RFC 6016 · PROPOSED STANDARD · 2010

Support for the Resource Reservation Protocol in Layer 3 VPNs

Overview

RFC 6016, “Support for the Resource Reservation Protocol in Layer 3 VPNs”, is a Proposed Standard document published in October 2010 by B. Davie, F. Le Faucheur, A. Narayanan. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

RFC 4364 and RFC 4659 define an approach to building provider-provisioned Layer 3 VPNs (L3VPNs) for IPv4 and IPv6. It may be desirable to use Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) to perform admission control on the links between Customer Edge (CE) routers and Provider Edge (PE) routers. This document specifies procedures by which RSVP messages traveling from CE to CE across an L3VPN may be appropriately handled by PE routers so that admission control can be performed on PE-CE links. Optionally, admission control across the provider's backbone may also be supported. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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What “Proposed Standard” means

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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