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Network Working Group                                              J. Wu
Internet-Draft                                                    Y. Cui
Intended status: Experimental                                      X. Li
Expires: October 16, 2009                                          M. Xu
                                                     Tsinghua University
                                                                 C. Metz
                                                     Cisco Systems, Inc.
                                                          April 14, 2009


  4over6 Transit Solution using IP Encapsulation and MP-BGP Extensions
                      draft-wu-softwire-4over6-02

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Abstract

   The emerging and growing deployment of IPv6 networks, in particular
   IPv6 backbone networks, will introduce cases where connectivity with
   IPv4 networks is desired.  In one such case, an Internet Service
   Provider (ISP) operating an IPv6 backbone network will accomodate
   connectivity and offer transit services for attached legacy IPv4
   networks and applications.  This is accomplished through the use of
   IPv4-over-IPv6 (4over6) tunnels established between dual-stack IPv4/
   IPv6 edge routers.  Along with the growth of IPv6 backbones networks
   and the corresponding increase in the number of attached IPv4
   networks, the complexity of the interconnection tunnel topology will
   severely increase to support the IPv4 transit service across the
   backbone.  The manual configuration mechanism for a potentially large
   number of IPv4-over-IPv6 tunnels will cause an insufferable
   operational burden.  This document addresses this problem and
   presents a mechanism for the automatic discovery and creation of
   4over6 tunnels employing multi-protocol BGP extensions.  The
   mechanisms described in this document have been implemented, tested
   and deployed on the CNGI-CERNET2 IPv6 testbed.































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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4

   2.  4over6 Framework Overview  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5

   3.  Prototype Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.1.  4over6 Packet Forwarding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     3.2.  Encapsulation table  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  8
     3.3.  MP-BGP 4over6 Protocol Extensions  . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
       3.3.1.  Receiving Routing Information from Local CE  . . . . . 10
       3.3.2.  Receiving 4over6 Routing Information from a remote
               4over6 PE  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

   4.  4over6 Deployment Experience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     4.1.  CNGI-CERNET2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     4.2.  4over6 Testbed on the CNGI-CERNET2 IPv6 Network  . . . . . 12
     4.3.  Deployment Experiences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

   5.  Relationship to Softwires Mesh Effort  . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

   6.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

   7.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

   8.  Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

   9.  Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

   10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
     10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

   Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

















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1.  Introduction

   Due to the lack of IPv4 address space, more and more IPv6 networks
   have been deployed not only on edge networks, but also on backbone
   networks.  However, there are still a large number of legacy IPv4
   hosts and applications in the coming years.  The emerging and growing
   deployment of IPv6 networks, in particular IPv6 backbone networks,
   will introduce cases where connectivity with IPv4 networks is
   desired.  Some IPv6 backbones will need to offer transit services to
   attached IPv4 access networks.  The ideal method to achieve this
   would be to encapsulate and then transport the IPv4 payloads inside
   IPv6 tunnels spanning the backbone.  There are some IPv6/IPv4-related
   tunneling protocols and mechanisms defined in the literature, but
   most of these existing techniques focus on the problem of IPv6 over
   IPv4, rather than the case of IPv4 over IPv6.  Encapsulation methods,
   (e.g.  [RFC2473]) specified for generic packet tunneling in IPv6 do
   exist and has been implemented.  However they do not offer an easy
   means to provision such tunnels which can place a manual
   configuration burden on the operator, in particular if the number of
   required tunnels grows large.  Thus, new techniques are needed to
   automatically create tunnels across an IPv6 backbone network
   containing IPv4 payloads.  The mechanisms defined in this document
   are referred to as 4over6.

   The 4over6 mechanism concerns two aspects: the control plane and the
   data plane.  The control plane needs to address the problem of how to
   setup an IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel in an automatic and scalable fashion
   between a large number of edge routers.  This document defines
   extensions to MP-BGP employed to communicate tunnel end-point
   information and establish 4over6 tunnels between dual-stack Provider
   Edge (PE) routers positioned at the edge of the IPv6 backbone
   network.  Once the 4over6 tunnel is in place, the data plane focuses
   on the packet forwarding processes of encapsulation and
   decapsulation.

















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2.  4over6 Framework Overview

   In the topology shown in figure 1, a number of IPv6-only P routers
   compose a native IPv6 backbone.  The PE routers are dual-stack and
   referred to as 4over6 PE routers.  The IPv6 backbone acts as a
   transit core to transport IPv4 packets across the IPv6 backbone.
   This enables each of IPv4 access islands to communicate with each
   other via 4over6 tunnels spanning the IPv6 transit core.

                      _._._._._            _._._._._
                     |  IPv4   |          |  IPv4   |
                     | access  |          | access  |
                     | island  |          | island  |
                      _._._._._            _._._._._
                          |                    |
                      Dual-Stack           Dual-Stack
                      "4over6 PE"          "4over6 PE"
                          |                    |
                          |                    |
                        __+____________________+__
           4over6      /   :   :           :   :  \    IPv6 only
           Tunnels    |    :      :      :     :   |  transit core
           between    |    :        [P]        :   |  with multiple
             PEs      |    :     :       :     :   |   [P routers]
                      |    :   :            :  :   |
                       \_._._._._._._._._._._._._./
                          | /                \ |
                          |                    |
                       Dual-Stack          Dual-Stack
                       "4over6 PE"         "4over6 PE"
                         |  |                  |
                      _._._._._            _._._._._
                     |  IPv4   |          |  IPv4   |
                     | access  |          | access  |
                     | island  |          | island  |
                      _._._._._            _._._._._

   Figure 1: IPv4 over IPv6 network topology

   As shown in figure 1, there are multiple dual-stack PE routers
   connected to the IPv6 transit core.  In order for the ingress 4over6
   PE router to forward an IPv4 packet across the IPv6 backbone to the
   correct egress 4over6 PE router, the ingress 4over6 PE router must
   learn which IPv4 destination prefixes are reachable through each
   egress 4over6 PE router.  MP-BGP will be extended to distribute the
   destination IPv4 prefix information between peering dual-stack PE
   routers.  Section 4 of this document presents the definition of the
   4over6 protocol field in MP-BGP and section 5 describes MP-BGP's



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   extended behavior in support of this capability.

   After the ingress 4over6 PE router learns the correct egress 4over6
   PE router via MP-BGP, it will forward the packet across the IPv6
   backbone using IP encapsulation.  The egress 4over6 PE router will
   receive the encapsulated packet, remove the IPv6 header and then
   forward the original IPv4 packet to its final IPv4 destination.
   Section 6 describes the procedure of packet forwarding.











































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3.  Prototype Implementation

   An implementatoin of the 4over6 mechanisms described in this document
   was developed, tested and deployed on Linux with kernel version 2.4.
   The prototype system is composed of three components: packet
   forwarding, the encapsulation table and MP-BGP extensions.  The
   packet forwarding and encapsulation table are Linux kernel modules
   and the MP-BGP extension was developed by extending Zebra routing
   software.

   The following sections will discuss these parts in detail.

3.1.  4over6 Packet Forwarding

   Forwarding an IPv4 packet through the IPv6 transit core includes 3
   parts: encapsulation of the incoming IPv4 packet with the IPv6 tunnel
   header; transmission of the encapsulated packet over the IPv6 transit
   backbone; and decapsulation of the IPv6 header and forwarding of the
   original IPv4 packet.  Native IPv6 routing and forwarding are
   employed in the backbone network since the P routers take the 4over6
   tunneled packets as just native IPv6 packets.  Therefore, 4over6
   packet forwarding involves only the encapsulation process and the
   decapsulation process, both of which are peformed on the 4over6 PE
   routers.

                Tunnel from Ingress PE to Egress PE
                   ---------------------------->
                 Tunnel                      Tunnel
                 Entry-Point                 Exit-Point
                 Node                        Node
   +-+    IPv4    +--+   IPv6 Transit Core    +--+    IPv4    +-+
   |S|-->--//-->--|PE|=====>=====//=====>=====|PE|-->--//-->--|D|
   +-+            +--+                        +--+            +-+
   Original    Ingress PE                   Egress PE        Original
   Packet    (Encapsulation)              (Decapsulation)    Packet
   Source                                                    Destination
   Node                                                      Node


   Figure 2: Packet forwarding along 4over6 Tunnel

   As shown in Figure 2, packet encapsulation and decapsulaion are both
   on the dual-stack 4over6 PE routers.  Figure 3 shows the format of
   packet encapsulation and decapsulation.







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                           +----------------------------------//-----+
                           | IPv4 Header |   Packet Payload          |
                           +----------------------------------//-----+
                            <         Original IPv4 Packet           >
                                         |
                                         |(Encapsulation on ingress PE)
                                         |
                                         v
    < Tunnel IPv6 Headers > <         Original IPv4 Packet           >
   +-----------+ - - - - - +-------------+-----------//--------------+
   |   IPv6    | IPv6      |   IPv4      |                           |
   |           | Extension |             |      Packet Payload       |
   |   Header  | Headers   |  Header     |                           |
   +-----------+ - - - - - +-------------+-----------//--------------+
    <                      Tunnel IPv6 Packet                       >
                                         |
                                         |(Decapsulation on egress PE)
                                         |
                                         v
                           +----------------------------------//-----+
                           | IPv4 Header |   Packet Payload          |
                           +----------------------------------//-----+
                            <         Original IPv4 Packet           >

   Figure 3: Packet encapsulation and decapsulation on dual-stack 4over6
   PE router

   The encapsulation format to apply is IPv4 encapsulated in IPv6 as
   outlined in [RFC2473].

3.2.  Encapsulation table

   Each 4over6 PE router maintains an encapsulation table as depicted in
   Figure 4.  Each entry in the encapsulation table consists of an IPv4
   prefix and its corresponding IPv6 address.  The IPv4 prefix is a
   particular network located in an IPv4 access island network.  The
   IPv6 address is the 4over6 virtual interface (VIF) address of the
   4over6 PE router that the IPv4 prefix is reachable through.  The
   encapsulation table is built and maintained using local configuration
   information and MP-BGP advertisements received from remote 4over6 PE
   routers.

   The 4over6 VIF is an IPv6 /128 address that is locally configured on
   each 4over6 router.  This address, as an ordinary global IPv6
   address, must also be injected into the IPv6 IGP so that it is
   reachable across the IPv6 backbone.





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         +-------------+------------------------+
         | IPv4 Prefix | IPv6 Advertising AFBR  |
         +-------------+------------------------+


   Figure 4: Encapsulation Table

   When an IPv4 packet arrives at the ingress 4over6 PE router, a lookup
   in the local IPv4 routing table will result in a pointer to the local
   encapsulation table entry with the matching destination IPv4 prefix.
   There is a corresponding IPv6 address in the encapsulation table.
   The IPv4 packet is encapsulated in an IPv6 header.  The source
   address in the IPv6 header is the IPv6 VIF address of the local
   4over6 PE router and the destination address is the IPv6 VIF address
   of the remote 4over6 PE router contained in the local encapsulation
   table.  The packet is then subjected to normal IPv6 forwarding for
   transport across the IPv6 backbone.

   When the encapsulated packet arrives at the egress 4over6 PE router,
   the IPv6 header is removed and the original IPv4 packet is forwarded
   to the destination IPv4 network based on the outcome of the lookup in
   the IPv4 routing table contained in the egress 4over6 PE router.

3.3.  MP-BGP 4over6 Protocol Extensions

   Each 4over6 PE router possesses an IPv4 interface connected to an
   IPv4 access network(s).  It can peer with other IPv4 routers using
   IGP or BGP routing protocols to exchange local IPv4 routing
   information.  Routing information can also be installed on the 4over6
   PE router using static configuration methods.

   Each 4over6 PE also possesses at least one IPv6 interface to connect
   it into the IPv6 transit backbone.  The 4over6 PE typically uses IGP
   routing protocols to exchange IPv6 backbone routing information with
   other IPv6 P routers.  The 4over6 PE router will also form an MP-iBGP
   peering relationship with other 4over6 PE routers connected to the
   IPv6 backbone network.

   The use of MP-iBGP suggests that the participating 4over6 PE routers
   that share a route reflector or form a full mesh of TCP connections
   are contained in the same autonomous system (AS).  This
   implementation is in fact only deployed over a single AS.  This was
   not an intentional design constraint but rather reflected the single
   AS topology of the CNGI-CERNET2 national IPv6 backbone used in the
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3.3.1.  Receiving Routing Information from Local CE

   When a 4over6 PE router learns routing information from the locally
   attached IPv4 access networks, the 4over6 MP-iBGP entity should
   process the information as follows:

   1.  Install and maintain local IPv4 routing information in the IPv4
       routing database.

   2.  Install and maintain new entries in encapsulation table.  Each
       entry should consist of the IPv4 prefix and the local IPv6 VIF
       address.

   3.  Advertise the new contents of the local encapsulation table in
       the form of MP_REACH_NLRI update information to remote 4over6 PE
       routers.  The format of these updates is as follows:

       *  AFI = 1 (IPv4)

       *  SAFI = 67 (4OVER6)

       *  NLRI = IPv4 network prefix

       *  Network Address of Next Hop = IPv6 address of its 4over6 VIF

   4.  A new SAFI for this solution was obtained as SAFI_4OVER6 (67)
       from IANA.  We call BGP update with SAFI being 67 as 4over6
       routing information.

3.3.2.  Receiving 4over6 Routing Information from a remote 4over6 PE

   A local 4over6 PE router will receive MP_REACH_NLRI updates from
   remote 4over6 routers and use that information to populate the local
   encapsulation table and the BGP routing database.  After validating
   correctness of the received attribute, the following procedures are
   used to update the local encapsulation table and redistribute to
   local IPv4 routing table:

   1.  Validate the received BGP update packet as 4over6 routing
       information by AFI = 1 (IPv4) and SAFI = 67 (4OVER6)

   2.  Extract the IPv4 network address from the NLRI field and install
       as the IPv4 network prefix

   3.  Extract the IPv6 address from the Network Address of the Next Hop
       field and place that as an associated entry next to the IPv4
       network index.  (Note this describes the update of local encap
       table.)



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   4.  Install and maintain a new entry in encapsulation table with the
       extracted IPv4 prefix and its corresponding IPv6 address.

   5.  Redistribute the new 4over6 routing information to local IPv4
       routing table.  Set the destination network prefix as the
       extracted IPv4 prefix, set the Next Hop as Null, and Set the
       OUTPUT Interface as the 4over6 VIF on the local 4over6 PE router.

   Therefore, when an ingress 4over6 PE router receives an IPv4 packet,
   the lookup in its IPv4 routing table will have a result of the output
   interface as the local 4over6 VIF, where the incoming IPv4 packet
   will be encapsulated with a new IPv6 header as indicated in the
   encapsulation table.






































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4.  4over6 Deployment Experience

4.1.  CNGI-CERNET2

   A prototype of the 4over6 solution is implemented and deployed on
   CNGI-CERNET2.  CNGI-CERNET2 is one of the China Next Generation
   Internet (CNGI) backbones, operated by the China Education and
   Research Network (CERNET).  CNGI-CERNET2 connects approximately 25
   core nodes distributed in 20 cities in China at speeds of 2.5-10
   Gb/s.  The CNGI-CERNET2 backbone is IPv6-only with some attached
   customer premise networks (CPN) being dual-stack.  The CNGI-CERNET2
   backbone, attached CNGI-CERNET2 CPNs, and CNGI-6IX Exchange all have
   globally unique AS numbers.  This IPv6 backbone is used to provide
   transit IPv4 services for customer IPv4 networks connected via 4over6
   PE routers to the backbone.

4.2.  4over6 Testbed on the CNGI-CERNET2 IPv6 Network

   Figure 5 shows 4over6 deployment network topology.


          +-----------------------------------------------------+
          |                    IPv6 (CERNET2)                   |
          |                                                     |
          +-----------------------------------------------------+
          |                  |                   |              |
  Tsinghua|Univ.       Peking|Univ.          SJTU|     Southeast|Univ.
       +------+           +------+           +------+        +------+
       |4over6|    ...    |4over6|           |4over6|   ...  |4over6|
       |router|           |router|           |router|        |router|
       +------+           +------+           +------+        +------+
          |                  |                  |                |
          |                  |                  |                |
          |                  |                  |                |
    +-----------+      +-----------+      +-----------+     +-----------+
    |IPv4 access| ...  |IPv4 access|      |IPv4 access| ... |IPv4 access|
    |  network  |      |  network  |      |  network  |     |  network  |
    +-----------+      +-----------+      +-----------+     +-----------+
          |
    +----------------------+
    |    IPv4 (Internet)   |
    |                      |
    +----------------------+


   Figure 5: 4over6 deployment network topology

   The IPv4-only access networks are equipped with servers and clients



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   running different applications.  The 4over6 PE routers are deployed
   at 8 x IPv6 nodes of CNGI-CERNET2, located in 7 universities and 5
   cities across China.  As suggested in figure 5 some of the IPv4
   access networks are connected to both IPv6 and IPv4 networks and
   others are only connected to the IPv6 backbone.  In the deployment,
   users in different IPv4 networks can communicate with each other
   through 4over6 tunnels.

4.3.  Deployment Experiences

   A number of 4over6 PE routers were deployed and configured to support
   the 4over6 transit solution.  MP-BGP peerings were established, and
   successful distribution of 4over6 SAFI information occured.
   Inspection of the BGP routing and encapsulation tables confirmed that
   the correct entries were sent and received.  ICMP ping traffic
   indicated that IPv4 packets were successfully transiting the IPv6
   backbone.

   In addition other application protocols were successfully tested per
   the following:

   o  HTTP.  A client running Internet Explorer in one IPv4 client
      network was able to access and download multiple objects from an
      HTTP server located in another IPv4 client network.

   o  P2P. BitComet software running on several PCs placed in different
      IPv4 client networks were able to find each other and share files.

   Other protocols, including FTP, SSH, IM(MSN, GTalk) and Multimedia
   Streaming, all functioned correctly.





















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5.  Relationship to Softwires Mesh Effort

   The 4over6 solution was presented at the IETF Softwires Working Group
   Interim meeting in Honk Kong in January 2006.  The existence of this
   large-scale implementation and deployment clearly showed that MP-BGP
   could be employed to support tunnel setup in a scalable fashion
   across an IPv6 backbone.  Perhaps most important was the use-case
   presented, that being an IPv6 backbone offering transit to attached
   client IPv4 networks.

   The 4over6 solution can be viewed as a precursor to softwires mesh
   framework.  However there are several differences with this solution
   and the effort that emerged from the softwires working group called
   softwires mesh framework[I-D.ietf-softwire-mesh-framework].

   o  MP-BGP Extensions. 4over6 employs a new SAFI (4OVER6) to convey
      client IPv4 prefixes between 4over6 PE routers.  Softwires Mesh
      retains original AFI-SAFI designations but uses a modified
      MP_REACH_NLRI format to convey IPv4 NLRI prefix information with
      an IPv6 next_hop address[I-D.ietf-softwire-v4nlri-v6nh].

   o  Encapsulation. 4over6 assumes IP-in-IP or it is possible to
      configure GRE.  Softwires uses those two scenarios configured
      locally or for IP headers that require dynamic updating.  As a
      result, the BGP encap safi is introduced in
      Softwires[I-D.ietf-softwire-encaps-safi].

   o  Multicast.  The basic 4over6 solution only implemented unicast
      communications.  The multicast communications is specified in the
      Softwire Mesh Framework, and also supported by the multicast
      extension of 4over6.

   o  Use-Cases.  The 4over6 solution in this document specifies the
      4over6 use-case, which is also pretty easy to extend for the use-
      case of 6over4.  The softwires mesh framework supports both 4over6
      and 6over4.















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6.  IANA Considerations

   A new SAFI value (67) was assigned by IANA for 4over6 BGP extension:
   SAFI_4OVER6.















































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7.  Security Considerations

   Tunneling mechanisms, especially automatic ones, often have potential
   problems of DDoS attacks on the tunnel-entry point or tunnel-end
   point.  However, since 4over6 BGP extension don't allocate resources
   to each flow or maintain the state of each flow, the 4over6 PE
   routers will have a capacity of enduring DDoS attacks as a common
   router.  I-BGP peering relationship may be maintained over IPSec or
   other secure communications.










































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8.  Conclusion

   The emerging and growing deployment of IPv6 networks, in particular
   IPv6 backbone networks, will introduce cases where connectivity with
   IPv4 networks is desired.  Some IPv6 backbones will need to offer
   transit services to attached IPv4 access networks.  The 4over6
   solution outlined in this document supports such a capability through
   an extension to MP-BGP to convey IPv4 routing information along with
   an associated IPv6 address.  Basic IP encapsulation is used in the
   dataplane as IPv4 packets are tunneled through the IPv6 backbone.

   An actual implemention has been developed and deployed on the CNGI-
   CERNET2 IPv6 backbone.






































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9.  Acknowledgements

   During the design procedure of the 4over6 framework and definition of
   BGP-MP 4over6 extension, Professor Ke Xu gave the authors many
   valuable comments.  The support of IETF softwire WG is also
   gratefully acknowledged with special thanks to David Ward and Mark
   Townsley for their rich experience and knowledge in this field.  Many
   thanks to Yakov Rekhter for his helpful comments and advice.

   The deployment and test for the prototype system was conducted among
   7 universities -- namely, Tsinghua University, Peking University,
   Beijing University of Post and Telecommunications, Shanghai Jiaotong
   University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Southeast
   University, South China University of Technology.  The authors would
   like to thank everyone involved in this effort in these universities.




































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10.  References

10.1.  Normative References

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

   [RFC2473]  Conta, A. and S. Deering, "Generic Packet Tunneling in
              IPv6 Specification", RFC 2473, December 1998.

   [RFC2784]  Farinacci, D., Li, T., Hanks, S., Meyer, D., and P.
              Traina, "Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)", RFC 2784,
              March 2000.

   [RFC2842]  Chandra, R. and J. Scudder, "Capabilities Advertisement
              with BGP-4", RFC 2842, May 2000.

   [RFC2858]  Bates, T., Rekhter, Y., Chandra, R., and D. Katz,
              "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4", RFC 2858, June 2000.

   [RFC4271]  Rekhter, Y., Li, T., and S. Hares, "A Border Gateway
              Protocol 4 (BGP-4)", RFC 4271, January 2006.

   [RFC4364]  Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
              Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, February 2006.

10.2.  Informative References

   [I-D.ietf-idr-rfc2858bis]
              Bates, T., "Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4",
              draft-ietf-idr-rfc2858bis-10 (work in progress),
              March 2006.

   [I-D.ietf-softwire-encaps-safi]
              Mohapatra, P. and E. Rosen, "BGP Encapsulation SAFI and
              BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute",
              draft-ietf-softwire-encaps-safi-05 (work in progress),
              February 2009.

   [I-D.ietf-softwire-mesh-framework]
              Wu, J., Cui, Y., Metz, C., and E. Rosen, "Softwire Mesh
              Framework", draft-ietf-softwire-mesh-framework-06 (work in
              progress), February 2009.

   [I-D.ietf-softwire-problem-statement]
              Dawkins, S., "Softwire Problem Statement",
              draft-ietf-softwire-problem-statement-03 (work in
              progress), March 2007.



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   [I-D.ietf-softwire-v4nlri-v6nh]
              Faucheur, F. and E. Rosen, "Advertising IPv4 Network Layer
              Reachability Information with an IPv6 Next  Hop",
              draft-ietf-softwire-v4nlri-v6nh-02 (work in progress),
              January 2009.

   [I-D.wu-softwire-4over6]
              Wu, J., "4over6 Transit using Encapsulation and BGP-MP
              Extension", draft-wu-softwire-4over6-01 (work in
              progress), September 2006.









































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Authors' Addresses

   Jianping Wu
   Tsinghua University
   Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University
   Beijing  100084
   P.R.China

   Phone: +86-10-6278-5983
   Email: jianping@cernet.edu.cn


   Yong Cui
   Tsinghua University
   Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University
   Beijing  100084
   P.R.China

   Phone: +86-10-6278-5822
   Email: cy@csnet1.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn


   Xing Li
   Tsinghua University
   Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University
   Beijing  100084
   P.R.China

   Phone: +86-10-6278-5983
   Email: xing@cernet.edu.cn


   Mingwei Xu
   Tsinghua University
   Department of Computer Science, Tsinghua University
   Beijing  100084
   P.R.China

   Phone: +86-10-6278-5822
   Email: xmw@csnet1.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn











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   Chris Metz
   Cisco Systems, Inc.
   3700 Cisco Way
   San Jose, Ca.  95134
   USA

   Email: chmetz@cisco.com












































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