draft-ietf-idr-sr-p2mp-policy
Advertising p2mp policies in BGP
SR P2MP policies are set of policies that enable architecture for
P2MP service delivery.
A P2MP policy consists of candidate paths (CPs) that connects the
Root of the Tree to a set of Leaves. The P2MP policy is composed of
replication segments [RFC9524]. A replication segment is a
forwarding instruction for a candidate path which is downloaded to
the Root, transit nodes and the leaves.
This document specifies a new BGP SAFI with a new NLRI in order to
advertise P2MP policy from a controller to a set of nodes.
This document introduces three new route types within this NLRI, one
for P2MP policy and its candidate paths that need to be programmed on
the Root node, one for the replication segment incoming SID which
uniquely will identify the replication state and another for each
outgoing interface that the packets get replicated to. The last two
route types are forwarding instructions that needs to be programmed
on the Root, and optionally on Transit and Leaf nodes.
It should be noted that this document does not specify how the Root
and the Leaves are discovered on the controller, it only describes
how the P2MP Policy and Replication Segments are programmed from the
controller to the nodes.