





Network Working Group                                   K. Kompella, Ed.
Request for Comments: 5307                               Y. Rekhter, Ed.
Obsoletes: 4205                                         Juniper Networks
Updates: 5305                                               October 2008
Category: Standards Track


                    IS-IS Extensions in Support of
           Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)

Status of This Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

   This document specifies encoding of extensions to the IS-IS routing
   protocol in support of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching
   (GMPLS).




























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1.  Introduction

   This document specifies extensions to the IS-IS routing protocol in
   support of carrying link state information for Generalized Multi-
   Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS).  The set of required enhancements
   to IS-IS are outlined in [GMPLS-ROUTING].  Support for unnumbered
   interfaces assumes support for the "Point-to-Point Three-Way
   Adjacency" IS-IS Option type [ISIS-3way].

   In this section, we define the enhancements to the Traffic
   Engineering (TE) properties of GMPLS TE links that can be announced
   in IS-IS Link State Protocol Data Units.

   In this document, we enhance the sub-TLVs for the extended IS
   reachability TLV (see [ISIS-TE]) in support of GMPLS.  Specifically,
   we add the following sub-TLVs:

      Sub-TLV Type        Length    Name
                 4             8    Link Local/Remote Identifiers
                20             2    Link Protection Type
                21      variable    Interface Switching Capability
                                    Descriptor

   We further add one new TLV to the TE TLVs:

          TLV Type        Length    Name
               138      variable    GMPLS-SRLG

   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 [RFC2119].

1.1.  Link Local/Remote Identifiers

   A Link Local Interface Identifier is a sub-TLV of the extended IS
   reachability TLV.  The type of this sub-TLV is 4, and the length is 8
   octets.  The value field of this sub-TLV contains 4 octets of Link
   Local Identifier followed by 4 octets of Link Remote Identifier (see
   Section 2.1, "Support for Unnumbered Links", of [GMPLS-ROUTING]).  If
   the Link Remote Identifier is unknown, it is set to 0.

   The following illustrates encoding of the Value field of the Link
   Local/Remote Identifiers sub-TLV.








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       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Link Local Identifier                        |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Link Remote Identifier                       |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The Link Local/Remote Identifiers sub-TLV MUST NOT occur more than
   once within the extended IS reachability TLV.  If the Link
   Local/Remote Identifiers sub-TLV occurs more than once within the
   extended IS reachability TLV, the receiver SHOULD ignore all these
   sub-TLVs.

1.2.  Link Protection Type

   The Link Protection Type is a sub-TLV (of type 20) of the extended IS
   reachability TLV, with a length of 2 octets.

   The following illustrates encoding of the Value field of the Link
   Protection Type sub-TLV.

       0                   1
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |Protection Cap |    Reserved   |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

The first octet is a bit vector describing the protection capabilities
   of the link (see Section 2.2, "Link Protection Type", of
   [GMPLS-ROUTING]).  They are:

      0x01  Extra Traffic

      0x02  Unprotected

      0x04  Shared

      0x08  Dedicated 1:1

      0x10  Dedicated 1+1

      0x20  Enhanced

      0x40  Reserved

      0x80  Reserved




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   The second octet SHOULD be set to zero by the sender, and SHOULD be
   ignored by the receiver.

   The Link Protection Type sub-TLV MUST NOT occur more than once within
   the extended IS reachability TLV.  If the Link Protection Type sub-
   TLV occurs more than once within the extended IS reachability TLV,
   the receiver SHOULD ignore all these sub-TLVs.

1.3.  Interface Switching Capability Descriptor

   The Interface Switching Capability Descriptor is a sub-TLV (of type
   21) of the extended IS reachability TLV.  The length is the length of
   the value field in octets.  The following illustrates encoding of the
   Value field of the Interface Switching Capability Descriptor sub-TLV.

       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      | Switching Cap |   Encoding    |           Reserved            |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Max LSP Bandwidth at priority 0              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Max LSP Bandwidth at priority 1              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Max LSP Bandwidth at priority 2              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Max LSP Bandwidth at priority 3              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Max LSP Bandwidth at priority 4              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Max LSP Bandwidth at priority 5              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Max LSP Bandwidth at priority 6              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Max LSP Bandwidth at priority 7              |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |        Switching Capability-specific information              |
      |                  (variable)                                   |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+












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   The Switching Capability (Switching Cap) field contains one of the
   following values:

            1     Packet-Switch Capable-1 (PSC-1)
            2     Packet-Switch Capable-2 (PSC-2)
            3     Packet-Switch Capable-3 (PSC-3)
            4     Packet-Switch Capable-4 (PSC-4)
            51    Layer-2 Switch Capable  (L2SC)
            100   Time-Division-Multiplex Capable (TDM)
            150   Lambda-Switch Capable   (LSC)
            200   Fiber-Switch Capable    (FSC)

   The Encoding field contains one of the values specified in Section
   3.1.1 of [GMPLS-SIG].

   Maximum Link State Protocol Data Unit (LSP) Bandwidth is encoded as a
   list of eight 4-octet fields in the IEEE floating point format
   [IEEE], with priority 0 first and priority 7 last.  The units are
   bytes (not bits!) per second.

   The content of the Switching Capability specific information field
   depends on the value of the Switching Capability field.

   When the Switching Capability field is PSC-1, PSC-2, PSC-3, or PSC-4,
   the Switching Capability specific information field includes Minimum
   LSP Bandwidth and Interface MTU.

       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Minimum LSP Bandwidth                        |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |           Interface MTU       |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The Minimum LSP Bandwidth is encoded in a 4-octet field in the IEEE
   floating point format.  The units are bytes (not bits!) per second.
   The Interface MTU is encoded as a 2-octet integer, and carries the
   MTU value in the units of bytes.

   When the Switching Capability field is L2SC, there is no Switching
   Capability specific information field present.

   When the Switching Capability field is TDM, the Switching Capability
   specific information field includes Minimum LSP Bandwidth and an
   indication whether the interface supports Standard or Arbitrary
   SONET/SDH (Synchronous Optical Network / Synchronous Digital
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       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Minimum LSP Bandwidth                        |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |   Indication  |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The Minimum LSP Bandwidth is encoded in a 4-octet field in the IEEE
   floating point format.  The units are bytes (not bits!) per second.
   The indication whether the interface supports Standard or Arbitrary
   SONET/SDH is encoded as 1 octet.  The value of this octet is 0 if the
   interface supports Standard SONET/SDH, and 1 if the interface
   supports Arbitrary SONET/SDH.

   When the Switching Capability field is LSC, there is no Switching
   Capability specific information field present.

   To support interfaces that have more than one Interface Switching
   Capability Descriptor (see Section 2.4, "Interface Switching
   Capability Descriptor", of [GMPLS-ROUTING]) the Interface Switching
   Capability Descriptor sub-TLV MAY occur more than once within the
   extended IS reachability TLV.

1.4.  Shared Risk Link Group TLV

   The Shared Risk Link Group (SRLG) TLV (of type 138) contains a data
   structure consisting of:

       6 octets of System ID
       1 octet of Pseudonode Number
       1 octet Flag
       4 octets of IPv4 interface address or 4 octets of a Link Local
         Identifier
       4 octets of IPv4 neighbor address or 4 octets of a Link Remote
         Identifier
       (variable) list of SRLG values, where each element in the list
         has 4 octets.

   The following illustrates encoding of the Value field of the SRLG
   TLV.










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       0                   1                   2                   3
       0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                          System ID                            |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |            System ID (cont.)  | Pseudonode num|    Flags      |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |        IPv4 interface address/Link Local Identifier           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |        IPv4 neighbor address/Link Remote Identifier           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Shared Risk Link Group Value                 |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                        ............                           |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
      |                  Shared Risk Link Group Value                 |
      +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The neighbor is identified by its System ID (6 octets), plus one
   octet to indicate the pseudonode number if the neighbor is on a LAN
   interface.

   The least significant bit of the Flag octet indicates whether the
   interface is numbered (set to 1) or unnumbered (set to 0).  All other
   bits are reserved and should be set to 0.

   The length of this TLV is 16 + 4 * (number of SRLG values).

   This TLV carries the Shared Risk Link Group information (see Section
   2.3, "Shared Risk Link Group Information", of [GMPLS-ROUTING]).

   The SRLG TLV MAY occur more than once within the IS-IS Link State
   Protocol Data Units.

1.5.  Link Identifier for Unnumbered Interfaces

   Link Identifiers are exchanged in the Extended Local Circuit ID field
   of the "Point-to-Point Three-Way Adjacency" IS-IS Option type [ISIS-
   3way].

2.  Implications on Graceful Restart

   The restarting node SHOULD follow the IS-IS restart procedures
   [ISIS-RESTART] and the RSVP-TE restart procedures [GMPLS-RSVP].

   When the restarting node is going to originate its IS-IS Link State
   Protocol Data Units for TE links, these Link State Protocol Data
   Units SHOULD be originated with 0 unreserved bandwidth, Traffic



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   Engineering Default metric set to 0xffffff.  Also, if the link has
   LSC or FSC as its Switching Capability, then they SHOULD be
   originated with 0 as Max LSP Bandwidth, until the node is able to
   determine the amount of unreserved resources taking into account the
   resources reserved by the already established LSPs that have been
   preserved across the restart.  Once the restarting node determines
   the amount of unreserved resources, taking into account the resources
   reserved by the already established LSPs that have been preserved
   across the restart, the node SHOULD advertise these resources in its
   Link State Protocol data units.

   In addition, in the case of a planned restart prior to restarting,
   the restarting node SHOULD originate the IS-IS Link State Protocol
   data units for TE links with 0 as unreserved bandwidth.  Also, if the
   link has LSC or FSC as its Switching Capability, then they SHOULD be
   originated with 0 as Max LSP Bandwidth.  This would discourage new
   LSP establishment through the restarting router.

   Neighbors of the restarting node SHOULD continue to advertise the
   actual unreserved bandwidth on the TE links from the neighbors to
   that node.

3.  Security Considerations

   This document specifies the contents of GMPLS TE TLVs in IS-IS.  As
   these TLVs are not used for SPF computation or normal routing, the
   extensions specified here have no direct effect on IP routing.
   Tampering with GMPLS TE TLVs may have an effect on the underlying
   transport (optical and/or SONET/SDH) network.  Mechanisms to secure
   IS-IS Link State PDUs and/or the TE TLVs [ISIS-HMAC] can be used to
   secure the GMPLS TE TLVs as well.

   For a discussion of general security considerations for IS-IS, see
   [ISIS-HMAC].

4.  IANA Considerations

   This document defines the following new IS-IS TLV type that has been
   reflected in the IS-IS TLV codepoint registry:

         Type        Description              IIH   LSP   SNP
         ----        ----------------------   ---   ---   ---
          138        Shared Risk Link Group    n     y     n

   This document also defines the following new sub-TLV types of top-
   level TLV 22 that have been reflected in the IS-IS sub-TLV registry
   for TLV 22:




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         Type        Description                        Length
         ----        ------------------------------   --------
            4        Link Local/Remote Identifiers           8
           20        Link Protection Type                    2
           21        Interface Switching Capability   variable
                     Descriptor

5.  References

5.1.  Normative References

   [GMPLS-ROUTING] Kompella, K., Ed., and Y. Rekhter, Ed., "Routing
                   Extensions in Support of Generalized Multi-Protocol
                   Label Switching (GMPLS)", RFC 4202, October 2005.

   [GMPLS-RSVP]    Berger, L., Ed., "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label
                   Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Resource ReserVation
                   Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions",
                   RFC 3473, January 2003.

   [GMPLS-SIG]     Berger, L., Ed., "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label
                   Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Functional Description",
                   RFC 3471, January 2003

   [IEEE]          IEEE, "IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point
                   Arithmetic", Standard 754-1985, 1985 (ISBN
                   1-5593-7653-8).

   [ISIS-3way]     Katz, D. and R. Saluja, "Three-Way Handshake for IS-
                   IS Point-to-Point Adjacencies", RFC 5303, October
                   2008.

   [ISIS-HMAC]     Li, T. and R. Atkinson, "IS-IS Cryptographic
                   Authentication", RFC 5304, October 2008.

   [ISIS-RESTART]  Shand, M. and L. Ginsberg, "Restart Signaling for
                   IS-IS", RFC 5306, October 2008.

   [ISIS-TE]       Smit, H. and T. Li, "IS-IS Extensions for Traffic
                   Engineering", RFC 5305, October 2008.

   [RFC2119]       Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
                   Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

6.  Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Jim Gibson, Suresh Katukam, Jonathan
   Lang, and Quaizar Vohra for their comments on the document.



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7.  Contributors

   Ayan Banerjee
   Calient Networks
   5853 Rue Ferrari
   San Jose, CA 95138

   Phone: +1 408 972 3645
   EMail: abanerjee@calient.net


   John Drake
   Calient Networks
   5853 Rue Ferrari
   San Jose, CA 95138

   Phone: +1 408 972 3720
   EMail: jdrake@calient.net


   Greg Bernstein
   Grotto Networking

   EMail: gregb@grotto-networking.com


   Don Fedyk
   Nortel Networks Corp.
   600 Technology Park Drive
   Billerica, MA 01821

   Phone: +1 978 288 4506
   EMail: dwfedyk@nortelnetworks.com


   Eric Mannie
   Independent Consultant

   EMail: eric_mannie@hotmail.com












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   Debanjan Saha
   Tellium Optical Systems
   2 Crescent Place
   P.O. Box 901
   Ocean Port, NJ 07757

   Phone: +1 732 923 4264
   EMail: dsaha@tellium.com


   Vishal Sharma

   EMail: v.sharma@ieee.org

Authors' Addresses

   Kireeti Kompella (editor)
   Juniper Networks, Inc.
   1194 N. Mathilda Ave
   Sunnyvale, CA 94089

   EMail: kireeti@juniper.net


   Yakov Rekhter (editor)
   Juniper Networks, Inc.
   1194 N. Mathilda Ave
   Sunnyvale, CA 94089

   EMail: yakov@juniper.net





















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