Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                          E. Rosen
Request for Comments: 8277                        Juniper Networks, Inc.
Obsoletes: 3107                                             October 2017
Category: Standards Track
ISSN: 2070-1721


          Using BGP to Bind MPLS Labels to Address Prefixes

Abstract

  This document specifies a set of procedures for using BGP to
  advertise that a specified router has bound a specified MPLS label
  (or a specified sequence of MPLS labels organized as a contiguous
  part of a label stack) to a specified address prefix.  This can be
  done by sending a BGP UPDATE message whose Network Layer Reachability
  Information field contains both the prefix and the MPLS label(s) and
  whose Next Hop field identifies the node at which said prefix is
  bound to said label(s).  This document obsoletes RFC 3107.

Status of This Memo

  This is an Internet Standards Track document.

  This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
  (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
  received public review and has been approved for publication by the
  Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG).  Further information on
  Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.

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Table of Contents

  1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
  2.  Using BGP to Bind an Address Prefix to One or More MPLS
      Labels  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
    2.1.  Multiple Labels Capability  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
    2.2.  NLRI Encoding When the Multiple Labels Capability Is
          Not Used  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
    2.3.  NLRI Encoding When the Multiple Labels Capability Is Used  10
    2.4.  How to Explicitly Withdraw the Binding of a Label to a
          Prefix  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
    2.5.  Changing the Label That Is Bound to a Prefix  . . . . . .  13
  3.  Installing and/or Propagating SAFI-4 or SAFI-128 Routes . . .  14
    3.1.  Comparability of Routes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
    3.2.  Modification of Label(s) Field When Propagating . . . . .  14
      3.2.1.  When the Next Hop Field Is Unchanged  . . . . . . . .  14
      3.2.2.  When the Next Hop Field Is Changed  . . . . . . . . .  15
  4.  Data Plane  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
  5.  Relationship between SAFI-4 and SAFI-1 Routes . . . . . . . .  18
  6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
  7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
  8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
    8.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  20
    8.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
  Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23

1.  Introduction

  [RFC3107] specifies encodings and procedures for using BGP to
  indicate that a particular router has bound either a single MPLS
  label or a sequence of MPLS labels to a particular address prefix.
  (A sequence of labels would be organized as a contiguous part of an
  MPLS label stack as specified in [RFC3031] and [RFC3032].)  This is
  done by sending a BGP UPDATE message whose Network Layer Reachability
  Information field contains both the prefix and the MPLS label(s) and
  whose Next Hop field identifies the node at which said prefix is
  bound to said label(s).  Each such UPDATE also advertises a path to
  the specified prefix via the specified next hop.












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  Although there are many implementations and deployments of [RFC3107],
  there are a number of issues with it that have impeded
  interoperability in the past and may potentially impede
  interoperability in the future:

  o  Although [RFC3107] specifies an encoding that allows a sequence of
     MPLS labels (rather than just a single label) to be bound to a
     prefix, it does not specify the semantics of binding a sequence of
     labels to a prefix.

  o  Many implementations of [RFC3107] assume that only one label will
     be bound to a prefix, and cannot properly process a BGP UPDATE
     message that binds a sequence of labels to a prefix.  Thus, an
     implementation attempting to provide this feature is likely to
     experience problems interoperating with other implementations.

  o  The procedures in [RFC3107] for withdrawing the binding of a label
     or sequence of labels to a prefix are not specified clearly and
     correctly.

  o  [RFC3107] specifies an optional feature, known as "Advertising
     Multiple Routes to a Destination", that, to the best of the
     author's knowledge, has never been implemented as specified.  The
     functionality that this feature was intended to provide can and
     has been implemented in a different way using the procedures of
     [RFC7911], which were not available at the time that [RFC3107] was
     written.  In [RFC3107], this feature was controlled by a BGP
     Capability Code that has never been implemented and is now
     deprecated; see Section 6.

  o  It is possible for a BGP speaker to receive two BGP UPDATEs that
     advertise paths to the same address prefix, where one UPDATE binds
     a label (or sequence of labels) to the prefix and the other does
     not.  [RFC3107] is silent on the issue of how the presence of two
     such UPDATEs impacts the BGP decision process and does not say
     explicitly whether one or the other or both of these UPDATEs
     should be propagated.  This has led different implementations to
     handle this situation in different ways.

  o  Much of [RFC3107] applies to the VPN-IPv4 ([RFC4364]) and VPN-IPv6
     ([RFC4659]) address families, but those address families are not
     mentioned in it.

  This document replaces and obsoletes [RFC3107].  It defines a new BGP
  Capability to be used when binding a sequence of labels to a prefix;
  by using this Capability, the interoperability problems alluded to
  above can be avoided.  This document also removes the unimplemented




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  "Advertising Multiple Routes to a Destination" feature (see Section 4
  of [RFC3107]), while specifying how to use [RFC7911] to provide the
  same functionality.  This document also addresses the issue of the
  how UPDATEs that bind labels to a given prefix interact with UPDATEs
  that advertise paths to that prefix but do not bind labels to it.
  However, for backwards compatibility, it declares most of these
  interactions to be matters of local policy.

  The places where this specification differs from [RFC3107] are
  indicated in the text.  It is believed that implementations that
  conform to the current document will interoperate correctly with
  existing deployed implementations of [RFC3107].

  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.

2.  Using BGP to Bind an Address Prefix to One or More MPLS Labels

  BGP may be used to advertise that a particular node (call it N) has
  bound a particular MPLS label, or a particular sequence of MPLS
  labels (organized as a contiguous part of an MPLS label stack), to a
  particular address prefix.  This is done by sending a Multiprotocol
  BGP UPDATE message, i.e., an UPDATE message with an MP_REACH_NLRI
  attribute as specified in [RFC4760].  The Network Address of Next Hop
  field of that attribute contains an IP address of node N.  The
  label(s) and the prefix are encoded in the Network Layer Reachability
  Information (NLRI) field of the MP_REACH_NLRI.  The encoding of the
  NLRI field is specified in Sections 2.2 and 2.3.

  If the prefix is an IPv4 address prefix or a VPN-IPv4 ([RFC4364])
  address prefix, the Address Family Identifier (AFI) of the
  MP_REACH_NLRI attribute is set to 1.  If the prefix is an IPv6
  address prefix or a VPN-IPv6 prefix ([RFC4659]), the AFI is set to 2.

  If the prefix is an IPv4 address prefix or an IPv6 address prefix,
  the Subsequent Address Family Identifier (SAFI) field is set to 4.
  If the prefix is a VPN-IPv4 address prefix or a VPN-IPv6 address
  prefix, the SAFI is set to 128.

  The use of SAFI 4 or SAFI 128 when the AFI is other than 1 or 2 is
  outside the scope of this document.







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  This document does not specify the format of the Network Address of
  Next Hop field of the MP_REACH_NLRI attribute.  The format of the
  Next Hop field depends upon a number of factors and is discussed in a
  number of other RFCs: see [RFC4364], [RFC4659], [RFC4798], and
  [RFC5549].

  There are a variety of applications that make use of alternative
  methods of using BGP to advertise MPLS label bindings: see, e.g.,
  [RFC7432], [RFC6514], or [TUNNEL-ENCAPS].  The method described in
  the current document is not claimed to be the only way of using BGP
  to advertise MPLS label bindings.  Discussion of which method to use
  for which application is outside the scope of the current document.

  In the remainder of this document, we will use the term "SAFI-x
  UPDATE" to refer to a BGP UPDATE message containing an MP_REACH_NLRI
  attribute or an MP_UNREACH_NLRI attribute ([RFC4760]) whose SAFI
  field contains the value x.

  This document defines a BGP Optional Capabilities parameter
  ([RFC5492]) known as the Multiple Labels Capability.

  o  Unless this Capability is sent on a given BGP session by both of
     that session's BGP speakers, a SAFI-4 or SAFI-128 UPDATE message
     sent on that session from either speaker MUST bind a prefix to
     only a single label and MUST use the encoding of Section 2.2.

  o  If this Capability is sent by both BGP speakers on a given
     session, an UPDATE message on that session, from either speaker,
     MUST use the encoding of Section 2.3 and MAY bind a prefix to a
     sequence of more than one label.

  The encoding of the Multiple Labels Capability is specified in
  Section 2.1.

  Procedures for explicitly withdrawing a label binding are given in
  Section 2.4.  Procedures for changing the label(s) bound to a given
  prefix by a given node are given in Section 2.5.

  Procedures for propagating SAFI-4 and SAFI-128 UPDATEs are discussed
  in Section 3.

  When a BGP speaker installs and propagates a SAFI-4 or SAFI-128
  UPDATE, and if it changes the value of the Network Address of Next
  Hop field, it must program its data plane appropriately.  This is
  discussed in Section 4.






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2.1.  Multiple Labels Capability

  [RFC5492] defines the "Capabilities Optional Parameter".  A BGP
  speaker can include a Capabilities Optional Parameter in a BGP OPEN
  message.  The Capabilities Optional Parameter is a triple that
  includes a one-octet Capability Code, a one-octet Capability length,
  and a variable-length Capability Value.

  This document defines a Capability Code known as the Multiple Labels
  Capability code.  IANA has assigned value 8 to this Capability Code.
  (This Capability Code is new to this document and does not appear in
  [RFC3107].)

  If a BGP speaker has not sent the Multiple Labels Capability in its
  BGP OPEN message on a particular BGP session, or if it has not
  received the Multiple Labels Capability in the BGP OPEN message from
  its peer on that BGP session, that BGP speaker MUST NOT send on that
  session any UPDATE message that binds more than one MPLS label to any
  given prefix.  Further, when advertising the binding of a single
  label to a prefix, the BGP speaker MUST use the encoding specified in
  Section 2.2.

  The value field of the Multiple Labels Capability (shown in Figure 1)
  consists of one or more triples, where each triple consists of four
  octets.  The first two octets of a triple specify an AFI value, the
  third octet specifies a SAFI value, and the fourth specifies a Count.
  If one of the triples is <AFI, SAFI, Count>, the Count is the maximum
  number of labels that the BGP speaker sending the Capability can
  process in a received UPDATE of the specified AFI/SAFI.  If the Count
  is 255, then no limit has been placed on the number of labels that
  can be processed in a received UPDATE of the specified AFI/SAFI.

  Any implementation that sends a Multiple Labels Capability MUST be
  able to support at least two labels in the NLRI.  However, there may
  be deployment scenarios in which a larger number of labels is needed.

     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
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |              AFI              |    SAFI       |    Count      ~
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    ~              AFI              |    SAFI       |    Count      |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

           Figure 1: Value Field of Multiple Labels Capability

  If the Capability contains more than one triple with a given AFI/
  SAFI, all but the first MUST be ignored.



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  A triple of the form <AFI=x, SAFI=y, Count=0> or
  <AFI=x, SAFI=y, Count=1> MUST NOT be sent.  If such a triple is
  received, it MUST be ignored.

  A Multiple Labels Capability whose length is not a multiple of four
  MUST be considered to be malformed.

  "Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP" [RFC4724] describes a procedure
  that allows routes learned over a given BGP session to be maintained
  when the session fails and then restarts.  This procedure requires
  the entire RIB to be transmitted when the session restarts.  If the
  Multiple Labels Capability for a given AFI/SAFI was exchanged on the
  failed session but has not been exchanged on the restarted session,
  then any prefixes advertised in that AFI/SAFI with multiple labels
  MUST be explicitly withdrawn.  Similarly, if the maximum label count
  (specified in the Capability for a given AFI/SAFI) is reduced, any
  prefixes advertised with more labels than are valid for the current
  session MUST be explicitly withdrawn.

  "Accelerated Routing Convergence for BGP Graceful Restart"
  [Enhanced-GR] describes another procedure that allows the routes
  learned over a given BGP session to be maintained when the session
  fails and then restarts.  These procedures MUST NOT be applied if
  either of the following conditions hold:

  o  The Multiple Labels Capability for a given AFI/SAFI had been
     exchanged prior to the restart but has not been exchanged on the
     restarted session.

  o  The Multiple Labels Capability for a given AFI/SAFI had been
     exchanged with a given Count prior to the restart but have been
     exchanged with a smaller count on the restarted session.

  If either of these conditions hold, the complete set of routes for
  the given AFI/SAFI MUST be exchanged.

  If a BGP OPEN message contains multiple copies of the Multiple Labels
  Capability, only the first copy is significant; subsequent copies
  MUST be ignored.

  If (a) a BGP speaker has sent the Multiple Labels Capability in its
  BGP OPEN message for a particular BGP session, (b) it has received
  the Multiple Labels Capability in its peer's BGP OPEN message for
  that session, and (c) both Capabilities specify AFI/SAFI x/y, then
  when using an UPDATE of AFI x and SAFI y to advertise the binding of
  a label or sequence of labels to a given prefix, the BGP speaker MUST
  use the encoding of Section 2.3.  This encoding MUST be used even if
  only one label is being bound to a given prefix.



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  If both BGP speakers of a given BGP session have sent the Multiple
  Labels Capability, but AFI/SAFI x/y has not been specified in both
  Capabilities, then UPDATEs of AFI/SAFI x/y on that session MUST use
  the encoding of Section 2.2, and such UPDATEs can only bind one label
  to a prefix.

  A BGP speaker SHOULD NOT send an UPDATE that binds more labels to a
  given prefix than its peer is capable of receiving, as specified in
  the Multiple Labels Capability sent by that peer.  If a BGP speaker
  receives an UPDATE that binds more labels to a given prefix than the
  number of labels the BGP speaker is prepared to receive (as announced
  in its Multiple Labels Capability), the BGP speaker MUST apply the
  "treat-as-withdraw" strategy of [RFC7606] to that UPDATE.

  Notwithstanding the number of labels that a BGP speaker has claimed
  to be able to receive, its peer MUST NOT attempt to send more labels
  than can be properly encoded in the NLRI field of the MP_REACH_NLRI
  attribute.  Please note that there is only a limited amount of space
  in the NLRI field for labels:

  o  per [RFC4760], the size of this field is limited to 255 bits (not
     255 octets), including the number of bits in the prefix;

  o  in a SAFI-128 UPDATE, the prefix is at least 64 bits long and may
     be as long as 192 bits (e.g., in a VPN-IPv6 host route).

2.2.  NLRI Encoding When the Multiple Labels Capability Is Not Used

  If the Multiple Labels Capability has not been both sent and received
  on a given BGP session, then in a BGP UPDATE on that session whose
  MP_REACH_NLRI attribute contains one of the AFI/SAFI combinations
  specified in Section 2, the NLRI field is encoded as shown in
  Figure 2:

     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
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |    Length     |                 Label                 |Rsrv |S|
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                          Prefix                               ~
    ~                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                      Figure 2: NLRI with One Label







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  - Length:

     The Length field consists of a single octet.  It specifies the
     length in bits of the remainder of the NLRI field.

     Note that the length will always be the sum of 20 (number of bits
     in Label field), plus 3 (number of bits in Rsrv field), plus 1
     (number of bits in S field), plus the length in bits of the
     prefix.

     In an MP_REACH_NLRI attribute whose AFI/SAFI is 1/4, the prefix
     length will be 32 bits or less.  In an MP_REACH_NLRI attribute
     whose AFI/SAFI is 2/4, the prefix length will be 128 bits or less.
     In an MP_REACH_NLRI attribute whose SAFI is 128, the prefix will
     be 96 bits or less if the AFI is 1 and will be 192 bits or less if
     the AFI is 2.

     As specified in [RFC4760], the actual length of the NLRI field
     will be the number of bits specified in the Length field, rounded
     up to the nearest integral number of octets.

  - Label:

     The Label field is a 20-bit field containing an MPLS label value
     (see [RFC3032]).

  - Rsrv:

     This 3-bit field SHOULD be set to zero on transmission and MUST be
     ignored on reception.

  - S:

     This 1-bit field MUST be set to one on transmission and MUST be
     ignored on reception.

  Note that the UPDATE message not only advertises the binding between
  the prefix and the label, it also advertises a path to the prefix via
  the node identified in the Network Address of Next Hop field of the
  MP_REACH_NLRI attribute.

  [RFC3107] requires that if only a single label is bound to a prefix,
  the S bit must be set.  If the S bit is not set, [RFC3107] specifies
  that additional labels will appear in the NLRI.  However, some
  implementations assume that the NLRI will contain only a single label
  and thus do not check the setting of the S bit.  The procedures
  specified in the current document will interwork with such
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  sent and received by both BGP speakers on a given BGP session, this
  document REQUIRES that only one label be specified in the NLRI, that
  the S bit be set on transmission, and that it be ignored on
  reception.

  If the procedures of [RFC7911] are being used, a four-octet "path
  identifier" (as defined in Section 3 of [RFC7911]) is part of the
  NLRI and precedes the Length field.

2.3.  NLRI Encoding When the Multiple Labels Capability Is Used

  If the Multiple Labels Capability has been both sent and received on
  a given BGP session, then in a BGP UPDATE on that session whose
  MP_REACH_NLRI attribute contains one of the AFI/SAFI combinations
  specified in Section 2, the NLRI field is encoded as shown in
  Figure 3:

     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
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |    Length     |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                 Label                 |Rsrv |S~
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    ~                 Label                 |Rsrv |S|
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                          Prefix                               ~
    ~                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                   Figure 3: NLRI with Multiple Labels

  - Length:

     The Length field consists of a single octet.  It specifies the
     length in bits of the remainder of the NLRI field.

     Note that for each label, the length is increased by 24 bits (20
     bits in the Label field, plus 3 bits in the Rsrv field, plus 1 S
     bit).

     In an MP_REACH_NLRI attribute whose AFI/SAFI is 1/4, the prefix
     length will be 32 bits or less.  In an MP_REACH_NLRI attribute
     whose AFI/SAFI is 2/4, the prefix length will be 128 bits or less.
     In an MP_REACH_NLRI attribute whose SAFI is 128, the prefix will
     be 96 bits or less if the AFI is 1 and will be 192 bits or less if
     the AFI is 2.




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     As specified in [RFC4760], the actual length of the NLRI field
     will be the number of bits specified in the Length field rounded
     up to the nearest integral number of octets.

  - Label:

     The Label field is a 20-bit field containing an MPLS label value
     (see [RFC3032]).

  - Rsrv:

     This 3-bit field SHOULD be set to zero on transmission and MUST be
     ignored on reception.

  - S:

     In all labels except the last (i.e., in all labels except the one
     immediately preceding the prefix), the S bit MUST be 0.  In the
     last label, the S bit MUST be 1.

     Note that failure to set the S bit in the last label will make it
     impossible to parse the NLRI correctly.  See Section 3, paragraph
     j of [RFC7606] for a discussion of error handling when the NLRI
     cannot be parsed.

  Note that the UPDATE message not only advertises the binding between
  the prefix and the labels, it also advertises a path to the prefix
  via the node identified in the Next Hop field of the MP_REACH_NLRI
  attribute.

  If the procedures of [RFC7911] are being used, a four-octet "path
  identifier" (as defined in Section 3 of [RFC7911]) is part of the
  NLRI and precedes the Length field.


















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2.4.  How to Explicitly Withdraw the Binding of a Label to a Prefix

  Suppose a BGP speaker has announced, on a given BGP session, the
  binding of a given label or sequence of labels to a given prefix.
  Suppose it now wishes to withdraw that binding.  To do so, it may
  send a BGP UPDATE message with an MP_UNREACH_NLRI attribute.  The
  NLRI field of this attribute is encoded as follows:

     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
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |    Length     |        Compatibility                          |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
    |                          Prefix                               ~
    ~                                                               |
    +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                      Figure 4: NLRI for Withdrawal

  Upon transmission, the Compatibility field SHOULD be set to 0x800000.
  Upon reception, the value of the Compatibility field MUST be ignored.

  This encoding is used for explicitly withdrawing the binding (on a
  given BGP session) between the specified prefix and whatever label or
  sequence of labels had previously been bound by the procedures of
  this document to that prefix on the given session.  This encoding is
  used whether or not the Multiple Labels Capability has been sent or
  received on the session.  Note that label/prefix bindings that were
  not advertised on the given session cannot be withdrawn by this
  method.  (However, if the bindings were advertised on a previous
  session with the same peer, and the current session is the result of
  a "graceful restart" ([RFC4724]) of the previous session, then this
  withdrawal method may be used.)

  When using an MP_UNREACH_NLRI attribute to withdraw a route whose
  NLRI was previously specified in an MP_REACH_NLRI attribute, the
  lengths and values of the respective prefixes must match, and the
  respective AFI/SAFIs must match.  If the procedures of [RFC7911] are
  being used, the respective values of the "path identifier" fields
  must match as well.  Note that the prefix length is not the same as
  the NLRI length; to determine the prefix length of a prefix in an
  MP_UNREACH_NLRI, the length of the Compatibility field must be
  subtracted from the length of the NLRI.

  An explicit withdrawal in a SAFI-x UPDATE on a given BGP session not
  only withdraws the binding between the prefix and the label(s), it
  also withdraws the path to that prefix that was previously advertised
  in a SAFI-x UPDATE on that session.



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  [RFC3107] made it possible to specify a particular label value in the
  Compatibility field.  However, the functionality that required the
  presence of a particular label value (or sequence of label values)
  was never implemented, and that functionality is not present in the
  current document.  Hence, the value of this field is of no
  significance; there is never any reason for this field to contain a
  label value or a sequence of label values.

  [RFC3107] also made it possible to withdraw a binding without
  specifying the label explicitly, by setting the Compatibility field
  to 0x800000.  However, some implementations set it to 0x000000.  In
  order to ensure backwards compatibility, it is RECOMMENDED by this
  document that the Compatibility field be set to 0x800000, but it is
  REQUIRED that it be ignored upon reception.

2.5.  Changing the Label That Is Bound to a Prefix

  Suppose a BGP speaker, S1, has received on a given BGP session, a
  SAFI-4 or SAFI-128 UPDATE, U1, that specifies label (or sequence of
  labels) L1, prefix P, and next hop N1.  As specified above, this
  indicates that label (or sequence of labels) L1 is bound to prefix P
  at node N1.  Suppose that S1 now receives, on the same session, an
  UPDATE, U2, of the same AFI/SAFI, that specifies label (or sequence
  of labels) L2, prefix P, and the same next hop, N1.

  o  If [RFC7911] is not being used, UPDATE U2 MUST be interpreted as
     meaning that L2 is now bound to P at N1 and that L1 is no longer
     bound to P at N1.  That is, the UPDATE U1 is implicitly withdrawn
     and is replaced by UPDATE U2.

  o  Suppose that [RFC7911] is being used, that UPDATE U1 has Path
     Identifier I1, and that UPDATE U2 has Path Identifier I2.

     *  If I1 is the same as I2, UPDATE U2 MUST be interpreted as
        meaning that L2 is now bound to P at N1 and that L1 is no
        longer bound to P at N1.  UPDATE U1 is implicitly withdrawn.

     *  If I1 is not the same as I2, U2 MUST be interpreted as meaning
        that L2 is now bound to P at N1, but U2 MUST NOT be interpreted
        as meaning that L1 is no longer bound to P at N1.  Under
        certain conditions (specification of which is outside the scope
        of this document), S1 may choose to load-balance traffic
        between the path represented by U1 and the path represented by
        U2.  To send traffic on the path represented by U1, S1 uses the
        label(s) advertised in U1; to send traffic on the path
        represented by U2, S1 uses the label(s) advertised in U2.
        (Although these two paths have the same next hop, one must
        suppose that they diverge further downstream.)



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  Suppose a BGP speaker, S1, has received, on a given BGP session, a
  SAFI-4 or SAFI-128 UPDATE that specifies label L1, prefix P, and next
  hop N1.  Suppose that S1 now receives, on a different BGP session, an
  UPDATE of the same AFI/SAFI, that specifies label L2, prefix P, and
  the same next hop, N1.  BGP speaker S1 SHOULD treat this as an
  indication that N1 has at least two paths to P, and S1 MAY use this
  fact to do load-balancing of any traffic that it has to send to P.

  Note that this section discusses only the case where two UPDATEs have
  the same next hop.  Procedures for the case where two UPDATEs have
  different next hops are adequately described in [RFC4271].

3.  Installing and/or Propagating SAFI-4 or SAFI-128 Routes

3.1.  Comparability of Routes

  Suppose a BGP speaker has received two SAFI-4 UPDATEs specifying the
  same Prefix and that either:

  o  the two UPDATEs are received on different BGP sessions; or

  o  the two UPDATEs are received on the same session, add-paths is
     used on that session, and the NLRIs of the two UPDATEs have
     different path identifiers.

  These two routes MUST be considered to be comparable, even if they
  specify different labels.  Thus, the BGP best-path selection
  procedures (see Section 9.1 of [RFC4271]) are applied to select one
  of them as the better path.  If the procedures of [RFC7911] are not
  being used on a particular BGP session, only the best path is
  propagated on that session.  If the procedures of [RFC7911] are being
  used on a particular BGP session, then both paths may be propagated
  on that session, though with different path identifiers.

  The same applies to SAFI-128 routes.

3.2.  Modification of Label(s) Field When Propagating

3.2.1.  When the Next Hop Field Is Unchanged

  When a SAFI-4 or SAFI-128 route is propagated, if the Network Address
  of Next Hop field is left unchanged, the Label field(s) MUST also be
  left unchanged.

  Note that a given route MUST NOT be propagated to a given peer if the
  route's NLRI has multiple labels, but the Multiple Labels Capability
  was not negotiated with the peer.  Similarly, a given route MUST NOT
  be propagated to a given peer if the route's NLRI has more labels



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  than the peer has announced (through its Multiple Labels Capability)
  that it can handle.  In either case, if a previous route with the
  same AFI, SAFI, and prefix (but with fewer labels) has already been
  propagated to the peer, that route MUST be withdrawn from that peer
  using the procedure specified in Section 2.4.

3.2.2.  When the Next Hop Field Is Changed

  If the Network Address of Next Hop field is changed before a SAFI-4
  or SAFI-128 route is propagated, the Label field(s) of the propagated
  route MUST contain the label(s) that is (are) bound to the prefix at
  the new next hop.

  Suppose BGP speaker S1 has received an UPDATE that binds a particular
  sequence of one or more labels to a particular prefix.  If S1 chooses
  to propagate this route after changing its next hop, S1 may change
  the label in any of the following ways, depending upon local policy:

  o  A single label may be replaced by a single label of the same or
     different value.

  o  A sequence of multiple labels may be replaced by a single label.

  o  A single label may be replaced by a sequence of multiple labels.

  o  A sequence of multiple labels may be replaced by a sequence of
     multiple labels; the number of labels may be left the same or may
     be changed.

  Of course, when deciding whether to propagate, to a given BGP peer,
  an UPDATE binding a sequence of more than one label, a BGP speaker
  must attend to the information provided by the Multiple Labels
  Capability (see Section 2.1).  A BGP speaker MUST NOT send multiple
  labels to a peer with which it has not exchanged the Multiple Labels
  Capability and MUST NOT send more labels to a given peer than the
  peer has announced (via the Multiple Labels Capability) than it can
  handle.

  It is possible that a BGP speaker's local policy will tell it to
  encode N labels in a given route's NLRI before propagating the route,
  but that one of the BGP speaker's peers cannot handle N labels in the
  NLRI.  In this case, the BGP speaker has two choices:

  o  It can propagate the route to the given peer with fewer than N
     labels; however, whether this makes sense, and if so, how to
     choose the labels, is also a matter of local policy.





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  o  It can decide not to propagate the route to the given peer.  In
     that case, if a previous route with the same AFI, SAFI, and prefix
     (but with fewer labels) has already been propagated to that peer,
     that route MUST be withdrawn from that peer using the procedure of
     Section 2.4.

4.  Data Plane

  In the following, we will use the phrase "node S tunnels packet P to
  node N", where packet P is an MPLS packet.  By this phrase, we mean
  that node S encapsulates packet P and causes packet P to be delivered
  to node N in such a way that P's label stack before encapsulation
  will be seen unchanged by N but will not be seen by the nodes (if
  any) between S and N.

  If the tunnel is a Label Switched Path (LSP), encapsulating the
  packet may be as simple as pushing on another MPLS label.  If node N
  is a Layer 2 adjacency of node S, a Layer 2 encapsulation may be all
  that is needed.  Other sorts of tunnels (e.g., IP tunnels, GRE
  tunnels, UDP tunnels) may also be used, depending upon the particular
  deployment scenario.

  Suppose BGP speaker S1 receives a SAFI-4 or SAFI-128 BGP UPDATE with
  an MP_REACH_NLRI specifying label L1, prefix P, and next hop N1, and
  suppose S1 installs this route as its (or one of its) best path(s)
  towards P.  And suppose S1 propagates this route after changing the
  next hop to itself and changing the label to L2.  Suppose further
  that S1 receives an MPLS data packet and, in the process of
  forwarding that MPLS data packet, S1 sees label L2 rise to the top of
  the packet's label stack.  Then, to forward the packet further, S1
  must replace L2 with L1 as the top entry in the packet's label stack,
  and S1 must then tunnel the packet to N1.

  Suppose that the route received by S1 specified not a single label,
  but a sequence of k labels <L11, L12, ..., L1k> where L11 is the
  first label appearing in the NLRI, and L1k is the last.  And suppose
  again that S1 propagates this route after changing the next hop to
  itself and changing the Label field to the single label L2.  Suppose
  further that S1 receives an MPLS data packet, and in the process of
  forwarding that MPLS data packet, S1 sees label L2 rise to the top of
  the packet's label stack.  In this case, instead of simply replacing
  L2 with L1, S1 removes L2 from the top of the label stack and then
  pushes labels L1k through L11 onto the label stack such that L11 is
  now at the top of the label stack.  Then, S1 must tunnel the packet
  to N1.  (Note that L1k will not be at the bottom of the packet's
  label stack and hence will not have the "bottom of stack" bit set
  unless L2 had previously been at the bottom of the packet's label
  stack.)



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  The above paragraph assumes that when S1 propagates a SAFI-4 or
  SAFI-128 route after setting the next hop to itself, it replaces the
  label or labels specified in the NLRI of that route with a single
  label.  However, it is also possible, as determined by local policy,
  for a BGP speaker to specify multiple labels when it propagates a
  SAFI-4 or SAFI-128 route after setting the next hop to itself.

  Suppose, for example, that S1 supports context labels ([RFC5331]).
  Let L21 be a context label supported by S1, and let L22 be a label
  that is in the label space identified (at S1) by L21.  Suppose S1
  receives a SAFI-4 or SAFI-128 UPDATE whose prefix is P, whose Label
  field is <L11, L12, ..., L1k> and whose next hop is N1.  Before
  propagating the UPDATE, S1 may set the next hop to itself (by
  replacing N1 with S1) and may replace the label stack <L11, L12, ...,
  L1k> with the pair of labels <L21, L22>.

  In this case, if S1 receives an MPLS data packet whose top label is
  L21 and whose second label is L22, S1 will remove both L21 and L22
  from the label stack and replace them with <L11, L12, ..., L1k>.
  Note that the fact that L21 is a context label is known only to S1;
  other BGP speakers do not know how S1 will interpret L21 (or L22).

  The ability to replace one or more labels by one or more labels can
  provide great flexibility, but it must be done carefully.  Let's
  suppose again that S1 receives an UPDATE that specifies prefix P,
  label stack <L11, L12, ..., L1k>, and next hop N1.  And suppose that
  S1 propagates this UPDATE to BGP speaker S2 after setting next hop
  self and after replacing the Label field with <L21, L22, ..., L2k>.
  Finally, suppose that S1 programs its data plane so that when it
  processes a received MPLS packet whose top label is L21, it replaces
  L21 with <L11, L12, ..., L1k> and then tunnels the packet to N1.

  In this case, BGP speaker S2 will have received a route with prefix
  P, Label field <L21, L22, ..., L2k>, and next hop S1.  If S2 decides
  to forward an IP packet according to this route, it will push <L21,
  L22, ..., L2k> onto the packet's label stack and tunnel the packet to
  S1.  S1 will replace L21 with <L11, L12, ..., L1k> and will tunnel
  the packet to N1.  N1 will receive the packet with the following
  label stack: <L11, L12, ..., L1k, L22, ..., L2k>.  While this may be
  useful in certain scenarios, it may provide unintended results in
  other scenarios.

  Procedures for choosing, setting up, maintaining, or determining the
  liveness of a particular tunnel or type of tunnel are outside the
  scope of this document.






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  When pushing labels onto a packet's label stack, the Time-to-Live
  (TTL) field ([RFC3032], [RFC3443]) and the Traffic Class (TC) field
  ([RFC3032], [RFC5462]) of each label stack entry must, of course, be
  set.  This document does not specify any set of rules for setting
  these fields; that is a matter of local policy.

  This document does not specify any new rules for processing the label
  stack of an incoming data packet.

  It is a matter of local policy whether SAFI-4 routes can be used as
  the basis for forwarding IP packets or whether SAFI-4 routes can only
  be used for forwarding MPLS packets.  If BGP speaker S1 is forwarding
  IP packets according to SAFI-4 routes, then consider an IP packet
  with destination address D, such that P is the "longest prefix match"
  for D from among the routes that are being used to forward IP
  packets.  And suppose the packet is being forwarded according to a
  SAFI-4 route whose prefix is P, whose next hop is N1 and whose
  sequence of labels is L1.  To forward the packet according to this
  route, S1 must create a label stack for the packet, push on the
  sequence of labels L1, and then tunnel the packet to N1.

5.  Relationship between SAFI-4 and SAFI-1 Routes

  It is possible that a BGP speaker will receive both a SAFI-1 route
  for prefix P and a SAFI-4 route for prefix P.  Different
  implementations treat this situation in different ways.

  For example, some implementations may regard SAFI-1 routes and SAFI-4
  routes as completely independent and may treat them in a "ships in
  the night" fashion.  In this case, best-path selection for the two
  SAFIs is independent, and there will be a best SAFI-1 route to P as
  well as a best SAFI-4 route to P.  Which packets get forwarded
  according to the routes of which SAFI is then a matter of local
  policy.

  Other implementations may treat the SAFI-1 and SAFI-4 routes for a
  given prefix as comparable, such that the best route to prefix P is
  either a SAFI-1 route or a SAFI-4 route but not both.  In such
  implementations, if load-balancing is done among a set of equal cost
  routes, some of the equal cost routes may be SAFI-1 routes and some
  may be SAFI-4 routes.  Whether this is allowed is, again, a matter of
  local policy.

  Some implementations may allow a single BGP session to carry UPDATEs
  of both SAFI-1 and SAFI-4; other implementations may disallow this.
  Some implementations that allow both SAFIs on the same session may
  treat the receipt of a SAFI-1 route for prefix P on a given session




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  as an implicit withdrawal of a previous SAFI-4 route for prefix P on
  that session, and vice versa.  Other implementations may have
  different behavior.

  A BGP speaker may receive a SAFI-4 route over a given BGP session but
  may have other BGP sessions for which SAFI-4 is not enabled.  In this
  case, the BGP speaker MAY convert the SAFI-4 route to a SAFI-1 route
  and then propagate the result over the session on which SAFI-4 is not
  enabled.  Whether this is done is a matter of local policy.

  These differences in the behavior of different implementations may
  result in unexpected behavior or lack of interoperability.  In some
  cases, it may be difficult or impossible to achieve the desired
  policies with certain implementations or combinations of
  implementations.

6.  IANA Considerations

  IANA has assigned value 8 for Multiple Labels Capability in the BGP
  "Capability Codes" registry, with this document as the reference.

  IANA has modified the BGP "Capability Codes" registry to mark value 4
  ("Multiple routes to a destination capability") as deprecated, with
  this document as the reference.

  IANA has changed the reference for SAFI 4 in the "Subsequent Address
  Family Identifiers (SAFI) Parameters" registry to this document.

  Also, IANA has added this document as a reference for SAFI 128 in
  that same registry.

7.  Security Considerations

  The security considerations of BGP (as specified in [RFC4271]) apply.

  If a BGP implementation that is not conformant with the current
  document encodes multiple labels in the NLRI but has not sent and
  received the Multiple Labels Capability, a BGP implementation that
  does conform with the current document will likely reset the BGP
  session.

  This document specifies that certain data packets be "tunneled" from
  one BGP speaker to another.  This requires that the packets be
  encapsulated while in flight.  This document does not specify the
  encapsulation to be used.  However, if a particular encapsulation is
  used, the security considerations of that encapsulation are
  applicable.




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  If a particular tunnel encapsulation does not provide integrity and
  authentication, it is possible that a data packet's label stack can
  be modified, through error or malfeasance, while the packet is in
  flight.  This can result in misdelivery of the packet.  It should be
  noted that the tunnel encapsulation (MPLS) most commonly used in
  deployments of this specification does not provide integrity or
  authentication; neither do the other tunnel encapsulations mentioned
  in Section 4.

  There are various techniques one can use to constrain the
  distribution of BGP UPDATE messages.  If a BGP UPDATE advertises the
  binding of a particular label or set of labels to a particular
  address prefix, such techniques can be used to control the set of BGP
  speakers that are intended to learn of that binding.  However, if BGP
  sessions do not provide privacy, other routers may learn of that
  binding.

  When a BGP speaker processes a received MPLS data packet whose top
  label it advertised, there is no guarantee that the label in question
  was put on the packet by a router that was intended to know about
  that label binding.  If a BGP speaker is using the procedures of this
  document, it may be useful for that speaker to distinguish its
  "internal" interfaces from its "external" interfaces and to avoid
  advertising the same labels to BGP speakers reached on internal
  interfaces as to BGP speakers reached on external interfaces.  Then,
  a data packet can be discarded if its top label was not advertised
  over the type of interface from which the packet was received.  This
  reduces the likelihood of forwarding packets whose labels have been
  "spoofed" by untrusted sources.

8.  References

8.1.  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,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

  [RFC3031]  Rosen, E., Viswanathan, A., and R. Callon, "Multiprotocol
             Label Switching Architecture", RFC 3031,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC3031, January 2001,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3031>.

  [RFC3032]  Rosen, E., Tappan, D., Fedorkow, G., Rekhter, Y.,
             Farinacci, D., Li, T., and A. Conta, "MPLS Label Stack
             Encoding", RFC 3032, DOI 10.17487/RFC3032, January 2001,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3032>.



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  [RFC3107]  Rekhter, Y. and E. Rosen, "Carrying Label Information in
             BGP-4", RFC 3107, DOI 10.17487/RFC3107, May 2001,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3107>.

  [RFC3443]  Agarwal, P. and B. Akyol, "Time To Live (TTL) Processing
             in Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Networks",
             RFC 3443, DOI 10.17487/RFC3443, January 2003,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3443>.

  [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,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4271>.

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

  [RFC4659]  De Clercq, J., Ooms, D., Carugi, M., and F. Le Faucheur,
             "BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for
             IPv6 VPN", RFC 4659, DOI 10.17487/RFC4659, September 2006,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4659>.

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

  [RFC4798]  De Clercq, J., Ooms, D., Prevost, S., and F. Le Faucheur,
             "Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS Using IPv6
             Provider Edge Routers (6PE)", RFC 4798,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC4798, February 2007,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4798>.

  [RFC5462]  Andersson, L. and R. Asati, "Multiprotocol Label Switching
             (MPLS) Label Stack Entry: "EXP" Field Renamed to "Traffic
             Class" Field", RFC 5462, DOI 10.17487/RFC5462, February
             2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5462>.

  [RFC5492]  Scudder, J. and R. Chandra, "Capabilities Advertisement
             with BGP-4", RFC 5492, DOI 10.17487/RFC5492, February
             2009, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5492>.

  [RFC5549]  Le Faucheur, F. and E. Rosen, "Advertising IPv4 Network
             Layer Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next Hop",
             RFC 5549, DOI 10.17487/RFC5549, May 2009,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5549>.




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  [RFC7606]  Chen, E., Ed., Scudder, J., Ed., Mohapatra, P., and K.
             Patel, "Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages",
             RFC 7606, DOI 10.17487/RFC7606, August 2015,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7606>.

  [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>.

8.2.  Informative References

  [Enhanced-GR]
             Patel, K., Chen, E., Fernando, R., and J. Scudder,
             "Accelerated Routing Convergence for BGP Graceful
             Restart", Work in Progress,
             draft-ietf-idr-enhanced-gr-06, June 2016.

  [RFC4724]  Sangli, S., Chen, E., Fernando, R., Scudder, J., and Y.
             Rekhter, "Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP", RFC 4724,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC4724, January 2007,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4724>.

  [RFC5331]  Aggarwal, R., Rekhter, Y., and E. Rosen, "MPLS Upstream
             Label Assignment and Context-Specific Label Space",
             RFC 5331, DOI 10.17487/RFC5331, August 2008,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5331>.

  [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,
             <https://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, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7432>.

  [RFC7911]  Walton, D., Retana, A., Chen, E., and J. Scudder,
             "Advertisement of Multiple Paths in BGP", RFC 7911,
             DOI 10.17487/RFC7911, July 2016,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7911>.

  [TUNNEL-ENCAPS]
             Rosen, E., Patel, K., and G. Velde, "The BGP Tunnel
             Encapsulation Attribute", Work in Progress,
             draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps-07, July 2017.





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Acknowledgements

  This document obsoletes RFC 3107.  We wish to thank Yakov Rekhter,
  co-author of RFC 3107, for his work on that document.  We also wish
  to thank Ravi Chandra, Enke Chen, Srihari R. Sangli, Eric Gray, and
  Liam Casey for their review of and comments on that document.

  We thank Alexander Okonnikov and David Lamparter for pointing out a
  number of the errors in RFC 3107.

  We wish to thank Lili Wang and Kaliraj Vairavakkalai for their help
  and advice during the preparation of this document.

  We also thank Mach Chen, Bruno Decraene, Jie Dong, Adrian Farrel,
  Jeff Haas, Jonathan Hardwick, Jakob Heitz, Alexander Okonnikov, Keyur
  Patel, Kevin Wang, and Lucy Yong for their review of and comments on
  this document.

Author's Address

  Eric C. Rosen
  Juniper Networks, Inc.
  10 Technology Park Drive
  Westford, Massachusetts  01886
  United States of America

  Email: [email protected]
























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