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  <front>
    <title abbrev="draft-ginsberg-isis-fs-lsp-01.txt">IS-IS Flooding Scope
    LSPs</title>

    <author fullname="Les Ginsberg" initials="L" surname="Ginsberg">
      <organization>Cisco Systems</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>510 McCarthy Blvd.</street>

          <city>Milpitas</city>

          <code>95035</code>

          <region>CA</region>

          <country>USA</country>
        </postal>

        <email>ginsberg@cisco.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Stefano Previdi" initials="S" surname="Previdi">
      <organization>Cisco Systems</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>Via Del Serafico 200</street>

          <city>Rome</city>

          <code>0144</code>

          <country>Italy</country>
        </postal>

        <email>sprevidi@cisco.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Yi Yang" initials="Y" surname="Yang">
      <organization>Cisco Systems</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>7100-9 Kit Creek Road</street>

          <city>Research Triangle Park</city>

          <code>27709-4987</code>

          <region>North Carolina</region>

          <country>USA</country>
        </postal>

        <email>yiya@cisco.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <date day="16" month="June" year="2013"/>

    <area>Routing Area</area>

    <workgroup>Networking Working Group</workgroup>

    <keyword>Sample</keyword>

    <abstract>
      <t>Intermediate System To Intermediate System (IS-IS) provides efficient
      and reliable flooding of information to its peers. However the current
      flooding scopes are limited to either area wide scope or domain wide
      scope. There are existing use cases where support of other flooding
      scopes are desirable. This document defines new Protocol Data Units
      (PDUs) which provide support for new flooding scopes as well as
      additional space for advertising information targeted for the currently
      supported flooding scopes.</t>

      <t>The protocol extensions defined in this document are not backwards
      compatible with existing implementations and so must be deployed with
      care.</t>
    </abstract>

    <note title="Requirements Language">
      <t>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].</t>
    </note>
  </front>

  <middle>
    <section title="Introduction">
      <t>The Update Process as defined by [IS-IS] provides reliable and
      efficient flooding of information to all routers in a given flooding
      scope. Currently the protocol supports two flooding scopes and
      associated Protocol Data Units (PDUs). Level 1 (L1) Link State PDUs
      (LSPs) are flooded to all routers in an area. Level 2 (L2) LSPs are
      flooded to all routers in the Level 2 sub-domain. The basic operation of
      the Update Process can be applied to any subset of the routers in a
      given topology so long as that topology is not partitioned. It is
      therefore possible to introduce new PDUs in support of other flooding
      scopes and utilize the same Update Process machinery to provide the same
      reliability and efficiency which the Update Process currently provides
      for L1 and L2 scopes. This document defines these new PDUs and the
      modified Update Process rules which are to be used in supporting new
      flooding scopes.</t>

      <t>New deployment cases have introduced the need for reliable and
      efficient circuit scoped flooding. For example, Appointed Forwarder
      information as defined in [RFC6326] needs to be flooded reliably and
      efficiently to all RBridges on a broadcast circuit. Currently, only
      Intermediate System to Intermediate System Hellos (IIHs) have the
      matching scope - but IIHs are unreliable i.e. individual IIHs may be
      lost without affecting correct operation of the protocol. To provide
      reliability in cases where the set of information to be flooded exceeds
      the carrying capacity of a single PDU requires sending the information
      periodically even when no changes in the content have occurred. When the
      information content is large this is inefficient and still does not
      provide a guarantee of reliability. This document defines circuit scoped
      flooding in order to provide a solution for such cases.</t>

      <t>Another existing limitation of [IS-IS] is the carrying capacity of an
      LSP set. It has been noted in [RFC5311] that the set of LSPs that may be
      originated by a system at each level is limited to 256 LSPs and the
      maximum size of each LSP is limited by the minimum Maximum Transmission
      Unit (MTU) of any link used to flood LSPs. [RFC5311] has defined a
      backwards compatible protocol extension which can be used to overcome
      this limitation if needed. While the [RFC5311] solution is viable, in
      order to be interoperable with routers which do not support the
      extension it imposes some restrictions on what can/cannot be advertised
      in the Extended LSPs and requires allocation of multiple unique system
      IDs to a given router. A more flexible and less constraining solution is
      possible if interoperability with legacy routers is not a requirement.
      As the introduction of new PDUs required to support new flooding scopes
      is by definition not interoperable with legacy routers, it is possible
      to simultaneously introduce an alternative solution to the limited LSP
      set carrying capacity as part of the extensions defined in this
      document. This capability is also defined in this document.</t>

      <t>The PDU type field in the common header for all IS-IS PDUs is a 5 bit
      field. The possible PDU types supported by the protocol are therefore
      limited to a maximum of 32. In order to minimize the need to introduce
      additional PDU types in the future, the new PDUs introduced in this
      document are defined so as to allow multiple flooding scopes to be
      associated with the same PDU type. This means if new flooding scopes are
      required in the future the same PDU type can be used.</t>
    </section>

    <section title=" Definition of New PDUs">
      <t>In support of new flooding scopes the following new PDUs are
      required:</t>

      <t><list style="symbols">
          <t>Flooding Scoped LSPs (FS-LSPs)</t>

          <t>Flooding Scoped Complete Sequence Number PDUs (FS-CSNPs)</t>

          <t>Flooding Scoped Partial Sequence Number PDUs (FS-PSNPs)</t>
        </list></t>

      <t>Each of these PDUs is intentionally defined with a header as similar
      in format as possible to the corresponding PDU types currently defined
      in [IS-IS]. Although it might have been possible to eliminate or
      redefine PDU header fields in a new way the existing formats are
      retained in order to allow maximum reuse of existing PDU processing
      logic in an implementation.</t>

      <t>Note that in the case of all FS PDUs, the Maximum Area Addresses
      field in the header of the corresponding standard PDU has been replaced
      with a Scope field. The maximum area addresses checks specified in
      [IS-IS] are therefore not performed on FS PDUs.</t>

      <section title="Flooding Scoped LSP Format">
        <t>An FS-LSP has the following format:</t>

        <t><figure>
            <artwork><![CDATA[                                         No. of octets
              +-------------------------+
              | Intradomain Routeing    |     1
              | Protocol Discriminator  |
              +-------------------------+
              | Length Indicator        |     1
              +-------------------------+
              | Version/Protocol ID     |     1
              | Extension               |
              +-------------------------+
              | ID Length               |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |R|R|R| PDU Type          |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |  Version                |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |  Reserved               |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |P|  Scope                |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |  PDU Length             |     2
              +-------------------------+
              |  Remaining Lifetime     |     2
              +-------------------------+
              |   FS LSP ID             |     ID Length + 2
              +-------------------------+
              | Sequence Number         |     4
              +-------------------------+
              | Checksum                |     2
              +-------------------------+
              |Reserved|LSPDBOL|IS Type |     1
              +-------------------------+
              : Variable Length Fields  :     Variable
              +-------------------------+

   Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator - 0x83 
   (as defined in [IS-IS])

   Length Indicator - Length of the Fixed Header in octets

   Version/Protocol ID Extension - 1

   ID Length - As defined in [IS-IS]

   PDU Type - 10 (Subject to assignment by IANA) Format as 
   defined in [IS-IS] 

   Version - 1

   Reserved - transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt

   Scope - Bits 1-7 define the flooding scope.
     The value 0 is reserved
     and MUST NOT be used. Received FS-LSPs with a scope of 0 MUST
     be ignored.
     P - Bit 8 - Priority Bit. If set to 1 this LSP SHOULD be flooded 
     at high priority.

   PDU Length - Entire Length of this PDU, in octets, including the 
   header.

   Remaining Lifetime - Number of seconds before this FS-LSP is 
   considered expired.

   FS LSP ID - the system ID of the source of the FS-LSP. One of 
   the following two formats is used:

     FS LSP ID Standard Format

              +-------------------------+
              |   Source ID             |     ID Length
              +-------------------------+
              | Pseudonode ID           |     1
              +-------------------------+
              | FS LSP Number           |     1
              +-------------------------+
   
     FS LSP ID Extended Format

              +-------------------------+
              |   Source ID             |     ID Length
              +-------------------------+
              | Extended FS LSP Number  |     2
              +-------------------------+

     Which format is used is specific to the Scope and MUST be defined
     when the specific flooding scope is defined.

   Sequence Number - sequence number of this FS-LSP

   Checksum - Checksum of contents of FS-LSP from Source ID to end.
   Checksum is computed as defined in [IS-IS].

   Reserved/LSPDBOL/IS Type

      Bits 4-8 are reserved, which means they are transmitted as 0 and 
      ignored on receipt.
   
      LSPDBOL - Bit 3 - A value of 0 indicates no FS-LSP Database 
      Overload and a value of 1 indicates that the FS-LSP Database is 
      overloaded. The overload condition is specific to FS-LSPs with the
      scope specified in the scope field. 

      IS Type - Bits 1 and 2. The type of Intermediate System as defined 
      in [IS-IS].

   Variable Length Fields which are allowed in an FS-LSP are specific to 
   the defined scope.


]]></artwork>
          </figure></t>
      </section>

      <section title="Flooding Scoped CSNP Format">
        <t>An FS-CSNP has the following format:</t>

        <figure>
          <artwork><![CDATA[                                         No. of octets
              +-------------------------+
              | Intradomain Routeing    |     1
              | Protocol Discriminator  |
              +-------------------------+
              | Length Indicator        |     1
              +-------------------------+
              | Version/Protocol ID     |     1
              | Extension               |
              +-------------------------+
              | ID Length               |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |R|R|R| PDU Type          |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |  Version                |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |  Reserved               |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |R|  Scope                |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |  PDU Length             |     2
              +-------------------------+
              |  Source ID              |     ID Length + 1
              +-------------------------+
              |  Start FS-LSP ID        |     ID Length + 2
              +-------------------------+
              |  End FS-LSP ID          |     ID Length + 2
              +-------------------------+
              : Variable Length Fields  :     Variable
              +-------------------------+

   Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator - 0x83 
   (as defined in [IS-IS]

   Length Indicator - Length of the Fixed Header in octets

   Version/Protocol ID Extension - 1

   ID Length - As defined in [IS-IS]

   PDU Type - 11 (Subject to assignment by IANA) Format as defined in 
   [IS-IS] 
 
   Version - 1

   Reserved - transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt

   Scope - Bits 1-7 define the flooding scope.
     The value 0 is reserved
     and MUST NOT be used. Received FS-CSNPs with a scope of 0 MUST
     be ignored.
     Bit 8 is Reserved which means it is transmitted as 0 and
     ignored on receipt.

   PDU Length - Entire Length of this PDU, in octets, including the 
   header.

   Source ID - the system ID of the Intermediate System 
   (with zero Circuit ID) generating this Sequence Numbers PDU

   Start FS-LSP ID - The FS-LSP ID of the first FS-LSP with the 
   specified scope in the range covered by this FS-CSNP.

   End FS-LSP ID - The FS-LSP ID of the last FS-LSP with the 
   specified scope in the range covered by this FS-CSNP.

   Variable Length Fields which are allowed in an FS-CSNP are 
   limited to those TLVs which are supported by standard CSNP.


]]></artwork>
        </figure>

        <t/>
      </section>

      <section title="Flooding Scope PSNP Format">
        <t>An FS-PSNP has the following format:</t>

        <figure>
          <artwork><![CDATA[                                         No. of octets
              +-------------------------+
              | Intradomain Routeing    |     1
              | Protocol Discriminator  |
              +-------------------------+
              | Length Indicator        |     1
              +-------------------------+
              | Version/Protocol ID     |     1
              | Extension               |
              +-------------------------+
              | ID Length               |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |R|R|R| PDU Type          |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |  Version                |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |  Reserved               |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |U|  Scope                |     1
              +-------------------------+
              |  PDU Length             |     2
              +-------------------------+
              |  Source ID              |     ID Length + 1
              +-------------------------+
              : Variable Length Fields  :     Variable
              +-------------------------+

   Intradomain Routeing Protocol Discriminator - 0x83 
   (as defined in [IS-IS]

   Length Indicator - Length of the Fixed Header in octets

   Version/Protocol ID Extension - 1

   ID Length - As defined in [IS-IS]

   PDU Type - 12 (Subject to assignment by IANA) Format 
   as defined in [IS-IS]

   Version - 1

   Reserved - transmitted as zero, ignored on receipt

   Scope - Bits 1-7 define the flooding scope.
     The value 0 is reserved
     and MUST NOT be used. Received FS-PSNPs with a scope of 0 MUST
     be ignored.
     U - Bit 8 - A value of 0 indicates that the specified 
     flooding scope is supported. A value of 1 indicates 
     that the specified flooding scope is unsupported. When 
     U = 1, variable length fields other than authentication
     MUST NOT be included in the PDU. 

   PDU Length - Entire Length of this PDU, in octets, including 
   the header.

   Source ID - the system ID of the Intermediate System 
   (with zero Circuit ID) generating this Sequence Numbers PDU

   Variable Length Fields which are allowed in an FS-PSNP are 
   limited to those TLVs which are supported by standard PSNPs.

]]></artwork>
        </figure>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section title="Flooding Scope Update Process Operation">
      <t>The Update Process as defined in [IS-IS] maintains a Link State
      Database (LSDB) for each level supported. Each level specific LSDB
      contains the full set of LSPs generated by all routers operating in that
      level specific scope. The introduction of FS-LSPs creates additional
      LSDBs (FS-LSDBs) for each additional scope supported. The set of FS-LSPs
      in each FS-LSDB consists of all FS-LSPs generated by all routers
      operating in that scope. There is therefore an additional instance of
      the Update Process for each supported flooding scope.</t>

      <t>Operation of the scope specific Update Process follows the Update
      Process specification in [IS-IS]. The circuit(s) on which FS-LSPs are
      flooded are limited to those circuits which are participating in the
      given scope. Similarly the sending/receiving of FS-CSNPs and FS-PSNPs is
      limited to the circuits participating in the given scope.</t>

      <t>Consistent support of a given flooding scope on a circuit by all
      routers operating on that circuit is required.</t>

      <section title="Scope Types">
        <t>A flooding scope may be limited to a single circuit (circuit
        scope). Circuit scopes may be further limited by level (L1 circuit
        scope/L2 circuit scope).</t>

        <t>A flooding scope may be limited to all circuits enabled for L1
        routing (area scope).</t>

        <t>A flooding scope may be limited to all circuits enabled for L2
        routing (L2 sub-domain scope).</t>

        <t>Additional scopes may be defined which include all circuits enabled
        for either L1 or L2 routing (domain-wide scope).</t>
      </section>

      <section title="Operation on Point-to-Point Circuits">
        <t>When a new adjacency is formed, synchronization of all FS-LSDBs
        supported on that circuit is required. Therefore FS-CSNPs for all
        supported scopes MUST be sent when a new adjacency reaches the UP
        state. Send Receive Message (SRM) bit MUST be set for all FS-LSPs
        associated with the scopes supported on that circuit. Receipt of an
        FS-PSNP with the U bit equal to 1 indicates that the neighbor does not
        support that scope (although it does support FS PDUs). This MUST cause
        SRM bit to be cleared for all FS-LSPs with the matching scope which
        are currently marked for flooding on that circuit.</t>
      </section>

      <section title="Operation on Broadcast Circuits">
        <t>FS PDUs are sent to the same destination address(es) as standard
        PDUs for the given protocol instance. For specification of the defined
        destination addresses consult [IS-IS], [IEEEaq], [RFC6822], and
        [RFC6325].</t>

        <t>The Designated Intermediate System (DIS) for a broadcast circuit
        has the responsibility to generate periodic scope specific FS-CSNPs
        for all supported scopes. A scope specific DIS is NOT elected as all
        routers on a circuit MUST support a consistent set of flooding
        scopes.</t>

        <t>It is possible that a scope may be defined which is not level
        specific. In such a case the DIS for each level enabled on a broadcast
        circuit MUST independently send FS PDUs for that scope to the
        appropriate level specific destination address. This may result in
        redundant flooding of FS-LSPs for that scope.</t>
      </section>

      <section title="Use of Authentication">
        <t>Authentication TLVs MAY be included in FS PDUs. When authentication
        is in use, the scope is first used to select the authentication
        configuration that is applicable. The authentication check is then
        performed as normal. Although scope specific authentication MAY be
        used, sharing of authentication among multiple scopes and/or with the
        standard LSP/CSNP/PSNP PDUs is considered sufficient.</t>
      </section>

      <section title="Priority Flooding">
        <t>When the FS LSP ID Extended Format is used the set of LSPs
        generated by an IS may be quite large. It may be useful to identify
        those LSPs in the set which contain information of higher priority.
        Such LSPs will have the P bit set to 1 in the Scope field in the LSP
        header. Such LSPs SHOULD be flooded at a higher priority than LSPs
        with the P bit set to 0. This is a suggested behavior on the part of
        the originator of the LSP. When an LSP is purged the original state of
        the P bit MUST be preserved.</t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section title="Deployment Considerations">
      <t>Introduction of new PDU types is incompatible with legacy
      implementations. Legacy implementations do not support the FS specific
      Update process(es) and therefore flooding of the FS-LSPs throughout the
      defined scope is unreliable when not all routers in the defined scope
      support FS PDUs. Further, legacy implementations will likely treat the
      reception of an FS PDUs as an error. Even when all routers in a given
      scope support FS PDUs, if not all routers in the flooding domain for a
      given scope support that scope flooding of the FS-LSPs may be
      compromised. Therefore all routers in the flooding domain for a given
      scope SHOULD support both FS PDUs and the specified scope before use of
      that scope can be enabled.</t>

      <t>The U bit in FS-PSNPs provides a means to suppress retransmissions of
      unsupported scopes. Routers which support FS PDUs SHOULD support the
      sending of PSNPs with the U bit equal to 1 when an FS-LSP is received
      with a scope which is unsupported. Routers which support FS PDUs SHOULD
      trigger management notifications when FS PDUs are received for
      unsupported scopes and when PSNPs with the U bit equal to 1 are
      received.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Graceful Restart Interactions">
      <t>[RFC5306] defines protocol extensions in support of graceful restart
      of a routing instance. Synchronization of all supported FS-LSDBs is
      required in order for database synchronization to be complete. This
      involves the use of additional T2 timers. Receipt of a PSNP with the U
      bit equal to 1 will cause FS-LSDB synchronization with that neighbor to
      be considered complete for that scope. See [RFC5306] for further
      details.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Multi-instance Interactions">
      <t>In cases where FS-PDUs are associated with a non-zero instance the
      use of IID-TLVs in FS-PDUs follows the rules for use in LSPs, CSNPs,
      PSNPs as defined in [RFC6822].</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Circuit Scoped Flooding">
      <t>This document defines two circuit scoped flooding identifiers:</t>

      <t><list style="symbols">
          <t>Level 1 circuit scope (L1CS)</t>

          <t>Level 2 circuit scope (L2CS)</t>
        </list></t>

      <t>FS-LSPs with the scope field set to one of these values contain
      information specific to the circuit on which they are flooded. When
      received, such FS-LSPs MUST NOT be flooded on any other circuit. The FS
      LSP ID Extended format is used in these PDUs. The FS-LSDB associated
      with circuit scoped FS-LSPs consists of the set of FS-LSPs which both
      have matching circuit scope and are transmitted(locally generated) or
      received on a specific circuit.</t>

      <t>The set of TLVs which may be included in such FS-LSPs is specific to
      the given use case and is outside the scope of this document.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Extending LSP Set Capacity">
      <t>The need for additional space in the set of LSPs generated by a
      single IS has been articulated in [RFC5311]. When legacy
      interoperability is not a requirement, the use of FS-LSPs meets that
      need without requiring the assignment of alias system-ids to a single
      IS. Two flooding scopes are defined for this purpose:</t>

      <t><list style="symbols">
          <t>Level 1 Scoped FS-LSPs (L1-FS-LSP)</t>

          <t>Level 2 Scoped FS-LSPs (L2-FS-LSP)</t>
        </list></t>

      <t>The FS LSP ID Extended format is used in these PDUs. This provides
      64K of additional LSPs which may be generated by a single system at each
      level.</t>

      <t>Lx-FS-LSPs are used by the level specific Decision Process (defined
      in [IS-IS]) in the same manner as standard LSPs (i.e. as additional
      information sourced by the same IS) subject to the following
      restrictions:</t>

      <t><list style="symbols">
          <t>A valid version of LSP #0 from the same IS at the corresponding
          Level MUST be present in the LSDB in order for the FS-LSP set to be
          usable</t>

          <t>Information in an Lx-FS-LSP (e.g. IS-Neighbor information) which
          supports using the originating IS as a transit node MUST NOT be used
          when the Overload bit is set in LSP #0</t>

          <t>Existing TLVs which are restricted to LSP #0 MUST NOT appear in
          Lx-FS-LSPs.</t>
        </list></t>

      <t>There are no further restrictions as to what TLVs may be advertised
      in FS-LSPs.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Domain Scoped Flooding">
      <t>Existing support for flooding information domain wide (i.e. to L1
      routers in all areas as well as to routers in the Level 2 sub-domain)
      requires the use of leaking procedures between levels. For further
      details see [RFC4971]. This is sufficient when the data being flooded
      domain-wide consists of individual TLVs. If it is desired to retain the
      identity of the originating IS for the complete contents of a PDU, then
      support for flooding the unchanged PDU is desirable. This document
      therefore defines a domain-wide flooding scope. FS-LSPs with this scope
      MUST be flooded on all circuits regardless of what level(s) are
      supported on that circuit.</t>

      <t>The FS LSP ID Extended format is used in these PDUs.</t>

      <t>Use of information in FS-LSPs for a given scope depends on
      determining the reachability to the IS originating the FS-LSP. This
      presents challenges for FS-LSPs with domain-scopes because no single IS
      has the full view of the topology across all areas. It is therefore
      necessary for the originator of domain scoped FS-LSPs to advertise an
      identifier which will allow an IS who receives such an FS-LSP to
      determine whether the source of the FS-LSP is currently reachable. The
      identifier required depends on what "address-families" are being
      advertised.</t>

      <t>When IS-IS is deployed in support of Layer 3 routing for IPv4 and/or
      IPv6 then FS-LSP #0 with domain-wide scope MUST include at least one of
      the following TLVs:</t>

      <t><list style="symbols">
          <t>IPv4 Traffic Engineering Router ID (TLV 134)</t>

          <t>IPv6 Traffic Engineering Router ID (TLV 140)</t>
        </list></t>

      <t>When IS-IS is deployed in support of Layer 2 routing, current
      standards (e.g. [RFC6325]) only support a single area. Therefore
      domain-wide scope is not yet applicable. When the Layer 2 standards are
      updated to include multi-area support the identifiers which can be used
      to support inter-area reachability will be defined - at which point the
      use of domain-wide scope for Layer 2 can be fully defined.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Announcing Support for Flooding Scopes">
      <t>Announcements of support for flooding scope may be useful in
      validating that full support has been deployed and/or in isolating the
      reasons for incomplete flooding of FS-LSPs for a given scope.</t>

      <t>ISs supporting FS-PDUs MAY announce supported scopes in IIH PDUs. To
      do so a new TLV is defined.</t>

      <t><figure>
          <artwork><![CDATA[Scoped Flooding Support
Type:   243 (suggested - to be assigned by IANA)
Length: 1 - 127
Value
                                 No of octets
       +----------------------+
       |R| Supported Scope    |   1
       +----------------------+
       :                      :
       +----------------------+
       |R| Supported Scope    |   1
       +----------------------+

    A list of the circuit scopes supported on this circuit and
    other non-circuit flooding scopes supported.
    R bit MUST be 0 and is ignored on receipt.

    In a Point-Point IIH L1, L2 and domain-wide scopes MAY
    be advertised.
    In Level 1 LAN IIHs L1 and domain-wide scopes MAY be advertised.
    In Level 2 LAN IIHs L2 and domain-wide scopes MAY be advertised.
 
]]></artwork>
        </figure></t>

      <t>Information in this TLV MUST NOT be considered in adjacency
      formation.</t>

      <t>Whether information in this TLV is used to determine when FS-LSPs
      associated with a locally supported scope are flooded is an
      implementation choice.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="IANA" title="IANA Considerations">
      <t>This document requires the definition of three new PDU types that
      need to be reflected in the ISIS PDU registry. Values below are
      suggested values subject to assignment by IANA.</t>

      <figure>
        <artwork><![CDATA[ 
 Value  Description           
 ----  ---------------------  
  10    FS-LSP
  11    FS-CSNP
  12    FS-PSNP 
]]></artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>This document requires that a new IANA registry be created to control
      the assignment of scope identifiers in FS-PDUs. The registration
      procedure is "Expert Review" as defined in [RFC5226]. Suggested registry
      name is "LSP Flooding Scoped Identifier Registry". A scope identifier is
      a number from 1-127 inclusive. The following scope identifiers are
      defined by this document. Values are suggested values subject to
      assignment by IANA.</t>

      <figure>
        <artwork><![CDATA[
Value    Description                         FS LSP ID Format
-----    ------------------------------      ----------------
1        Level 1 Circuit Flooding Scope      Extended
2        Level 2 Circuit Flooding Scope      Extended
3        Level 1 Flooding Scope              Extended
4        Level 2 Flooding Scope              Extended
5        Domain-wide Flooding Scope          Extended

]]></artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>This document requires the definition of a new IS-IS TLV to be
      reflected in the "IS-IS TLV Codepoints" registry:</t>

      <t><figure>
          <artwork><![CDATA[Type  Description                       IIH LSP SNP Purge
----  ------------                      --- --- --- -----
243   Circuit Scoped Flooding Support    Y   N   N    N

]]></artwork>
        </figure></t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Security" title="Security Considerations">
      <t>Security concerns for IS-IS are addressed in [IS-IS], [RFC5304], and
      [RFC5310].</t>

      <t>The new PDUs introduced are subject to the same security issues
      associated with their standard LSP/CSNP/PSNP counterparts. To the extent
      that additional PDUs represent additional load for routers in the
      network this increases the opportunity for denial of service
      attacks.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Acknowledgements" title="Acknowledgements">
      <t>The authors wish to thank Ayan Banerjee, Donald Eastlake, and Mike
      Shand for their comments.</t>
    </section>
  </middle>

  <back>
    <references title="Normative References">
      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.2119"?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.4971'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5226'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5304'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5306'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5310'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6822'?>

      <?rfc ?>

      <reference anchor="IS-IS">
        <front>
          <title>Intermediate system to Intermediate system intra-domain
          routeing information exchange protocol for use in conjunction with
          the protocol for providing the connectionless-mode Network Service
          (ISO 8473), ISO/IEC 10589:2002, Second Edition.</title>

          <author fullname="ISO "International Organization for Standardization""/>

          <date month="Nov" year="2002"/>
        </front>
      </reference>

      <reference anchor="IEEEaq">
        <front>
          <title>Standard for Local and metropolitan area networks: Media
          Access Control (MAC) Bridges and Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks
          - Amendment 20: Shortest Path Bridging", IEEE Std 802.1aq-2012, 29
          June 2012.</title>

          <author fullname="IEEE "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers""/>

          <date year="2012"/>
        </front>
      </reference>
    </references>

    <references title="Informational References">
      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.5311'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6325'?>

      <?rfc include='reference.RFC.6326'?>
    </references>
  </back>
</rfc>

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