VPN Auto-Discovery

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP
   14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.





















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3. Requirements of VPN Auto-Discovery

   The following subsections are examples of VPN Auto-Discovery
   requirements.



3.1 Centralized Traffic Optimization

   As the development of centrally controlled application such as PCE-
   initiated LSP [RFC8281] and PCE-initiated P2MP LSP
   [I-D.palle-pce-stateful-pce-initiated-p2mp-lsp], PCE can be used to
   initiate setup of RSVP-TE LSP or P2MP LSP for the purpose of traffic
   optimization.  In order to support such applications, the controller
   should learn the relationship of unicast VPN instances or multicast
   VPN instances distributed on different PEs.  According to the
   existing VPN auto-discovery mechanism for technologies such as EVPN
   [RFC7432] or MVPN [RFC6514], the A-D routes are always advertised
   with the Export Route Target (ERT).  The ingress PE can use an Import
   Route Target (IRT) of the local MVPN/EVPN instance to match the route
   target advertised with the NLRI to determine the relationship of
   these VPN instances.  But the controller, which can be used as the
   route reflector of VPN routes, cannot learn the relationship of VPN
   instances since the Import Route Target information is not advertised
   with these A-D routes.  In order to support such applications the IRT
   can be carried with A-D routes as specified below.



3.2 Label/Segment Allocation for VPN Instance

   [I-D.li-mpls-global-label-usecases] proposes use cases of label
   allocation for unicast VPN or multicast VPN instances.
   [I-D.li-spring-segment-path-programming] proposes use cases of
   segment allocation for steering traffic.  In order to support such
   applications the PEs needs to learn the relationship of VPN instances
   distributed on other PEs.  For L3VPN [RFC4364] there is no auto-
   discovery mechanism for BGP VPN instances.  In order to support such
   applications, an auto-discovery mechanism for L3VPN is specified
   below.












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4. IRT Extended Community

   This document defines a new type of transitive extended community,
   called Import Route Target.

   The IANA registry of BGP Extended Communities clearly identifies
   communities of specific formats: "Two-octet AS Specific Extended
   Community" [RFC4360], "Four-octet AS Specific Extended Community"
   [RFC5668], and "IPv4 Address Specific Extended Community" [RFC4360].
   Route Target [RFC4360] extended communities identify this format in
   the high-order (Type) octet of the Extended Community. The Import
   Route Target extended community reuses the same mechanism.

   This document defines the following IRT Extended Communities:

   +------+------+--------------+-------------------------------------+
   |      | Sub- |  Extended    |                                     |
   | Type | Type |  Community   |          Encoding                   |
   +------+------+--------------+-------------------------------------+
   | 0x00 | TBD1 | AS-2byte IRT | 2-octet AS, 4-octet Value           |
   | 0x01 | TBD2 | IPv4 IRT     | 4-octet IPv4 Address, 2-octet Value |
   | 0x02 | TBD3 | AS-4byte IRT | 4-octet AS, 2-octet Value           |
   +------+------+--------------+-------------------------------------+

                    Figure 1. IRT Extended Communities


     The IRT Extended Community can be used for MVPN [RFC6514], L3VPN
   [RFC4364], EVPN [RFC7432], BGP-based VPLS [RFC4761], and BGP-AD-based
   VPLS [RFC6074] and the like.  The existing auto-discovery mechanisms
   of these VPN technologies always carry the ERT extended community.
   To meet the requirements of applications, they need to carry the IRT
   extended community with different A-D routes.  The local policy,
   which is out of scope of this document, can be used to control the
   distribution of IRT information.

















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5. BGP Extensions for L3VPN Auto-Discovery



5.1 BGP-VPN-INSTANCE SAFI

   The BGP Multiprotocol Extensions [RFC4760] allow BGP to carry routes
   from multiple "address families".  In this document a new Subsequent
   Address Family is specified, called "BGP-VPN-INSTANCE Sub Address
   Family", which uses a specific BGP-VPN-INSTANCE-SAFI (TBD4).

   This document also defines a new BGP NLRI, called the BGP-VPN-
   INSTANCE NLRI to support the BGP VPN instance auto-discovery.  BGP-
   VPN-INSTANCE MP_REACH_NLRI and MP_UNREACH_NLRI (shown in Figures 2
   and 3) are formatted as described in [RFC4760]. The BGP-VPN-INSTANCE
   NLRI is described in more detail in Section 5.2.

         +-------------------------------------------------------+
         | Address Family Identifier: 1/2/25     (2 octets)      |
         +---------------------------+---------------------------+
         | Subsequent AFI:           |           (1 octet)
         | BGP-VPN-INSTANCE-SAFI=TBD4|
         +---------------------------+
         | Length of Next Hop        |           (1 octet)
         +---------------------------+---...
         | Next Hop                              (variable)
         +---------------------------+---...
         | Reserved                  |           (1 octet)
         +---------------------------+---...
         | BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI                 (variable)
         +-------------------------------...

                 Figure 2. BGP-VPN-INSTANCE MP_REACH_NLRI


         +-------------------------------------------------------+
         | Address Family Identifier: 1/2/25     (2 octets)      |
         +---------------------------+---------------------------+
         | Subsequent AFI:           |           (1 octet)
         | BGP-VPN-INSTANCE-SAFI=TBD4|
         +---------------------------+---...
         | BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI                 (variable)
         +-------------------------------...

                Figure 3.  BGP-VPN-INSTANCE MP_UNREACH_NLRI







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5.2 BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI

   The following is the format of the BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI.

         +---------------------------+
         | Route Type                |           (1 octet)
         +---------------------------+
         | Length                    |           (1 octet)
         +---------------------------+---...
         | Route Type Specific (variable)                    |
         +---------------------------------------------------+

                      Figure 4. BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI


   The Route Type field specifies the encoding of the rest of
   BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI (Route Type specific BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI).

   The Length field indicates the length in octets of the Route Type
   specific field of the BGP-VPN-INSTANCE NLRI.

   This document defines the following Route Type for BGP-VPN-INSTANCE
   routes:

         Type 1: VPN Membership A-D Route



5.2.1 VPN Membership A-D Route

   The VPN Membership A-D Route is utilized for VPN Membership A-D
   between PEs.  Its format is shown in Figure 5.

         +-------------------------------------...
         | Local Router's IP Address                 (variable)
         +----------------------------------------+
         | RD                                     |  (8 octets)
         +----------------------------------------+

                    Figure 5. VPN Membership A-D Route


      a) Local Router's IP Address: Advertising PE's IPv4/IPv6 address.

      b) RD: RD of one VRF on the advertising PE, encoded as described
         in [RFC4364].






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5.3  Procedures

   Every PE needs to process all its VRF configuration and generate one
   VPN Membership A-D Route for each VRF respectively.  The Local
   Router's IP Address field MUST be filled with the Advertising
   Router's IP address.  The RD field MUST be filled with the VRF's RD
   value.

   All ERTs of the VRF MUST be carried in a BGP Update's RT Extended
   Community Path Attribute with the Membership A-D Route for the VRF.
   To meet the requirements of different applications, all IRTs of the
   VRF SHOULD be able to be carried in BGP Update's IRT Extended
   Community Path Attribute with the VPN Membership A-D Route for the
   VRF.

   If a VRF is created, then its corresponding VPN Membership A-D Route
   MUST be generated and advertised.

   If the VRF whose VPN Membership A-D Route has been advertised is
   deleted, then the VPN Membership A-D Route Withdraw message MUST be
   generated and advertised.

   If IRTs or ERTs of the VRF whose VPN Membership A-D Route has been
   advertised are changed, then a VPN Membership A-D Route Update with
   same Prefix and latest IRTs or ERTs MUST be advertised.

   When the receiving PE receives a VPN Membership A-D Route, VPN
   relationship matching MUST be checked with the IRTs carried in the
   VPN Membership A-D Route and ERTs of each Local VRF.

   When the central controller receives a VPN Membership A-D Route, VPN
   relationship matching MUST be checked with IRTs and ERTs carried in
   VPN Membership A-D Routes of different VPN instances.



















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6. IANA Considerations



6.1 BGP Extended Communities

   IANA is requested to assign three BGP Extended Community Sub-Types as
   shown below.

   Transitive Two-Octet AS-Specific Extended Community Sub-Type
         Sub-Type    Description           Reference
         --------  ---------------------  ---------------
           TBD1    Import Route Target    [this document]

   Transitive IPv4-Address-Specific Extended Community Sub-Type
         Sub-Type    Description           Reference
         --------  ---------------------  ---------------
           TBD2    Import Route Target    [this document]

   Transitive Four-Octet AS-Specific Extended Community Sub-Type
         Sub-Type    Description           Reference
         --------  ---------------------  ---------------
           TBD3    Import Route Target    [this document]



6.2 Subsequent Address Family Identifier

   IANA is requested to assign a Subsequent Address Family Identifier
   (SAFI) from the First Come First Served range as follows:

         Value    Description             Reference
         -----   ---------------------   ---------------
         TBD4    BGP-VPN-INSTANCE-SAFI   [this document]


















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7. Security Considerations

   TBD



Contributors

   The following people have substantially contributed to the solution
   and to the editing of this document:.

      Hui Ni
      Huawei Technologies
      Email: nihui@huawei.com



Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Shuanglong Chen and Eric Wu for their
   contributions to this work.































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Normative References

   [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
             Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI
             10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997, <http://www.rfc-
             editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC4271] Rekhter, Y., Ed., Li, T., Ed., and S. Hares, Ed., "A Border
             Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, DOI
             10.17487/RFC4271, January 2006, <http://www.rfc-
             editor.org/info/rfc4271>.

   [RFC4360] Sangli, S., Tappan, D., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP Extended
             Communities Attribute", RFC 4360, DOI 10.17487/RFC4360,
             February 2006, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4360>.

   [RFC4364] Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
             Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, DOI 10.17487/RFC4364, February
             2006, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4364>.

   [RFC4760] Bates, T., Chandra, R., Katz, D., and Y. Rekhter,
             "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4", RFC 4760, DOI
             10.17487/RFC4760, January 2007, <http://www.rfc-
             editor.org/info/rfc4760>.

   [RFC4761] Kompella, K., Ed. and Y. Rekhter, Ed., "Virtual Private LAN
             Service (VPLS) Using BGP for Auto-Discovery and Signaling",
             RFC 4761, DOI 10.17487/RFC4761, January 2007,
             <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4761>.

   [RFC5668] Rekhter, Y., Sangli, S., and D. Tappan, "4-Octet AS
             Specific BGP Extended Community", RFC 5668, DOI
             10.17487/RFC5668, October 2009, <http://www.rfc-
             editor.org/info/rfc5668>.

   [RFC6074] Rosen, E., Davie, B., Radoaca, V., and W. Luo,
             "Provisioning, Auto-Discovery, and Signaling in Layer 2
             Virtual Private Networks (L2VPNs)", RFC 6074, DOI
             10.17487/RFC6074, January 2011, <http://www.rfc-
             editor.org/info/rfc6074>.

   [RFC6514] Aggarwal, R., Rosen, E., Morin, T., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP
             Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP
             VPNs", RFC 6514, DOI 10.17487/RFC6514, February 2012,
             <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6514>.

   [RFC7432] Sajassi, A., Ed., Aggarwal, R., Bitar, N., Isaac, A.,
             Uttaro, J., Drake, J., and W. Henderickx, "BGP MPLS-Based
             Ethernet VPN", RFC 7432, DOI 10.17487/RFC7432, February
             2015, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7432>.


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   [RFC8174] Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119
             Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174, May
             2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.



Informative References

   [I-D.li-mpls-global-label-usecases] Li, Z., Zhao, Q., Yang, T.,
             Raszuk, R., and L. Fang, "Usecases of MPLS Global Label",
             draft-li-mpls-global-label-usecases-03 (work in progress),
             October 2015.

   [I-D.li-spring-segment-path-programming] Li, Z., Milojevic, I., Z.
             Zhuang, "Segment Path Programming (SPP)",
             draft-li-spring-segment-path-programming-00 (work in
             progress), October 2015.

   [RFC4026] Andersson, L. and T. Madsen, "Provider Provisioned Virtual
             Private Network (VPN) Terminology", RFC 4026, DOI
             10.17487/RFC4026, March 2005, <https://www.rfc-
             editor.org/info/rfc4026>.

   [RFC8281] Crabbe, E., Minei, I., Sivabalan, S., and R. Varga, "Path
             Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP)
             Extensions for PCE-Initiated LSP Setup in a Stateful PCE
             Model", RFC 8281, DOI 10.17487/RFC8281, December 2017,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8281>.
























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Authors' Addresses

      Shunwan Zhuang
      Huawei Technologies
      Huawei Building, No.156 Beiqing Rd.
      Beijing. 100095 China

      Email: zhuangshunwan@huawei.com


      Zhenbin Li
      Huawei Technologies
      Huawei Building, No.156 Beiqing Rd.
      Beijing, 100095 China

      Email: lizhenbin@huawei.com


      Donald Eastlake
      Futurewei Technologies
      2386 Panoramic Circle
      Apopka, FL 32703 USA

      Phone: +1-508-333-2270
      Email: d3e3e3@gmail.com


      Lucy Yong
      Independent
      USA

      Phone: +1-469-227-5837
      Email: lucyyong@gmail.com



















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