ISIS WG Internet Draft Jean-Philippe Vasseur(Ed) Cisco Systems, Inc. Rahul Aggarwal(Ed) Juniper Networks Naiming Shen(Ed) Redback Networks Document: draft-vasseur-isis-caps-02.txt Expires: January 2005 July 2004 IS-IS extensions for advertising router information draft-vasseur-isis-caps-02.txt Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, I certify that any applicable patent or IPR claims of which I am aware have been disclosed, and any of which I become aware will be disclosed, in accordance with RFC 3668. This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [i]. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. Abstract This document defines a new optional IS-IS TLVs named CAPABILITY, formed of multiple sub-TLVs, which allows a router to announce its capabilities within an IS-IS level or the entire routing domain. Vasseur et al. [Page 1] draft-vasseur-isis-caps-02.txt July 2004 Conventions used in this document The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC-2119 [ii]. Table of Contents 1. Introduction...................................................2 2. IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV....................................3 3. Element of procedure...........................................4 4. Interoperability with routers not supporting the capability TLV.4 5. Security considerations........................................5 6. Acknowledgment.................................................5 7. Intellectual Property Considerations...........................5 8. References.....................................................6 Normative references..............................................6 Informative references............................................6 9. Author's Addresses.............................................6 1. Introduction There are several situations where it is useful for the IS-IS routers to learn the capabilities of the other routers of their IS-IS level, area or routing domain. Some applications are described in [IS-IS-TE- CAP]. For the sake of illustration, three examples related to MPLS Traffic Engineering are described here: 1. Path Computation Element (PCE) discovery ([INTER-DOMAIN-PATH- COMP]): in several situations, the Traffic Engineering Label Switched (TE LSP) path is computed by a Label Switch Router (LSR) which is not the head-end for that LSP (e.g an ABR or an ASBR respectively in the context of inter-area and inter-AS MPLS TE ([INTER-AREA-AS]). In such a case, having the ability to discover the capability of a router to act as a PCE is extremely useful in term of ease of operation, capacity to react to PCE failure, load sharing between a set of PCEs and so on. 2. Mesh-group: the setting up of a mesh of TE LSPs requires some significant configuration effort. [IS-IS-TE-CAP] proposes an auto- discovery mechanism whereby every LSR of a mesh advertises its mesh-group membership by means of IS-IS extensions. 3. Point to Multi-point TE LSP (P2MP LSP). A specific sub-TLV ([IS- IS-TE]) allows an LSR to advertise its Point To Multipoint capabilities ([P2MP] and [P2MP-REQS]). The capabilities mentioned above require the specification of new sub-TLVs carried within the CAPABILITY TLV defined in this document. Vasseur et al. [Page 2] draft-vasseur-isis-caps-02.txt July 2004 Note that the examples above are provided for the sake of illustration. This document proposes a generic capability advertising mechanism not limited to MPLS Traffic Engineering. This document defines a new optional IS-IS TLVs named CAPABILITY, formed of multiple sub-TLVs, which allows a router to announce its capabilities within an IS-IS level or the entire routing domain. The applications mentioned above require the specification of new sub- TLVs carried within the CAPABILITY TLV defined in this document. Definition of these sub-TLVs is outside the scope of this document. 2. IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV The IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV is composed of 1 octet for the type, 1 octet specifying the TLV length, 1 octet of bit flags and a variable length value field, starting with 4 octets of Router ID, indicating the source of the TLV, and followed by 1 octet of flags. A set of optional sub-TLVs may follow the flag field. TYPE: 242 (To be assigned by IANA) LENGTH: from 5 to 255 VALUE: Router ID (4 octets) Flags (1 octet) Set of optional sub-TLVs (0-250 octets) Flags 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | Reserved |D|S| +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Currently two bit flags are defined. S bit (0x01): If the S bit is set(1), the IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV MUST be flooded across the entire routing domain. If the S bit is not set(0), the TLV MUST NOT be leaked between levels. This bit MUST NOT be altered during the TLV leaking. D bit (0x02): When the IS-IS Router CAPABILITY TLV is leaked from level-2 to level-1, the D bit MUST be set. Otherwise this bit MUST be clear. IS-IS Router capability TLVs with the D bit set MUST NOT be leaked from level-1 to level-2. This is to prevent TLV looping. Vasseur et al. [Page 3] draft-vasseur-isis-caps-02.txt July 2004 The Router CAPABILITY TLV is OPTIONAL. As specified in section 3, more than one Router CAPABILITY TLVs from the same source MAY be present. This document does not specify how an application may use the Router Capability TLV and such specification is outside the scope of this document. 3. Element of procedure In case of advertising capabilities with different flooding scopes, a router MUST originate a minimum of two Router CAPABILITY TLVs, each TLV carrying the set of sub-TLVs with the same flooding scope. For instance, if a router advertises two sets of capabilities C1 and C2 with an area/level scope and routing domain scope respectively, C1 and C2 being specified by their respective sub-TLV(s), the router MUST originate two Router CAPABILITY TLVs: - One Router CAPABILITY TLV with the S flag cleared carrying the sub-TLV(s) relative to C1. This Router CAPABILITY TLV MUST NOT be leaked into another level. - One Router CAPABILITY TLV with the S flag set carrying the sub- TLV(s) relative to C2. This Router CAPABILITY TLV MUST be leaked into other IS-IS levels. When the TLV is leaked from level-2 to level-1, the D bit MUST be set in the level-1 LSP advertisement. When leaking Capability TLVs downward from Level-2 into Level-1, if the originator of the TLV is a Level-1 router in another area, it is possible that multiple copies of the same TLV may be received from multiple L2 routers in the originating area. To prevent a router from leaking multiple copies of the same TLV, the router performing the downward leaking MUST check for such duplication by comparing the contents of the TLVs. When leaking Capability TLVs received from other systems, the router performing the leaking MUST only leak a TLV if the system advertising the TLV (which may or may not be the system which originated the TLV) is reachable via Level-x paths, where "x" is the level (1 or 2) in which the sending system advertised the TLV. 4. Interoperability with routers not supporting the capability TLV. Routers which do not support the Router CAPABILITY TLV MUST silently ignore the TLV(s) and continue processing other TLVs in the same LSP. Routers which do not support specific sub-TLVs carried within a Router CAPABILITY TLV MUST silently ignore the unsupported sub-TLVs and continue processing those sub-TLVs in the Router CAPABILITY TLV which are supported. How partial support may impact the operation of Vasseur et al. [Page 4] draft-vasseur-isis-caps-02.txt July 2004 the capabilities advertised within the Router CAPABILITY TLV is outside the scope of this document. In order for Router CAPABILITY TLVs with domain-wide scope originated by L1 Routers to be flooded across the entire domain at least one L1/L2 Router in every area of the domain SHOULD support the Router CAPABILITY TLV. If leaking of the CAP TLV is required, the entire CAP TLV MUST be leaked into another level even though it may contain some of the unsupported sub-TLVs. 5. Security considerations No new security issues are raised in this document. 6. Acknowledgment The authors would like to thank Dave Ward, Jean-Louis Le Roux, Paul Mabey and Andrew Partan for their useful comments. 7. Intellectual Property Considerations The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. Copies of IPR disclosures made to the IETF Secretariat and any assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this specification can be obtained from the IETF on-line IPR repository at http://www.ietf.org/ipr. The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary rights that may cover technology that may be required to implement this standard. Please address the information to the IETF at ietf- ipr@ietf.org. By submitting this Internet-Draft, I certify that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which I am aware have been disclosed, and any of which I become aware will be disclosed, in accordance with RFC 3668. Vasseur et al. [Page 5] draft-vasseur-isis-caps-02.txt July 2004 8. References Normative references [RFC] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels," RFC 2119. [IS-IS] "Intermediate System to Intermediate System Intra-Domain Routeing Exchange Protocol for use in Conjunction with the Protocol for Providing the Connectionless-mode Network Service (ISO 8473)", ISO 10589. [IS-IS-IP] Callon, R., "Use of OSI IS-IS for routing in TCP/IP and dual environments", RFC 1195, December 1990. [ISIS-TE] Li, T., Smit, H., "IS-IS extensions for Traffic Engineering", RFC 3784, June 2004. Informative references [TE-CAP], JP Vasseur, JL. Le Roux et al. ææRouting extensions for discovery of TE router informationÆÆ, draft-vasseur-ccamp-te-router- info-00.txt, work in progress. [IS-IS-TE-CAP] JP Vasseur, S. Previdi, Paul Mabey and JL. Le Roux, ææIS-IS MPLS Traffic Engineering capabilitiesÆÆ, draft-vasseur-isis-te- caps-00.txt, work in progress. [P2MP] R. Aggarwal,D. Papadimitriou,S. Yasukawa, et. al. "Extensions to RSVP-TE for point-to-multipoint TE LSPs", draft-raggarwa-mpls- rsvp-te-p2mp-00.txt, work in progress. [P2MP-REQS] S. Yasukawa et al. ½ Requirements for point to multipoint extension to RSVP ©, draft-ietf-mpls-p2mp-requirement-01.txt, work in progress. [INT-DOMAIN-FRWK] Farrel, A., Vasseur, J.P., Ayyangar, A., "A Framework for Inter-Domain MPLS Traffic Engineering", draft-farrel- ccamp-inter-domain-framework-01.txt, work in progress. [INTER-DOMAIN-PATH-COMP] Vasseur and Ayyangar, ææInter-domain Traffic Engineering LSP path computation methodsÆÆ, draft-vasseur-inter- domain-path-comp-00.txt, work in progress. 9. Author's Addresses Jean-Philippe Vasseur Vasseur et al. [Page 6] draft-vasseur-isis-caps-02.txt July 2004 CISCO Systems, Inc. 300 Beaver Brook Boxborough, MA 01719 USA Email: jpv@cisco.com Stefano Previdi CISCO Systems, Inc. Via Del Serafico 200 00142 - Roma ITALY Email: sprevidi@cisco.com Mike Shand Cisco Systems 250 Longwater Avenue, Reading, Berkshire, RG2 6GB UK Email: mshand@cisco.com Les Ginsberg Cisco Systems 510 McCarthy Blvd. Milpitas, Ca. 95035 USA Email: ginsberg@cisco.com Acee Lindem Redback Networks 350 Holger Way San Jose, CA 95134 e-mail: acee@redback.com Naiming Shen Redback Networks 350 Holger Way San Jose, CA 95134 e-mail: naiming@redback.com Rahul Aggarwal Juniper Networks 1194 N. Mathilda Avenue San Jose, CA 94089 e-mail: rahul@juniper.net Scott Shaffer e-mail: sshaffer@bridgeport-networks.com Vasseur et al. [Page 7] draft-vasseur-isis-caps-02.txt July 2004 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. 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