PPVPN draft-nguyen-bgp-ipv6-vpn-01.txt

[Jeremy De Clercq <Jeremy.De_Clercq@alcatel.be>]

NAME OF I-D:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-nguyen-bgp-ipv6-vpn-01.txt

SUMMARY

This document describes a method by which a Service Provider may  use an
MPLS enabled IPv4 backbone to provide VPNs for its IPv6 customers. This
proposal makes use of the method to  build  network  based  VPNs
described  in  the  RFC2547-Bis Internet draft [2547Bis]. In BGP/MPLS
VPN, MPLS is used for forwarding packets over the backbone,  and  BGP
is  used  for  distributing  VPN  routes  over  the  service provider
backbone. This document proposes to use one of the defined  encodings
for the Route Distinguisher to support an IPv6 VPN address family. It
defines an encoding for the SAFI-field in the case  of  labeled 
VPN-IPv6 routes.

RELATED DOCUMENTS

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rosen-rfc2547bis-03.txt

WHERE DOES IT FIT IN THE PICTURE OF THE SUB-IP WORK

in the PPVPN-box

WHY IS IT TARGETED AT THIS WG

It describes an extension of a candidate approach that is under
discussion (see 'related documents) in the PPVPN WG. The proposed
extension makes the candidate approach better meet the requirements
described in the requirement document for PPVPN. It could be merged with
that candidate approach document.