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Network Working Group                                Donald Eastlake 3rd
INTERNET-DRAFT                                          Stellar Switches
Intended status: Proposed Standard                         Ayan Banerjee
                                                             Dinesh Dutt
                                                                   Cisco
                                                           Radia Perlman
                                                                   Intel
                                                          Anoop Ghanwani
                                                                 Brocade
Expires: December 8, 2010                                   June 9, 2010


                           TRILL Use of IS-IS
                   <draft-eastlake-isis-trill-00.txt>


Abstract

   The IETF has standardized the TRILL protocol, which provides
   transparent Layer 2 forwarding using encapsulation with a hop count
   and IS-IS link state routing. This document specifies the data
   formats and code points for the IS-IS extensions to support TRILL.



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Table of Contents

      1. Introduction............................................3
      1.1 Conventions used in this document......................3

      2. TLV and sub-TLV Extensions to IS-IS for TRILL...........4
      2.1 The Group Address TLV..................................4
      2.1.1 The Group MAC Address sub-TLV........................4
      2.2 Multi-Topology aware Port Capability TLV...............6
      2.2.1 The Special VLANs and Flags sub-TLV..................6
      2.2.2 Enabled VLANs sub-TLV................................8
      2.2.3  Appointed Forwarders sub-TLV........................9
      2.3 Sub-TLVs for the Router Capability TLV................10
      2.3.1 The TRILL Version sub-TLV...........................10
      2.3.2 The Nickname sub-TLV................................10
      2.3.3 The Trees sub-TLV...................................11
      2.3.4 The Tree Identifiers Sub-TLV........................12
      2.3.5 The Trees Used Identifiers Sub-TLV..................13
      2.3.6 Interested VLANs and Spanning Tree Roots sub-TLV....13
      2.3.7 The VLAN Group sub-TLV..............................15
      2.4 MTU sub-TLV of the Extended Reachability TLV..........16
      2.5 TRILL Neighbor TLV....................................17

      3. The MTU PDUs...........................................19

      4. Use of Existing PDUs and TLVs..........................20
      4.1 TRILL-Hello PDUs......................................20
      4.2 Area Address..........................................20

      5. Acknowledgements.......................................21

      6. IANA Considerations....................................22
      6.1 Allocations From Existing Registries..................22
      6.2 New Sub-Registries Created and Their Initial Contents.23

      7. Security Considerations................................24

      8. References.............................................25
      8.1 Normative References..................................25
      8.2 Informative References................................25












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1. Introduction

   The IETF has standardized the TRILL protocol, which provides
   transparent Layer 2 forwarding using encapsulation with a hop count
   and [IS-IS] link state routing [RFCtrill]. TRILL provides optimal
   pair-wise forwarding without configuration, safe forwarding even
   during periods of temporary loops, and support for multipathing of
   both unicast and multicast traffic as well as supporting VLANs.
   Intermediate Systems implementing TRILL are compatible with IEEE
   802.1 bridges and can incrementally replace such bridges.

   This document specifies the data formats and code points for the IS-
   IS [RFC1195] extensions to support TRILL.



1.1 Conventions used in this document

   The terminology and acronyms defined in [RFCtrill] are used herein
   with the same meaning.

   Additional acronyms used in this document:

      IIH - IS-IS Hello

      IS - Intermediate System (same as RBridge for 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 [RFC2119].






















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2. TLV and sub-TLV Extensions to IS-IS for TRILL

   This section specifies the data formats and code points for the TLVs
   and sub-TLVs added to IS-IS to support the TRILL standard.



2.1 The Group Address TLV

   The Group Address (GADDR) TLV, IS-IS TLV type 142 [TBD], is carried
   only in an LSP PDU and carries sub-TLVs that in turn advertise
   multicast group listeners. Section 2.1.1 below specifies a sub-TLV
   advertising listeners by MAC address. It is anticipated that
   additional sub-TLVS for additional address types such as IP addresses
   will be specified in other documents. The sub-TLVs under GADDR
   constitute a new series of sub-TLV types (see Section 6.2).

   GADDR has the following format:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type=GADDR-TLV |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       sub-TLVs...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: TLV Type, set to GADDR-TLV 142 [TBD].

   o  Length: variable depending on the sub-TLVs carried.

   o  sub-TLVs: The Group Address TLV value consists of sub-TLVs
      formatted as described in [RFC5305].



2.1.1 The Group MAC Address sub-TLV

   The Group MAC Address (GMAC-ADDR) sub-TLV is sub-TLV type number 1
   within the GADDR TLV. In TRILL, it is used to advertise multicast
   listeners as specified in Section 4.5.5 of [RFCtrill]. It has the
   following format:










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   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type=GMAC-ADDR |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Topology-ID                 |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  RESV |      VLAN-ID          |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Num Group Recs |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   GROUP RECORDS (1)                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   .................                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   GROUP RECORDS (N)                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   where each group record is of the form:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Num of Sources|                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   Group Address         (6 bytes)             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   Source 1 Address      (6 bytes)             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   Source 2 Address      (6 bytes)             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   Source M Address      (6 bytes)             |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: GADDR sub-TLV Type, set to 1 (GMAC-ADDR).

   o  Length: Variable, minimum 5.

   o  RESV: Reserved. A 4-bit field that MUST be sent as zero and
      ignored on receipt.

   o  Topology-Id: This field is not used in TRILL, where it is sent as
      zero and ignored on receipt, but is included for use by other
      technologies.

   o  VLAN-ID: This carries the 12-bit VLAN identifier for all
      subsequent MAC addresses in this sub-TLV, or the value zero if no
      VLAN is specified.

   o  Number of Group Records: A 1-byte integer that is the number of
      group records in this sub-TLV.



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   o  Group Record: Each group record carries the number of sources.  It
      then has a 48-bit multicast address followed by 48-bit source MAC
      addresses.  If the sources do not fit in a single sub-TLV, the
      same group address may be repeated with different source addresses
      in another sub-TLV of another instance of the Group Address TLV.



2.2 Multi-Topology aware Port Capability TLV

   The Multi Topology aware Port Capability (MT-PORT-CAP) TLV is IS-IS
   TLV type 143 [TBD] and has the format show below. The sub-TLVs that
   it carries are a new series of sub-TLVs.

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type=MT PORTCAP|                  (1 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Length        |                  (1 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | RESV  |  Topology Identifier  |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |         sub-TLVs...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: TLV Type, set to MT-PORT-CAP TLV 143 [TBD].

   o  Length: Variable, minimum 2.

   o  RESV: 4 reserved bits that MUST be sent as zero and ignored on
      receipt.

   o  Topology Identifier: In TRILL this value is set to zero and
      ignored on receipt. When this TLV is used in other protocols, it
      may be a 12-bit field containing the ID of the topology being
      announced or zero if base topology information is being carried.

   o  sub-TLVs: The TLV value contains sub-TLVs formatted as described
      in [RFC5305].

   The MT-PORT-CAP TLV may occur multiple times, and is carried only
   within a Hello PDU. The sub-sections of this section below specify
   sub-TLVs to be carried in the MT-PORT-CAP TLV.



2.2.1 The Special VLANs and Flags sub-TLV

   In TRILL, the Special VLANs and Flags (VLAN and Flags) sub-TLV is
   carried exactly once in a MT-PORT-CAP TLV in every IIH PDU.  It has
   the following format:


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   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type=VLAN Flags|                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                  (1 byte)
   +---------------+---------------+
   |    Port ID                    |  (2 bytes)
   +-------------------------------+
   |     Sender Nickname           |  (2 bytes)
   +--+--+--+--+-------------------+
   |AF|AC|VM|BY|    Outer.VLAN     |  (2 bytes)
   +--+--+--+--+-------------------+
   |TR|R |R |R |    Desig.VLAN     |  (2 bytes)
   +--+--+--+--+-------------------+

   o  Type: sub-TLV Type, set to MT-PORT-CAP VLAN and Flags sub-TLV 1
      [TBD].

   o  Length: 8.

   o  Port ID: An ID for the port on which the enclosing TRILL IIH PDU
      is being sent as specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.4.2.

   o  Sender nickname: If the sending intermediate system is holding any
      nicknames as discussed in [RFCtrill] Section 3.7, one MUST be
      included here.  Otherwise, the field is set to zero. This field is
      to support intelligent end stations that determine the egress
      RBridge for unicast data through a directory service or the like
      and need a nickname for their first hop to insert as the ingress
      nickname to correctly format a TRILL encapsulated data frame. See
      [RFCtrill] Section 4.6.2 point #8.

   o  Outer.VLAN: A copy of the 12-bit outer VLAN ID of the TRILL-Hello
      frame containing this sub-TLV when that frame was sent, as
      specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.4.5.

   o  Desig.VLAN: The 12-bit ID of the designated VLAN for the link as
      specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.2.4.2.

   o  AF, AC, VM, BY, and TR: These flag bits have the following meaning
      each, if set to one, as specified in the listed section of
      [RFCtrill]:











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      Bit  RFCtrill   Meaning if bit is one
           Section

      AF   4.4.2      Originating IS believes it is Appointed Forwarder
                      for the VLAN and port on which the containing IIH
                      PDU was sent.

      AC   4.9.1      Originating port configured as an access port
                      (TRILL traffic disabled).

      VM   4.4.5      VLAN Mapping detected on this link.

      BY   4.4.2      Bypass pseudonode.

      TR   4.9.1      Originating port configured as a trunk port (end
                      station service disabled).

   o  R: Reserved bit. MUST be sent as zero and ignored on receipt.



2.2.2 Enabled VLANs sub-TLV

   The optional Enabled VLANs sub-TLV specifies the VLANs enabled for
   end station service at the port of the originating IS on which the
   Hello was sent as specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.4.2.  It has the
   following format:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type=EnabledVLAN|                 (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |RESV |   Start VLAN ID         |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | VLAN bit-map....
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: sub-TLV Type, set to MT-PORT-CAP Enabled VLANs sub-TLV 2
      [TBD].

   o  Length: Variable, minimum 3.

   o  RESV: 4 reserved bits that MUST be sent as zero and ignored on
      receipt.

   o  Start VLAN ID, VLAN bit-map: The third and subsequent bytes of the
      value provide a bit map of enabled VLANs starting at the VLAN ID
      indicated in the lower 12 bits of the first two bytes. The highest
      order bit of the third byte indicates the VLAN equal to the


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      starting ID while the lowest order bit of the third byte indicates
      that ID plus 7. Etc.

   This sub-TLV may occur more than once in a Hello PDU and a VLAN is
   enabled for end station service on the port where the Hello was sent
   if this is indicated by any occurrence in the Hello.



2.2.3  Appointed Forwarders sub-TLV

   The DRB on a link uses the Appointed Forwarder sub-TLV to inform
   other ISs on the link that they are the designated VLAN-x forwarder
   for one or more ranges of VLAN IDs as specified in Section 4.2.4 of
   [RFCtrill].  It has the following format:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type=App Frwrdr|                          (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                          (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Appointment Information (1)         |  (6 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   .................                   |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Appointment Information (N)         |  (6 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   where each appointment is of the form:

   +----------------------------+
   |   Appointee Nickname       |  (2 bytes)
   +----------------------------+
   | RESV |     Start.VLAN      |  (2 bytes)
   +----------------------------+
   | RESV |     End.VLAN        |  (2 bytes)
   +----------------------------+

   o  Type: sub-TLV Type, set to MT-PORT-CAP Appointed Forwarders sub-
      TLV 3 [TBD].

   o  Length: 6*n bytes where there are n appointments.

   o  Appointee Nickname: The nickname of the IS being appointed a
      forwarder.

   o  RESV: 4 bits that MUST be sent as zero and ignored on receipt.

   o  Start.VLAN, End.VLAN: These fields are the VLAN IDs of the
      appointment range, inclusive. A VLAN's ID appears as both the


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      start and end VLAN to specify that single VLAN. As specified in
      Section 4.4 of [RFCtrill], appointing an IS forwarder on a port
      for a VLAN not enabled on that port has no effect.

   An IS's nickname may occur as appointed forwarder for multiple VLAN
   ranges by occurrences of this sub-TLV within the same or different MT
   Port Capability TLVs within an IIH PDU.



2.3 Sub-TLVs for the Router Capability TLV

   The Router Capability TLV is specified in [RFC4971] and may be
   generated by the originating IS. All of the sub-sections below of
   this Section 2.3 specify sub-TLVs that can be carried in the Router
   Capability TLV for TRILL.



2.3.1 The TRILL Version sub-TLV

   The TRILL Version (TRILL-VER) sub-TLV indicates the maximum version
   of the TRILL standard supported. By implication, lower versions are
   also supported. If this sub-TLV is missing, the originating IS only
   supports the base version of the protocol [RFCtrill].

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Type          |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Length        |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Max-version   |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: Router Capability sub-TLV Type, set to 5 (TRILL-VER).

   o  Length: 1.

   o  Max-version: Set to maximum version supported.



2.3.2 The Nickname sub-TLV

   The Nickname (NICKNAME) Router Capability sub-TLV carries information
   about the nicknames of the originating IS, along with information
   about its priority to hold those nicknames as specified in [RFCtrill]
   Section 3.7.3. Multiple instances of this sub-TLV may be carried.




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   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type = NICKNAME|                         (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                         (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                NICKNAME RECORDS (1)                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   .................                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                NICKNAME RECORDS (N)                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   where each nickname record is of the form:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Nickname.Pri  |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |     Tree Root Priority        |  (2 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |           Nickname            |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: Router Capability sub-TLV Type, set to 6 (NICKNAME).

   o  Length: 5*N, where N is the number of nickname records present.

   o  Nickname.Pri: An 8-bit unsigned integer priority to hold a
nickname as specified in Section 3.7.3 of [RFCtrill].

   o  Tree Root Priority: This is an unsigned 16-bit integer priority to
be a tree root as specified in Section 4.5 of [RFCtrill].

   o  Nickname: This is an unsigned 16-bit integer as specified in
Section 3.7 of [RFCtrill].



2.3.3 The Trees sub-TLV

   Each TRILL IS uses the TREES sub-TLV to announce three numbers
   related to the computation of distribution trees as specified in
   Section 4.5 of [RFCtrill]. Its format is as follows:










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   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type =  TREES  |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Length       |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Number of trees to compute   |  (2 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Maximum trees able to compute |  (2 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Number of trees to use       |  (2 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: Router Capability sub-TLV Type, set to 7 (TREES).

   o  Length: 6.

   o  Number of trees to compute: An unsigned 16-bit integer as
      specified in Section 4.5 of [RFCtrill].

   o  Maximum trees able to compute: An unsigned 16-bit integer as
      specified in Section 4.5 of [RFCtrill].

   o  Number of trees to use: An unsigned 16-bit integer as specified in
      Section 4.5 of [RFCtrill].



2.3.4 The Tree Identifiers Sub-TLV

   The tree identifiers (TREE-RT-IDs) sub-TLV is an ordered list of
   nicknames.  When originated by the IS that has the highest priority
   tree root, it lists the distribution trees that the other ISs are
   required to compute as specified in Section 4.5 of [RFCtrill].  If
   this information is spread across multiple sub-TLVs, the starting
   tree number is used to allow the ordered lists to be correctly
   concatenated. The sub-TLV format is as follows:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type=TREE-RT-IDs|                (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Starting Tree Number         |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Nickname (K-th root)      |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Nickname (K+1 - th root)  |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Nickname (...)            |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+


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   o  Type: Router Capability sub-TLV Type, set to 8 (TREE-RT-IDs).

   o  Length: 2 + 2*n where n is the number of nicknames listed.

   o  Starting Tree Number: This identifies the starting tree number of
      the nicknames that are trees for the domain.  This is set to 1 for
      the first sub-TLV.  Subsequent sub-TLVs will have the starting
      number of the ordered list.  In the event a tree identifier can be
      computed from two such sub-TLVs and are different, then it is
      assumed that this is a transient condition that will get cleared.
      During this transient time, such a tree SHOULD NOT be computed
      unless such computation is indicated by all relevant sub-TLVs
      present.

   o  Nickname: The nickname at which a distribution tree is rooted.



2.3.5 The Trees Used Identifiers Sub-TLV

   This Router Capability sub-TLV has the same structure as the Tree
   Identifiers sub-TLV specified in the above section.  The only
   difference is that its sub-TLV type is set to 9 [TBD] (TREE-USE-IDs)
   and the trees listed are those that the originating intermediate
   systems wishes to use as specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.5.



2.3.6 Interested VLANs and Spanning Tree Roots sub-TLV

   The value of this Router Capability sub-TLV consists of a VLAN range
   and information in common to all of the VLANs in the range for the
   originating IS.  This information consists of flags, a variable
   length list of spanning tree root bridge IDs, and an appointed
   forwarder status lost counter, all as specified in the sections of
   [RFCtrill] listed with the respective information items below.  This
   sub-TLV may appear zero, one, or many times.

   In the LSPs originated by an IS, the union of the VLAN ranges in all
   occurrences of this sub-TLV MUST be precisely the set of VLANs for
   which the originating Intermediate System is appointed forwarder on
   at least one port and the VLAN ranges in multiple VLANs sub-TLVs for
   an Intermediate System MUST NOT overlap. However, as a transient
   condition these conditions may be violated. If a VLAN is not listed
   in any INT-VLAN sub-TLV for an IS, that IS is assumed to be
   uninterested in receiving traffic for that VLAN. If a VLAN appears in
   more than one INT-VLAN sub-TLV for an IS, the following apply:
      If those sub-TLVs provide different nicknames it is unspecified
         which nickname takes precedence,
      The largest appoint forwarder status lost counter is used,


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      The originating IS is assumed to be attached to a multicast IPv4
         router for that VLAN if any of the INT-VLAN sub-TLVs assert
         that it is and similarly for IPv6 multicast router attachment,
         and
      The root bridge lists from all of the INT-VLAN sub-TLVs for the
         originating IS for that VLAN are merged.

   To minimize such occurrences, wherever possible, an implementation
   SHOULD advertise the update to a interested VLAN and spanning tree
   roots sub-TLV in the same LSP fragment as the advertisement that it
   replaces.  Where this is not possible, the two affected LSP fragments
   should be flooded as an atomic action. Systems that receive an update
   to an existing interested VLAN and spanning tree roots sub-TLV can
   minimize the potential disruption associated with the update by
   employing a hold-down timer prior to processing the update so as to
   allow for the receipt of multiple LSP fragments associated with the
   same update prior to beginning processing.

   The sub-TLV layout is as follows:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type = INT-VLAN|                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Nickname                    |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...+-+-+-+-+
   |   Interested VLANS                                  |  (4 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...+-+-+-+-+
   |   Appointed Forwarder Status Lost Counter           |  (4 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...+-+-+
   |         Root Bridges                                |  (6*n bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...+-+-+

   o  Type: Router Capability sub-TLV Type, set to 10 (INT-VLAN).

   o  Length: 10 + 6*n where n is the number of root bridge IDs.

   o  Nickname: As specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.2.4.4, this field
      may be used to associate a nickname held by the originating IS
      with the VLAN range indicated. When not so used, it is set to
      zero.

   o  Interested VLANS: The Interested VLANs field is formatted as shown
      below.

        0    1    2    3     4 - 15      16 - 19     20 - 31
      +----+----+----+----+------------+----------+------------+
      | M4 | M6 |  R |  R | VLAN.start |   RESV   |  VLAN.end  |
      +----+----+----+----+------------+----------+------------+


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      -  M4, M6: These bits indicate, respectively, that there is an
         IPv4 or IPv6 multicast router on a link for which the
         originating IS is appointed forwarder for every VLAN in the
         indicated range as specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.2.4.4 item
         5.1.

      -  R, RESV: These reserved bits MUST be set as zero and are
         ignored on receipt.

      -  VLAN.start and VLAN.end: This VLAN ID range is inclusive.  A
         range of one VLAN ID is indicated by setting them both to that
         VLAN ID value.

   o  Appointed Forwarder Status Lost Counter: This is a count of how
      many times a port that was appointed forwarder for the VLANs in
      the range given has lost the status of being an appointed
      forwarder as discussed in Section 4.8.3 of [RFCtrill].

   o  Root Bridges: The list of zero or more spanning tree root bridge
      IDs is the set of root bridge IDs seen for all ports for which the
      Intermediate System is appointed forwarder for the VLANs in the
      specified range as discussed in [RFCtrill] Section 4.9.3.2. While,
      of course, only one spanning tree root should be seen on any
      particular port, there may be multiple ports in the same VLAN
      connected to differed bridged LANs with different spanning tree
      roots. This list may be null.

   An INT-VLAN sub-TLV asserts that the information provided (multicast
   router attachment, appointed forwarder status lost counter, and root
   bridges), is the same for all VLANs in the range give. If this is not
   the case, the range MUST be split into subranges meeting this
   criteria.  It is always safe to use sub-TLVs with a "range" of one
   VLAN ID but this may be too verbose.



2.3.7 The VLAN Group sub-TLV

   The VLAN Group Router Capability sub-TLV consists of two or more VLAN
   IDs as specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.8.4. This sub-TLV indicates
   that shared VLAN learning is occurring at the announcing Intermediate
   System between the listed VLANs. It is structured as follows:










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   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |Type=VLAN-GROUP|                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | RESV  |  Primary VLAN ID      |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | RESV  |  Secondary VLAN ID    |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  more Secondary VLAN IDs ...  |  (2 bytes each)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: Router Capability sub-TLV Type, set to 11 (VLAN-GROUPs).

   o  Length: 4 + 2*n, where n may be 0.

   o  RESV: a 4-bit field that MUST be sent as zero and ignored on
      receipt.

   o  Primary VLAN-ID: This identifies the primary VLAN-ID.

   o  Secondary VLAN-ID: This identifies a secondary VLAN in the VLAN
      Group.



2.4 MTU sub-TLV of the Extended Reachability TLV

   The MTU sub-TLV is used to optionally announce the MTU of a link as
   specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.2.4.4. It occurs nested as within
   the Extended Reachability TLV (type #22).

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Type = MTU    |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |F|  Reserved   |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |               MTU             |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: Extended Reachability sub-TLV Type, set to MTU sub-TLV 6
      [TBD].

   o  Length: 3.

   o  F: Failed. This bit is a one if MTU testing failed on this link at
      the required campus-wide MTU.



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   o  Reserved: 7 bits that MUST be sent as zero and ignored on receipt.

   o  MTU: This field is set to the largest successfully tested MTU size
      for this link as specified in Section 4.3.2 of [RFCtrill], or zero
      if it has not been tested.



2.5 TRILL Neighbor TLV

   The TRILL Neighbor TLV is used in TRILL-Hellos (see Section 4.1
   below) in place of the IS Neighbor TLV, as specified in Section
   4.4.2.1 of [RFCtrill].  This TLV can occur zero, one, or multiple
   times in a TRILL-Hello.  The structure of the TRILL Neighbor TLV is
   as follows:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Type = TNeigh |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Length      |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |S|L|  RESV     |                  (1 byte)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                Neighbor RECORDS (1)                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   .................                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                Neighbor RECORDS (N)                           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The list of neighbors MUST be ordered by MAC address, considering
   each 6-byte MAC address to be an unsigned integer, starting with the
   smallest.  The information present for each neighbor is as follows:

   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |F|  RESV       |                (1 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       MTU                   |  (2 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   MAC Address                                       | (6 bytes)
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+...+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   o  Type: TLV Type, set to TRILL-Neighbor TLV 145 [TBD].

   o  Length: 2 + 9*n, where n is the number of neighbor records.

   o  S: Smallest flag.  If this bit is a one, then the list of
      neighbors includes the neighbor with the smallest MAC address.

   o  L: Largest flag.  If this bit is a one, then the list of neighbors


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      includes the neighbor with the largest MAC address.

   o  RESV: These seven bits are reserved for future use and MUST be set
      to zero on transmission and ignored on receipt.

   o  F: failed.  This bit is a one if MTU testing to their neighbor
      (see Section 2.9.6) failed at the required campus-wide MTU

   o  MTU: This field is set to the largest successfully tested MTU size
      for this neighbor or zero if it has not been tested.

   o  MAC Address: The MAC address of the neighbor as in the IS Neighbor
      TLV (#6).







































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3. The MTU PDUs

   Two PDUs are added to IS-IS, the MTU-probe and MTU-ack PDUs.  They
   are used to optionally determine the MTU on a link between ISs as
   specified in [RFCtrill] Section 4.3.2.

   The MTU PDUs have the standard IS-IS PDU common header with two new
   PDU Type numbers, one each, as listed in Section 6.  They also have a
   20-byte common fixed MTU PDU header as shown below.

      +------------+
      | PDU Length |                            (2 bytes)
      +------------+-------------------------+
      |   Probe ID                           |  (6 bytes)
      +--------------------------------------+
      |   Probe Source ID                    |  (6 bytes)
      +--------------------------------------+
      |   Ack Source ID                      |  (6 bytes)
      +--------------------------------------+

   As with other IS-IS PDUs, the PDU length gives the length of the
   entire IS-IS packet starting with and including the IS-IS common
   header.

   The Probe ID field is an arbitrary 48-bit quantity set by the
   Intermediate System issuing an MTU-probe and copied by the responding
   system into the corresponding MTU-ack.  For example, an Intermediate
   System creating an MTU-probe could compose this quantity from a port
   identifier and probe sequence number relative to that port.

   The Probe Source ID is set by an Intermediate system issuing an MTU-
   probe to its System ID and copied by the responding system into the
   corresponding MTU-ack.

   The Ack Source ID is set to zero in MTU-probe PDUs.  An Intermediate
   System issuing an MTU-ack set this field to its System ID.

   The TLV area follows the MTU PDU header area.  This area MAY contain
   an Authentication TLV and MUST be padded to the size being tested
   with the Padding TLV.












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4. Use of Existing PDUs and TLVs

   The sub-sections below provide details of TRILL use of existing PDUs
   and TLVs.



4.1 TRILL-Hello PDUs

   The TRILL-Hello is the variation of the LAN IIH PDU used by the TRILL
   protocol. Section 4.4 of the TRILL standard [RFCtrill] specifies the
   contents of the TRILL Hello and how its use differs in TRILL from
   Layer 3 use.

   In a TRILL-Hello PDU the IS-IS Common Header and the fixed PDU Header
   are the same as a Level 1 LAN IIH PDU.

   The IS-IS Neighbor TLV (#6) is not used in a TRILL-Hello and is
   ignored if it appears there.  Instead, TRILL-Hellos uses the TRILL
   Neighbor TLV (see Section 2.6).



4.2 Area Address

   The TRILL uses a fixed zero Area Address as specified in [RFCtrill]
   Section 4.2.3. This is encoded in a four byte Area Address TLV (TLV
   #1) as follows:

          +--------------------------+--------------------------+
          | 0x01 (Area Address Type) | 0x02 (Length of Value)   |
          +--------------------------+--------------------------+
          | 0x01 (Length of Address) | 0x00 (zero Area Address) |
          +--------------------------+--------------------------+


















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5. Acknowledgements

   The authors graetfully acknowledge the contributions and comments of
   the following: Dino Farinacci, Les Ginsberg, Mike Shand, Dave Ward,
   and Russ White.















































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6. IANA Considerations

   IANA will allocate the existing registry code points listed in
   Section 6.1 and create the new registries and their initial contents
   as listed in Section 6.2.



6.1 Allocations From Existing Registries

   This document creates two new IS-IS PDUs, namely the MTU-PROBE-PDU,
   and MTU-ACK-PDU, as described in Section 3.  IANA will assign a new
   PDU type to these PDUs and reflect them in the PDU registry.
   [suggested values below]

      MTU-PROBE-PDU     Level-1 PDU Number: 23
      MTU-ACK-PDU       Level-1 PDU Number: 28

   This document specifies three new IS-IS TLV types, namely the Group
   Address TLV (type 142), the MT-Port-Capability TLV (type 143), and
   the TRILL-Neighbor TLV (type 145), that need to be reflected in the
   IS-IS TLV code-point registry. The PDUs in which these TLVs are
   permitted for TRILL is shown in the table below along with the
   section of this document where they are discussed. The final "NUMBER"
   column indicates the permitted number of occurrences of the TLV in
   their PDU as follows:
      1+  = MUST occur at least once. If absent, the PDU is ignored. MAY
            occur multiple times.
       *  = MAY occur 0, 1, or more times.

                                Section TLV# IIH  LSP  SNP NUMBER
            GADDR-TLV             2.1    142   -    X   -      *
            MT-Port-Cap-TLV       2.2    143   X    -   -      1+
            TRILL-Neighbor TLV    2.5    145   X    -   -      *

   This document specifies eight new sub-TLVs from existing sub-TLV
   sequences, namely TRILL-Version, Nickname, TREES, TREE-RT-IDs, TREE-
   USE-IDs, INT-VLAN, VLAN-Groups, and MTU. The TLVs in which these sub-
   TLVs occur is shown in the table below along with the section of this
   document where they are discussed.  The final "NUMBER" column
   indicates the permitted number of occurrences of the sub-TLV in their
   TLV as follows:
      0-1 = MAY occur zero or one times. If it occurs more than once,
            results are unspecified.
       *  = MAY occur 0, 1, or more times.







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                     Section  sub-    Router     Extended   NUMBER
                              TLV#  Capability   IS Reach
   TRILL-Version     2.3.1     5        X          -         0-1
   Nickname          2.3.2     6        X          -          *
   TREES             2.3.3     7        X          -         0-1
   TREE-RT-IDs       2.3.4     8        X          -          *
   TREE-USE-IDs      2.3.5     9        X          -          *
   INT-VLAN          2.3.6    10        X          -          *
   VLAN-Groups       2.3.7    11        X          -          *
   MTU               2.4       6        -          X         0-1



6.2 New Sub-Registries Created and Their Initial Contents

   This document creates new sub-TLV IS-IS sub-registries for sub-TLVs
   within the Group Address (GADDR) and Multi-topology Port Capability
   (MT-PORT-CAP) TLVs and specifies four sub-TLVs within these two new
   registries, namely Group MAC Address (GMAC-ADDR), VLAN and Flags,
   Enabled-VLANs, and AppointedForwarders. The TLVs in which these sub-
   TLVs occur is shown in the table below along with the section of this
   document where they are discussed.  The final "NUMBER" column
   indicates the permitted number of occurrences of the sub-TLV
   cumulatively within all the occurrences of their TLV in a particular
   PDU as follows:
       1  = MUST occur exactly once. If absent, the PDU is ignored.
       *  = MAY occur 0, 1, or more times.

                      Section  sub-    Group      MT Port   NUMBER
                               TLV#   Address   Capability
   GMAC-ADDR          2.1.1     1        X          -         *
   VLAN and Flags     2.2.1     1        -          X         1
   Enabled-VLANs      2.2.2     2        -          X         *
   AppointedFwrdrs    2.2.3     3        -          X         *

   The assignment of additional sub-TLV type values in the Group Address
   and MT Port Capability TLVs requires IETF Review as specified in
   [RFC5226] except that types values 0x0 and 0xFF require an IETF
   Standards action for assignment.













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7. Security Considerations

   For general TRILL protocol security considerations, see [RFCtrill].

   This document raises no new security issues for IS-IS. IS-IS security
   may be used to secure the IS-IS messages discussed here. See
   [RFC5304] and [RFC5310].













































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8. References

   Normative and informative references for this document are given
   below.



8.1 Normative References

   [IS-IS] - ISO/IEC 10589, "Intermediate System to Intermediate System
         Intra-Domain Routing Exchange Protocol for use in Conjunction
         with the Protocol for Providing the Connectionless-mode Network
         Service (ISO 8473)", 2002.

   [RFC1195] - Callon, R., "Use of OSI IS-IS for Routing in TCP/IP and
         Dual Environments", 1990.

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

   [RFC4971] - Vasseur, JP. and N. Shen, "Intermediate System to
         Intermediate System (IS-IS) Extensions for Advertising Router
         Information", 2007.

   [RFC5226] - Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
         IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226, May
         2008.

   [RFC5305] - Li, T. and H. Smit, "IS-IS Extensions for Traffic
         Engineering", 2008.

   [RFCtrill] - Perlman, R., D. Eastlake, D. Dutt, S. Gai, and A.
         Ghanwani, "RBridges: Base Protocol Specification", draft-ietf-
         trill-rbridge-protocol-16.txt, in RFC Editor's queue.



8.2 Informative References

   [RFC5304] - Li, T. and R. Atkinson, "IS-IS Cryptographic
         Authentication", RFC 5304, October 2008.

   [RFC5310] - Bhatia, M., Manral, V., Li, T., Atkinson, R., White, R.,
         and M. Fanto, "IS-IS Generic Cryptographic Authentication", RFC
         5310, February 2009.







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Authors' Addresses

   Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
   Stellar Switches
   155 Beaver Street
   Milford, MA 01757 USA

   Phone: +1-508-333-2270
   email: d3e3e3@gmail.com



   Radia Perlman
   Intel Labs
   2200 Mission College Blvd.
   Santa Clara, CA 95054-1549 USA

   Phone: +1-408-765-8080
   Email: Radia@alum.mit.edu



   Dinesh G. Dutt
   Cisco Systems
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95134-1706 USA

   Phone: +1-408-527-0955
   Email: ddutt@cisco.com



   Ayan Banerjee
   Cisco Systems
   170 West Tasman Drive
   San Jose, CA 95134 USA

   Email: ayabaner@cisco.com



   Anoop Ghanwani
   Brocade Communications Systems
   1745 Technology Drive
   San Jose, CA 95110 USA

   Phone: +1-408-333-7149
   Email: anoop@brocade.com




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