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LC comments on considerations extranet section
The section on extranet 3.3.6 is not accurate.
It suggests that it is not known how extranet could be achieved without
using BGP-based C-multicast routing. This is odd considering (a) a solution
providing this feature has been shipping for years, and (b) the solution is
written up in draft-rosen-l3vpn-mvpn-mspmsi-02.txt.
It also suggests that all it takes to do extranet with BGP C-multicast
routing is to reuse the "already defined and well understood BGP route
target import/export semantics". In fact, this is not true. To support
extranet you also have to know which C-streams in which PMSIs are the ones
you need to receive. In the PIM control plane, you make this determination
by associating each PMSI with a particular PIM interface. I don't think the
corresponding functionality is specified for the BGP control plane.
I think it is premature to make a recommendation based upon which extranet
scheme works best until we have both extranet schemes written up in a
standards track document.