Subject: draft-wijnands-rtgwg-mcast-frr-tn-00.txt

From: IJsbrand Wijnands <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 22:03:05 +0200

Hi Folks,

I like to encourage the WG to read through this draft so that we can have productive discussion at the IETF.

In short, this draft proposes two enhancements to Multicast Only Fast ReRoute (draft-ietf-rtgwg-mofrr-00).

1. A router on the tree that detects a failure on its upstream (RPF) interface injects a Downstream Tree Notification (DTN) down the tree to notify (potential) downstream MoFRR routers. When a downstream MoFRR router has received such notification, it will switch to the backup path. The notification is sent as data down the tree and forwarded as 'normal' data by non-MoFRR routers. In order to allow Fast Convergence to happen, originating and processing of the TN message must happen in the data-plane, similar to how BFD packets are processed in the data-plane. The big different with BFD is that TN packets are not periodic, but only triggered when a failure happens.

2. With normal MoFRR, packets are received over two diverse paths to the MoFRR router. While in many cases this is not considered to be a problem, there are situations where the additional bandwidth may be worth saving. For this cases we are proposing to join the backup path in 'standby' mode, such that forwarding state is programmed, but no data is actually forwarded. When a failure has happened on the tree (detected by Downstream TN or directly connected link failure) an Upstream Tree Notification (UTN) is originated up the tree to reset the non-forwarding state. This notification is also originated and processed in the data-plane. Note, this is optional functionality. The main advantage of this draft comes from option 1.

Thx,

Andras, Jeff and Ice.

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> Subject: I-D Action: draft-wijnands-rtgwg-mcast-frr-tn-00.txt
> Date: 15 Oct 2012 21:22:11 GMT+02:00
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
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> 	Title           : Tree Notification to Improve Multicast Fast Reroute
> 	Author(s)       : IJsbrand Wijnands
>                          Andras Csaszar
>                          Jeff Tantsura
> 	Filename        : draft-wijnands-rtgwg-mcast-frr-tn-00.txt
> 	Pages           : 18
> 	Date            : 2012-10-15
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> Abstract:
>   This draft proposes using dataplane triggered notifications in order
>   to support multicast fast reroute methods in various ways.  Sending
>   such notifications down the tree can be used to trigger fail-over in
>   nodes not adjacent to the failure.  Sending such dataplane
>   notification up the tree can help to activate pre-built standby
>   backup tree segments.
> 
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> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wijnands-rtgwg-mcast-frr-tn
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> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wijnands-rtgwg-mcast-frr-tn-00
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