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Hello Vishwas, There are two documents that relate to transport of IPv6 over an IPv4 MPLS core: * RFC4659 (6VPE): IPv6 VPNS over (say) IPv4 MPLS * RFC4798 (6PE): IPv6 over IPv4 MPLS RFC4798 (6PE) already explicitly discusses the option of using the IPv6 Explicit Null Label: "This label advertised by the egress 6PE Router with MP-BGP MAY be an arbitrary label value, which identifies an IPv6 routing context or outgoing interface to send the packet to, or MAY be the IPv6 Explicit Null Label. " From your description below, it sounds like your document effectively (re)discusses one particular option of the 6PE approach. Is this the case or is there really some new approach that is not already covered in 6PE? Cheers Francois Begin forwarded message:
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Internet Engineering Task Force Vishwas Manral
Internet-Draft Manoj Dutta
Intended status: Standards Track IP Infusion Inc.
Expires: July 30, 2008
January 30, 2008
Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS networks using IPv6 Provider Edge
Routers (6PE-Alt)
draft-manral-idr-mpls-explicit-null-00.txt
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Abstract
This document provides an alternate mechanism to [6PE] to interconnect
IPv6 routes over MPLS-enabled IPv4clouds. This approach
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relies on IPv6 Provider Edge routers (6PE-Alt) which are Dual Stack in
order to connect to IPv6 islands and to the MPLS core which is only
required to run IPv4 MPLS. The 6PE-Alt routers exchange the IPv6
reachability information transparently over the core using the Multi-
Protocol Border Gateway Protocol (MP-BGP) over IPv4. In doing so,
the BGP Next Hop field is used to convey the IPv4 address of the 6PE-Alt
router so that dynamically established IPv4-signaled MPLS Label
Switched Paths (LSPs) can be used without explicit tunnel
configuration. Unlike [6PE] case the labels are not sent with each route
and does not use BGP to tranport labels [RFC3107]. It instead makes use
of the IPv6 Explicit NULL label as the VPN label, which is defined
[RFC3032] and updated in [RFC4182].
This document elegantly uses the concept of non overlapping IPv6 routes to
provide BGP MPLS IP VPN functionality. The document can be further used for
provinding the functionality in case of non-overlapping IPv6 routes.
This approach allows a functionality similar to [RFC4659], without the
cumbursome extensions required for the same. With the [RFC3879] IPv6 addresses
are now globally unique (except for Link local). It also reduces the number
of multi AS scenarios.
Requirements Language
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].
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Protocol Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Transport over IPv4-signaled LSPs and IPv6 label binding . . . 6
4. Crossing Multiple IPv4 Autonomous Systems . . . . . . . . . . 8
5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
8.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 14
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1. Introduction
There are several approaches for providing IPv6 connectivity over an
MPLS core network [RFC4029] including (i) requiring that MPLS
networks support setting up IPv6-signaled Label Switched Paths (LSPs)
and establish IPv6 connectivity by using those LSPs, (ii) use
configured tunneling over IPv4-signaled LSPs, (iv) use [RFC4798] which
provides the same functionality as this draft but with a lot of added
signalling or (iv) use the IPv6 Provider Edge (6PE-Alt) approach
defined in this document.
The 6PE-Alt approach is required as an alternative to the use of standard
tunnels, because it provides a solution for an MPLS environment where
all tunnels are established dynamically, thereby addressing
environments where the effort to configure and maintain explicitly
configured tunnels is not acceptable. It is a better approach than
[RFC4798] which requires the use of additional signalling mechanisms,
and still achieves the same functionality. It requires no additional
signalling extensions or overheads.
This document specifies operations of the 6PE-Alt approach for
interconnection of IPv6 islands over an IPv4 MPLS cloud. The
approach requires the edge routers that are connected to IPv6 islands
to be Dual Stack Multi-Protocol-BGP-speaking routers [RFC4760]
while the core routers are only required to run IPv4 MPLS. The
approach uses MP-BGP over IPv4, relies on identification of the 6PE-Alt
routers by their IPv4 address and uses IPv4-signaled MPLS LSPs that
don't require any explicit tunnel configuration.
Throughout this document, the terminology of [RFC2460] and [RFC4364]
is used.
In this document an 'IPv6 island' is a network running native IPv6 as
per [RFC2460]. A typical example of an IPv6 island would be a
customer's IPv6 site connected via its IPv6 Customer Edge (CE) router
to one (or more) Dual Stack Provider Edge router(s) of a Service
Provider. These IPv6 Provider Edge routers (6PE-Alt) are connected to
an IPv4 MPLS core network.
+--------+
|site A CE---+ +-----------------+
+--------+ | | | +--------+
6PE-Alt-+ IPv4 MPLS core +-6PE-Alt--CE site C |
+--------+ | | | +--------+
|site B CE---+ +-----------------+
+--------+
IPv6 islands IPv4 cloud IPv6 island
<-------------><---------------------><-------------->
Figure 1
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The interconnection method described in this document typically
applies to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that has an IPv4 MPLS
network and is familiar with BGP (possibly already offering BGP/MPLS
VPN services) and that wants to offer IPv6 services to some of its
customers. With progressing time end user devices will have IPv6
addresses assigned to them, however the ISP may not (yet) want to upgrade
its network core to IPv6 nor use only IPv6-over-IPv4 tunneling. With the
6PE-Alt approach described here, the provider only has to upgrade some
Provider Edge (PE) routers to Dual Stack operations so they behave as
6PE-Alt routers (and route reflectors if those are used for exchange of
IPv6 reachability among 6PE-Alt routers) while leaving the IPv4 MPLS core
routers untouched. These 6PE-Alt routers provide connectivity to IPv6
islands. They may also provide other services simultaneously (IPv4
connectivity, IPv4 L3VPN services, L2VPN services, etc.). Also with
the 6PE-Alt approach, no tunnels need to be explicitly configured, and no
IPv4 headers need to be inserted in front of the IPv6 packets between
the customer and provider edge.
The ISP obtains IPv6 connectivity to its peers and upstreams using
means outside of the scope of this memo, and its 6PE-Alt routers
readvertise it over the IPv4 MPLS core with MP-BGP.
The interface between the edge router of the IPv6 island (Customer
Edge (CE) router) and the 6PE-Alt router is a native IPv6 interface which
can be physical or logical. A routing protocol (IGP or EGP) may run
between the CE router and the 6PE-Alt router for the distribution of IPv6
reachability information. Alternatively, static routes and/or a
default route may be used on the 6PE-Alt router and the CE router to
control reachability. An IPv6 island may connect to the provider
network over more than one interface.
The 6PE-Alt approach described in this document can be used for customers
that already have an IPv4 service from the network provider and
additionally require an IPv6 service, as well as for customers that
require only IPv6 connectivity.
The scenario is also described in [RFC4029].
Note that the 6PE-Alt approach specified in this document provides global
IPv6 reachability. Support of IPv6 VPNs can similarly be given by this draft,
if the IPv6 routes in the VPN's do not overlap. The IP VPN's functionality is
addressed in [RFC4659]. Instead of exchanging a "tunnel label" it uses the
"IPv6 Explicit NULL label", because the signalled label in 6PE did not convey
any more meaning.
Deployment of the 6PE-Alt approach over an existing IPv4 MPLS cloud does
not require introduction of new mechanisms in the core (other than
potentially those described at the end of section 3 for dealing with
dynamic MTU discovery). Configuration and operations of the 6PE-Alt
approach has a lot of similarities with the configuration and
operations of an IPv4 VPN service ([RFC4364]) or IPv6 VPN service
([RFC4659]) over an IPv4 MPLS core since they all use MP-BGP to
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distribute non-IPv4 reachability information for transport over an
IPv4 MPLS Core. However, the configuration and operations of the 6PE-Alt
approach is somewhat simpler, since it does not involve all the VPN
concepts such as VRFs.
2. Protocol Overview
Each IPv6 site is connected to at least one Provider Edge router that
is located on the border of the IPv4 MPLS cloud. We call such a
router a 6PE-Alt router. The 6PE-Alt router MUST be dual stack IPv4 and
IPv6. The 6PE-Alt router MUST be configured with at least one IPv4
address on the IPv4 side and at least one IPv6 address on the IPv6
side. The configured IPv4 address needs to be routable in the IPv4
cloud, and there needs to be a label bound via an IPv4 label
distribution protocol to this IPv4 route.
As a result of this, every considered 6PE-Alt router knows which MPLS
label to use to send packets to any other 6PE-Alt router. Note that an
MPLS network offering BGP/MPLS IP VPN services already fulfills these
requirements.
No extra routes need to be injected in the IPv4 cloud.
We call the 6PE-Alt router receiving IPv6 packets from an IPv6 site an
Ingress 6PE-Alt router (relative to these IPv6 packets). We call a 6PE-Alt
router forwarding IPv6 packets to an IPv6 site an Egress 6PE-Alt router
(relative to these IPv6 packets).
Interconnecting IPv6 islands over an IPv4 MPLS cloud takes place
through the following steps:
1. Exchange IPv6 reachability information among 6PE-Alt routers with MP-
BGP [RFC4760]:
The 6PE-Alt routers MUST exchange the IPv6 prefixes over MP-BGP
sessions as per [RFC4760] running over IPv4. The MP-BGP Address
Family Identifier (AFI) used MUST be IPv6 (value 2). In doing
so, the 6PE-Alt routers convey their IPv4 address as the BGP Next Hop
for the advertised IPv6 prefixes. The IPv4 address of the egress
6PE-Alt router MUST be encoded as an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address in the
BGP Next Hop field. This encoding is consistent with the
definition of an IPv4-mapped IPv6 address in [RFC3513] as an
"address type used to represent the address of IPv4 nodes as IPv6
addresses". However unline [6PE], the 6PE-Alt does not need to bind
a label to the IPv6 prefix as per [RFC3107]. The Subsequence Address Family
Identifier (SAFI) used in MP-BGP MUST be the same as a regular IPv6 route.
The rationale for this label is discussed in section 3.
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2. Transport IPv6 packets from Ingress 6PE-Alt router to Egress 6PE-Alt
router over IPv4-signaled LSPs:
The Ingress 6PE-Alt router MUST forward IPv6 data over the IPv4-
signaled LSP towards the Egress 6PE-Alt router identified by the IPv4
address advertised in the IPv4-mapped IPv6 address of the BGP
Next Hop for the corresponding IPv6 prefix. The router should first
PUSH the "IPv6 Explicit NULL" label, as the VPN label. The tunnel
label then gets pushed on the MPLS label stack, and the packet is
forwarded to the tunnel's next hop.
As required by the BGP specification [RFC4271], PE routers form a
full peering mesh unless Route Reflectors are used.
3. Transport over IPv4-signaled LSPs and IPv6 label binding
In this approach, the IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses allow a 6PE-Alt router
that has to forward an IPv6 packet to automatically determine the
IPv4-signaled LSP to use for a particular IPv6 destination by looking
at the MP-BGP routing information.
The IPv4-signaled LSPs can be established using any existing
technique for label setup [RFC3031] (LDP [RFC5036], RSVP-TE [RFC3209]).
To ensure interoperability among systems that implement the 6PE-Alt
approach described in this document, all such systems MUST support
tunneling using IPv4-signaled MPLS LSPs established by LDP [RFC3036].
When tunneling IPv6 packets over the IPv4 MPLS backbone, rather than
successively prepend an IPv4 header and then perform label imposition
based on the IPv4 header, the ingress 6PE-Alt Router MUST directly
perform label imposition of the IPv6 header without prepending any
IPv4 header. The tunnel label imposed MUST correspond to the IPv4-
signaled LSP starting on the ingress 6PE-Alt Router and ending on the
egress 6PE-Alt Router.
While this approach could theoretically operate in some situations
using a single level of labels, there are significant advantages in
using a second level of labels which are bound to IPv6 prefixes via
MP-BGP advertisements in accordance with [RFC3107].
For instance, use of a second level label allows Penultimate Hop
Popping (PHP) on the IPv4 Label Switch Router (LSR) upstream of the
egress 6PE-Alt router without any IPv6 capabilities/upgrade on the
penultimate router; this is because it still transmits MPLS packets
even after the PHP (instead of having to transmit IPv6 packets and
encapsulate them appropriately).
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Also, an existing IPv4-signaled LSP which is using "IPv4 Explicit
NULL label" over the last hop (say because that LSP is already used
to transport IPv4 traffic with the Pipe Diff-Serv Tunneling Model as
defined in [RFC3270]) could not be used to carry IPv6 with a single
label since the "IPv4 Explicit NULL label" can not be used to carry
native IPv6 traffic (see [RFC3032]), while it could be used to carry
labeled IPv6 traffic (see [RFC4182]).
This is why a second label MUST be used with the 6PE-Alt approach.
The label MUST be the IPv6 Explicit Null Label.
[RFC2460] requires that every link in the IPv6 Internet have an MTU
of 1280 octets or larger. Therefore, on MPLS links that are used for
transport of IPv6 as per the 6PE-Alt approach and that do not support
link-specific fragmentation and reassembly, the MTU must be
configured to at least 1280 octets plus the encapsulation overhead.
Some IPv6 hosts might be sending packets larger than the MTU
available in the IPv4 MPLS core and rely on Path MTU discovery to
learn about those links. To simplify MTU discovery operations, one
option is for the network administrator to engineer the MTU on the
core facing interfaces of the ingress 6PE-Alt, consistent with the core
MTU, so that ICMP 'Packet Too Big' messages can be sent back by the
ingress 6PE-Alt without the corresponding packets ever entering the MPLS
core. Otherwise, routers in the IPv4 MPLS network have the option to
generate an ICMP "Packet Too Big" message using mechanisms as
described in section 2.3.2 "Tunneling Private Addresses through a
Public Backbone" of [RFC3032].
In that case, note that, should a core router with an outgoing link
with a MTU smaller than 1280 receive an encapsulated IPv6 packet
larger than 1280, then the mechanisms of [RFC3032] may result in the
"Packet Too Big" message never reaching the sender. This is because,
according to [RFC2463], the core router will build an ICMP "Packet
Too Big" message filled with the invoking packet up to 1280 bytes and
when forwarding downstream towards the egress PE as per [RFC3032],
the MTU of the outgoing link will cause the packet to be dropped.
This may cause significant operational problems; the originator of
the packets will notice that his data is not getting through, without
knowing why and where they are discarded. This issue would only
occur if the above recommendation (to configure MTU on MPLS links of
at least 1280 octets plus encapsulation overhead) is not adhered to
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(perhaps by misconfiguration).
4. Crossing Multiple IPv4 Autonomous Systems
This section discusses the case where two IPv6 islands are connected
to different Autonomous Systems. No extra signalling is done, however the
Multiple AS scenario requires no change in the BGP IPv6 code.
Like in the case of multi-AS backbone operations for IPv4 VPNs
described in section 10 of [RFC4364], three main approaches can be
distinguished:
a. EBGP redistribution of IPv6 routes from AS to neighboring AS
This approach is the equivalent for exchange of IPv6 routes to
procedure (a) described in section 10 of [RFC4364] for the
exchange of VPN-IPv4 routes.
In this approach, the 6PE-Alt routers use IBGP (according to
[RFC2545] and [RFC3107] and as described in this document for the
single-AS situation) to redistribute IPv6 routes either
to an Autonomous System Border Router (ASBR) 6PE-Alt router, or to a
route reflector of which an ASBR 6PE-Alt router is a client. The
ASBR then uses EBGP to redistribute the IPv6 routes
to an ASBR in another AS, which in turn distributes them to the
6PE-Alt routers in that AS as described earlier in this
specification, or perhaps to another ASBR which in turn
distributes them etc.
There may be one, or multiple, ASBR interconnection(s) across any
two ASes. IPv6 needs to be activated on the inter-ASBR links and
each ASBR 6PE-Alt router has at least one IPv6 address on the
interface to that link.
No inter-AS LSPs are used. There is effectively a separate mesh
of LSPs across the 6PE-Alt routers within each AS.
In this approach, the ASBR exchanging IPv6 routes may peer over
IPv6 or over IPv4. The exchange of IPv6 routes MUST be carried
out as per [RFC2545].
Note that the peering ASBR in the neighboring AS to which the
IPv6 routes were distributed with EBGP, should in its turn
redistribute these routes to the 6PE-Alts in its AS using IBGP and
encoding its own IPv4 address as the IPv4-mapped IPv6 BGP Next
Hop.
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b. Multihop EBGP redistribution of IPv6 routes between
source and destination PE routers, with EBGP redistribution of
IPv4 routes from AS to neighboring AS for the PE's.
This approach is the equivalent for exchange of IPv6 routes to
procedure (c) described in section 10 of [RFC4364] for exchange
of VPN- IPv4 routes.
In this approach, IPv6 routes are neither maintained nor
distributed by the ASBR routers. The ASBR routers need not be
dual stack and may be IPv4/MPLS-only routers. An ASBR needs to
maintain labeled IPv4 /32 routes to the 6PE-Alt routers within its
AS. It uses EBGP to distribute these routes to other ASes.
ASBRs in any transit ASes will also have to use EBGP to pass
along the labeled IPv4 /32 routes. This results in the creation
of an IPv4 label switched path from the ingress 6PE-Alt router to the
egress 6PE-Alt router. Now 6PE-Alt routers in different ASes can
establish multi-hop EBGP connections to each other over IPv4, and
can exchange labeled IPv6 routes (with an IPv4-mapped IPv6 BGP
Next Hop) over those connections.
IPv6 need not be activated on the inter-ASBR links.
The considerations described for procedure (c) in section 10 of
[RFC4364] with respect to possible use of multi-hop EBGP
connections via route-reflectors in different ASes, as well as
with respect to the use of a third label in case the IPv4 /32
routes for the PE routers are NOT made known to the P routers,
apply equally to this approach for IPv6.
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This approach requires that there be IPv4 label switched paths
established across the ASes leading form a packet's ingress 6PE-Alt
router to its egress 6PE-Alt router. Hence, the considerations
described for procedure (c) in section 10 of [RFC4364] with
respect to LSPs spanning multiple ASes apply equally to this
approach for IPv6.
Note also that the exchange of IPv6 routes can only start after
BGP has created IPv4 connectivity between the ASes.
5. Security Considerations
The extensions defined in this document allow BGP to propagate
reachability information about IPv6 routes over an MPLS IPv4 core
network. As such, no new security issues are raised beyond those
that already exist in BGP-4 and use of MP-BGP for IPv6.
The security features of BGP and corresponding security policy
defined in the ISP domain are applicable.
For the inter-AS distribution of IPv6 routes according to case (a) of
section 4 of this document, no new security issues are raised beyond
those that already exist in the use of EBGP for IPv6 [RFC2545].
For the inter-AS distribution of IPv6 routes according to case (b)
and (c) of section 4 of this document, the procedures require that
there be label switched paths established across the AS boundaries.
Hence the appropriate trust relationships must exist between and
among the set of ASes along the path.
Note that for the inter-AS distribution of IPv6 routes according to
case (c) of section 4 of this document, label spoofing may be more
difficult to prevent. Indeed, the MPLS label distributed with the
IPv6 routes via multi-hop EBGP is directly sent from the egress 6PE-Alt
to ingress 6PE-Alts in an other AS (or through route reflectors). This
label is advertised transparently through the AS boundaries. When
the egress 6PE-Alt that sent the labeled IPv6 routes receives a data
packet that has this particular label on top of its stack, it may not
be able to verify whether the label was pushed on the stack by an
ingress 6PE-Alt that is allowed to do so. As such one AS may be
vulnerable to label spoofing in a different AS. The same issue
equally applies to the option (c) of section 10 of [RFC4364]. Just
like it is the case for [RFC4364], addressing this particular
security issue is for further study.
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6. IANA Considerations
This document has no actions for IANA.
7. Acknowledgements
Most of the text in this document is borrowed from 6PE [RFC4798]. The
authors of the document are acknowledgement.
8. References
8.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2460] Deering, S. and R. Hinden, "Internet Protocol, Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", RFC 2460, December 1998.
[RFC2545] Marques, P. and F. Dupont, "Use of BGP-4 Multiprotocol
Extensions for IPv6 Inter-Domain Routing", RFC 2545,
March 1999.
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[RFC4760]
Bates, T., Rekhter, Y., Chandra, R., and D. Katz,
"Multiprotocol Extensions for BGP-4",
draft-ietf-idr-RFC4760-10.txt, work in progress.
[RFC3032] Rosen, E., Tappan, D., Fedorkow, G., Rekhter, Y.,
Farinacci, D., Li, T., and A. Conta, "MPLS Label Stack
Encoding", RFC 3032, January 2001.
[RFC3036] Andersson, L., Doolan, P., Feldman, N., Fredette, A., and
B. Thomas, "LDP Specification", RFC 3036, January 2001.
[RFC3107] Rekhter, Y. and E. Rosen, "Carrying Label Information in
BGP-4", RFC 3107, May 2001.
[RFC3513] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6) Addressing Architecture", RFC 3513, April 2003.
8.2. Informative References
[RFC2463] Conta, A. and S. Deering, "Internet Control Message
Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6
(IPv6) Specification", RFC 2463, December 1998.
[RFC3031] Rosen, E., Viswanathan, A., and R. Callon, "Multiprotocol
Label Switching Architecture", RFC 3031, January 2001.
[RFC3270] Le Faucheur, F., Wu, L., Davie, B., Davari, S., Vaananen,
P., Krishnan, R., Cheval, P., and J. Heinanen, "Multi-
Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated
Services", RFC 3270, May 2002.
[RFC4029] Lind, M., Ksinant, V., Park, S., Baudot, A., and P.
Savola, "Scenarios and Analysis for Introducing IPv6 into
ISP Networks", RFC 4029, March 2005.
[RFC4182] Rosen, E., "Removing a Restriction on the use of MPLS
Explicit NULL", RFC 4182, September 2005.
[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.
[RFC4659] De Clercq, J., Ooms, D., Carugi, M., and F. Le Faucheur,
"BGP-MPLS IP Virtual Private Network (VPN) Extension for
IPv6 VPN", RFC 4659, September 2006.
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Authors' Addresses
Vishwas Manral
IP Infusion Inc.,
Bamankhola,
Bansgali,
Almora,
Uttaranchal - 263601
India
Manoj Dutta
IP Infusion Inc.,
125, S. Market Street,
San Jose, - 95112
CA
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