RFC 9572: Updates to EVPN Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (BUM) Procedures

This document specifies updated procedures for handling Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (BUM) traffic in Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs), including selective…

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Outgoing relationships (17 related RFCs)

Updates, Normative reference — RFC 7432: BGP MPLS-Based Ethernet VPN
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 6513: Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Normative reference — RFC 6514: BGP Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP VPNs
Normative reference — RFC 7117: Multicast in Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)
Normative reference — RFC 8584: Framework for Ethernet VPN Designated Forwarder Election Extensibility
Normative reference — RFC 9251: Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) and Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) Proxies for Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Normative reference — RFC 7524: Inter-Area Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Segmented Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
Normative reference — RFC 9573: MVPN/EVPN Tunnel Aggregation with Common Labels
Normative reference — RFC 8534: Explicit Tracking with Wildcard Routes in Multicast VPN
Informative reference — RFC 4875: Extensions to Resource Reservation Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) for Point-to-Multipoint TE Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
Informative reference — RFC 6388: Label Distribution Protocol Extensions for Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths
Informative reference — RFC 4684: Constrained Route Distribution for Border Gateway Protocol/MultiProtocol Label Switching (BGP/MPLS) Internet Protocol (IP) Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
Informative reference — RFC 8279: Multicast Using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)
Informative reference — RFC 9136: IP Prefix Advertisement in Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
Informative reference — RFC 7988: Ingress Replication Tunnels in Multicast VPN

Incoming relationships (6 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 9574: Optimized Ingress Replication Solution for Ethernet VPNs (EVPNs)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9624: EVPN Broadcast, Unknown Unicast, or Multicast (BUM) Using Bit Index Explicit Replication (BIER)
Normatively referenced by — RFC 9625: EVPN Optimized Inter-Subnet Multicast (OISM) Forwarding
Normatively referenced by — RFC 10018: Multicast and Ethernet VPN with Segment Routing Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) and Ingress Replication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9573: MVPN/EVPN Tunnel Aggregation with Common Labels
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9856: Multicast Source Redundancy in EVPNs