RFC 5073 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2007

IGP Routing Protocol Extensions for Discovery of Traffic Engineering Node Capabilities

Overview

RFC 5073, “IGP Routing Protocol Extensions for Discovery of Traffic Engineering Node Capabilities”, is a Proposed Standard document published in December 2007 by J.P. Vasseur, J.L. Le Roux. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

It is highly desired, in several cases, to take into account Traffic Engineering (TE) node capabilities during Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) and Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) Traffic Engineered Label Switched Path (TE-LSP) selection, such as, for instance, the capability to act as a branch Label Switching Router (LSR) of a Point-To-MultiPoint (P2MP) LSP. This requires advertising these capabilities within the Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP). For that purpose, this document specifies Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) and Intermediate System-Intermediate System (IS-IS) traffic engineering extensions for the advertisement of control plane and data plane traffic engineering node capabilities. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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An entry-level standards-track specification: stable, peer-reviewed and a solid basis for implementation, though it may still evolve before becoming an Internet Standard.

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