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Requirements for Multicast in L3 PP VPNs Changes bet ween -03 and -05
Lots of editorial comments
Improved terminology section
Number of VPNs with multicast enabled: “A solution SHOULD NOT limit the proportion of multicast VPNs among all (unicast) VPNs.”
Customer-side service definition “Enabling a VPN for multicast support SHOULD be possible with no (or very limited impact) on existing multicast protocols possibly already deployed on the CE devices”
Extranet: “a solution MUST allow to control an extranet multicast connectivity independently from the extranet unicast connectivity” (with detailed text)
Service provider standpoint, added a general statement: "The deployment of a multicast VPN solution SHOULD be possible with no (or very limited) impact on possibly existing deployments of multicast protocols on P and PE routers."
CE-PE Multicast routing and management protocols: clarified IPv6 related statements
Revamped "RP Engineering" : separated text about different issues "RP Outsourcing", "RP Availability" and "RP Location"
Updated 5.2.10 about proactive monitoring of tunnels
PPT Version