RFC 7054 · INFORMATIONAL · 2013

Addressing Requirements and Design Considerations for Per-Interface Maintenance Entity Group Intermediate Points

Overview

RFC 7054, “Addressing Requirements and Design Considerations for Per-Interface Maintenance Entity Group Intermediate Points”, is an Informational document published in November 2013 by A. Farrel, H. Endo, R. Winter, Y. Koike, M. Paul. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The framework for Operations, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) within the MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) describes how the Maintenance Entity Group Intermediate Points (MIPs) may be situated within network nodes at incoming and outgoing interfaces.

This document elaborates on important considerations for internal MIP addressing. More precisely, it describes important restrictions for any mechanism that specifies a way of forming OAM messages so that they can be targeted at MIPs on either incoming or outgoing interfaces and forwarded correctly through the forwarding engine. Furthermore, the document includes considerations for node implementations where there is no distinction between the incoming and outgoing MIP.

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